Toward a Totality of Effect is a group exhibition of the 2021 Open AIR Residency participants.

During the late spring through the early autumn of 2021, twenty-two artists gathered together in three separate cohorts and at various residency sites across western Montana to make, write, contemplate, collaborate, and be in community together with their work and practices. Toward a Totality of Effect celebrates the 2021 Open Air Residency artists, whose works exemplify the best of their practices and caliber of their study during their residencies.

The exhibition will run from June 17 to July 16, 2022, at Foreground Gallery, Phoenix Arts Alliance, 66 W Park St, Butte, Montana. An opening reception will be held on July 1, 2022, from 5-7 pm.

Toward a Totality of Effect is curated by John Knight (b. 1986, Cincinnati, OH, USA). Knight is a Montana-based conceptual artist and independent curator. His work is often site-specific and concerned with the intersection of architecture, design, and class. As a curator, he has initiated various artist-run spaces and curatorial projects which include: Williamson and Knight Gallery, Cherry and Lucic, and H. Klum Fine Art in Portland; THE PINK HOUSE (Jan. 19, 1995) at Bad Reputation in Los Angeles, California; and FreeSpace Projects in Cincinnati, Ohio. Knight works full time as a Registrar at the Missoula Art Museum, is a co-conspirator with the curatorial platform Final Hot Desert, and recently served on the board of directors at KALICO in Kalispell, Montana. He will present solo exhibitions of his own work at the Northcutt Steele Gallery at Montana State University-Billings, and the Montana Artist Refuge in Basin, Montana, in the autumn of 2022.  www.knightjohn.com