“Like offshoots of kudzu out to colonize the landscape.”
“‘Necessity,’ a mural installation by Elizabeth Knowles, migrates from the wall and onto the floor. Extending outward from a nest-shaped central node, branches wrapped in wire dissipate into tendrils that ultimately fragment, like offshoots of kudzu out to colonize the landscape.”
“[Knowles’] work seems sensitive to a time shaped by such brave new biological advances as cloning and DNA mapping.”
“Elizabeth Knowles has created a smart body of biology-based work. It’s a combination of video, sculpture, paper cutouts and splashy paintings on photocopies of medical texts. They’re informed by a squiggly sense of line and inspired by the dotted skeins and bulbous clusters that viruses reveal when seen under the microscope… There’s a sizable share of whimsy in Knowles’ work, but like other contemporary art exploring visceral imagery, her work seems sensitive to a time shaped by such brave new biological advances as cloning and DNA mapping.”
“These are challenging, inventive pieces, with unusual contours that present a keen sense of discovery.”
“Thin Lines coalesce to form an organically inspired, abstract shape in Elizabeth Knowles’ pieces, which have the bulk and mass expected in sculpture. Here the body is shaped by mesh like wire, allowing light inside as well as out, and the eye questions whether the form is solid or open… These are challenging, inventive pieces, with unusual contours that present a keen sense of discovery.”
“… beautifully showing the longing and absence of modern romance.”
“In ‘Love's Fortune’ Elizabeth Knowles cuts out heart shapes from email printouts, letters, and astrological charts that are sewn together; the hearts fall to the floor, and the papers drape like a doily over a table… beautifully showing the longing and absence of modern romance.”
“Like phosphorescent starfish swimming in a night sea.”
“‘Night Vision’, Elizabeth Knowles's array of multi-pointed cutouts made of X-ray film, ranges freely over its assigned wall and migrates to the ceiling. Shadowy image fragments are visible on the film, which has a reflective sheen that twinkles in the light, like phosphorescent starfish swimming in a night sea. The marine analogy is enhanced by the flowing shape of the installation.”
“Mixed-media constructions echo the dynamism inherent in the psychological and physiological relationships of life, both animal and vegetable.”
“Elizabeth Knowles’ mixed-media constructions echo the dynamism inherent in the psychological and physiological relationships of life, both animal and vegetable… suggesting neurons and ganglia and all the other submicroscopic paraphernalia of existence. I found it exciting.”
“A poetic meditation on both the laws of science and laws of human relationships.”