mercredi 24 juin 2026
Exposition" Enlightened Darkness " dans The Broklyn Rail
Magnifique article dans "The Broklyn Rail" sur mon exposition "Enlightened Darkness " à Cavin-Morris Gallery-N-Y-C
dimanche 31 mai 2026
samedi 16 mai 2026
Solo Show at Cavin-Morris Gallery-N.Y.C - Enlightened Darkness.
ENLIGHTENED DARKNESS:
NEW DRAWINGS BY SOLANGE KNOPF
(May 21 - July 3, 2026)
Solange Knopf was born in Brussels in 1957. She taught herself to make art as a form of spiritual exercise. Her drawings become wards to grapple with the trials of survival. She makes art to hold off and/or attract various spiritual energies. For her, art has the power to hold off and/or attract various spiritual energies. She sees herself as observing the global cultures that fascinate her in their fantastical yet honest portrayals of humans and spirits. By making these drawings she garnered expertise in the arcane practices of healing and spiritual contact with the earth’s myriad peoples. She absorbed the information learned without appropriating it. Her own spirits were within her personal practice and fully occupied her. She translates words and oral culture to visual manifestations. Her life is a constant process of conjuring balance and presenting it to our eyes and minds.
When she encountered darkness during the events of her life, artmaking gave her the materials of coping from within even while she was on the edges of psychological abysses and painful bad luck. She materialized what she encountered by capturing it in her imagery, gradually replacing what was most difficult with diagrammatic sacred geometries and auras of healing. She used colors that danced on the borderlines of light itself. But when the world became overwhelming, she withdrew from artmaking for several years and allowed the healing and searching to continue privately, at its own pace. The constrictions of her living space kept the work small and focused. This exhibition is the first time she has shown with us in several years.
After this hiatus and after finding a studio where she could again work on a larger scale, Knopf has been developing her work in two directions: a dark almost wintry series on black paper, and a swirling, spirit filled related series on white paper. The two series are not contrapuntal to each other, they each have their own languages, and they seem to balance those deeper forces combining ethereal figures of dark and light. It is a brave thing to share one’s demons and daemons with not only oneself but with the world at large. The Surrealists sought this kind of vision in their own work, but it was not always native to them as it is to Knopf. This exhibition marks her return to making her drawings visible to others.
Knopf is in constant search of the depths and limitation of her own muses in the ethereal universes parallel to the harsh bright world. All primal peoples create art as apotropaic warding for self-protection. Knopf creates her own. These are bitter-sweet, never forfeiting their seductiveness to give a false sense of safety. Awareness of the spiritual world is never safe. It is a passionate dance with no absolutes.
We are thrilled to be showing her work again.
For further information please contact us at info@cavinmorris.com or call us at 212-226-3768.
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529 W 20th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
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lundi 4 mai 2026
Exposition Galerie d’Ys-Bruxelles
J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer ma prochaine exposition à Bruxelles à la galerie Dys.
Au plaisir de vous y rencontrer.
Solange
Du 10 Mai au 14 Juin 2026.
84,rue de l’Arbre Bénit
1050 Bruxelles
mercredi 4 février 2026
Outsider Art Fair 2026 - Cavin Morris Gallery
CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY 
GALLERY ANNOUNCEMENT-2026 OUTSIDER ART FAIR
Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to announce the theme for its 2026 stand at the New York Outsider Art Fair. We are calling our presentation PROTO-SURREALISM. Our focus in the gallery this last year has been the relationship between Surrealism, in particular the role of Andre Breton and his relationship with the artist and collector Jean Dubuffet.
We are basing our booth on what we are calling Proto-surrealism. The Surrealists were drawn to Dubuffet and his collection because they saw many of the qualities and intentions they were trying to incorporate into their own work by intellectual and deliberate means. These directions were the occult, dreams, madness, spiritualism including mediumship, visionary world building, automatic writing, children’s art, art perceived as ethnographic.
The Surrealists were drawn to Art Brut, much as were the artists of the Primitivist movement borrowing from and exploring ancient and tribal cultures. For a time Breton added a few of his own discoveries and brought his interests in others to the Collection; artists still very much known to us today such as Hector Hyppolite, Victorian Sardou, Helene Smith, Augustine Lesage Victor Hugo etc. His framework of acceptance was wider than that of Dubuffet and he wasn’t the only Surrealist and artist taken by the interests in these undefined artists. Max Ernst, for example, passed on the seminal book by Hans Prinzhorn, “Artistry of the Mentally Ill” to Jean Arp, Dubuffet, Paul Eluard and Andre Breton.
Art History has had no problem accepting the Art Brut influences and inspirations of the Surrealists. But as with the cultural artists who created the “tribal” works that influenced the earlier and later primitivist modernists, it was the Western mainstream art world that received the attention and art world legitimacy rather than the artists included under the Art Brut umbrella and beyond. This has not changed much to this day and this sad anomaly became the underlying motivation for our Proto-Surrealism concentration.
The Non-mainstream artists of Art Brut and beyond were and are making their work independently of the infrastructure of the Contemporary canon. They were never a movement. They had no manifestos other than the raw powers of their very individual voices. The Surrealists were intellectually motivated to tap into this power. The Proto-Surreal artists (This is a description , not a definition) were already focusing on their own creations, following no dialog with mainstream art history in their processes.. For the most part they created for themselves, for the spirits, or for the Moral, physical and spiritual balance of their cultural communities. The work is outside time. Their art was used as source material for a Western influenced art movement, and, except for Dubuffet and a few likeminded others, they were excluded from the world arena through neglect and the ever present hegemonies of art world gentrification of non-Western cultures.
