Never Never by Kris Knight

In Never-Never Kris Knight continues his exploration of ambiguity and intimacy in portraiture, presenting a darkly fantastical new series of oil paintings that are as dreamy as they are dense. Knight’s new character paintings of secretive men are quietly static in their positioning and oddly calming in their atmosphere. Gentle, almost delicate portraits of young men are a parade of performers that Knight continuously inhabits in metaphor; physical manifestations of the full array of the artist’s internal psychological tones and personal narratives. Shadowed and veiled faces often do not directly address the viewer; rather Knight’s characters are contradictions – quiet in repose yet flush with restlessness – they creep with…