CYNTHIA KNAPP: Amer Atlanta GA “Flying Colors” Pastel Abstract Signed 1996
Framed
Artist: Cynthia Knapp
Title: “Flying Colors”
Year: 1996
Medium: Pastel
Signature: Signed lower right
Size: 19 in. x 24 in framed ; 16 x 20 image
Condition: Very Good
Cynthia Knapp
Cynthia Knapp was born in the
Northeast US but as a child her family moved to Canada where she grew up
and attended York University in Toronto. After completing a BA degree in Fine
Arts she returned to the US to work and soon set up her studio practice in
Atlanta GA. Knapp’s career of more than thirty-five years includes the use
of various media from works on paper
and canvas to large sculptural
site installations. Her work is found in private, corporate and university
collections. Knapp has exhibited extensively and maintains gallery
representations in several major US cities.
Knapp's abstract paintings and
drawings are musings on the relationships of organic structures. Fields of
color blur, overlap, and interact to create an amalgam of natural shapes. Her
intent is not to represent any literal outward appearance, but rather to
portray the essence of
abstraction in her physical
environment. Other recent works have a female figurative reference. The
human form provides an arena for exploring the interconnectedness and inherent
visual tension between figure and ground, invoking a responsive
assimilation that we all can readily grasp.
Knapp soon became interested in
xpressing the abstract organic imagery of her painting and drawing more
integrally to a proposed architectural site. The long narrow painted panels
that make up the sculptural pieces are gestured references, like
3-dimensional brushstrokes, which create a positive, uplifting and
colorful interplay of forms. The sculptures are mounted in “relief” or as
suspended objects. These and other similar projects are well received
as installations for individual collectors as well as health care
facilities, airports, libraries, and corporate meeting and gathering
spaces.
She has maintained a steady exhibition schedule with
galleries, university exhibition opportunities and regional museums. Her works
on paper and canvas pieces have been collected and commissioned widely
throughout the United States and internationally. With entry into the public
art field she has found a place for her sculpture and site specific works,
commissioned widely for corporate spaces, medical facilities, libraries and
convention centers.
Courtesy the Atchinson Gallery, Cynthia Knapp