Acrylic & Gouache on paper, 12” x 12”, 2013
EVIL LURKS IN PARADISE
“Snyder's work has long had sociopolitical overtones. He analyzes our culture through his strange race of creatures, who enact allegories intended to warn us against fundamentalism of many stripes. A similar dichotomy activates each painting: the promise of America, still so real to so many, poisoned by the behavior of the few.”
- Hollis Walker, Journal North
DRAWINGS
MIXED MEDIA
EXHIBITIONS
Select Exhibitions
(above) American Idyll
EVO Gallery, Santa Fe NM (catalog)
(middle) The Surreal LIfe
New Mexico Museum of Art
(below) Whitney Biennial 2002
Whitney Museum, NY
ARTIST GERRY SNYDER KNOWS WHERE TELETUBBIES GO WHEN THEY DIE
“Gerry Snyder’s oil paintings are about the size of a midtown office window and portray bulbous, cuddly creatures floating and frolicking in hazy, bleeding landscapes - we see life-size gummy bears playing with sprinklers in the Garden of Eden. Be terrified…”
- Emma Pearse, Vulture
