The Pit is excited to invite you to an artist talk between California artists John Knuth and Keith Boadwee on the occasion of Boadee's career survey exhibition Keith Boadwee, Head to Toe: Works from 1990-2024 at The Pit LA.

WHEN: February 21, 2025 at 1pm.

WHERE: 3015 Dolores St, Los Angeles CA 90065

From John Knuth:

I was introduced to Keith Boadwee's work in the book Body art: performing the subject by Amelia Jones published in 2000. It was a peak into radical and celebratory art and ideas. It planted a seed for what art is and can be. 25 years later I am going to interview Keith in his survey exhibition Head to Toe: Works from 1990-2024. Dreams do come true! I think I have some good questions to ask Keith. I think that Keith and I can be witty and charming. Keith especially. Keith became known for his enema paintings. I became known for my fly paintings. I think I have some good questions to ask him about his varied career and approaches to work. I promise it won't be boring!

Keith Boadwee was born in Meridian, MS in 1961 and currently lives in Emeryville, CA. He received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, CA in 2000 and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA in 1989. Boadwee’s work was the subject of one-person exhibitions at Atelier 34zero Museum, Jette, Belgium (2017) and SF Camera Work, San Francisco, CA (1994). His work has been included in thematic exhibitions such as AA Bronson’s Garden of Earthly Delights, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2015); AA Bronson’s Sacre du Printemps, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (2015); 15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (2010); Prospect 1.5, New Orleans, LA (2010); Into Me / Out of Me, MoMA PS1, Long Island, NY and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2006); Grey Area, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA (2003); Bay Area Now 3, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2002); The People’s Plastic Princess, Banff Center, Calgary, Canada (2000); Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (1998); Selections from the Peter and Eileen Norton Collection, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (1995); Bad Girls, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (1994); Slittamenti, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1993); and Performance Behind the Curtain, White Columns, New York, NY (1992).

John Knuth was born in 1978 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a M.F.A. from the University of Southern California and B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota. Recent solo exhibitions include The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky; New Studio Gallery, Minneapolis; Epicenter Projects, Indio, California; and Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. His works have recently been included in group shows at Season’s LA’s The Summer, Los Angeles; The Orange Advisory, Minneapolis; Odd Ark, Los Angeles; Wilding and Can, Los Angeles; Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Berlin and Copenhagen; International Print Center, New York; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; MassArt, Boston; Self-Titled, Tilburg, The Netherlands; China Art Objects and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Minneapolis Institute of Art. His works can be found in multiple private art collections and is featured in the permanent collection of the Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina. He lives and works in Los Angeles.