Mary Snowden | |
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Born | 1940 (age 83–84) Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Education |
Brown University, University of California, Berkeley |
Occupation(s) | Painter, educator |
Awards | SECA Art Award (1974) |
Mary Snowden (born 1940) is an American painter and educator. She is known for works that use humor to explore issues of feminist identity and consumerism. [1]
Snowden was born in 1940 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] [4] She received a BA degree from Brown University, and a MFA degree from the University of California, Berkeley. [1]
Snowden is perhaps best known for her works about the suburbs and motherhood. [5] Starting in the mid-1990s Snowden's paintings utilized 1940s and 1950s advertising imagery, focusing on the products, images, and fashions of the era to humorously critique limitations in cultural ideas about gender and homemaking. [3] [6] Around 2010, she started used stitching to depict rural farm life. [7] [8]
Snowden was the first female artist to win the SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1974. [9] Snowden is Professor Emeritus of Painting Drawing at the California College of the Arts. [10]
Snowden's notable past exhibitions have been at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1975), Gallery Henoch (1991), and the Braunstein/Quay Gallery (1997). [11] Her work is in museum collections including the Kemper Art Museum, [12] Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, [13] di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, [14] among others.
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