Fair Market Value: $4,000. Joan Snyder has been called an autobiographical, even confessional artist, who draws from her experiences and surroundings to create her paintings. While her subjects vary widely, Snyder has developed a signature style in her work over the past 40 years, characterized by gestural, patchy brushwork and vivid color combinations. She has also mixed unconventional materials into her paint, including silk, burlap, seeds, twigs, dirt, and glitter. Snyder was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.

About the Print:

This print does have a story. When George Moscone and Harvey Milk, were murdered in SF in 1985, the city commissioned artists to make sketches that would, if chosen, eventually be made into paintings or sculptures and then be installed as part of a building complex honoring these two men. I made a small sketch/painting called "Can We Turn Our Rage To Poetry". My sketch wasn't chosen but in spite of not being chosen, I made a large painting based on the sketch as I was very taken with the idea of turning our rage at what had happened into a positive act. The painting I made, "Can We Turn Our Rage To Poetry" is hanging at the National Museum of Women In The Arts in Washington DC. After I made the painting I made the lithograph with the same title. So the initial idea for "Can We Turn Our Rage To Poetry" came because after these horrendous murders artists were beckoned to express their ideas, feelings...to make images in honor of these men.

Details:

Can We Turn Our Rage to Poetry, 1985
30 1/4 × 44 1/4 in; 76.8 × 112.4 cm signed
Paper: Lithograph in colors on Rives BFK