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'''Tracey Snelling''' is an American contemporary artist. Working with sculpture, video, photography and installation, and deriving from sociology, voyeurism and geographical and architectural location, her work gives her impression of a place, its people, and their experience. <ref name="juxtapos">{{cite news|last1=Farr|first1=Kristin|title=Tracey Snelling, New Image Art, West Hollywood|url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/tracey-snelling-clusterfuck-3-new-image-art/|accessdate=26 March 2017|work=Juxtapoz|date=January 16, 2016}}</ref><ref name="new times art basel">{{cite news|last1=De Jesus|first1=Carlos Suarez|title=All Politics Is Loco|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/content/printView/6335018|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=Miami New Times|date=December 28, 2006}}</ref>

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'''Tracey Snelling''' is an American contemporary artist. Working with sculpture, video, photography and installation, her work gives her impression of a place, its people, and their experience. <ref name="juxtapos">{{cite news|last1=Farr|first1=Kristin|title=Tracey Snelling, New Image Art, West Hollywood|url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/tracey-snelling-clusterfuck-3-new-image-art/|accessdate=26 March 2017|work=Juxtapoz|date=January 16, 2016}}</ref><ref name="new times art basel">{{cite news|last1=De Jesus|first1=Carlos Suarez|title=All Politics Is Loco|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/content/printView/6335018|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=Miami New Times|date=December 28, 2006}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Snelling was born in Oakland, California. She learned about alternative processes and contemporary artists while attending a photography class in Northern California, and began to experiment with photography as contemporary art. She attended a community college and took several years off to do conservation work with the [[California Conservation Corps]] and work as a firefighter with the [[U.S. Forest Service]]. She completed her education at the [[University of New Mexico]], where she earned a BFA.<ref name="establishment">{{cite news|last1=Tandy|first1=Katie|title=Voyeuristic Artist Tracey Snelling Reminds Us To Look Closer|url=https://theestablishment.co/voyeuristic-artist-tracey-snelling-reminds-us-to-look-closer-e30f682f2d40#.ezo45fy8t|accessdate=26 March 2017|work=The Establishment|date=November 19, 2015}}</ref><ref name="art pulse" />
Snelling was born in Oakland, California. As a child, built shoe-box dioramas and made sculptures out of Play-Doh.
She learned about alternative processes and contemporary artists while attending a photography class in Northern California, and began to experiment with photography as contemporary art. She spent several years doing conservation work with the [[California Conservation Corps]] and firefighting with the [[U.S. Forest Service]], before returning to school at the [[University of New Mexico]] to complete her BFA. <ref>{{Cite web|url = http://artpulsemagazine.com/tracey-snelling-an-urban-narrative|title = Tracey Snelling: An Urban Native|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref><ref name="establishment">{{cite news|last1=Tandy|first1=Katie|title=Voyeuristic Artist Tracey Snelling Reminds Us To Look Closer|url=https://theestablishment.co/voyeuristic-artist-tracey-snelling-reminds-us-to-look-closer-e30f682f2d40#.ezo45fy8t|accessdate=26 March 2017|work=The Establishment|date=November 19, 2015}}</ref>
==Career==
==Career==
After her graduation, Snelling worked primarily as a photographer and collage artist. She continued to experiment with photography, painting over images of every day day life and tearing negatives to create surreal images. Her first sculptural piece was ''1881 Chestnut Street,'' an elaborate 2-D model of a New York brownstone created from snippets of 1940s-era ''Life'' magazines. It was constructed without a facade to allow viewers to look inside of each of the rooms. In one a Victorian woman painted an an easel; another showed people walking in overcoats; a train ran through an upstairs room. Described by the ''[[East Bay Express]]'' as "a world unto itself", it inspired Snelling to build more intricate pieces.<ref name="East Bay x" />
After her graduation, Snelling worked primarily as a photographer and collage artist. She continued to experiment with photography, painting over images of every day day life and tearing negatives to create surreal images. Her first sculptural piece was ''1881 Chestnut Street,'' an elaborate 2-D model of a New York brownstone created from snippets of 1940s-era ''Life'' magazines. It was constructed without a facade to allow viewers to look inside of each of the rooms. In one a Victorian woman painted an an easel; another showed people walking in overcoats; a train ran through an upstairs room. Described by the ''[[East Bay Express]]'' as "a world unto itself", it inspired Snelling to build more intricate pieces.<ref name="East Bay x" />