The creation of this art has never stopped. It is still the real Surreal . It is still copied and exploited and excluded from the academic roundtables of world art. Its truths remain ancient and universal and simultaneously Contemporary.
We are not trying to recreate Dubuffet’s vision in this booth and in the exhibitions we feature at the gallery. Instead we are offering a very small curated cross-section of a huge part of living Art. These are the artists do naturally what the Surrealists so gloriously sought to do in their own explorations.
The artists we will show are Angkasapura , Alireza
Asbahi (CC), Ilija "Bosilj" Bašičević , JJ Cromer,Caroline Demangel, Solange Knopf, Davood Koochaki, Tomo Kōya, M’onma, Jean-pierre Nadau, Izabella Ortiz, Sandra Sheehy, Imam Sucahyo, Gregory an Maanen, Steve Wilson, Joseph Yoakum and Anna Zemankova.
These artists are working in the same ways they and the generations before them always have. They were the Surrealists before the Surrealists. They are oneiric Warriors.
Metropolitan Pavilion,
125 W 18th St., New York, NY 10011
Avant
-première VIP et presse :
jeudi 19 mars 2026, de 12h à 18h
Vernissage :
jeudi 19 mars 2026, de 18h à 21h
Ouverture au public :
vendredi 20 mars 2026, de 11h à 20h
Samedi 21 mars 2026, de 11h à 20h
Dimanche 22 mars 2026, de 11h à 18h
Solange Knopf
"The Inner Darkness" No. 7,2025
Colored pencil on black paper
51 x 51 inches
129.5 x 129.5 cm
SoK 123
vendredi 30 mai 2025
samedi 24 mai 2025
dimanche 20 octobre 2019
Outsider Art Fair 2019 Paris / Cavin Morris Gallery
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mardi 19 décembre 2017
Outsider Art Fair 2018 / Cavin Morris Gallery - N.Y.C
Prochaine exposition collective - Outsider Art Fair 2018 / Cavin Morris Gallery - N.Y.C
Du 18 au 21 Janvier 2018
Metropolitan Pavillon
New-York
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| Solange Knopf /2017-- Aquarelle sur papier 2017 - 74.9 x 58.4 cm |
jeudi 5 octobre 2017
samedi 14 janvier 2017
jeudi 5 janvier 2017
Two Group Show - " Resist "(January 12, 2017 - February 18, 2017) and "YAMINISM ": ABELAM MASKS OF SUSTENANCE AND SPIRIT (December 1, 2016 - February 25, 2017) & Cavin - Morris Gallery - N.Y.C
Exposition "RESIST" Cavin - Morris Gallery - NY
they resist time
they resist exploiters
they resist definitions
they resist pigeonholing
they resist history written by the victors
they resist auction houses
they resist artspeak
they resist racism
they resist totalitarianism
they resist revisionist art history
they resist time
they resist being forced to be negatively funky
they resist art world gentrification
they resist art dealers
they resist curators
they resist critics
they resist being stereotyped
they resist being profiled
they resist political correctness (the real bad kind)
they resist art world politics
they resist art world sexism
they resist bad governments
they resist time
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| "Iboga" 2014 Techn. mixtes sur papier kraft 49,5 x 69,9 cm |
"Resist' will feature Caroline Demangel, Izabella Ortiz, Eric Derochette, Davood Koochaki, Ilya Natarevich, Anna Zemankova, Sandra Sheehy, John Devlin, Joseph Hofer, Kashinath Chawan, M'onma, Christine Sefolosha, Herman Bossert, Sylvain Corentin, Tony Pedemonte, Guillaume Couffignal, Solange Knopf, Ghyslaine and Sylvain Staelens and others.
"YAMINISM ": ABELAM MASKS OF SUSTENANCE AND SPIRIT (December 1, 2016 - February 25, 2017)
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| Solange Knopf "Iboga "Crayons de couleurs sur papier Kraft - 2015 - 69,5 x 49,7 cm |
69,5 x 49,7 cm
Cavin - Morris Gallery
dimanche 1 janvier 2017
OUTSIDER ART FAIR 2017 - NEW YORK - CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY
CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY - Stand n ° 42
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| Solange Knopf 2016 - "O.V.N.I " 56 x 74.5 cm |
lundi 14 novembre 2016
mercredi 10 août 2016
lundi 18 juillet 2016
Images de l'exposition "As Essential as Dreams": Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither - The Menil Collection - Houston - Texas - U.S.A
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| Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester |
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| Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester |
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| Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester |
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| Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester |
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| Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester |
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| Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester |
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| Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester |
dimanche 1 mai 2016
As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither - The Menil Collection - Houston - Texas - U.S.A
J'ai le grand plaisir de vous informer que suite à la donation de la collection Stéphanie et John Smither, 3 de mes dessins entrent au musée de la collection Menil à Houston - Texas - U.S.A
Ceux ci seront exposés au mois de juin prochain lors d'une exposition dédiée à celle - ci et intitulée " As Essentiel As Dreams ".
A cette occasion , un catalogue sera publié.
The Menil Collection "As Essential as Dreams ": Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither
"As Essential as Dreams "
lundi 22 février 2016
vendredi 23 octobre 2015
Cavin - Morris Spotlight - Texte Randall Morris - Cavin - Morris Gallery - N.Y.C
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| Solange Knopf - "Défloration" - 2015 crayons de couleurs sur papier kraft |
Randall Morris Octobre 2015
Copyright Randall Morris
Cavin-Morris-Spotlight
mercredi 14 octobre 2015
6 SELF-TAUGHT WOMEN ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW " Priscilla Frank - Huffington Post -
"The Lack Of Women In Non-Mainstream Art"
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| " Mandragore" 2014 - Techn mixtes sur papier kraft - 69,9 x 49,5 cm |
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