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Artist Exhibitions:
JURIED / INVITATIONAL
EXHIBITIONS:
2010 OMNIPRESENCE DC
Commission of The Arts
Congressional Black Caucus
Exhibition featuring Black
Artists of DC, Mandarin Hotel,
Washington, DC
2010 Common Bond Exhibition,
Strathmore Mansion, Bethesda,
MD
2010 - Nina Simone Project
Traveling Exhibition
Invitational Atlanta, GA
kickoff Juror E. Joyce Miller
2009 “BLACK” Black Artists of
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Artist Statement for Serinity Knight
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PERSONAL STATEMENT ABOUT MY PROCESS AND THE ART WORKS
Art can serve as a window on the pain of those that are unseen, and thus can hold the promise of moving people to take action. My goal in making any series of work is to show the suffering from many differing viewpoints. I take a highly personal approach to my subjects and tend to focus on the psychological condition people are in as well as the physical, using marks that describe how people feel inside, not just how they appear. I want to express us as true survivors and reveal the tenderness, the courage, and the dignity of human beings living under conditions that few can dare imagine.
The subject matter of my work is generally narratives of fragmented human bodies and portraiture with symbolic elements. I work with the human figure out of compulsion and necessity. Stemming from an insatiable curiosity about the actions, motivations, and psychology of those around me, the human figure has always found its way into my art. Being socially reserved by nature, my work becomes a catalyst for me to connect with others ...
My [ART]can be classified as Contemporary Figurative Surrealism; they are sensationalized images – of materialized emotions that are not sustained in reality and free from any complex intellectual pretensions. The work is not all personal or self portraits but an extension of my personality and thoughts, [good or bad]. Paradoxically they are also a mirror, reflecting the viewer’s own mind and perceptions back at them as my main concern is communication rather than entertainment. I want others to experience where my mind has been, what I have felt and wondered, suffered and enjoyed.
I allow my inner self to let go, with the help of my hands, those spirit beings that reside within me, with all their own strengths and personalities. They emerge claiming and creating their own space - My hands are only the door to their physical existence leaving my spirit free. Each is a pieced together memory like a soul dialog between me and you. When I am gone and archaeologists’ pulls SHARDS of my pieces from the earth, I want them to connect with me through the ages, instinctively as one human gazing at another.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Although, I primarily consider myself to be a mixed-media artist, I am emotionally and physically bound with the spiritual process of transforming wet clay into a workable state, caring for it in the drying stage and praying for it during the fire to reach a finished state. Unlike clay, I am still a work in progress not having reached a finished state of being yet; but A GREAT SPIRIT is still working on me.....
I am curiously fascinated with the mystery of the human condition, sacred connection to the earth and ancestral ties. As well as the beauty of form - enjoying the interactive qualities of observation, sensuality, reflection and independence in bringing forth works that celebrates a sense of my woman-ness and the liberation of my spirit. Making art has sometimes been difficult for me, since I choose to work in the isolation of my own understanding; which can be so easily doubted, [but yet is still all I know how to do].
As a body of work, I have created a series of ‘Spirit Healing vessel sculptures’, that take on various figurative forms - giving insight of my past, present and projected future state[s] of being. The acknowledgment of weakness and the discovery of personal power are parts of the same story and both interest me equally.
Transformation through art has become my saving grace - helping to restore my faith, joy and [find] a renewed sense of purpose to carve my niche into a world so critical of the artist. My greatest concern as a sculptor is to convey the illusion that deals with the internal mysteries of life and personal discovery, as a state of being and not the obvious or readily seen.
The journey has been long and complex, trying to create from the spirit where and which this work comes from, but there is nothing else I’d rather be doing!!! I try to give my inner visions an outer reality so that others too can share feelings and emotions in appreciation of the gifts I have to offer. This is a difficult task to do not only as a painter, but as a sculptor because of the added third dimension. It is also a task, which despite the struggle - I have not as yet not been able to carry to it’s ideal limits; however, I have achieved a measure of success satisfactory to my conscience as an artist and human being and will continue to do so as long as my body, mind and spirit allow me to go forth with courage and determination to succeed as a CHOSEN VESSEL, to search and bring forth a visual truth .... SERINITY KNIGHT
I would like to welcome all who visit me here a glance into my continuing narrative series: "The BUTTERFLY MONOLOGUES of A RED NEGRESS; Chosen Vessels of Diasporic Revelations, [the AGONY and the EXSTASY] of a Nomadic Journey of Wanderlust and Self Discovery.
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