In UNKNOWN KNOWNS Kyle Knobel explores the murky territory between what think we know and that which is not understood or even unknowable. By abandoning the need to constantly understand what the work is about, the artist opens up a space to question, experience, and create – free from overt narrative or even rational understanding.

In Unknowns, inlaid slabs of mixed clay bodies are constructed with both a level of constraint and by methods of chance. Stripped of storytelling, the visual experience and physicality become the main driving force.

In Knowns, ink drawings on tan paper are rendered in wide, graphic lines – reduced to largely gestural compositions of details culled from daily moments. Plants, braided hair, brick patterns, woven furniture, a hand, all are presented on an equal playing field, democratized as 'real and known.'