AMANDA KNOWLES | Collected Views
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.
AVAILABLE ARTWORK
SEATTLE ART FAIR
SEATTLE ART FAIR
BOOTH C09
JULY 25 - JULY 28, 2024
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to be returning to the Seattle Art Fair, July 25-28, 2024!
Visit J. Rinehart Gallery, Booth C09, to see an exhibition of Seattle-based artists who have been gaining national recognition.
For our 2024 Seattle Art Fair installation, we look forward to exhibiting new work by multidisciplinary Filipino artist Romson Bustillo. We will be debuting his first foray into translating his impressive work into blown glass vessels, created during two prestigious residencies at the Museum of Glass and the Pilchuck Glass School this past spring. Romson is the Artist Trust Arts Innovator Awardee for 2021 and has exhibited locally at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and at the Bellevue Arts Museum.
We are also delighted to be exhibiting a large-scale work by Joan Mitchell Foundation, and MacDowell Fellow, Emily Gherard. Gherard is best known for her process-based work built from the accumulation of repetitive marks, often referencing figurative works by old masters in contemporary abstraction. Her past year of residencies and workshops with the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation has taken her work into a new level, both conceptually and materially. Her work has been shown at The Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, The Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, and The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, and is part of the collection at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK.
In addition to these highlights, we will be showcasing work by artists new to the gallery, including Julie Alpert, who is featured in the 2024 New Artists / New Collectors at Seattle Art Fair; Jan Hoy, Kippi Leonard, and Amanda Knowles. We are thrilled to debut new work by Jaq Chartier, and Kate Protage.
With an impressive selection of paintings, photography, sculpture, and contemporary printmaking by a diverse group of artists, we strive to make fine art accessible and attainable at all levels.