Regen Projects is pleased to present a focused presentation of small paintings and studies on canvas by Silke Otto-Knapp (1970-2022). Concurrent with Elliott Hundley’s exhibition Book of Sand, Otto-Knapp’s show will be presented in the viewing rooms. Highlighting Otto-Knapp’s singular use of watercolor on canvas and her development of this technique, many of these works will be shown for the first time.

Otto-Knapp’s method creates a productive tension between control and unpredictability, simultaneously regulated and experimental. Early inquiries into this tension are seen in works such as the colorful Portrait (Doll) (2007), where the stiff posture of a rouged performer is juxtaposed with a swirling, floral background reminiscent of Natalia Goncharova’s set designs for the Ballets Russes. Later works in grayscale further mine, and complicate, understandings of positive and negative space, as well as figure and ground. As Otto-Knapp’s method evolved into a “process of erasure,” she…