RICHARD KNIGHT

Objects

The images below represent some of my most recent wall objects. Making these have been a part of my day-to-day work for many years. For me they are an effective medium because they are an interchange with sculpture, painting and drawing; it’s a process that easily allows one to inform the other. I’m often compelled by the encounter between the rawness of an initial thought and the unruliness of a new material. The reverse of this happens as well. Sometimes I come across discarded material and it’ll remind me of a line of drawing, part of a painting or even something I’ve read. I’ll either keep it as it is or make a variation of it using another material. It’s a rewarding way for me to feel my surroundings while keeping my vision keen. Even though much effort is made to make each object a unique and fixed form, I sometimes group them together like letters in a word or words in a phrase.

**Three Letter Word**– 20x46x2 in. iron post, copper wire, tar and plexiglass

**Apple Leaf**– 10×8 in. cedar shake, walnut ink

**Puck**– 10×10 x.5 in.plywood and acrylic transfer

**Division**– 13x10x1 in. pine planks and acrylic transfer

**Four Square**– 14x14x.5 in. plywood and acrylic transfer

**Green Arcs**– 14x11x1 in. pine plank ans acrylic transfer

**Four Points-** 15×10 .5 in plywood, hardware cloth and acrylic transfer

**Cancer**– 15x12x1 in. plywood, plaster, hardware cloth and acrylic transfer

**Yellow Square**– 11×12 in Masonite and acrylic transfer

**Beach Boards**– 17x14x.25 in. fir planks and acrylic transfer

**Reciprocation**– 11×13 in. (two-sided) Acrylic transfer, pink styrofoam, birch plywood

**Color Vision**– 13×26 in. acrylic transfer on pine planks

**Memory**– 11.5x8x1.5 in. Pine plank and acrylic transfer

**Green Knot Hole-** 11×14 in. Acrylic transfer on cedar plank

**Cardinal-** 11×10 in. charred plywood and acrylic transfer

**Corner Points**– 14×15 x1 in. plywood, plaster, pine wood and paint

**Pinto**– 12x13x1 in. plywood, plaster, acrylic transfer

*Acrylic transfer is a way of working whereby a painted or drawn image can be removed from a paper surface and then transferred onto most any other substrate while maintaining an unaltered image. Once removed from the paper the image becomes a translucent skin or membrane with the graphic information embedded into its surface (think decal). It is a unique process in that it is neither a form of printmaking nor a form of collage.