In 2005, she created "El Mirador," a large sculpture of an adobe hotel with six windows. A DVD player behind the piece and showed a montage of film clips, and the characters appeared to be interacting with one another. The original El Mirador was twenty inches tall. Snelling later made a six-and-a-half foot tall version of the piece ("Big El Mirador") to show at [[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]], and the Oakland Underground Film Festival. <ref name="East Bay x">{{cite news|last1=Swan|first1=Rachel|title=Tracey Snelling's Bordertown Romance|url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/tracey-snellings-bordertown-romance/Content?oid=1939731|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=East Bay Express|date=July 21, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Spark">{{cite news|title=Spark: Tracey Snelling|url=https://ww2.kqed.org/spark/tracey-snelling/|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=KQED|date=August 4, 2006}}</ref> In a review of Snelling's "knockout" work as it was exhibited during [[Art Basel]] in 2006, the ''[[Miami New Times]]'' wrote: "Snelling's voyeuristic work exudes a surreal vibe dripping with poignant haplessness. It plays with the viewer's desire to engage in the emotional mix of the strangers they are intruding upon, as if challenging one not to find seduction in people or things that are broken."<ref name="new times art basel" />
In 2005, she created ''El Mirador,'' a large sculpture of an adobe hotel with six windows. A DVD player behind the piece showed a montage of film clips and the characters appeared to be interacting with one another. The original ''El Mirador'' was twenty inches tall; Snelling later made a six-and-a-half foot tall version of the piece ("Big El Mirador") to show at [[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]] and the Oakland Underground Film Festival. <ref name="East Bay x">{{cite news|last1=Swan|first1=Rachel|title=Tracey Snelling's Bordertown Romance|url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/tracey-snellings-bordertown-romance/Content?oid=1939731|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=East Bay Express|date=July 21, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Spark">{{cite news|title=Spark: Tracey Snelling|url=https://ww2.kqed.org/spark/tracey-snelling/|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=KQED|date=August 4, 2006}}</ref> In a review of ''El Mirador'' as it was exhibited during [[Art Basel]] in 2006, the ''[[Miami New Times]]'' wrote: "Snelling's voyeuristic work exudes a surreal vibe dripping with poignant haplessness. It plays with the viewer's desire to engage in the emotional mix of the strangers they are intruding upon, as if challenging one not to find seduction in people or things that are broken."<ref name="new times art basel" />


Snelling originally used found footage for her video work. In 2008, she created a short film, ''Woman on the Run,'' shooting original footage. She and her friends appeared as characters who would change roles as ''Woman on the Run'' traveled to different venues. With her co-producer, Idan Levin, Snelling subsequently added to the installation by collaborating on a "site-conforming msytery" called ''Woman on the Run Redux,'' which involved an iPhone application, among other elements.<ref name="art pulse">{{cite news|last1=Leyva-Pérez|first1=Irina|title=Tracey Snelling: An Urban Narrative|url=http://artpulsemagazine.com/tracey-snelling-an-urban-narrative|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=ArtPulse|date=February 1, 2013}}</ref> Snelling worked with Levin again in 2015 on ''The Stranger,'' is a 4:42 minute film which explored belonging and identity. The film included two narrated poems, one in English and Spanish and the other in Hebrew and Arabic, with concurrent subtitles below. <ref>{{cite web|last1=UICA|title=ArtPrize artist investigates world’s poor, social issues, strength|url=https://cultured.gr/artprize-artist-investigates-worlds-poor-social-issues-strength-a1b2fb0e2c72|website=cultured.gr|publisher=Cultured|accessdate=31 March 2017}}</ref>


