Art

Tracey Snelling uses sculpture, photography, video and installation to give an impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind building windows, at times creating a sense of mystery and other times stressing the mundane. Her work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes of a particular locale’s inhabitants develop: Who are these people? What do they do and why do they do it? These questions transport observation into the realm of storytelling. Snelling has shown work in museums such as Gemeentemuseum Helmond, the Netherlands; Shanghai Zendai MOMA, China; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; and Stenersen Museet, Oslo. She has had solo exhibitions throughout the US as well as in China, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and London, and has been awarded residencies in Beijing at Galerie Urs Meile, and in Shanghai at the Shanghai Zendai MOMA. Her large-scale installation Woman on the Run was originally commissioned by Selfridges, London during Frieze 2008, and has traveled to Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; 21c Museum, Louisville; Frist, Nashville; SECCA, Winston-Salem; and the Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach. Her first short film “Nothing” premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival 2012, and showed at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, the AC Institute in New York, Aeroplastics Contemporary in Brussels, and the Crocker Museum in Sacramento. Snelling recently was commissioned to make an installation about borders for the Negev Musuem in Israel. She has upcoming exhibitions at La Vitrine am in Paris, Afrika Museum in the Netherlands, and at the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.