Galerie Alain Gutharc is pleased to present When The Sun Hits, a solo show of new paintings by Canadian artist Kris Knight. For his third exhibition with the gallery, Knight continues to construct scenes of glimpsed beauty, slow-burn longing and quiet in-between moments that define his queer experience.

His sensitive portraits and figurative works portray his friends and acquaintances in solitary contemplation, longstanding relationships and mildly elegiac scenes of leisure and selfcare. He imbues his contemporary subject matter with historical art references and colour palettes in both natural and domestic settings.

Kris Knight – When The Sun Hits

October 12 to November 16, 2024

Galerie Alain Gutharc, 7 rue Saint Claude, 75003 Paris.

This year House of Illustration will open the UK’s first public solo show dedicated to gay cultural icon and prolific artist Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen), in partnership with Tom of Finland Foundation and the Finnish Institute in London.

This timely exhibition, on the centenary of his birth, will celebrate the artist whose homoerotic visions had a profound effect on gay communities in Europe and North America during a pivotal period in their history and continue to have an immeasurable influence on popular culture today. Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation will display 40 works on paper produced from the 1960s to the 1980s, both before and after homosexuality was decriminalised in much of Europe and the U.S.

It will include early drawings of men fighting that constituted the only legal way to show physical contact between men before decriminalisation, as well as illustrations from his iconic Kake comics and rare linocuts produced in very limited editions.

The exhibitiion wil be on from the 6th of March until late June.

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Kris Knight presents ''When The Sun Hits'' Exhibition in Paris

House of Illustration will open the UK’s first public solo show dedicated to artist Tom of Finland