Artist Statement

Publications
Below is a list of publications featuring Knippers' work, from 1980 to the present. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2005 Ken Johnson, New Artists Who Are Motivated By Christianity, The Next Generation, Museum of Biblical Art, The New York Times, August 19, 2005. 2005 A Broken Beauty, Theodore L. Prescott, editor, William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, UK 2005 Patricia C. Pongracz and Wayne Roosa, The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, UK. 2005 CIVAXXV, Faith and Vision, twenty-five Years Of Christians in the Visual Arts, Cameron J. Anderson and Sandra Bowden, editors, Square Halo Books, Baltimore, MD 2004 Rich Copley, “The Body of Christ,” Lexington Herald-Leader, Saturday, March 13 (illustrated). 2002 James Romaine, Objects of Grace, Conversations on Creativity and Faith, Square Halo Books, Baltimore, MD. 2001 Cary McMullen, “Body of Work,” The Lakeland Ledger, Lakeland, FL, Saturday, January 6 (illustrated). Story placed with the New York Times Regional Group. 2000 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Publication, “Fellowship Program 1940—2000 (painting reproduced). 2000 Ann Nichols, “Violence and grace,” Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press, Chattanooga, TN, Sunday December 3, (illustrated) 2000 Lucinda Breeding, “The naked truth in art,” Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton, TX, October 22. 2000 Lucinda Breeding, “Body Art, Artist examines human form and Christianity,” Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton TX, September 17, (painting reproduced) 2000 Susan Hogan/Albach, “No offense intended, Christian artist says nudity in his work isn’t irreligious,” The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, September 16, (painting reproduced) 2000 Brian Lindsey, “Physicality, Artist’s works utilize body images to explore Christian doctrines,” The Entertainment Chronicle of the Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton, TX, September 14, (painting reproduced). 2000 Anno Domini: Jesus through the Centuries, catalogue, The Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, (painting reproduced). 2000 It Was Good, Making Art to the Glory of God, chapter, Edward Knippers/ Subject & Theme: “The Old, Old Story (an afternoon’s conversation),” Ned Bustard, editor, Square Halo Books, Baltimore, MD. 2000 Edward Knippers, “Op-ed on controversy at the Biblical Art Center,” Dallas Morning News, July. 1999 Carl Schoettler, “And All Shall Be Revealed,” a feature on the work of Edward Knippers, The Baltimore Sun, February 27, (paintings reproduced). 1998 Christianity and the Arts, “The Resurrection of the Body,” by Edward Knippers, winter, vol. 5, no. 1, (painting reproduced). 1997 Frederica Mathewes-Green, Facing East, A Pilgrim’s Journey into theMysteries of Orthodoxy, HarperSanFrancisco (An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers), pp. 92-98. 1997 Karen Auge, “The Body of Christ; The Paintings of ‘Passionate Grace’ Use Nudity to Express Spirituality,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 20, (paintings reproduced). 1998 Catalogue: “Searching for the Spiritual,” Depree Art Center and Gallery, Hope College, Holland, MI (painting reproduced). 1997 Catalogue: “The Whereabouts of Beauty in Late Twentieth Century Art,” Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA. 1996 New American Paintings, a juried exhibition, The Eighth Open Studios Quarterly Competition, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA. (juror: John B. Ravenal, Assistant Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art), pp. 56, 57. 1996 Vivette Porges, Joshua Simon, and Robert Sullivan, Who Do You Say That I Am? Reflections on Jesus in Our World Today, MacMillan, NY. Painting reproduced page 102. 1996 A Primitive of an Old Way, An Interview with Edward Knippers, Rutherford, December, vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 22-27 (paintings reproduced; studio shots). 1994 LIFE, a special feature on “Who Was Jesus?” Painting reproduced, pp. 80-81. 1994 Alice Lawson Cox, “On Disrobing the Divine,” Clarity, premiere issue, March/April (studio photographs and painting reproduced). 1994 Lynn van Matre (Chicago Tribune), “Let There Be Art,” for the Colorado Springs, Colorado, Gazette Telegraph, Saturday, April 16 (paintingsreproduced.) 1994 washington review, volume XX, number 1, june/july (painting reproduced). 1994 Poet Lore, Winter Volume 88, Number 4 (prints reproduced, front and back cover). 1993 Theodore Prescott, “Edward Knippers: A Profile,” Image, A Journal of the Arts & Religion (cover and four reproductions in text, all full color). 1991 Gene Edward Veith, State of the Arts, From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe, Crossways Books, Wheaton, IL (Knippers, pp. 175-180, 242, paintings reproduced). 1990 Catalogue, Edward Knippers, Violence and Grace, essay by Timothy Verdon, The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK. 1988 The Critic, “And the World Was Made Flesh…” (on four American artists with Charlotte Lichtblau, Frederick Brown, and Jim Morphesis), by Terrence E. Dempsey, Fall, vol. 43, No. 1 (paintings reproduced). 1987 Eternity, “Knippers’ Art: A Naked Gaze at the Truth of God,” Marjorie Aull, March (paintings reproduced). 1987 Christianity Today, “Gruesome Images, Signs of Hope,” David Neff, March 6 (painting reproduced). 1987 Faith and Form: Journal of the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, “The Re-assertion of the Spiritual,” Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J., Spring. 1986 Catalogue, Spiritual Impact, The Paintings of Edward Knippers, essay by Frederick R. Brandt, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. 1986 The Richmond News Leader, “Edward Knippers renews spiritual impulse in art,” Roy Proctor, Saturday, November 29 (painting reproduced). 1986 The Richmond News Leader, “Art that’s too large for homes, too nude for churches,” Barbara Green, Friday, November 28 (painting reproduced). 1986 The Richmond Times-Dispatch, “Religious subjects shape style,” Robert Merritt, Sunday, December 7 (painting reproduced). 1986 The Washington Post, “Sacred and Secular, Knippers’ Grand Vision at Arlington Arts Center,” Mark Power, Thursday, July 10 (painting reproduced). 1986 New Art Examiner, “Reviews: Virginia, Edward Knippers,” Patrick Frank, September. 1986 The Washington Times, “A crisis in faith, or a crisis in art?” Michael Welzenback, Thursday, July 3 (painting reproduced). 1985 Catalogue, Setting the Stage, essay by Howard N. Fox, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1985 Los Angeles Times, “There’s No Showing Off in ‘Setting the Stage’,” William Wilson, Monday, November 18. 1985 L.A. Weekly, “‘Setting the Stage’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,” Peter Clothier, November 29-December 5. 1985 Artweek, “Contemporary and Timeless Dramas,” Ruth Weisburg, December 7 (painting reproduced). 1981 Art Voices, “Profile,” May-June (painting reproduced). 1980 Contemporary Art/Southeast, “ARTIST LOG IN STUDIO -- Diary of a Painting Day: 17 May 1980,” Vol. II, No. VI.

