Joan Snyder 'For F'

After viewing the Joan Snyder retrospective at U of R I was pleasantly surprised to read that The artist was from Higland Park NJ... A small place that I know very well...in fact my uncle was friends in high school with Joan in the 1950's...alas, I enjoyed how her work was evidently free-flowing as far as her use of the mediums she worked with, while keeping her subject matter in good focus...it wasn't just randomness...I saw connections with artists such as Joan Miro and Basquiat which is an interesting parallel because the artists are similar in some ways and but approach their presentation quite differently...Joan's work for the most part had a nice balance between subjective focus and material experimentiaiton, while maintaining a slight sense of mystery to it...the piece 'for f' struck me because of how it resembled a tarnished exterior wall (repetition of words, apparent spills, weathered look).  I felt the media experimentation here worked particularly to her advantage and gave seemingly unimportant subject matter a place for further investigation.