
A Wintervening Edition, 2012, drawing, plant, painted wood, at "The Work Locates Itself" Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York. Curators Robin Cameron and Kari Cwynar wrote a lovely text, here's what they said about my work in the show:
Bitsy Knox’s work locates itself in chance and the resulting narrative. Knox found a mysterious LP— “All Alone” by Rubeck —at a friend’s house in Rotterdam and was taken with the album cover. The record jacket lead Knox to find, contact and exchange letters with the musician Rudi Fabeck (now living in Spain), until Fabeck abruptly cut ties. Knox completes the conversation herself, isolating and abstracting elements of the album cover and asserting her own position in relation to the object and its history. The resulting multi-me- dia work creates new distance between the thing itself and its existence in past and present. There are glaring unknowns. For this second iteration of this project, entitled A Wintervening Edition (2011), Knox further complicates what is there, and what is missing or dislocated, delivering parts of the whole: the album cover’s moonlit landscape, the sale stickers affixed to the front, and a self-portrait in homage to the original.
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