It's Not Me, it's Shoe - Dean Knight
30th Nov and 7th Dec, 10am-5pm
Private view Fri 29th Nov 6pm - 9pm
It’s Not Me, It’s Shoe brings together a collection of recent drawings and sculptures by Dean Knight, produced at Brickworks ceramics studio, Penryn.
They draw on the neurotic and insecure, combining aesthetics of modernism and minimalism, interrupted by the clutter and absurdity of everyday life.
Clumpy shoes, makeup, cigarettes and cartoonishly sensual forms point to the gaze of the heroic and obsessive male artist and present troupes of gender and sexuality at their most basic and fetishised level. The idea of the gay man as clown also underlies the crude punch lines and infantilised aesthetic. Slick plinths, dressing tables and window displays act as stages, settings for performance, disguise and perhaps stage fright.
Dean Knight is an artist based in Cornwall, working mainly in sculpture, drawing and painting. Adopting and combining the languages of fine art, craft and popular culture, his work explores their, at times, shared and opposing interests.
Primitivism, whether present in modernist aesthetics, base humour or rudimentary sexual forms, is a central concern of his practice. The meditative, pure and utopian symbols of minimalism are subverted and contaminated with allusions to slapstick, sci-fi and horror. Ideas of construction and artificiality are explored through set-like structures and props, which manifest in dormant scenes devoid of action.
They draw on the neurotic and insecure, combining aesthetics of modernism and minimalism, interrupted by the clutter and absurdity of everyday life.
Clumpy shoes, makeup, cigarettes and cartoonishly sensual forms point to the gaze of the heroic and obsessive male artist and present troupes of gender and sexuality at their most basic and fetishised level. The idea of the gay man as clown also underlies the crude punch lines and infantilised aesthetic. Slick plinths, dressing tables and window displays act as stages, settings for performance, disguise and perhaps stage fright.
Dean Knight is an artist based in Cornwall, working mainly in sculpture, drawing and painting. Adopting and combining the languages of fine art, craft and popular culture, his work explores their, at times, shared and opposing interests.
Primitivism, whether present in modernist aesthetics, base humour or rudimentary sexual forms, is a central concern of his practice. The meditative, pure and utopian symbols of minimalism are subverted and contaminated with allusions to slapstick, sci-fi and horror. Ideas of construction and artificiality are explored through set-like structures and props, which manifest in dormant scenes devoid of action.
