Joan Snyder

Joan Snyder (born April 16, 1940) is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (1974).

Snyder first gained public attention in the further on 1970s gone her gestural and elegant "stroke paintings," which used the grid to deconstruct and retell the credit of abstract painting. By the late seventies, Snyder had on your own the formality of the grid. She began more explicitly incorporating symbols and text, as the paintings took upon a more technical materiality. These forward works were included in the 1973 and 1981 Whitney Biennials and the 1975 Corcoran Biennial.

"The functions of Ms. Snyder's art, first and foremost, are to further the tradition of painting and to investigate the most omnipotent aspects of the human condition; to connect us not unaided to one option and to natural world but to ancient rites and myths. She reminds us that no matter how open-minded and civilized we are, art can still be raw, primitive and talismanic. Without apologies or decorum, Ms. Snyder's acquit yourself awakens anything of the things still wild within us." – Lance Esplund, Wall Street Journal

Often referred to as an autobiographical or confessional artist, Snyder's paintings are narratives of both personal and communal experiences. Through a fiercely individual right of entry and persistent experimentation similar to technique and materials, Snyder has lengthy the expressive potential of abstract painting, inspiring generations of emerging artists.

Snyder currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY. She is represented by Canada in New York, NY, Franklin Parrasch Gallery in New York, NY, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Elena Zang Gallery in Woodstock, NY, and Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art in New York, NY.