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Rainen Knecht, Ants, 2017, Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 ins, 50.8 x 40.64 cm

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Rainen Knecht at Fourteen 30 Contemporary in Portland

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Metal Heart, Rainen Knecht and Chris Baird at Lowell http://lowellshopgallery.tumblr.com/

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Heathers

AMY BAY MELANIE FLOOD RAINEN KNECHT BOBBI WOODS

On view: July 15 - August 15, 2020.  [Timed Appointments only] Masks required. Hours [generally]: Wednesdays 3pm - 7pm Thursdays 3pm - 7pm Sundays 11am - 2pm

She lived in the house behind ours.  She was always a little wild.  She lived down the street and she was going with Mark Muchmore.  She did gymnastics and got big boils where her underwear rubbed against her skin.  She used to pop them and show me the craters that were left over.  Her mother got very upset when I said “Oh my god!”   We laughed all the time, especially when we jumped on her trampoline.  We would pee a little bit.  I don’t remember any in college.  We worked together.  She was very sincere and sweet and excited about the world.  We helped her move to a new apartment and all her belongings fit in the back of our car.  She had beautiful blue eyes and her cheeks always had a little flush of red. She was open to everything but sort of innocent and naive and had never watched an episode of The Simpsons so she never knew what we were talking about.  She’s too didactic.  It’s condescending.  She doesn't give you space and time to think for yourself.  She’s super smart and brave for leaving that guy.  She somehow manages to live on very little but is content.  She packed much less than I did.  She was a tanguista. 

She only knows one Heather.  She never did see all the movies everyone says you are supposed to see.  Didn’t see Psycho or Apocalypse Now or The Outsiders.  Oh Patrick Swayze was so cute in The Outsiders!  They were all cute!  C. Thomas Howell and who played Ponyboy? Ralph Macchio!  She saw him in a movie recently and he looks terrible.  Didn’t even recognize him.  But Rob Lowe has been off drugs since the 90s and he looks exactly the same. Gorgeous. Haha. She plastered her walls with photos, mostly of bands, and splattered them with paint.  She had art posters -- some impressionist painting -- but hadn’t really done that kind of thing since before she left home.  And Everything But the Girl and Matisse’s Blue Nude and some André Derain painting and Hairspray.  Did you read the John Waters book? The first half is what he thought it should have been and the second was how it actually was.  And she used to have that whole scene from Trading Places memorized but can’t remember it all now because she has lost brain cells.  She’s moving away this summer.  Back home.  It’s the best decision but it’s so fucking sad.  She doesn’t know what is happening with her show. Oh Backstreet Boys! No, it was New Kids on the Block.  She had a New Kids on the Block Poster.  Wasn’t Menudo the first boy band? Her best friend was named Heather. She lived in a hotel instead of a dorm.  The room was way too small to hang anything on the walls.  The students were mixed in with other tenants and once a 90 year old lady died in one of the rooms and they didn’t find her for a week.  

The plan was to name me Heather, but then my Mother watched Gone with the Wind and named me after a character from the movie. ‘Call me you piece of yat!’ She wrote it on the back of a business card I had made on one of those mall business card machines for the fanzine I had just started. She would always leave a mouthful of Peach Tea Snapple in the bottle. She would save half smoked cigarettes, half eaten Tootsie Roll pops and I knew her to take chewing gum out before a make out session, sticking it on the sofa to chew on later. I was in the room with her when she gave her first blow job. She barfed on Dave’s stomach. 

I can feel exhibitionism throbbing in my veins.

Divine as Dawn Davenport John Waters' Female Trouble, 1974

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“Turn Back, Turn Back!”

Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Turn Back, Turn Back! an exhibition of works by Diana Yesenia Alvarado, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Rainen Knecht, Lila de Magalhaes, Elham Rokni, Summer Wheat and Tori Wrånes. These artists explore narrative structures that resonate with a deep history of storytelling found in ancient myths, fables, and folktales.

