"Silke Otto-Knapp at Regen Projects"
Silke Otto-Knapp’s show at Regen Projects in Los Angeles is her second solo presentation with the gallery, complete with work from 2012-2021. It was curated by Kitty Scott and is the first show since her untimely passing in October 2022. What I was struck by more than any one single painting or drawing in the show was the curation of the work in the back room of the gallery. Naturally, it took time for me to process the entirety of the show and it dawned on me as I sat down to write this short article that, unlike the lobby and front room of the gallery, there was a complete absence of people in the selection of work hanging. No dancers in circles, no Shakers situated in ritual, unfolding within the performative space of her painted stages. There were no people posing, receding and advancing into space, demarcating and creating the pictorial structure itself...
“Silke Otto-Knapp” exhibition at Regen Proj…