Joan Snyder @ Thaddaeus Ropac

A comprehensive presentation of Joan Snyder’s artistry over a career of six decades, shows a pioneering body of work.  It breaks down social, aesthetic and material hierarchies to assert the place of feeling and female subjectivity within contemporary abstraction.

The painting that gives the exhibition its title, Body & Soul, encapsulates an overview of the artist’s varied modes of working. Body and soul becomes a metaphor that brings into dialogue the figurative and the abstract, the painterly and the material, the gestural and the controlled – ideas that reverberate throughout the artist’s wider oeuvre.