Kris Knight
Blow Pony

Kris Knight is a Canadian painter whose work revolves around representation, queerness and intimacy. He is interested in the portrayal of diverse modes of masculinity, creating work that celebrates tenderness, vulnerability and ambiguity. Knight’s romantic figurative paintings and portraits are simultaneously intimate and remote, heavy and light, dense and playful; presenting emotional worlds: portals of the artist’s past and present, retreating from the muchness of the world as much as they reflect it. Working from personal images often collaged with found imagery and historical references, Knight’s paintings present a quiet, elegant world dominated by sensitivity and subtle melancholy.