Silke Otto-Knapp

Silke Otto-Knapp, a German native artist (1970 in Osnabrück) now based in Los Angeles, makes black and white monochromes by applying watercolour to primed canvas, and combines motifs of landscape and decorative painting with a distinctive technique of layered and erased coats of paint to create works that are called by the LA Times as “visually elusive as quicksilver.”