"I think art should take us out of very good times or very bad,"
"It's a neutral resting place. It's a place to take a breath. Art should relieve us and enliven us."
"I remember well when I decided to be an artist,"
"It was when my grandmother addressed me as one. She looked at my pencil drawing of an osprey's nest built in the cross wires of a telephone pole and hung it over the piano. I was six, maybe seven years old."
Alison Knowles was born April 29, 1933 in Scarsdale, New York, and died October 29 in New York at age ninety-two. A key member of Fluxus, Knowles emphasized the haptic and worked across installation, performance, sound, and poetry. She became best known for event scores—brief instructional pieces pioneered by Fluxus founder George Brecht—that allowed everyday actions to become art. Notable works include Proposition (1962) with the command "Make a salad," Shoes of Your Choice (1963), and Identical Lunch (1967). She studied at Middlebury and Pratt Institute and trained under Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Klein, and Richard Lindner.
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