Snelling's 2013 work included ''Mystery Hour.'' It used large-scale posters and elaborate architectural models to create "archetypal worlds from middle- and lowbrow genre films" to "depict imaginary B movies whose premises are as facetious as they are seductively lurid." ''[[ArtForum]]'' described ''Mystery Hour'' as "mesmerizing, sinister." <ref name="Art Forum">{{cite news|last1=Westin|first1=Monica|title=Picks: San Francisco Tracey Snelling|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/id=44840|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=ArtForum|date=December 19, 2013}}</ref>


Her multi-media sculptural installation ''One Thousand Shacks'' (2016) conveyed the "precarious individual existence" of people living in extreme poverty. Composed of a 15-by-10 wall of small-scale shacks, photographs, wire, wood, and other materials were used in each shack to to capture people "living the best they can in excruciating circumstances," portraying her subjects "not as powerless victims, but rather as defiant and hopeful members of humanity."<ref name="Oakland mag">{{cite news|last1=Bean|first1=Kyrsin|title=Tracy Snelling’s Art Contemplates the Precariousness of Suffering|url=http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Tracy-Snellings-Art-Contemplates-the-Precariousness-of-Suffering/|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=Oakland Magazine|date=August 1, 2016}}</ref> A variation of ''One Thousand Shacks'' titled ''Tenement Rising'' was included in Snelling's ''Naked City'' solo show the gallery Krupic Kersting in Cologne, Germany in late 2016.<ref name="TV">{{cite news|last1=Enrico|first1=V.|title=Tracey Snelling: The Naked City / Krupic Kersting Gallery, Cologne|url=http://vernissage.tv/2016/09/19/tracey-snelling-the-naked-city-krupic-kersting-gallery-cologne/|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=Vernissage TV|date=September 19, 2016}}</ref>


Snelling has exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; and the Stenersen Museet, Oslo. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal, among other places.<ref name="TV" />
== Selected works ==
===''One Thousand Shacks''===
Snelling's multi-media sculptural installation ''One Thousand Shacks'' conveys the "precarious individual existence" of people living in extreme poverty. It is composed of a 15-by-10 wall of small-scale shacks. Inside each shack, photographs, wire, wood, and other materials have been constructed to capture people "living the best they can in excruciating circumstances." Snelling "portrays her subjects not as powerless victims, but rather as defiant and hopeful members of humanity."<ref name="Oakland mag">{{cite news|last1=Bean|first1=Kyrsin|title=Tracy Snelling’s Art Contemplates the Precariousness of Suffering|url=http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Tracy-Snellings-Art-Contemplates-the-Precariousness-of-Suffering/|accessdate=31 March 2017|work=Oakland Magazine|date=August 1, 2016}}</ref>
===''The Stranger'' ===
Created with Idan Levin, ''The Stranger'' is a 4:42 minute film which tells the story of a man who wanders the world. Through different distinct cultures, the idea of belonging and identity is explored. The sets are small-scale sculptures combined with the outdoor environment; the stranger is superimposed into the small locales. There are two narrated poems, one in English and Spanish, the other in Hebrew and Arabic, with concurrent subtitles below. <ref>{{cite web|last1=UICA|title=ArtPrize artist investigates world’s poor, social issues, strength|url=https://cultured.gr/artprize-artist-investigates-worlds-poor-social-issues-strength-a1b2fb0e2c72|website=cultured.gr|publisher=Cultured|accessdate=31 March 2017}}</ref>
===''Nothing''===
===''Woman on the Run''===
===''Where Mr. Wrong Sent Me''===






