Solo show
Hyundai Card First Look: Joan Snyder
23 Apr 2026 — 31 Oct 2026 at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
· New York
Installation. Apr 23, 2026–Fall 2026. For more than 50 years, Joan Snyder has been making abstract paintings with experimental materials, imbuing them with symbolic references. Drawing inspiration from her life and surroundings, she has established an expansive glossary of motifs and collaged materials, which include fabric, plastic fruit, flowers, and herbs. Through painting, the artist often endeavors to convey the fundamental emotions that connect humans to one another.
In "In My August", Snyder looked to nature as a guide; she created the work while immersed in a bucolic environment in upstate New York. Rosebuds, flower stems, and straw are layered with oil and acrylic paint of varying thicknesses. Delicate dripping trails of paint intersect with thickly applied brush strokes that punctuate the canvas with shades of pink, turquoise, blue, and green. At the lower left is an abstracted white shape of a pond, bordered by straw — a "sacred space" for the artist.
In "In My August", Snyder looked to nature as a guide; she created the work while immersed in a bucolic environment in upstate New York. Rosebuds, flower stems, and straw are layered with oil and acrylic paint of varying thicknesses. Delicate dripping trails of paint intersect with thickly applied brush strokes that punctuate the canvas with shades of pink, turquoise, blue, and green. At the lower left is an abstracted white shape of a pond, bordered by straw — a "sacred space" for the artist.
About the artist
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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
· New York
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture…
