In the Sunshine of Neglect: Defining Photographs & Radical Experiments… 1950 - Present @ California Museum of Photography
January 19, 2019 - April 28, 2019
With:
Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Laurie Brown, Judy Chicago, Joe Deal, John Divola, Christina Fernandez, Judy Fiskin, Robbert Flick, Anthony Hernandez, Richard Misrach, Mark McKnight, Allan Sekula, Julius Shulman, Joel Sternfeld, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Larry Sultan among others.
Read MoreReviewed in City Arts Magazine
“Even with no bodies in sight, Mark McKnight’s monochrome prints reveal a dedication to corporealness. Two evocative craters soak up shadows; rock formations swirl to suggest folds of skin. Meanwhile, McKnight, who’s showing for the first time in Seattle, obscures the topography of the male bodies in his photographs… (read on)”
Read MoreHYPERALLERGIC / Forging Queer Identity with Abstraction
"Veiled meanings and indeterminacy have characterized abstraction throughout history. Brenna Youngblood’s 'Two Can Win' (2013) and Mark McKnight’s 'Window #3' (2015) use painting and photography, respectively, to encode and uncover the surface of things. The former embeds objects into the color field, the vague appearance of a chainlink fence outlining a sense of place or displacement, while the latter captures how marks and gestures can break through the artifice and reveal the layers beneath."
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