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Exhibition Detail NICHOLAS KNIGHT Declaimed 65GRAND 1369 W Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60642 January 14th, 2011 - February 12th, 2011 Opening: January 14th, 2011 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
	NICHOLAS KNIGHT, Taking Pictures (Grunewald), 2009, archival pigment print mounted on aluminum, 36 x 36 inches © Courtesy of the artist and 65GRAND

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65GRAND is pleased to present Nicholas Knight in his second exhibition with the gallery. The show is comprised of three bodies of photographic work that present the picture as a screen, surface, or chimera, and examine framing and being framed.

Knight's focus ranges from the digitizing and re-scaling of a museumgoer's experience with a work of art (Taking Pictures), to the beguiling language and unstable imagery appropriated from commercial advertising (Disclaimers), to self-referential works made by staging, photographing, and then painting over the elegant lines of a piece of wire (White Outs). The show is tied together by his piercing scrutiny of originality and reproduction, which leads Knight to the very core of photography's function, and helps him to underscore, and, in equal measure, undermine it.

By exposing both the concrete and speculative foundations of his work, Knight offers viewers a feast of materiality and meaning, inviting them to indulge in the technological mediations and aesthetic pleasures of this photographic smorgasbord - main course, desert course, discourse.

Nicholas Knight lives and works in New York City and earned his BFA in Fine Arts and BA in History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University. He has had solo exhibitions at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, and Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas. In summer of 2009 he curated the group show "Rubber Sheets" at C.R.E.A.M. Projects in Brooklyn, New York.