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29/10/2003

Bob Knox

University Art Museum, Long Beach

"Non-Fiction Paintings"

The University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, is pleased to present Bob Knox: Non-Fiction Paintings, the artist's first solo museum exhibition. The exhibition features twenty-two paintings created over the past eight years that reveal this New York artist's wit, playfulness and subtly twisted reality. This thorough survey celebrates Knox's work as an outstanding example of the painting revival in American Art.

The familiar glare of nighttime photography. Seen from a distance, his canvases appear lushly illusory. Up close, his thinly applied stains of color seem at once distant and revelatory. With precision and perfection in his use of reflective light and composition, he deftly explores the intersection of surface and depth. The paintings revel in ambiguity, uncertainty, and mystery, making them harder to categorize than they first appear. His relationship to realism is constantly in flux as he purposely upsets the rules of the game and playfully diverts from the ordinary.

Characterizing his recent work as 'non-fiction painting,' Knox positions himself as mediator in the dialogue between painting and photography by transcribing photographic images onto large-scale canvases. His subject matter encompasses a wide range of topics that touch on our notions of taste and culture. Compositional manipulation of photographic light, color, and space is key to Knox's creative approach, and his found images provide him with endless opportunities. Knox continuously transforms the geometry of space from the domestic toward the panoramic. Ranging from brightly colored interiors to semi-abstract compositions of blurred lights against a night sky, his paintings toy with reality while maintaining strong ties to conventional realism.

Bob Knox: Non-Fiction Paintings was co-organized by the University Art Museum, and Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Terrie Sultan, Director, Blaffer Gallery, and Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator of Exhibitions, University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach.

This exhibition is partially sponsored by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Wesley G. Hampton, The Texas Commission on the Arts, and Amie Knox and Jim Kelley. Jack Shainman and the staff at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, provided essential assistance throughout the project. The UAM, a division of the College of the Arts, receives funding from The Getty Grant Program and The Instructionally Related Activities Fund. Educational programming is provided, in part, by the California Arts Council and The Bess J. Hodges Foundation.

Image: Bob Knox, 'Blue Poles', 2001, a/c, 72 x 132'

EVENTS: Bob Knox Gallery Talk | October 30 | 6:30 pm. Call gallery for confirmation of date and times
UAM @ noon: Tuesday, November 18 | 12:15 - 1:00pm, Gallery Talk by Mary-Kay Lombino

Reception: October 30, 5-7 PM

All events are open to the public and free of charge, donation requested. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-5pm; Thursday, 12­8 PM; Saturday, Sunday, 11 AM­4 PM, closed Monday and all University holidays

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The University Art Museum is located in the Steve & Nini Horn Center on the campus of California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840
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