Sylvia Snowden: Painting Humanity at The Hepworth Wakefield

‘Sylvia Snowden’s works are just as vital today as when she was making them in Washington DC decades ago’ The World of Interiors
Sylvia Snowden: Painting Humanity at The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, is the first public gallery exhibition in Europe of African-American painter Sylvia Snowden’s work. Presenting a selection of work from a career that spans six decades, this exhibition includes large early paintings through to more recent works.
Snowden works with oil paint and pastels as well as acrylic and collage to create her expressionist, distorted, monumental figures, capturing the psychological essence of her subjects - their triumphs, torments, joys and pains - in thick impasto, the technique where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly.
Sylvia Snowden: Painting Humanity
16 March - 3 November 2024
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Film by Nick Singleton