Dialogues on the Knoll

November 2025

A collective exhibition, West Hollywood, CA

Dialogues on the Knoll

Dialogues on the Knoll gathers a circle of artists whose practices seek grounding amid a world in motion. Sculpture, sound, light, painting, and functional art converge to explore the delicate balance between rupture and repair, chaos and contemplation. Clay, bronze, stone, pigment, and frequency each become vessels for transformation—holding emotional, ecological, and spiritual memory in their form. Across the exhibition, we encounter works that surface the rawness of being human, alongside gestures toward healing, ritual, and inner stillness. Some pieces mirror the turbulence of the collective moment; others offer refuge, sanctuary, or breath. Together, they create a living dialogue—an invitation to pause, listen, and inhabit the space between intensity and quiet. On this West Hollywood knoll, the salon becomes both lookout and landing place, where uncertainty and beauty can coexist, and where stillness is not the absence of noise, but the presence of awareness. - by Kipton Cronkite

Opening reception, November 11, 2025

5:00pm-8:00pm

914, 916, 918, 920 West Knoll Drive, West Hollywood, CA

RSVP: assistant@kipton.com - by appointment | Text: 917-797-2689

Curated by Kipton Cronkite | Salon Partner, Todd Williamson

Glimpse, 2021, Dyluted acrylic and pilled vegetation on canvas, 30x40in | 76x102cm

Collective artists: Mark Acetelli, Charles Arnoldi, Kristina Rose Baker, Brian Chaaban, Mads Christensen, Christina Craemer, Shane Guffogg, Steve Hash, Alexandria Hilfiger, Caroline P.M. Jones, David Paul Kay, Brandon Lomax, Leo Marmol, Mohamed Ouedraogo, Theo Pinto, Rotem Reshef, Cybele Rowe, Roxie Sarhangi, Todd Williamson

Signs of Spring, 2017, Dyluted acrylic on canvas, 47x71in | 120x180cm (diptych)

Special thanks to Frost/Chaddock Developers, along with Paul Lester and Daniel Stevenson from The Agency, for the opportunity to collaborate on this project at The Row on West Knoll.

Dialogues on the Knoll

Metallica, 2017, Dyluted acrylic on canvas, 28x22in | 71x56cm

May this year be a good year. Shana Tova! 🧚‍♀️

September 2025

What can we say about the year we've had, or about the next one?

Paradise Lost, 2019, Dyluted acrylic and peeled vegetation on canvas scroll (detail)

First and foremost, I wish for the return of our brothers and sister who are being held in the hell of Gaza, for the people in Gaza to be free, and for the war to end.

I hope that we, as a people, will rediscover our truth, that we will once again be lovers of humanity and seekers of peace, that we will show compassion toward ourselves and those around us, and that with the creativity and love that run through us, we will be able to generate hope for a better future.

May we find the strength to rise from the depths of this rupture and begin to heal.

May this year be a good year. Shana Tova!

in the studio, generateng hope for a better future

"Almost Completely Abstract"

July 2025

Group exhibition, Teo Cultural Center, Herzliya, July 10-August 23, 2025

Rust, 2008, 75x63in | 190x160cm, Dyluted acrylic and charcoal on canvas

Zelda’s poem “A Fragrant Scent of Distance” ends with a powerful image: a white curtain embroidered in white thread, inscribed with the verse, “To You, silence is praise.” In it, she reveals abstraction as a space of reverence, subtlety, and profound presence.

In a world saturated with images and noise, abstraction offers an alternative mode of expression—intuitive, emotional, and conceptual. While sometimes perceived as detached from meaning, abstract art is deeply rooted in culture, memory, and material. Even in the absence of recognizable imagery, viewers instinctively seek meaning and connection.

Somewhere Sometime #2, 2017, 16x35in | 41x90cm, Dyluted acrylicl on canvas, (triptych)

"Almost Completely Abstract" presents a spectrum of artistic approaches—from expressive gestures and intuitive marks to methodical explorations of form and material. Together, the works explore abstraction not as escape, but as a language for presence, reflection, and reimagining.

Like Zelda’s embroidered curtain, these works invite us to listen for the unspoken, meaning that emerges from within the silence.

Curator: Gabi Yair

Teo Cultural Center

168 Wingate St. Herzelya, Israel