Joan Snyder - retrospective - Modlin Center, UR

     This is Our Foremothers (1995) by Joan Snyder. It includes all the names of the women in the Old Testament, plus the names of women in her family. She said it was technically difficult to do and she thought of it as “composing a symphony.” I like it because of the use of words as visual tools and the sort of ontological irony of having names with no referents.

     I was interested to read about her printing process, mixing lithographs, monotypes and woodcuts.

Alice Anne Ellis