John Knuth: Fly Paintings The Artists Studio MOCAtv

There are many contemporary artists who use assistants to create works of art, but it s doubtful that any employ as many as John Knuth. Over 250, 000 common house flies contributed to the completion of this body of paintings, living out their life cycle inside canvaswalled enclosures at the artist s Los Angeles studio. Knuth feeds the flies a mixture of sugar, water, and colored pigments that is drank and regurgitated millions of times over the course of six weeks. The resulting paintings are a record of th