Snyder 🥉Bronze Brush

About

I started life as a painter. I was mentored by Ilya Bolotowsky and Ibram Lassaw. I worked with notables such as Willem de Koonig, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Alphonso Ossorio and Larry Rivers. I worked as curator at The Parrish Museum in Southampton, The Guild Hall Museum in Easthampton, The Metropolitan Museum/Queens Museum and lectured at the Cloisters. And worked closely with Victor D’Amico on the “Barge” for the Museum of Modern Art.

I started making pottery when taking my Master’s degree in painting at Pratt Institute. Little did I know that pottery would turn out to be my passion. My work was a feature story on the Fine Living Channel’s program Back to Basics.

It’s hard to make a living as an artist so I became an advertising Executive Creative Director/Art Director and film director. I ran several agencies, served on their Board of Directors, owned my own agency and managed healthy profits for my clients. My strength is seeing the big picture, growing organizations, and optimizing profitability, an emphasis on quality.

I work primarily in porcelain. For many years I was strictly a wheel-throwing potter. The pandemic opened me to avenues that I never realized before. Now hand-building is part of all wheel-thrown pieces.
My work is uniquely conceptual and completely functional. It’s inspired by industrial objects, machinery and tools. It’s eclectic and eccentric. It merges art and engineering. It honors the nuts-and-bolts traditions of both hard work and whimsy. I see my work as whimsical reinterpretation: Everyday objects like teapots and kettles are transformed into sculptural art, blurring the line between function and fantasy. An industrial/retro futuristic aesthetic of playful engineering asks viewers to question the story behind each piece.
Cultural insights and 30 years as an advertising Creative Director in NYC, have me always working on new concepts, new artistic strategies, opening new areas to explore.
I believe pottery is the bond between the earth, art, and utility and serves as our emotional connection to our environment.
I was an adjunct professor at The Art Institute of Phoenix, CMO at Arizona Clay Association and board member of the American Advertising Federation.