Spotlight: Kris Knight | Green Carnation

Spotlight: Kris Knight | Green Carnation

Spotlight is GAVLAK’s series of focused solo presentations, each designed to illuminate key moments or themes within an artist’s practice. Running alongside the gallery’s regular programming, Spotlight highlights pivotal works and provides a platform for experimental formats, including in situ projects and public installations. By delving deeply into specific facets of an artist’s career, the series expands traditional exhibition models and reimagines how art is experienced and contextualized.

In Green Carnation, Kris Knight presents a new suite of portraits that balance presence with ambiguity. Drawing on autobiographical memory and art historical reference, his paintings explore intimacy, identity, and the thresholds between private and public selves. Rendered with photorealistic attention, these works evoke tenderness and introspection through figure, gesture, and color, inviting the viewer to inhabit the space between what is revealed and what remains concealed.