Sophie Lourdes Knight
Knight approaches her canvases, raw and unprimed, with lush
palettes of oil, acrylic, and vinyl paint. Working from the human
body, she develops loose compositions on canvas and paper,
staining, smearing, and building up rich textural layers. In
doing so, she reconstructs the original imagery with a degree of
abstraction that is distinctly of the body, yet lacking reality. Knight
also often works across disciplines, using casting techniques to
build sculptures in concrete and plaster that serve as organic
counterpoints to her heavily opaque two-dimensional works.