#jenna knapp

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The Pitch Project Talks: Jenna Knapp

Jenna Knapp will present an artist talk on Sunday, December 13 beginning at 1pm followed by an open studio until 3pm. This program is free and open to the public and is presented in conjunction with 'How To Make Liar's Pie', a site-specific exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Kambui Olujimi on view through January 10, 2016 in The Pitch Project Gallery. 

Jenna Knapp is an artist and activist living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Knapp is a recent graduate from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, founder of Highway Excursion Agency of the Midwest, and studio resident at The Pitch Project. She is a 2014 recipient of the Mary L. Nohl Suitcase fund, and currently included in The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund: Fellowships for Individual Artists 2014 exhibition at INOVA on view through January 9, 2016.

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"Were I to paraphrase Walker Percy": a debut show at Alphabang!

Date: October 18, 2013

Artists: Jon Horvath, Teresa Gagliano, and Jenna Knapp

Curator Statement:

Considering moments of authenticity—abroad.

We move so desperately when we encounter the unfamiliar and have so much ground to cover. We move so desperately when we try to find our voice in a place we’ve never seen. Our anchors are in our companions—friends or strangers—who encounter and experience the places we, too, are discovering and through them we moor ourselves so that we may begin to feel what at first we could only see.

Considering moments of authenticity—domestic

How does the familiar blind us from new discoveries? The routine is close, expected, revered—we can hardly see it beyond what we feel for it and how it propels in our lives. Each object, person, and place that punctuates our lives provides measure, and each is contains potential we have yet to discover. When we edit our punctuation, a comma changed out for a full-stop, that moment is no longer a pause it is a breath—suddenly that moment is alive, a whole new creature that exists.

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FOREVER by Jenna Knapp, 2013

(Artist's Description)

FOREVER is a short narrative collaboration between Jenna Knapp and Natalie Morgan. After returning from a two week road trip in the desert, Morgan took on the challenge of vicariously illustrating Knapp's experience through written word. As Morgan used conversations, notes, and images to her disposal her writing evolved into the monologue for FOREVER.

Footage was taken while traveling by van through Arizona, Utah, and Nevada and features a breif visit to Las Vegas, the anomaly of the desert. This film is a portrait of place, specifically the American Southwest, but remains applicable to the vast locations that have the power to make one feel small, insignificant, but somehow still very important.

This video was featured in the show "Were I to paraphrase Walker Percy" at Alphabang! along with photos by Jon Horvath and Teresa Gagliano

© 2013 Jenna Knapp