=== Solo Exhibitions and Installations ===
* Krupic Kersting Galerie, Cologne, Germany.
2013
* ''Nothing'' (short film), AC Institute, [[New York, NY]].
* Everything is Everything, Aeroplastics Contemporary, [[Brussels, Belgium]].
* Mystery Hour, Rena Bransten Gallery, [[San Francisco, CA]].
* Nothing short film, Circuito Off, Teatrino Palazzo Grassi, [[Venice, Italy]].
* Nothing short film, [[Crocker Art Museum]], [[Sacramento, CA]].
2012
* ''Nothing'' (short film) yTinT Gallery, in conjunction with the [[Thessaloniki International Film Festival]], [[Thessaloniki, Greece]].
* ''Nothing'' Oakland Underground Film Festival, [[Oakland, CA]].
* Woman on the Run, Virginia MOCA, [[Virginia Beach, Virginia]].
* Another Day in Paradise, Nothing short film, Samek Art Gallery, [[Bucknell University]], [[Lewisburg, Pennsylvania]].
* Nothing short film, [[San Francisco International Film Festival]], San Francisco, CA.
* Woman on the Run, [[Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art]], [[Winston-Salem, North Carolina]].
2011
* Woman on the Run, Frist Museum, [[Nashville, Tennessee]].
* Raging Lotus, [[Exploratorium]], San Francisco, California.
* A Sort of Homecoming, L.H. Horton Gallery, [[San Joaquin Delta College]], [[Stockton, CA]].
2010
* TenYear Survey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
* Woman on the Run, 21C Museum, [[Louisville, Kentucky]].
* [[Shanghai, China|Shanghai]] Zendai MOMA, [[Zhujiajiao]], [[China]].
* Bordertown, New Frontier on Main, [[Sundance Film Festival]], [[Park City, Utah]].
* Bordertown, Oakland Underground Film Festival, Oakland, CA.
2009
* Woman on the Run, Smack Mellon, [[Brooklyn, New York]].
* Greta Garbo Slept Here, TacheLevy, Brussels, Belgium.
* Dirty Pretty Things, Cokkie Snoei, [[Amsterdam]] and [[Rotterdam]], the [[Netherlands]].
* Where Mr. Wong Sent Me, [[Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne|Galerie Urs Meile]], [[Beijing]], China.
2008
* Pan American Art Projects, [[Miami, Florida]].
* Another Town, Wedel, [[London]].
* Woman on the Run, [[Selfridges]], London.
2007
* Another Shocking Psychological Thriller, Houston Center for Photography, [[Houston, Texas]].
* Monsters, TacheLevy, Martin Margiela Building, Brussels, Belgium.
* Dulces, Wedel, London.
2006
* Dark Detour, [[de Saisset Museum]], [[Santa Clara, California]].
2005
* The Comfort, the Beauty, the Shame, Lokaal 01, [[Breda, Netherlands]].
* Convenient, [[SF Camerawork]], San Francisco, California.
* South Side, Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2004
* Last Picture Show, Stephen Cohen Gallery, [[Los Angeles, California]].
2003
* Sculpture/Structure, [[Museum of Art and History]], [[Santa Cruz, California]].
* Sculpture and Photographs, Sala Diaz, [[San Antonio, Texas]].

