Grace Knowlton  www.graceknowltonart.com

Grace Knowlton began her career as a painter in the 1960's, after studying with contemporary American painter Kenneth Noland. Knowlton's sculptural work began with making increasingly three-dimensional paintings, until one day, a painting became a painted sphere. "My first interest was in the closed form's sealed space, then in the form itself. The possibilities of the surface, whether glazed, painted or patinaed was always important to me. Spherical forms gradually opened up, allowing a rich relationship between internal space and external surfaces." Although Knowlton was at first a painter, she has become internationally renowned for her spherical sculpture. Gradually she flattened the spheres into shards and hung them on the wall, returning them to paintings. The steel piece exhibited in CURRENT looks as if Knowlton has yet again stripped a sphere to literally expose its interior. Knowlton is an equally accomplished photographer and continues to explore digital art possibilities.