Born 1933, New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
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The Boat Book, 2014-2015
Walk-in room size environment with center spine and pages. Mixed media on wood
Book approximate : 96 x 106 inches
Individual page approximate: 96 x 48 inches
Rake's Progress, 2008
Cyanotype on cotton
54 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches
Event Thread, 2006
Mixed medium
67 x 3 inches
Two Poets Tee, 2005
Shirt, mixed medium
90 x 24 inches
Iliad Odditites (Greene Street), 2003
Found objects and cyanotype on cloth
24 x 108 1/2 inches
Bean Turner, Red, 2000
Flax paper, beans
23 x 7 x 2 1/2 inches
Installation View, Celebration Red (Homage to Each Red Thing), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2016
Shigeko Kubota Performs The Identical Lunch, 1973/1992
Silkscreen on canvas
19.5 x 18 inches
Pagina Lenticchia, 1980-1990
Branch, cotton, flax, lentils, acrylic stamp, and unbleached flax
Main: 89 x 43 x 2 1/2 inches
Broken Line with Slippers, 1980s
Handmade flax paper with shoes, paint, strings, and hand colored cotton with wooden bar
145 1/4 x 43 inches
Shoe String Song, 1971
Sepia blueprint on vellum
92 1/2 x 36 inches
The House of Dust (computer generated poem), 1971
Dot matrix printer paper with ribbon ink
Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
44 x 14 3/4 inches
47.7 x 18 inches (framed)
Each sheet : 11 x 14 3/4 inches
The Big Book (first part of The Big Book & The Book of Bean), 1966 – 67
16mm film to VHS transfer to .MOV
6 minutes, 15 seconds
Bean Rolls, 1963
Tin box with paper label, 5 paper scrolls, beans
3 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches
Make a Salad, Performance at Art Basel, 2016
The House of Dust, 1967
Dot Matrix printer, continuous paper, ribbon cartridge, micro-computer, 2 micro-SD cards, 2 USB cables, 1 220V AC cord, 1 USB power supply block, 1 USB to mini USB adapter, 2-speed poem generating software & data.
Output: Computer-generated-poem No.2 on continuous data processing paper
Installation view, Shelter or Playground, MAK Center at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, 2019
Installation view, by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2022
Installation view, by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2022