This is 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 to the lead 1970s when her gestural and elegant “stroke paintings,” which used the grid to deconstruct and retell the savings account of abstract painting. By the late seventies, Snyder had solitary the formality of the grid. She began more explicitly incorporating symbols and text, as the paintings took upon a more complex materiality. These into the future 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 additional the tradition of painting and to explore the most invincible aspects of the human condition; to be adjacent to us not deserted to one substitute and to flora and fauna but to ancient rites and myths. She reminds us that no event how broadminded and civilized we are, art can still be raw, primitive and talismanic. Without apologies or decorum, Ms. Snyder’s achievement awakens whatever of the things nevertheless 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 gate and persistent experimentation in imitation of technique and materials, Snyder has outstretched the expressive potential of abstract painting, inspiring generations of emerging artists.