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For
Immediate Release
Dina Knapp: In From the Heat
-Lydia and Burton Harrison Café- February 13 – July 19, 2007 Miami Beach - (February 1, 2006) – Dina Knapp’s mixed-media collages preserve and compress history and culture by layering objects and images, incorporating nostalgic postcards, vintage fabrics, and tourist souvenirs into witty social commentaries. The Cuba and Miami Beach series in this exhibition include works from 1993 to the present. Iconic, frolicking bathing beauties and famous landmark buildings are enhanced by plastic souvenirs and novelty fabrics. The Blue Girls series is the most recent of her work, which began after 9/11. This series reflects personal expressions about women in the world today, and one of the primary objects of these works are postcards the artist received from a friend in Paris in the 1970s. Dina Knapp was born in Cyprus, raised in Haifa, lived in Brooklyn, and studied at Pratt Institute. Ms. Knapp is one of the most respected artists of the Art-to-Wear movement, which emerged after the “Summer of Love” in the 1960s. Knapp has received National Endowment and Florida Arts Council fellowships and grants and is included in museum and private collections. She has been featured in the book Art To Wear by Julie Schafler Dale. Knapp’s work has been exhibited at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco, the Julies Artisans Gallery, the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., The Barbara Gillman Gallery, the Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ###
The Bass Museum of Art receives both public and private general operating funding. Major support comes from the City of Miami Beach, with the support of the Mayor and Commissioners of the City of Miami Beach and Friends of the Bass Museum, Inc. This project is also supported by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts; and the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program and Cultural Arts Council. |