Friday, November 10, 5 to 9 / Saturday, November 11, 4 to 7

East Facing Door

This exhibition of new drawings is an extension of explorations made mainly in two bodies of work, Altered States (2016 – 19) and Your Nowhere is My Somewhere. See You There (2017), combining Snyder’s ‘70s and ‘80s labor-intensive ways of drawing with the minimalist one-line approach he developed in the ‘90s. 

In addition to object making and drawing, Snyder’s work is best represented by the ongoing performative and interactive projects he began in ’99, which include his 2005 Artpace Residency project, Book of The Dead. 

The Magdalena drawings (2022 – 23) are based on locations in the small New Mexico village Snyder moved to six years ago and exist somewhere between representation, quantum fantasy, and sheer love of drawing, perhaps implying that the center of the universe may be found anywhere.

Willie’s Airstream

Hills Snyder (b. 1950, Lubbock, Texas) has previously lived in Lawrence, Kansas, Miles City, Montana, and Austin, Texas. After living in San Antonio, Texas for twenty-eight years, he moved to Magdalena, New Mexico in 2017. Since 2018 he has operated kind of a small array, a venue for exhibitions, house concerts, and poetry readings.

Residencies have included the Ucross Foundation, NEA Artist-in-the-Schools (Montana), Banff Center for The Arts (Alberta), Fountainhead Miami, and Artpace, San Antonio. His work is included in many private collections and the public collections of Ruby City, Casino Luxembourg, San Antonio Museum of Art, El Paso Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum, Museum of Texas Tech University, University of Texas, El Paso, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming, and the Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Magdalena is Snyder’s first solo project in New York City.  Past group exhibitions in New York have included those at the Alternative Museum, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, Sunday, and the International Print Center.

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