The exhibition’s title derives from the Brother’s Grimm fairytale The Robber Bridegroom. “Turn back, turn back” – this warning is often heard from a talking animal as the fairytale’s subject approaches the darker edge of the forest. From Little Red Riding Hood to Hansel and Gretel, this symbolic venture into the daunting woods can also be interpreted as a wandering into one’s unconscious anxieties. A cawing crow or creaking sign becomes an analogy for internal doubts as the subject meanders into the darker recesses of the mind.

Similarly, the exhibition’s artists use fantasy, archetypes, and anthropomorphism in their exploration of psychological and historical narratives. Amalgamating images related to culturally significant stories, these artists examine how fables serve as guides to the unconscious, using metaphors to explore age-old fears, anxieties, and shared beliefs

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Rainen Knecht is now represented by Fourteen30 Contemporary in Portland.! I really enjoyed her work in last year’s TBA Festival.

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Artists: Katherine Bradford, Julie Tuyet Curtiss, Jessie Homer French, Cy Gavin, Anna Glantz, Sanam Khatibi, Rainen Knecht, Lazaros, Nicky Lesser, Ana Mendieta, Walter Price, Anna Sew Hoy, Marianne Vitale

Venue: Various Small Fires, Los Angeles

Exhibition Title: Hecate

Date: November 11 – December 16, 2017

Click here to view slideshow

Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of the artists and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles

Press Release:

“W.I.T.C.H. is an all-women Everything. It’s theater, revolution, magic, terror, joy, garlic flowers, spells. It’s an awareness that witches and gypsies were the original guerrillas and resistance fighters against oppression — particularly the oppression of women — down through the ages. Witches have always been women who dared to be: groovy, courageous, aggressive, intelligent, nonconformist, explorative, curious, independent, sexually liberated, revolutionary (This possibly explains why nine million of them have been burned.) Witches were the first Friendly Heads and Dealers, the first birth-control practitioners and abortionists, the first alchemists. They bowed to no man, being the living remnants of the oldest culture of all — one in which men and women were equal sharers in a truly cooperative society, before the death-dealing sexual, economic, and spiritual repression of the Imperialist Phallic Society took over and began to destroy nature and human society.”

– Excerpt from the W.I.T.C.H.* manifesto written in 1968

Katherine Bradford  (b. 1942, New York, NY) Julie Curtiss  (b. 1982, Paris, France) Jessie Homer French  (b. 1940, New York, NY) Cy Gavin  (b. 1985, Pittsburgh, PA) Anna Glantz  (b.1989, Concord, MA) Sanam Khatibi  (b. 1979, Tehran, Iran) Rainen Knecht  (b. 1982, Gig Harbor, WA) Lazaros  (b. 1984, Salt Lake City, UT) Nicky Lesser  (b. 1988, Los Angeles, CA) Ana Mendieta  (b. 1948, Havana, Cuba) Walter Price  (b. 1989, Macon, GA) Anna Sew Hoy  (b. 1976, Auckland, New Zealand) Marianne Vitale  (b. 1973, East Rockaway, NY)

* Brazenly anarchist, anti-hierarchal, and wildly playful, W.I.T.C.H. was a female-led collective, including members of all genders, that engaged in political and surrealist protest actions in the late 1960s – 70s. Although poorly documented and understudied, the group was principally associated with the Women’s Liberation Movement and its acronym would change according to the group’s needs. It was also one of the first collectives to link the international history of witchcraft (worldwide traditions include Vodun of West Africa, Vodou of the Caribbean, Santería of Cuba, Santa Muerte of Mexico, Hoodoo of the Southern U.S., Shamanism of Asia, Stregheria of Italy, Wicca of England and much more) to political activism and the relentless fight for civil rights. This history, powered by female leadership, craft, and medicine, can be traced as far back as 2nd Century writings on Hecate: the Hellenic goddess of light, entrance-ways, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, magic and moons.

Link: “Hecate” at Various Small Fires

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Rainen Knecht at Fourteen 30 Contemporary in Portland

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Rainen Knecht

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View Heathers installation images here. ⇧

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Rainen Knecht at Fourteen 30 Contemporary in Portland

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Rainen Knecht at Fourteen 30 Contemporary in Portland