It’s an interesting undertaking, to set out on what you are doing without knowing what it is.
hills snyder
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The unseen possibility lies like a snake that has swallowed a yard stick, pointing due north as would a prophecy, or the lost needle of a compass.
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It’s a true paradox: objects and events get larger under indirect observation, as if memory and imagination were themselves the sixth sense.
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The introduction of a new travelogue serial narrative by San Antonio artist Hills Snyder.
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"I live in a world that cannot afford the luxury of progress. There are so few homes where the buffalo roam that they discontinued the nickel."
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In celebration of Glasstire's 15th Anniversary in 2016, we'll be mining our archive of 3000+ features and republishing some old favorites. Here, Bill Davenport on Chris Sauter and Hills Snyder in 2001.
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Jesse Amado calls on many forms and precedents for his current show — Pop art, Minimalism, Color Field painting, Conceptual art—as well as his recent experiences with illness and treatment.
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A brief meditation on the size of Texas and the variety of people and concerns as it relates to art communities, cross-pollination, and even Glasstire.
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Just two weeks ago, it was reported in the Wall Street Journal (Sunday, Jan 3 -4, p. D11), that “Text as Decor” is, as of now, passé. Not that Jeff Wheeler and Maisie Alford care.
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The remains of sea urchins and lost vinyl LPs become memorials to lost signals, disappearing space probes, fading heartbeats in Dario Robleto’s installation at the Menil Collection.
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As of January 1, 2015, Anjali Gupta will be the new Director of San Antonio art space Sala Diaz, taking over from Hills Snyder, who has held the position since…
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The sound drifting in from the headphones creates a virtual reality that is as unsettling and seductive as peyote.
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Chris Sauter, like Jesus, invites you to stick your hand in a hole. His inter-related projects examine the false dichotomies between religion and science.
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Hills Snyder visits Ivor Shearer's haunting real world re-shooting of The Road: "You are left with that which cannot be escaped. And it follows you out the door."
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1. What’s your favorite merit badge? My favorite merit badge was the “Fingerprinting” badge, which I’m sure they don’t even have anymore. My father was a detective and gave me…
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GlasstireOp Ed
End-of-2011 recommendation: Justin Boyd’s boids at Artpace
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischYou have until the 31st to be enchanted and freaked out by Justin Boyd's magnificent sound sculpture, “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence" at Artpace. It's a Window Works visual/sound installation, so all you have to do is park out front and listen. "Open" 24 hours a day. Particularly enchanting at night. Don't miss this crazy thing.
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During a nonprofit board meeting on SA's West Side, Hills Snyder takes a stand.
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Last week I wrote about Houston’s dueling art fairs coming up this fall. Scheduled one month apart, each has a New York area organizer. It got me thinking about Dallas’s…
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“You’re never gonna make it flat, anyway:” Jung Mun and the Sala Diaz effect
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischSan Antonio artist Jung Hee Mun reaches new heights of technique and conceptual audacity with her Sala Diaz show.
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James Gallery, like several other Houston galleries, is a house converted into exhibition space. Cropduster cleverly puns the space’s former identity, playing with the subtle distinction between sculptural objects and…