Water Mill, NY — Christopher Knowles: STAND on view now through December 13th, 2022 @watermillcenter #ChristopherKnowles: STAND Curated by #NoahKhoshbin with special thanks to #LaurenDiGiulio A comprehensive exhibition of over 200 works from Knowles’s oeuvre from the 1970s through today, including: drawings, typings, paintings, sculpture, and sound — many on view for the first time. Christopher Knowles (b. 1959) is a multidisciplinary artist. Since the early 1970s, he has remixed visual and sonic material from popular culture to create vibrant new vocabularies that expand our understanding of information systems. His work pushes into the gaps between language, sound, and the visual image, creating a hybrid, reparative method of communication that blends the concrete and the abstract. Beginning in the early 1970s, Knowles collaborated on the creation of a series of theater works staged by the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds under the direction of #RobertWilson. He wrote the libretto for Wilson and Philip Glass’s 1976 opera “Einstein on the Beach.” A book of his typewriter poems, “Typings 1974-1977” was published by Vehicle Editions in 1979. In 2015, the Institute for Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia presented a retrospective exhibition of his work titled “Christopher Knowles: In a Word,” curated by #AnthonyElms and #HiltonAls. His 2012-2015 solo performance “The Sundance Kid is Beautiful with Christopher Knowles” was presented at the Louvre Museum, the Whitebox Gallery in New York, and the ICA, Philadelphia. His poetry has been published in a variety of magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Interview, and Office Magazine. Knowles’s two and three-dimensional works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Watermill Center, and numerous other institutional and private collections. He lives and works in New York City.