Enlightened Darkness: New Drawings by Solange Knopf
(May 21 –July 3, 2026)
Solange Knopf was born in Brussels in 1957. She taught herself to make art as a form of spiritual exercise. Her drawings become wards to grapple with the trials of survival. She makes art to hold off and/or attract various spiritual energies. For her, art has the power to hold off and/or attract various spiritual energies. She sees herself as observing the global cultures that fascinate her in their fantastical yet honest portrayals of humans and spirits. By making these drawings she garnered expertise in the arcane practices of healing and spiritual contact with the earth’s myriad peoples. She absorbed the information learned without appropriating it. Her own spirits were within her personal practice and fully occupied her. She translates words and oral culture to visual manifestations. Her life is a constant process of conjuring balance and presenting it to our eyes and minds.
When she encountered darkness during the events of her life, artmaking gave her the materials of coping from within even while she was on the edges of psychological abysses and painful bad luck. She materialized what she encountered by capturing it in her imagery, gradually replacing what was most difficult with diagrammatic sacred geometries and auras of healing. She used colors that danced on the borderlines of light itself. But when the world became overwhelming, she withdrew from artmaking for several years and allowed the healing and searching to continue privately, at its own pace. The constrictions of her living space kept the work small and focused. This exhibition is the first time she has shown with us in several years. #solangeknopf
This is the final week to see ALIOSSO: SIMONE PELLEGRINI - come by the gallery Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.
We will also be participating in the @the_adaa gallery walk tonight from 5-8pm!
#simonepellegrini
This is the final week to see ALIOSSO: SIMONE PELLEGRINI - come by the gallery Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.
We will also be participating in the @the_adaa gallery walk tonight from 5-8pm!
#simonepellegrini
This is the final week to see ALIOSSO: SIMONE PELLEGRINI - come by the gallery Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.
We will also be participating in the @the_adaa gallery walk this Thursday from 5-8pm!
#simonepellegrini
