Joan Snyder
Silk & Song

10 September – 22 October 2021

About the artist

Selected works

Installation views

About the exhibition

Catalogue

Joan Snyder

*1940 Highland Park, New Jersey – lives in Brooklyn und Woodstock, NY

Born April 16, 1940 in Highland Park, NJ, Joan Snyder received her AB from Douglass College in 1962 and her MFA from Rutgers University in 1966. Snyder has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1974.

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Selected works

Joan Snyder
Because

2012
Oil, acrylic, paper mache,
herbs on linen
121.92 x 152.4 cm

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Joan Snyder
Love, Mom

2017
Oil, acrylic, cloth, paper, colored pencil,
pastel, beads, glitter on canvas
132.08 x 182.88 cm

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Joan Snyder
Song Cycle 5

2012
Oil, acrylic, paper mache, silk,
graphite on linen
137.16 x 167.64 cm

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Joan Snyder
Horror Vacui

2012
Oil, acrylic, paper mache,
herbs on linen
121.92 x 152.4 cm

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Joan Snyder
Song Cycle 3

2011
Oil, acrylic, silk, velvet, cloth,
sunflower stalk on linen
121.92 x 121.92 cm

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Joan Snyder
Milk & Rosebuds

2018
Oil, acrylic, herbs, rosehips,
pastel on canvas
127 x 96.52 cm

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Joan Snyder
Always

2017
Oil, acrylic, ink, pencil, paper,
glitter on canvas
139.7 x 127 cm

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Joan Snyder, Silk and Berries, 2013, Öl, Acryl, Kohle, Sackleinen, Seide, Beeren, Kräuter, getrocknete Blumen auf Leinen, 152,4 x 182,9 cm

Joan Snyder
Silk and Berries

2013
Oil, acrylic, charcoal, burlap, silk,
berries, herbs, dried flowers on linen
152.4 x 182.9 cm

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Joan Snyder
Symphony VIII

2021
Oil acrylic, paper mache, burlap, dried
flowers, stems, paper, ink, wooden hoop on linen
137.16 x 304.8 cm

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Installation views

About the exhibition

We are pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Joan Snyder at Galerie Haas Zurich. Since the late 1960s, the American artist (*1940) has been exploring the possibilities of abstract painting, inspiring generations of emerging artists with her transformative approach. Incorporating her strong belief in the idea of a “female sensibility,” Snyder developed a very unique formal language challenging the male-dominated art world early on.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with a comprehensive essay by Norman L. Kleeblatt, former Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator at the Jewish Museum in New York, as well as an insightful interview between Joan Snyder and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. 

Catalogue

Excerpt

“Transformative feminist acts underpinned by a transpositional process between artistic genres, place Snyder as a conductor of painterly form. She fills her canvases with emotional codes and notes, tones and gestures, harmonies, and cacophonies. Freely associative in both meaning and materials, her paintings and their component elements are enigmatic in effect.”

Norman L. Kleeblatt

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