Joan Snyder

Joan Snyder is an accomplished artist whose abstract paintings defy categorization and traverse genres. Over the four decades of her prolific career, Snyder’s body of work has continually evolved in style and form. Beginning with her early “stroke” paintings — intense swaths of color painted over pencil-drawn grids — her works have been essentially narratives of both personal and communal experiences. Joan Snyder received an A.B. (1962) from Douglass College and an M.F.A. (1966) from Rutgers University. Her work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions at such national venues as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.