{"id":43416,"date":"2024-09-20T00:15:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T04:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=43416"},"modified":"2024-09-20T00:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T04:15:58","slug":"knapps-artwork-to-be-shown-at-uptown-oct-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=43416","title":{"rendered":"Knapp&#8217;s artwork to be shown at Uptown!, Oct 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19912\" src=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/UptownShow-NearSideSwing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/>Chester County artist Gwenn Knapp\u2014known for the stunning photo-realism of her work\u2014will kick off a solo exhibit at West Chester\u2019s Uptown! theater on Friday, October 4, from 4 to 8 pm\u2014coinciding with West Chester\u2019s Gallery Walk.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Aptly titled \u201cDreams &amp; Drama,\u201d the exhibit includes vibrant new paintings of people passionately involved in doing what they love\u2014many of them on stage at Uptown!. Others are playing sports, are making things, or are just experiencing a joyful moment in their life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ms. Knapp\u2019s sharp eye and precise brushwork create an energy and exuberance that leaps off the canvas in these new works. Each piece conveys the joy that people experience when they are doing the things they care about most. As Ms. Knapp explains, \u201cThrough my paintings I hope to stir memories, spark feelings and inspire others to take a closer look at the world.\u201d She trusts that viewers of her new work will have that experience.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is the first year that Uptown! will participate in West Chester\u2019s Gallery Walk. The theater is located at 226 North High Street. Ms. Knapp\u2019s exhibit runs through the end of December.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ms. Knapp earned a B.A in Fine Arts from Bucknell University and a Certificate in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She was art director of her own graphic design studio for 30 years, first in New York, and then in West Chester. A woman of diverse talents, she also served as Magisterial District Judge in West Chester for 12 years before settling into fulltime work as a painter.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">For more information contact Ms. Knapp at <a href=\"mailto:st****@********pp.com\" data-original-string=\"Wc\/w7C3sy1uSMQf+\/5MVCw==750MrCFmCBtL8GG\/UEPGhvzNqttd4l\/J8gDKOoBzNjl\/aM=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\"><span \n                data-original-string='I5h3A4+MuHWwyeIgkWw9Ew==750cHubNmksyma0eQu\/2jDWV+w2N2T+spp7hkLpmDx6K\/4='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. 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Aptly titled \u201cDreams &amp; Drama,\u201d the exhibit includes vibrant new paintings of people passionately involved in doing what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[14896,14894,14895,7217],"class_list":["post-43416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-dreams-drama","tag-gwen-knapp","tag-paintings","tag-uptown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43417,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43416\/revisions\/43417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}