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Blackwater Babylon
Surf
Hyenas
Other Work

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BLACKWATER BABYLON
GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER
California State University, Fullerton

. .nightmares of industrial wasteland . . . like Piranesi’s prisons, they possess a strange and compelling beauty. . . stage sets for armies of wild characters who act out their dreams of avarice and lust."
John Gunin — Juxtapoz Magazine on the Paintings of Michael Knowlton

"Michael Knowlton is protesting a dirty and seemingly endless war. While so much of contemporary painting offers a Tongue in cheek approach to irony, Mr. Knowlton, in the tradition of Goya, Daumier, Golub, Kollowitz and Grotz is pointing a sharp finger at man’s capacity to hurt and destroy.

Unlike the previous cool of the LA images, now Michael Knowlton’s heat crowns this work with purpose and a plea for sanity and discourse between societies."

Jerome Witkin
Syracuse, NY 2008
Time Out an image of a painting by Michael Knowlton
Time Out
Tank Car an image of a painting by Michael Knowlton
Tank-Car
Outdoor Market an image of a painting by Michael Knowlton
Outdoor Market
Fire Kabul an image of a painting by Michael Knowlton
Fire Kabul

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

-San Francisco Arts Commission
- Greg Escalante
-Merrill Lynch Corporation
San Francisco
- Dennis Hopper
- Chlorox Corporation
- Nicolas Cage
- Jack Ertola
- Fausto Vitello
- C.R. Stecyk III
- Mike Doyle
- Charlie Miller
- C.W. Nevius

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

-Dismorphic Visualization Syndrome
Hyena Arena, Bolinas Museum
Bolinas
-Hyena Highway, 0-1 Gallery
Hollywood
-Predicaments, 0-1 Gallery
Hollywood
-Tires and Fires
Catharine Clark Gallery
San Francisco
-Surf's Up, Julie Rico Gallery
Santa Monica
-New Work, 0-1 Gallery
Hollywood
-Monkey Tales, Morphos Gallery
San Francisco
-Kars and Klowns, 0-1 Gallery
Hollywood
-New Work, Anon Salon
San Francisco
-New Work, 0-1 Gallery
Hollywood
-Anon Salon
San Francisco
-New Work, Climate Theater
San Francisco
-Bolinas Gallery, Bolinas
-Installation
Painting performance
Glas Haus, San Francisco


PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

-Orange County Weekly
Review
-The Channel, Art Beat
Review
-San Francisco Chronicle
Reproduction
-Point Reyes Light
Reproduction
-Marin Independent Journal
Feature story
-Point Reyes Light
Reproduction
-Venice Magazine, March
Reproduction
-Surfer Magazine
Reproduction
-Los Angeles Times
Reproduction
-Point Reyes Light
Review
-JUXTAPOZ, Summer
Feature story
with reproductions
-Surfer's Journal, Spring
Feature story with
reproductions
-Los Angeles Times
Reproduction
-MOCA Contemporaries
Review
-Point Reyes Light
Reproduction
-San Jose Mercury News
Review
-San Francisco Examiner
Review
-San Francisco Examiner
Reproduction.