Publications

Below is a list of publications featuring Knippers' work, from 1980 to the present.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2005 Ken Johnson, New Artists Who Are Motivated By Christianity, The Next Generation, Museum of Biblical Art, The New York Times, August 19, 2005.

2005 A Broken Beauty, Theodore L. Prescott, editor, William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, UK

2005 Patricia C. Pongracz and Wayne Roosa, The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, UK.

2005 CIVAXXV, Faith and Vision, twenty-five Years Of Christians in the Visual Arts, Cameron J. Anderson and Sandra Bowden, editors, Square Halo Books, Baltimore, MD

2004 Rich Copley, “The Body of Christ,” Lexington Herald-Leader, Saturday, March 13 (illustrated).

2002 James Romaine, Objects of Grace, Conversations on Creativity and Faith, Square Halo Books, Baltimore, MD.

2001 Cary McMullen, “Body of Work,” The Lakeland Ledger, Lakeland, FL, Saturday, January 6 (illustrated). Story placed with the New York Times Regional Group.

2000 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Publication, “Fellowship Program 1940—2000 (painting reproduced).

2000 Ann Nichols, “Violence and grace,” Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press, Chattanooga, TN, Sunday December 3, (illustrated)

2000 Lucinda Breeding, “The naked truth in art,” Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton, TX, October 22.

2000 Lucinda Breeding, “Body Art, Artist examines human form and Christianity,” Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton TX, September 17, (painting reproduced)

2000 Susan Hogan/Albach, “No offense intended, Christian artist says nudity in his work isn’t irreligious,” The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, September 16, (painting reproduced)

2000 Brian Lindsey, “Physicality, Artist’s works utilize body images to explore Christian doctrines,” The Entertainment Chronicle of the Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton, TX, September 14, (painting reproduced).

2000 Anno Domini: Jesus through the Centuries, catalogue, The Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, (painting reproduced).

2000 It Was Good, Making Art to the Glory of God, chapter, Edward Knippers/ Subject & Theme: “The Old, Old Story (an afternoon’s conversation),” Ned Bustard, editor, Square Halo Books, Baltimore, MD.

2000 Edward Knippers, “Op-ed on controversy at the Biblical Art Center,” Dallas Morning News, July.

1999 Carl Schoettler, “And All Shall Be Revealed,” a feature on the work of Edward Knippers, The Baltimore Sun, February 27, (paintings reproduced).

