{mosimage} In its slippery exuberance and dependence on impossibilities, Tom Knechtel’s universe goes to great pains to complement rather than repeat ours. Knechtel’s creatures fuse man and beast, the mythic and the quotidian, and he sets them adrift in a space that torques, ripples and folds in on itself, the gentle monsters and fairy-tale hybrids encountering one another in a constantly shifting dimension. Many artists resort to such dense, Wonderland-on-steroids distortion, but few approach it with the same narrative thrust and masterful technique. Knechtel is a consummate draftsman, rendering his every line with a jeweler’s — n... More >>>