Marking Joan Snyder’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Body & Soul is the most comprehensive presentation of the American artist’s work outside of the United States to date. Featuring more than 30 new and historic paintings, the exhibition traces the evolution of the artist’s practice from 1964 to the present, culminating in eight major new works. Arranged chronologically, a pattern of recurring personal motifs emerges throughout the exhibition in a cyclical rhythm of return and renewal, encompassing love, joy, grief and desire expressed through colour, form and gesture in rich, poetic compositions.
 

Joan Snyder was born in Highland Park, New Jersey in 1940, and now lives and works in Brooklyn and Woodstock, New York. Over her six decade career, she has reimagined the narrative potential of abstraction, infusing her art with autobiography as she consciously worked against the male-dominated conventions of Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field painting, which were prevalent in the art scene into which she emerged.