=== Selected Group Exhibitions ===
2015<
* Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of HiFructose, Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA.
* [[Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium|Royal Museum of Fine Arts]], Brussels, Belgium.
* Gedroomde Stad (Ideal City), Afrika Museum, [[Berg en Dal (village)|Berg en Dal]], The Netherlands.
* The Auction, [[Terrance Higgins Trust]], [[Christie's]], London.
2014
* Welcome to the Jungle, Pan American Art Projects, [[Miami, Florida]].
* Art in Motion, Jules Maeght Gallery, curated by Natasha Boas, San Francisco, CA.
* The Remarkable Lightness of Being, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.
* L’expo dans le chapeau, La Vitrine am, curated by Raphael Cuir, [[Paris, France]].
* ArtPrize, GRCC Collins Art Gallery, [[Grand Rapids, MI]].
* A Contemporary Landscape Invitational, St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, [[Moraga, CA]].
* Summer Road Trip, Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco, CA.
* Karla’s House, The Battery, San Francisco, CA.
* On Dry Land, [[Negev Museum of Art]], curated by Ravit Harari, [[Beersheba]], [[Israel]].
* Brussels Cologne Contemporaries, [[Cologne, Germany]].
* Home: Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art, Schneider Museum of Art, [[Ashland, OR]].
2013
* Drinnen Binnen Buiten Draussen, Galerie Roy, [[Zülpich]], [[Germany]].
* Drinnen Binnen Buiten Draussen, Kers Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
* Making Space: Art and Place, [[Euphrat Museum of Art]], [[Cupertino, CA]].
* Home: Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art, Bedford Gallery, [[Walnut Creek, CA]].
* The Storytellers, El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Rupublica, [[Bogota]], [[Colombia]].
* Once More, Lokaal 01, Breda, the Netherlands.
* Parallax Views, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, [[San Jose, CA]].
* As Tears Go By* (who cries with me?), Cokki Snoei, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
* Theatrical Gestures, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, [[Herzliya]], Israel.
* Raw China Art Expo, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
2012
* Not Another End of the World Exhibition, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.
* Nervous Women, Museum Dr. Guislain, [[Ghent, Belgium]].
* Otherworldly: Artist Dioramas and Small Spectacles, Lille 3000, [[Lille, France]].
* Signature, Schriftuur, Bruges Cultural Centre, De Bond, Bruges, Belgium.
* The Storytellers, Stenersen Museum, [[Oslo, Norway]].
* The End of Everything/A New Beginning, LARMgalleri, [[Copenhagen, Denmark]].
* Brought to Light: Masterworks of Photography from the Crocker Art Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
* America Rules, West Collection, [[Oaks, Pennsylvania]].
* Streetopia, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
* Chico and Chang, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
* The Bridge, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California.
* Fireflies,Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium.
2011
* Otherworldly: Artist Dioramas and Small Spectacles, Museum of Art and Design New York, New York.
* Reconstructed World, Gatehouse Gallery, Di Rosa, [[Napa, California]].
* Chico and Chang, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, California.
* Anonyme Skulpturen, Galerie im Taxispalais, [[Innsbruck, Austria]].
2010
* Anonyme Skulpturen, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, [[Krefeld, Germany]].
* Accrochage,Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China.
* Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
* The House in My Head, Kunsthallen Brandts, [[Odense, Denmark]].
* PopUp Magazine, Herbst Theater, San Francisco, California.
2009
* Narratives, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida.
* That's All Folks!, curated by Michel Dewilde and Jerome Jacobs, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium.
* Achtung Baby, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, [[Helmond]], the Netherlands.
* Low Blow,Stux Gallery, New York, New York.
2008
* Road Trip, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California.
2007
* There’s No Place Like Here, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, [[Rohnert Park, California]].
* XXSSize Does Matter, Sommer Gallery, [[Tel Aviv, Israel]].
* Paulo Post Futurum, Lokaal 01, Museum of Breda, Breda, the Netherlands.
* Emergent Behavior, Martin Art Gallery, [[Muhlenberg College]], [[Allentown, Pennsylvania]].
* Brown Bag Contemporary, New York.
* Emergency Room, P.S.1 MOMA, [[Long Island City, New York]].
* Regeneration, Kentler International Drawing Space; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York.
* Greetings from the American Dream, [[Riverside Art Museum]], [[Riverside, California]].
2006
* Searchers, White Box, [[New York, New York]].
* Fellowship Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, [[Berkeley, California]].
* New Code, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy.
* Looking Through Walls, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.
* Photosynkyria, Tint Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
* Headlands Institute, [[Marin Headlands]], [[California]].
2005
* Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, New York.
* Regeneration, [[Douglass College]], [[Rutgers University]], [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]].
* Blueprints, [[Intersection for the Arts]], San Francisco, California.
2004
* Epic, [[Southern Exposure (art space)|Southern Exposure]], San Francisco, California.


Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.<ref name="Oakland mag" />
== References ==
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==External links==

[http://traceysnelling.com Official website ]

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Tracey Snelling
File:Tracey Snelling Self Portrait.jpg
Born
Tracey Snelling

1970
Oakland, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of New Mexico
StyleContemporary
Children2
Awards2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant

Tracey Snelling is an American contemporary artist. Working with sculpture, video, photography and installation, and deriving from sociology, voyeurism and geographical and architectural location, her work gives her impression of a place, its people, and their experience. [1][2]

Early life and education

Snelling was born in Oakland, California. She learned about alternative processes and contemporary artists while attending a photography class in Northern California, and began to experiment with photography as contemporary art. She attended a community college and took several years off to do conservation work with the California Conservation Corps and work as a firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service. She completed her education at the University of New Mexico, where she earned a BFA.[3][4]

