Jamie Sneider Exhibition
Thierry Goldberg
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Thierry-Goldberg Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of Jamie Sneider. Featuring a new body of work, with a series of paintings, two sculptures and a site-specific installation.
Sneider explores themes of female domesticity and the concept of Woman as Witch, as they pertain to the history of her birthplace in New England. A series of process-based abstract paintings, made in a sort of domestic ritual is displayed with two vitrine sculptures titled “Witch” and “Puritan”. Also on display is an installation of fieldstones, carefully stacked between a wall and the center column of the main gallery space, bringing to mind the stone walls so prevalent throughout New England.
The two vitrine sculptures contain a kind of witch-hunt memorabilia collection, with items like a taxidermy crow, kitchen tools from the 1700’s, and a cast iron cauldron. Placing her paintings in that context, Sneider describes her process-based work as “a female form of domestic abstraction”.
“The process starts at the Laundromat,” she explains, “Bleach in hand. Then, dividing, ripping giant sheets of raw canvas and slowly adding bleach like photographic developer. I wait for the laundry to finish and walk back to my studio. I boil red cabbage and beets, cooking for no one, washing for no one, doing chores of yesteryear, a domesticity that doesn’t even exist.
Buckets in tub, I add liquid food dyes, squid ink, at times urine, to the canvas and weigh them down with rocks I’ve collected from opposite coasts. I drench the canvas in the colored water - some half-in, some half-out. I wait. I pour. I add more. I stir the pots wildly with a stick, like a cauldron. Get on my hands and knees and scrub the dye into the canvas. Beat the canvas with sticks, dance on them. I have no idea what they will look like.”
Jamie Sneider (b. 1976, Boston, MA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a Master’s in Fine Arts from The School of Visual Arts, New York, and a BFA from New York University, New York, NY. Her work was previously exhibited at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; The Bruceinial, New York, NY; Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY; and Strange Loop Gallery, New York, NY.
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Schedule
from May 04, 2014 to July 03, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-05-04 from 18:00 to 20:00