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SCULPTOR DIRECTORY
Stuart Ross Snider3191 W. Windwalker Place |
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ARTIST STATEMENT: My sculpture is inspired by a primal force that exists within high altitude forests. Especially, there is a spirit in trees that reveals itself in objective form 10-50 years after it has been burned or died and fallen to the forest floor. The outer bark and pulp layers have decayed away. I harvest the nearly fossilized heartwood, which is partly buried in the earth beneath the natural detritus.
My work begins with the formal elements of the tree's inner core. The graceful and sweeping lines, flowing curves, and whorls of wood grain convey a unique archetype of artistic expression. There is a meaningful relationship between the inner, structural beauty and mystery of trees, and our own conscious and unconscious minds and spirit.
In my artwork, I use hand and power tools, a variety of pigments, paints, enamel/lacquer, epoxy resin suspensions, and mica powders, holographic particles, and metal leaf to develop layers of reflective patina. I construct individual pieces, which range from 6 inches to 12 feet, as well as installations. My sculpture is a means of recovering the inner spirit of the tree, bringing it to life again, and revealing its extant artistic form and meaning.
Personally, my re-creations of these trees are the most believable representation of life after death tha I have encountered. I work intensely and intimately with the wood by hand my senses until its spiritual light scintillates anew -- a resurrected second life that is entirely different from the original tree.
Exhibits:
2013 - Phoenix Center for the Arts
“Wilderness Realities” - Solo Installation
Phoenix, Arizona
2013 - Process Art House Contemporary Gallery
“Forces of Nature" - Joint 3 Artists Exhibit”
Amarillo, Texas
2013 - Gunnison Arts Center
“Archetypes” - Solo Installation
Gunnison, Colorado
2012 - Brooklyn Art Library
“The Sketchbook Project - Natural Selection Sculpture”
Brooklyn, New York
2012 - Arizona Science Center
“Touch Me” - Solo co-exhibit with Van Gogh Alive / Resident Artist
Phoenix, Arizona
2012 - Governors State University
“Ways of Making”
University Park, Illinois
2012 - TCI Gallery - Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance
“2011 National Visual Arts Juried Exhibition”
Tucson, Arizona
2012 - Primo Piano Livingallery
“Password: A Narrative Trilogy of the Word”
Lecce, Italy
2011 - Siena Art Institute
“Drawing Connections: Inaugural Opening”
Founding Sponsor: J. Paul Getty III
Siena, Italy
2011 - Upstream Peoples Gallery
“13th Annual International” (3 Jurors Recognition Awards)
Omaha, Nebraska
2011 - Primo Piano Livingallery
“The Dream Merchant”
Lecce, Italy
2011 - Virtu Studio, Inc.
"The Night of Red, White and Blue" An Installation
Tucson, Arizona
2011 - Tucson Open Studio Tours
“Natural Selection: Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture Installation”
Tucson, Arizona
2010 - Virtu Studio Inc.
“Giant Green Spoon Sculpture Installation”
Tucson, Arizona
Education:
2009 - Residency - Sculpture
Virtu Studio, Inc.
Tucson, Arizona
2008 - Residency - Sculpture
Thunderhead Press of Nevada
Carson City, Nevada
1972 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuropharmacology
University Goteborg, Sweden
1970 - Residency - Neurology
Washington University Medical School - Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
1966 - Medical Degree: Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
1962 - Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Professional & Academics:
2008-present: Professional Sculptor
1985-2011: Private Practice Neurology, Tucson, Arizona
1981-85: Associate Professor Neurology/Pharmacology, University Arizona, Tucson
1974-81: Assistant Professor Neurology, Columbia University, New York City
1968-69: Captain, Medical Corp, US Army |
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