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Article: Gerry Snyder at the Center for Contemporary Arts.(SANTA FE)(Critical Essay)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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Gerry Snyder is a painter who has been showing his work for more than 25 years. This intriguing exhibition featured semi-narrative scenes of expansive landscapes populated with anthropomorphic creatures rendered in oil on wood panel. Continuing his subversive modus operandi in these recent works, Snyder prompts us to reconsider the mythic, moral and often perversely irrational nature of ingrained cultural and religious histories. His sources are eclectic, ranging from cinematography, TV and animation to classical landscape painting. Equally diverse is his subject matter, which includes Hollywood-style heroics and sexual stereotyping, celebrated moments in American history ...