Career

After her graduation, Snelling worked primarily as a photographer and collage artist. She continued to experiment with photography, painting over images of every day day life and tearing negatives to create surreal images. Her first sculptural piece was 1881 Chestnut Street, an elaborate 2-D model of a New York brownstone created from snippets of 1940s-era Life magazines. It was constructed without a facade to allow viewers to look inside of each of the rooms. In one a Victorian woman painted an an easel; another showed people walking in overcoats; a train ran through an upstairs room. Described by the East Bay Express as "a world unto itself", it inspired Snelling to build more intricate pieces.[5]

In 2005, she created El Mirador, a large sculpture of an adobe hotel with six windows. A DVD player behind the piece showed a montage of film clips and the characters appeared to be interacting with one another. The original El Mirador was twenty inches tall; Snelling later made a six-and-a-half foot tall version of the piece ("Big El Mirador") to show at Sundance and the Oakland Underground Film Festival. [5][6] In a review of El Mirador as it was exhibited during Art Basel in 2006, the Miami New Times wrote: "Snelling's voyeuristic work exudes a surreal vibe dripping with poignant haplessness. It plays with the viewer's desire to engage in the emotional mix of the strangers they are intruding upon, as if challenging one not to find seduction in people or things that are broken."[2]

Snelling originally used found footage for her video work. In 2008, she created a short film, Woman on the Run, shooting original footage. She and her friends appeared as characters who would change roles as Woman on the Run traveled to different venues. With her co-producer, Idan Levin, Snelling subsequently added to the installation by collaborating on a "site-conforming msytery" called Woman on the Run Redux, which involved an iPhone application, among other elements.[4] Snelling worked with Levin again in 2015 on The Stranger, is a 4:42 minute film which explored belonging and identity. The film included two narrated poems, one in English and Spanish and the other in Hebrew and Arabic, with concurrent subtitles below. [7]

Snelling's 2013 work included Mystery Hour. It used large-scale posters and elaborate architectural models to create "archetypal worlds from middle- and lowbrow genre films" to "depict imaginary B movies whose premises are as facetious as they are seductively lurid." ArtForum described Mystery Hour as "mesmerizing, sinister." [8]

Her multi-media sculptural installation One Thousand Shacks (2016) conveyed the "precarious individual existence" of people living in extreme poverty. Composed of a 15-by-10 wall of small-scale shacks, photographs, wire, wood, and other materials were used in each shack to to capture people "living the best they can in excruciating circumstances," portraying her subjects "not as powerless victims, but rather as defiant and hopeful members of humanity."[9] A variation of One Thousand Shacks titled Tenement Rising was included in Snelling's Naked City solo show the gallery Krupic Kersting in Cologne, Germany in late 2016.[10]

Snelling has exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; and the Stenersen Museet, Oslo. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal, among other places.[10]

Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.[9]

References

  1. ^ Farr, Kristin (January 16, 2016). "Tracey Snelling, New Image Art, West Hollywood". Juxtapoz. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b De Jesus, Carlos Suarez (December 28, 2006). "All Politics Is Loco". Miami New Times. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  3. ^ Tandy, Katie (November 19, 2015). "Voyeuristic Artist Tracey Snelling Reminds Us To Look Closer". The Establishment. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  4. ^ a b Leyva-Pérez, Irina (February 1, 2013). "Tracey Snelling: An Urban Narrative". ArtPulse. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  5. ^ a b Swan, Rachel (July 21, 2010). "Tracey Snelling's Bordertown Romance". East Bay Express. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  6. ^ "Spark: Tracey Snelling". KQED. August 4, 2006. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  7. ^ UICA. "ArtPrize artist investigates world's poor, social issues, strength". cultured.gr. Cultured. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  8. ^ Westin, Monica (December 19, 2013). "Picks: San Francisco Tracey Snelling". ArtForum. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  9. ^ a b Bean, Kyrsin (August 1, 2016). "Tracy Snelling's Art Contemplates the Precariousness of Suffering". Oakland Magazine. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  10. ^ a b Enrico, V. (September 19, 2016). "Tracey Snelling: The Naked City / Krupic Kersting Gallery, Cologne". Vernissage TV. Retrieved 31 March 2017.

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