Stephen Knapp是一位美国艺术家，他以光画的创造者而闻名，光画被称为21世纪最早的新艺术媒介之一。抛弃了传统媒体和叙事内容，Stephen Knapp是一小群用光创作的艺术家之一。他的光画使我们周围的光变得可见，并将其转化为物质的东西，但本质上是超然的。

艺术家Stephen Knapp从他对光、颜色、维度、空间和感知的研究中获得灵感，三十多年来一直在创作与光相互作用并被光转化的艺术。他以摄影师的身份开始了他的职业生涯，并通过研究和实验发展了自己的专业流程。他开始建造大型金属板和釉面陶瓷壁画，这些壁画可以反射和响应不断变化的光线条件。接下来是制作窑形玻璃墙和玻璃和钢雕塑，所有这些都导致了他最近对光画的关注，这是Knapp创造的一个词，用来描述他的光装置。光画形成于绘画、雕塑和建筑的交叉点，是一种无形的、多维度的纯粹光芒的组合。

在谈到他的工作时，Stephen Knapp说:“我一生都对光着迷，既因为它能做什么，也因为它对我们的影响。在我之前的所有媒介中，我都以不太明显的方式使用光。当我找到一种用光来表达自己的独特方式时，我完全接受了它。在我的光画中，我把白光分解成纯色，然后用光“画”。每件作品都有远远超过其物理尺寸的存在感。它们既是实物，又是幻觉，它们提醒我们，梦想、希望和抱负是艺术触动人类精神能力的核心。”

Knapp在博物馆，公共，企业和私人收藏中举办的大型艺术作品获得了国际声誉，媒体种类繁多，如光，窑制玻璃，金属，石材，马赛克和陶瓷。他曾在博伊西艺术博物馆(Boise Art museum)、克莱斯勒艺术博物馆(Chrysler museum of Art)、那不勒斯艺术博物馆(Naples Art museum)、巴特勒美国艺术学院(Butler Institute of American Art)、代顿艺术学院(Dayton Art Institute)和弗林特艺术学院(Flint Institute of Arts)等举办过个人展览。他的作品曾在《艺术与古董》、《建筑记录》、《艺术新闻》、《朝日新闻》、《陶瓷月刊》、《芝加哥太阳时报》、《室内设计》、《纽约时报》、《进步建筑》、《雕塑杂志》、《华盛顿邮报》等国际出版物上发表。

Stephen Knapp is an American artist best known as the creator of lightpaintings， which have been called one of the first new art mediums of the twenty-first century. Dispensing with traditional media and narrative content, Knapp is one of a small group of artists who work with light. His lightpaintings make visible the light that surrounds us and transforms it into something physical yet inherently transcendental.

Deriving inspiration from his studies of light, color, dimension, space and perception, artist Stephen Knapp has been creating art that interacts with and is transformed by light for over thirty years. He began his career as a photographer and evolved his own specialized processes through research and experimentation. He progressed to building large metal panels and glazed ceramic murals that are reflective and responsive to changing light conditions. What followed was the fabrication of kiln-formed glass walls and glass and steel sculpture, all leading up to his more recent focus on lightpaintings, a word Knapp coined to describe his light-based installations. Formed at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and architecture lightpaintings are intangible, multi-dimensional compositions of pure radiance.

In speaking about his work, Stephen Knapp states, “I have been fascinated with light all my life, both for what it can do and for the effect it has on us. In all my prior mediums I’ve used light in ways that are not always apparent. When I found a way to uniquely express myself in light, I embraced it fully. With my lightpaintings I separate white light into pure color and ‘paint’ with light. Each piece has a presence that far exceeds its physical dimensions. At once both physical objects and illusions, they remind us that dreams, hopes and aspirations are the center of art’s ability to touch the human spirit.”

Knapp has gained an international reputation for large-scale works of art held in museums, public, corporate and private collections, in media as diverse as light, kiln formed glass, metal, stone, mosaic and ceramic. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Boise Art Museum, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Naples Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Dayton Art Institute and the Flint Institute of Arts, among others. His work has appeared in many international publications including Art and Antiques, Architectural Record, ARTnews, The Asahai Shimbun, Ceramics Monthly, The Chicago Sun Times, Interior Design, The New York Times, Progressive Architecture, Sculpture Magazine, The Washington Post and others.