Since moving from Los Angeles eight years ago to the Traverse City area,
Rufus Snoddy has been trying to find his artistic groove. His new work,
Post-Urban – Northern Midwest, is an exploration of his head space as he created these evocative pieces constructed of sticks, twigs and other accumulations of nature, something he calls "The Wizard of Oz meets Alice in Wonderland."
His previous works are large and sometimes angry, punctuated with motherboards, deeply textured repetitions of circles and pieces of urban waste.
Gallery Fifty owner Christie Minervini says the latest pieces are smaller, more accessible and have "morphed into serene textures of a more natural environment."
Snoddy is one of the 75 regional and national cutting-edge artists Minervini has showcased at Gallery Fifty since opening her brick-walled, subterranean space in 2004. She was among the first to set up shop in the corridor below the former Traverse City State Hospital and mental asylum, now called the Mercato -- part of an ongoing historic renovation of this mixed-use residential and retail community called the Village at Grand Traverse Commons. Last year Minervini opened another Gallery Fifty on Front St. in Traverse City's former Belstone Gallery space.
Meet Snoddy on Saturday, June 19, 6:30-8 p.m. at Gallery Fifty, 800 Cottageview Dr., Suite 50, 231-932-0775. The show runs through July 31.
Writer: Patty LaNoue Stearns
Source: Christie Minervini
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