The Thousands

Jodee Knowles is the shiz! I mean this Perth minx/painter’s stock response to the ‘unsatisfactory’ is "I’d rather suck Bigfoot’s dick!" If you get her tipsy she may even confess her grand ambition to be in the top ten artists working in the US. By. Age. Thirty. She also owes me fifteen bucks.

In the World of Things Without Weight is Knowles’ first solo show. It features women whose torsos have been crumpled by giant hands. All that rigour has ballooned to their faces with large ‘doe’ eyes accentuated by vivid eye-shadow.**They radiate an exquisite sadness. The mostly black and white paintings are both radiant and grotesque. A cross motif is patterned on the women’s garments throughout, which Knowles says symbolizes ‘the joining of time and money‘. Hmm, money? Okay Jodee I get it – you don’t have to repay that dough.