Joan Snyder

First coming to prominence in the early 1970s, Joan Snyder received her initial recognition for her ‘stroke paintings’, which were a method through which to break down and reconstruct the history of Abstraction in painting. She achieved her elegantly gestural ‘stroke paintings’ by employing the grid as her starting point. Later into the 1970s, Snyder moved away from the formal qualities of the grid, and began expanding the materiality of her paintings, with the inclusion of text and symbols. Snyder is frequently considered an autobiographical or confessional artist, and her paintings intertwine both individual and collective experiences which she folds into her narratives. Her constant testing of material and technique, and an unwavering individualism, Snyder has broadened the horizons of abstract painting and is an unfaltering source of inspiration for successive early career artists. ...

Pilar Corrias Gallery is a contemporary art gallery owned by Pilar Corrias. The 3,800 square foot gallery in London's Fitzrovia, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is made up of two exhibition spaces, located in the heart of London's West End. Pilar Corrias opened a second London gallery space at 2 Savile Row in July 2021, designed by London and Oslo-based architect firm Hesselbrand. Since its inception, the gallery has worked with emerging and established artists with the central aim of allowing their work to grow both in terms of production of new projects and the making of new exhibitions. Pilar Corrias now represents a total of thirty-two international artists, two-thirds of whom are female. ...