Sylvia Snowden

Place: Raleigh

Born: 1942

Biography:

Sylvia Snowden is an African American abstract painter who works with acrylics, oil pastels, and mixed media to create textured works that convey the 'feel of paint'. She received a scholarship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, ME and has a certificate from there. She holds both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Howard University. She has taught at Howard University, Cornell and Yale, has served as an artist-in-residence, a panelist, visiting artist, lecturer/instructor. She has exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Women's Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection. She has been represented by Franklin Parrasch Gallery and Parrasch Heijnen Gallery. She has been shown globally in Chile, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Australia, the Bahamas, France, Mexico, Italy and Japan. She has been working for more than five decades and has been creating vibrantly abstract works. Her palette ranges from dark and earthy to bright and artificial, and she incorporates various materials in her works.