AMANDA KNOWLES
COLLECTED VIEWS
J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce our first exhibition, by artist and educator, Amanda Knowles. Knowles’ exhibition, Collected Views, documents metropolitan areas, deconstructing and reimagining elements of our built environment.
Collected Views will be on view online and in the Gallery, March 1 – 26, 2025. A Collectors Preview reception will be held Saturday, March 1, 2025, from 2-4pm. A Public Opening Reception will be held First Thursday, March 6, 2025, from 5-8pm. The artist will join us in the gallery for a discussion about her work on Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 1:00pm
Wandering Seattle, New York City, and Mexico City, Knowles creates abstracted outlooks, acknowledging the building, growth and life in a city.
Using printmaking techniques, collage, mixed media, and photographs Knowles documents what happens in urban infrastructure and how this interweaves with the understanding and feeling of a sense of place.
Of her work Knowles states “Place has a profound effect. The work in this show is based specifically in my wanderings in Seattle, NYC, and Mexico City while also including memories of other cities and the machinations of my flitting mind. These works show the city through a collaged and new perspective. Little in these pieces shows the actuality of any specific space.”
Amanda Knowles is an art educator, curator, and artist currently based in Seattle, WA. She holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Pennsylvania and a MA and MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Artist Trust, and was a 2019 finalist for the Neddy Award in painting.
Knowles teaches printmaking and drawing at North Seattle College and is the director of the North Seattle College Art Gallery where she has worked for ten years to bring contemporary art and the Seattle Art world to the college. Her work can be found in many private and public collections such as King County, the City of Bellevue, Seattle Public Utilities, and City of Seattle Portable Works Collection.
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Collected Views
Place has a profound effect. The work in this show is based specifically in my wanderings in Seattle, NYC, and Mexico City while also including memories of other cities and the machinations of my flitting mind. Having lived in large metropolitan areas, I create artwork that is an abstracted acknowledgement of the building, growth and life in a city. In my recent practice, I have worked to document what happens in these places where we are held in close proximity and how this interweaves with how we come to understand and get a feeling for a sense of place.
I use photography to document as I explore. These photos are used like a sketchbook, a notetaking, a way to pay attention, and they are the basis of my investigations. The works that I am showing in Collected Views are mixed media works on paper that show the city through a collaged and new perspective. Little in these pieces shows the actuality of any specific space. By deconstructing and reimagining elements of the built environment, I invite the viewer to reconsider their own relationship to the spaces they inhabit and how their personal viewpoint changes the way that they see this relationship. I invite reflection on the fluid, layered nature of belonging, urging us to recognize that our connection to place is not only physical but also deeply personal and emotional. Through this, I hope to prompt questions of how we occupy and belong to the spaces we inhabit.
