Silke Otto-Knapp

Silke Otto-Knapp, a German native artist (1970, Osnabrück – 2022, Pasadena), made black and white monochromes by applying watercolour to primed canvas, and combined motifs of landscape and decorative painting with a distinctive technique of layered and erased coats of paint to create works that are called by the LA Times as "visually elusive as quicksilver."