Art Palm Beach

Hollis Taggart Downtown is pleased to present “John Knuth, Renewed Resilience” at Art Palm Beach 2026, featuring “fly paintings,” with live fly demonstrations, and showcasing Knuth’s three dimensional globe works. Building upon his New York exhibition in May 2025, “Renewed Resilience” transforms devastation into renewal, reflecting the artist’s experience of the January 2025 Eaton Fire, which destroyed his home and archive in Altadena, CA.

Knuth’s luminous abstractions are created in collaboration with a million houseflies. He encages them within canvases, and feeds them a mixture of acrylic paint and sugar water. Over time, their minute pigment regurgitations accumulate on the canvas and create iridescent, pointillistic surfaces that hover between chaos and order. These canvases merge the floral light of Monet’s Giverny with the searing hues of wildfire and ash capturing a fragile equilibrium between destruction and rebirth.

At Art Palm Beach, Knuth extends his exploration into sculptural form with the painted globes transforming the once flat field of his fly paintings into immersive and three dimensional objects. The new fly globes will be created over the duration of the fair, offering viewers a rare glimpse into Knuth’s alchemical process and his ongoing dialogue with nature, chance and transformation.

About Hollis Taggart Downtown 
109 Norfolk Street, New York, NY
Hollis Taggart Downtown represents the new secondary location for Hollis Taggart realized through a partnership between Hollis Taggart, Paul Efstathiou, and Eleanor de Ropp Flatow. The downtown expansion builds upon the gallery’s presence and commitment to emerging and mid-career artists. 

We hope you will be able to join us for this event. For more information on the gallery's booth presentation please contact us at 212.628.4000 or info@hollistaggart.com.