City Art Gallery Michael Knoch

	*Spring Overflows* Acrylic on Canvas 12" x 24" $1300 uf

*Eastern Afternoon* Acrylic on Canvas 30" x 40" $3200 uf	*Wake of Light* Acrylic on Canvas 36" x 48" $3600 uf

*Coastal Plain 2* Acrylic on Canvas 14" x 88" $700 ufSOLD	*Coastal Plain* Acrylic on Canvas 14" x 18" $700 uf

*The Return in Morning* Acrylic on Canvas 30" x 40" $3200 uf	*Land of Plenty* Acrylic on Canvas 36" x 48" $3600 uf

*Prosperous Light* Acrylic on Canvas 36" x 48" $3600 uf	*December's First* Acrylic on Canvas 24" x 36" $2400 uf

*Atlantic Afternoon* Acrylic on Canvas 24" x 30" $2400 uf	*Good Friday* Acrylic on Canvas 16" x 20" $1400 uf

Michael Knoch presently lives and works in Greenville, North Carolina. The rural region provides the current themes for his landscape paintings and drawings. These recent works depict the coastal waterways, sand beaches, fields, and brimming woodlands of eastern North Carolina.

His choice mediums for this subject are color pencil and black ink for the drawings, and acrylic and watercolor gouache for the paintings. As often as work is executed on canvas, another is worked on paper. A late Nineteenth Century palette is the luminous guide for the tone and color values of many pieces. There is a fine appreciation for the aspect of craft in these works. Many of his paintings exhibit a finished quality reminiscent of this era. Michael shows an affinity to the particulars of the watercolor gouache; an opaque painting formulated and prized in the Victorian century. The colors are readily brilliant and durable; this medium can certainly enhance one's collection. "Gouache carries the appropriate qualities for a contemporary observance of the Nineteenth Century lesson in landscape."

While Michael signs his paintings on the back using his name, the front image carries his "symbol" only…a small dot inside a circle. To him, the small dot represents his small God-given gift of art and self within the entire universe.

Michael Knoch received his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993 and BFA from East Carolina University in 1983.
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