New Haven
Artists Become Curators
by | Jul 5, 2024 10:28 am
Posted to: Visual Art
Jennifer Knaus's Oval, now showing in "Artist as Curator," now on exhibit at Kehler-Liddell Gallery.
Jennifer Knaus’s portrait pulls in the viewer in five different ways. There’s the vivid color choices, the exquisitely rendered, phantasmagorically fecund hair. But perhaps more than anything, there’s the element as old as portraiture itself: the gaze of the subject of the portrait back at the viewer, direct yet complex. What is the subject thinking? And with a painting like this, it’s possible to take that question a step further: What is the subject thinking about us?