1998 Christianity and the Arts, “The Resurrection of the Body,” by Edward Knippers, winter, vol. 5, no. 1, (painting reproduced).

1997 Frederica Mathewes-Green, Facing East, A Pilgrim’s Journey into theMysteries of Orthodoxy, HarperSanFrancisco (An Imprint of Harper
Collins Publishers), pp. 92-98.

1997 Karen Auge, “The Body of Christ; The Paintings of ‘Passionate Grace’ Use Nudity to Express Spirituality,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 20, (paintings reproduced).

1998 Catalogue: “Searching for the Spiritual,” Depree Art Center and Gallery,
Hope College, Holland, MI (painting reproduced).

1997 Catalogue: “The Whereabouts of Beauty in Late Twentieth Century Art,”
Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA.

1996 New American Paintings, a juried exhibition, The Eighth Open Studios Quarterly Competition, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA. (juror:
John B. Ravenal, Assistant Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art), pp. 56, 57.

1996 Vivette Porges, Joshua Simon, and Robert Sullivan, Who Do You Say That
I Am? Reflections on Jesus in Our World Today, MacMillan, NY. Painting reproduced page 102.

1996 A Primitive of an Old Way, An Interview with Edward Knippers,
Rutherford, December, vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 22-27 (paintings reproduced;
studio shots).

1994 LIFE, a special feature on “Who Was Jesus?” Painting reproduced, pp. 80-81.

1994 Alice Lawson Cox, “On Disrobing the Divine,” Clarity, premiere issue, March/April (studio photographs and painting reproduced).

1994 Lynn van Matre (Chicago Tribune), “Let There Be Art,” for the Colorado Springs, Colorado, Gazette Telegraph, Saturday, April 16 (paintingsreproduced.)

1994 washington review, volume XX, number 1, june/july (painting reproduced).

1994 Poet Lore, Winter Volume 88, Number 4 (prints reproduced, front and back cover).

1993 Theodore Prescott, “Edward Knippers: A Profile,” Image, A Journal of the Arts & Religion (cover and four reproductions in text, all full color).

1991 Gene Edward Veith, State of the Arts, From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe, Crossways Books, Wheaton, IL (Knippers, pp. 175-180, 242, paintings reproduced).

1990 Catalogue, Edward Knippers, Violence and Grace, essay by Timothy Verdon, The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK.

1988 The Critic, “And the World Was Made Flesh…” (on four American artists with Charlotte Lichtblau, Frederick Brown, and Jim Morphesis), by Terrence E. Dempsey, Fall, vol. 43, No. 1 (paintings reproduced).

1987 Eternity, “Knippers’ Art: A Naked Gaze at the Truth of God,” Marjorie Aull, March (paintings reproduced).

1987 Christianity Today, “Gruesome Images, Signs of Hope,” David Neff, March 6 (painting reproduced).

1987 Faith and Form: Journal of the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, “The Re-assertion of the Spiritual,” Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J., Spring.

1986 Catalogue, Spiritual Impact, The Paintings of Edward Knippers, essay by Frederick R. Brandt, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.

1986 The Richmond News Leader, “Edward Knippers renews spiritual impulse in art,” Roy Proctor, Saturday, November 29 (painting reproduced).

1986 The Richmond News Leader, “Art that’s too large for homes, too nude for churches,” Barbara Green, Friday, November 28 (painting reproduced).

1986 The Richmond Times-Dispatch, “Religious subjects shape style,” Robert Merritt, Sunday, December 7 (painting reproduced).

1986 The Washington Post, “Sacred and Secular, Knippers’ Grand Vision at Arlington Arts Center,” Mark Power, Thursday, July 10 (painting reproduced).

1986 New Art Examiner, “Reviews: Virginia, Edward Knippers,” Patrick Frank, September.

1986 The Washington Times, “A crisis in faith, or a crisis in art?” Michael
Welzenback, Thursday, July 3 (painting reproduced).

1985 Catalogue, Setting the Stage, essay by Howard N. Fox, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

1985 Los Angeles Times, “There’s No Showing Off in ‘Setting the Stage’,” William Wilson, Monday, November 18.

1985 L.A. Weekly, “‘Setting the Stage’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,” Peter Clothier, November 29-December 5.

1985 Artweek, “Contemporary and Timeless Dramas,” Ruth Weisburg, December 7 (painting reproduced).

1981 Art Voices, “Profile,” May-June (painting reproduced).

1980 Contemporary Art/Southeast, “ARTIST LOG IN STUDIO -- Diary of a Painting Day: 17 May 1980,” Vol. II, No. VI.