FIRST MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE OF PRINTS BY JOAN SNYDER
AT ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM AT RUTGERS
Joan Snyder, My Work..., 1997. Five-color etching, soft ground etching, aquatint, spit bite, scraping, and color woodcut
Copublishers: the artist and Diane Villani Editions, New York. Photo by Bryan WhitneyWHAT:
Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010
Widely celebrated for her vibrant expressionist paintings and her leading role in feminist art, Joan Snyder, a 2007 MacArthur Fellow, has also made remarkable prints throughout her career. These works are the subject of the artist’s first major print retrospective, and is curated by Marilyn Symmes, exhibition organizer and Director of the Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Zimmerli.
Dancing with the Dark presents more than a hundred of the artist’s prints, including rarely seen editioned prints and uneditioned prints, unique hand-colored monoprints, as well as progressive proofs and variant impressions. The comprehensive survey ranges from Snyder’s earliest landscape and portrait woodcuts, executed during her student years in the early 1960s, to mid-career&
nbsp;prints that powerfully combine abstraction and expressionism, to later works engaging in deeply personal imagery, culminating in a glorious trio of prints in 2010. The works in the exhibition are drawn from private and museum collections, including the Zimmerli’s acclaimed graphic arts holdings, as well as from the collection of the artist.
A Complementary Exhibition:
The first retrospective of Joan Snyder’s small paintings will be presented at the Douglass Library Galleries, Mabel Smith Douglass Library at Rutgers (Douglass Campus, 8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ), from January 17 to June 5, 2011, concurrently with Dancing in the Dark.
WHEN:
January 29 through May 29, 2011
WHERE:
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
GENERAL INFO:
The Zimmerli Art Museum is located at 71 Hamilton Street at the corner of George Street on the College Avenue campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 am to 4:30 pm, and Saturday-Sunday, noon to 5 pm; first Wednesdays of each month September through July, 10 am to 9 pm. Admission is $6 for adults; $5 for adults over 65, and free for museum members, Rutgers students, faculty and staff (with ID), and children under 18. Admission is free on the first Sunday of every month. For more information, call 732.932.7237, ext. 610 or visit the museum’s website: www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu
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