Museum of Nebraska Art opens Susan Knight: Core Sampling Magic
Susan Knight, Core Sampling Magic - Water Pod Element. Suspended hand cut Tyvek on paper, acrylic ink; 2021. Collection of the artist.
KEARNEY, NE
.- Inspired by water s physical and metaphysical powers to unite, circulate, and sustain, Omaha-based artist Susan Knight visually translates water issues into two and three dimensions. Knight worked for years as a figurative painter using photographs for reference to capture realistic detail in her work. In 2002 she participated in an exhibition about rivers. I had no interest in painting a landscape, she said, but I knew I could cut a map of the river I grew up on. Inspired by a display of architectural origami she had seen Knight was impressed with what could be done by simply cutting paper.