Devon Knowles

Devon Knowles
Gone and Going

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Gone and Going, Devon Knowles’ first solo exhibition with the gallery.

In Devon Knowles’ new body of work the engineering of materials is implicit as both the subject and process of the work. Through a sustained process of observation, Knowles documents urban sites and neighbourhoods in transition, intuitively noting the recurrence of colours and patterns present in her chosen locations. Her walks through neighbourhoods are filtered through multiple technologies, as she fragments and reassembles the changing landscapes into aluminum, fused glass, and stained-glass compositions. In describing her work the artist notes that, “texture, colour, their source and the small variations in their physical dimensions are all important. Texture can blow out the colour as the physical light glares on its surface, making it impenetrable from certain points of view. What becomes evident at that moment, where it is all surface and you cannot see beyond the glare of external light bouncing, is a temporary boundary.” This idea of boundaries permeates Knowles’ work where her thoughtful use of materials drives the careful examination of spaces, edges, and their human presence.

Knowles has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions in Berlin, Toronto, Brooklyn and Vancouver. Group exhibitions include such venues as Vancouver Art Gallery, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, and SFU Gallery, Charles H. Scott Gallery, the Western Front, Or Gallery and Unit Pitt, Vancouver. Knowles has participated in residency programs in Europe and she has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and was awarded the Mayor’s Arts Award as an Emerging Artist in Public Art. She has taught at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria is currently a faculty member at Langara College, snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓. Knowles’ work is included in the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Devon Knowles lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

For a list of available works please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736 – 2405

BC Binning, Devon Knowles and Renée Van Halm
Leave the Window Open

Equinox Gallery is very pleased to present Leave the Window Open, an exhibition that considers the space of architecture and its relationships to materials, memory and abstraction in light of the after-effects of modernism. Three British Columbia-based artists from three distinct generations are included in the exhibition: B.C. Binning, Devon Knowles, and Renée Van Halm. The fields of practice of the artists each examine built environments, taking those observations and insights and transforming them into paintings, sculptures, and installations.

Devon Knowles, Between ‘18 and ‘22, 2022

Devon Knowles, Between ‘17 and ‘22, 2022

Devon Knowles, Walking Spectrum VII, i, S17, 2022

Devon Knowles, Walking Spectrum VII, ii, S17, 2022

Devon Knowles, Flow no. 1, 2022

Devon Knowles, Flow no. 2, 2022

Devon Knowles, Winter Butterfly, 2022

Devon Knowles, Is, Was, Here, 2022