Letters from Home
Joan Snitzer

GALLERY I

September 7 - October 1, 2011

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 8, 6-9 pm

“Letters From Home” is a wall installation composed of painted canvases, common household objects, and unmediated images found in the artist's home. The images are organized within a pencil grid drawn directly on the wall. Snitzer's grids reference the flexible system developed by typographers to improve coherency of content on the page. Although grids display images in a seemingly rational way, Snitzer's imagery, when displayed within a traditional layout, ironically highlights the discordant content that we are challenged to process everyday. This work's compositional order explores moments when social or cultural experience becomes aligned (or misaligned) with personal household objects. Social relationships to intimacy and private space animate each moment.

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