Candace Knapp

My violins whirl and dance and my pianos toss their keys in the air, my horns get tangled up and my shells curl up and roll away. Sculptures are living entities to me. Each gesture expresses a feeling and each shape has a personality. Seemingly abstract sculptures will have clues that give the piece an identity and yet, like "shape shifters", one identity can turn into another.

A swirling "shell like" shape can become a wave or a creature moving through space. I like to play with forms and leave room for the viewer's imagination.

I most often use wood as my medium because it is the body of a tree and communicates a sense of life energy. It is warm and inviting to the touch. I laminate boards together into the shape I want and then carve. The finished surface can be stained, textured or left natural if the grain is very beautiful.

Sculpture Pursuit Magazine, Spring 2009

2007 Asia-American Internation Wood Sculpture Art Exhibition

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Gershwin Surprise

Chubby Cello

Ripe One

Heart Center

Boogie Woogie

Birthday Surprise

Résumé

Collections

Miaoli Wood Sculpture Museum, Sanyi, Taiwan (5 sculptures in permanent collection)
TungHai University, TaiChung, Taiwan ("Flight of Mother Theresa")
Tampa General Hospital ("Collected Momory")
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, ("Tango Solo")
The Ameriway Bank, Houston, TX, ("The Enfoldment")
The Mobile Oil Corporation, Stockholm, Sweden, ("Three Sisters")
The Northwood Institute. Collection, West Palm Beach, FL (Wind in the Trees)
HageGården Music Center, Edane, Sweden, ("Nyutsprungen")
City of Tampa, FL ("Underwater Ballet" and "Sunlight on the Lake")
Tampa Water Dept. ("The Waterbearers" – bronze fountain)

Public Art Commissions

City of St. Petersburg, FL, ("The Enchanted Mangrove Forest", Central Avenue) 1995
Hillsborough County, FL (Pavilion Floor and History Walk, Courthouse Square, downtown Tampa)
Hillsborough County, FL ("Litigation" sculpture, County Courthouse)

Installations

"The Mandala of the Holy Ones" installation. Exhibited at the New Visions Conference, Houston, TX; Texas A&M University College Station, TX; a Unitarian church; and a library in Dallas, TX. Acquired by World Peace Center, Lincoln, NE, 1987
"Ten Archetypes" installation. Exhibited at The Sixth Texas Sculpture Symposium, San Antonio, TX; Rachel W. Davis Gallery; The Jung Center; and an Episcopal Church in Houston, TX.

Selected Exhibitions

2009 Solo Show- Morean Arts Center, St Petersburg, FL
2008 Two Person show - Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2007 Exchange Exhibiton, Miaoli Wood Sculpture Museum, Sanyik Taiwan
51st FL Craftsman Exhibit, Broward Community College, Davie, FL, 2005
Florida Biennial, Deland Museum of Art, Deland, FL, 2002
Two Person Show, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL, 2002
49th FL Craftsmen Exhibit, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, Merit Award
Solo Exhibition at Donn Roll Gallery in Sarasota, FL, 1996
Two Person Show, B.I.G. Arts Center, Sanibel Island, FL , 1994 & 1992
Solo Exhibition, Modern Art Gallery, Sarasota, FL , 1994
1993 Annual Juried Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art. Juror: Terrie Sultan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Gallery, Wash. D.C.
"Mixed Media" (a four person show) Northwood Institute, West Palm Beach, FL ,1991
Solo Exhibition, Old Government House, Augusta, GA , 1990
"7 NYA", Galleri Kretsen, Södertälje, Sweden , 1989
Solo Exhibit, Galleri Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
"Spectrum South: The Malone & Hyde Collection", The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
"Three Artists, Three Playwrights, Three Doors", Rachel W. Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
"Art South", A Biennial Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Memphis, TN. Juror: John Canaday Best of Show in Sculpture.
Solo Exhibition, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX
Solo Exhibition, Temple Junior College, Temple, TX
"Wood in Art", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX>
"Doors – Houston Artists" Alley Theatre, Houston, TX
Solo Exhibition, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX

In addition I have designed sacred spaces and made furniture and or statues for 46 churches and temples and carved walls for two hospital chapels.

Education

Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 1974, Academic Fellowship
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1971, Awarded "Helen Green Perry Traveling Scholarship" and traveled through Europe and West Africa (across the Sahara) looking at art and people.
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine. Summer, 1969. Full scholarship.