Kathranne Knight’s drawings speak in the packed way of a symbol, often stripped down and elemental, but ricocheting with associations and metaphoric possibilities. Impermanence, multiplication, and issues of representation are plumbed through materials as various as fly paper, silver, tears, and graphite; while the action and materiality of drawing are stretched, performed, and reconfigured. Knight holds an MFA from The Yale University School of Art and has been artist-in-residence at Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; and the Connemara Conservancy Foundation, Dallas, Texas. Her work has been shown in The Danforth Museum of Art, Mass MoCA, The Des Moines Art Center, Carroll and Sons Gallery (Boston, MA), Geoffrey Young Gallery (Gt. Barrington, MA), Muriel Guepin Gallery (New York, NY), September Gallery (Hudson, NY), and many others. Knight was an Iowa Artist Fellow in 2014, awarded an Iowa Artist Grant in 2015 and 2021, and is co-publisher of the art+poetry press, Correspondence Publishing.
