Solange Knopf

Solange Knopf (born 1957, Brussels, Belgium) is an artist who often work atop pages of books and Baudelaire's poetry. Knopf's work has been featured at a collection of note-worthy institutions, including the Menil Collection (Houston, Texas), Galerie Dettinger-Mayer (Lyon, France), and Cavin-Morris Gallery (New York).

Life

Soland Knopf was born in Brussels but spent a large amount of time traveling, migrating along from India to Afghanistan to Iran to Morocco. It was the birth of her son that brought her back to Belgium. She focused exclusively on her family for the next 20 years, and it was not until 1998 until Knopf began engaging with her artistic sensibilities.

Art

Knopf began classes at the Art School of Ixelles in 1998, only to quit due to their rigidity. Instead she continued on her own path and continued to make art without instruction, allowing her drawings to flow out of her. Randall Morris describes her work, "She has used her own soul to travel to these places and then shapes them into storytelling for our benefit. She does not hide the frightening and painful parts but she blends them into the story naturally. They are both new and familiar and when they are new she weaves (through drawing) an amuletic web around them, and when they are familiar she owns them in such a way that we see them in ways we have never seen them before."[1]

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

  • Spirit Codex: Drawings by Solange Knopf, May 1 - June 5, 2014, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY[2]

Group Exhibitions

  • As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither, Jun 10 – Oct 16, 2016, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX[3]

References

  1. ↑ "SOLANGE KNOPF : (born 1957 in Brussels, Belgium) : Solo Exhibitions" (PDF). Cavin-Morris Gallery. Retrieved 2017-07-01 – via Squarespace.
  2. ↑ "Spirit Codex: Drawings by Solange Knopf". CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  3. ↑ "As Essential As Dreams Self Taught Art From The Collection Of Stephanie And John Smither - The Menil Collection". The Menil Collection. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
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