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1933 New York City - 2025 New York City. Known for: Performance, soundworks and installation art.
Alison Knowles (born 1933) in New York City is an American visual artist known for her soundworks*, installations*, performances*, and publications. Knowles was very active in the Fluxus* movement,... Read full biography
Alison Knowles (born 1933) in New York City is an American visual artist known for her soundworks*, installations*, performances*, and publications. Knowles was very active in the Fluxus* movement, and continues to create work inspired by her Fluxus experience. She has created work that... Read full biography
Alison Knowles (born 1933) in New York City is an American visual artist known for her soundworks*, installations*, performances*, and publications. Knowles was very active in the Fluxus* movement, and continues to create work inspired by her Fluxus experience. She has created work that incorporates performance, radio, and sound, papermaking, and printmaking. She briefly attended Middlebury College and graduated from the Pratt Institute* in New York with an honors degree in fine art. Knowles... Read full biography
Alison Knowles (born 1933) in New York City is an American visual artist known for her soundworks*, installations*, performances*, and publications. Knowles was very active in the Fluxus* movement, and continues to create work inspired by her Fluxus experience. She has created work that incorporates performance, radio, and sound, papermaking, and printmaking. She briefly attended Middlebury College and graduated from the Pratt Institute* in New York with an honors degree in fine art. Knowles was married to the Fluxus artist and prominent intermedia theorist, Dick Higgins, from 1960 to 1970, and again from 1984 until Higgins' death in 1998. In 2000, Knowles began casting flax paper to make musical instruments. The Bean Turner, Rattles, and... Read full biography
Alison Knowles (born 1933) in New York City is an American visual artist known for her soundworks*, installations*, performances*, and publications. Knowles was very active in the Fluxus* movement, and continues to create work inspired by her Fluxus experience. She has created work that incorporates performance, radio, and sound, papermaking, and printmaking. She briefly attended Middlebury College and graduated from the Pratt Institute* in New York with an honors degree in fine art. Knowles was married to the Fluxus artist and prominent intermedia theorist, Dick Higgins, from 1960 to 1970, and again from 1984 until Higgins' death in 1998. In 2000, Knowles began casting flax paper to make musical instruments. The Bean Turner, Rattles, and Wings and Drums use beans for sound with the aid of text, toys and silence. Knowles studied with the painters... Read full biography
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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Book Design, Hand-Made Books, Book Art
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Installation Art
- •Photography as Fine Art
- •Soundworks, Sound Sculpture
Art Media
- •Handmade Paper
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Paper as Art Media
- •Screenprinting, Serigraphy, Silkscreen
Art Style
- •Performance Art, Happenings
Art Teacher
- •Adolph Gottlieb
- •Josef Albers
Art School
- •Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Documenta, Kassel, Germany
Art Movement
- •Fluxus
Exhibition of Museum
- •Tate Museums, England