Press:
Segment on Channel 5 NBC July 17th
Artist Bio
Hot rod mentality meets metamorphic fantasy in the artwork Jeff Snider. Recyclism is the new movement in the art world. He creates illuminated sculptures from found objects. Jeff's work shifts paradigms. He takes objects that we have all known since childhood and transforms their original function.
Jeff grew up on a 34 acre farm in Goshen Indiana . He displayed creativity and imagination very young. Growing up on a farm allowed him an abundance of found objects to play with and to be fascinated by. As a child he was always taking things apart to see how they worked. One of the primary motivators for his later work would be some abandoned vehicles that were left in a woods behind his house. Jeff was awestruck by the mystery of how the vehicles got there and the deteriorated condition that they were in. This memory would later affect his work by the current passion to recycle the old and transform it into something other than its intended purpose.
Jeff has taken what is not supposed to emit light and created an illuminated sculpture from that medium. These sculptures break a viewer’s original attachment schema they have with a certain object and create new neural pathways of how to view an object. With most of Jeff's pieces he strives to create a feeling of joy and wonderment. Because he is inducing feelings of wonderment and joy in his audience, the process of creating a new piece is not what he intends to display nor does he put importance on it. Jeff's intention is only the final outcome. This allows the question of "How did he do that?" to enter the mind of the person looking at his sculpture. The inquiry causes more of a consciousness to be prevalent while viewing his work. When Jeff creates a new illuminated sculpture he gives the viewer a glimpse of what it is like when he has a shift of his original attachment schema.
Jeff is a self taught artist. He spent seven years living in Washington DC where he worked at America 's first modern art museum, The Phillips Collection. It was in this environment of other artists and musicians that Jeff's creativity for the arts fully emerged. His first sculpture was made from an extra hand mixer that was in his apartment. He was inspired by an Alexander Calder catalogue to create a piece of art. Jeff completely dismantled it, finding once again that passion from childhood, and transformed it into a hanging light. His involvement with the art community in Washington DC gave him support for continuing with his self taught art background. Jeff is now creating sculptures that include functions other than light, although illumination is still a primary motivator for his work.
Exhibits:
2000 Art Windows Gallery-Solo show
1120 Vermont Ave NW
Washington DC
2000 Signal 66 Art Center-New Talent-Juried Art Show
926 N St NW
Washington DC
Currently Exhibiting:
WPB Make Believe Project
1275 N Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL
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