Clive Knights’ recent collages on display at William & Mary Muscarelle Museum of Art in Virginia

Clive Knights, professor of architecture, will give a guest lecture at The College of William and Mary in Virginia on February 16, 2024, in connection with an exhibition of his recent collages, "Nascent Themes from a Conversation of Fragments: Recent Collages by Clive Knights," at the college's Muscarelle Museum of Art, running February 9 to May 18, 2024.   

The showcase will serve as the laboratory portion of Neuroaesthetics: The Artist and the Mind, a course taught by W. Taylor Reveley Interdisciplinary Fellows Elizabeth Mead of the Department of Art & Art History and Jennifer Stevens of the Department of Psychological Sciences & the Neuroscience Program. The course and exhibition will examine the roles of creativity and cognition through Knights' collage work. The exhibition aims to bring first-hand experiential interaction with contemporary collage art, inviting viewers to explore their internal response to the color, contrast, depth, tone, layering, texture and gesture of these intricate compositions.  In his guest lecture, Knights will articulate his thoughts on the cultural value of collage, its role as poetic making, and its metaphoric potential to animate common human themes.