About Howie:
Howie Sneider was born in Syracuse, NY. His childhood exploration of the forests and abandoned quarries of central New York encouraged his sense of wonderment and discovery. He moved to Providence, Rhode Island in 1998 to attend RISD where he studied sculpture and photography. He has taught welding, fabricating, sculpture and drawing and has collaborated with over 100 other artists to create functional and decorative public art.
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park
I just spent an amazing residency at the Stone Quarry Hill Art park in Cazenovia, NY. While I was there I created my newest sculpture 'Outcropping'. I also had the great honor of spending time with Dorthy Reister, the park's founder. Her vision has helped to shape the park into a place where art and nature meet on equal terms. Her studio is endlessly inspiring to work in, and her sculptures and studies, which cover the walls and shelves are worthy of close study.
There are a number of pictures of Outcropping in the Recent Work section of the website, but if you get a chance, go check it out, and take advantage of the miles of trails, wide views and many sculptures which share a home at the Art Park.
There are a number of pictures of Outcropping in the Recent Work section of the website, but if you get a chance, go check it out, and take advantage of the miles of trails, wide views and many sculptures which share a home at the Art Park.
Artist Statement
I make artwork that reflects the world around me.
One in which I imagine possibilities and solutions through the creation of multiples. Expressing the myriad of variation in natural and human experience.
Borrowing from the tradition of scholar stones.
I seek to realize dynamic forms that exhibit different qualities of beauty and completeness. Often to be found in nature and appreciated through contemplation.
I do not hesitate to employ technology and mechanics, acknowledging history, progress, and development. I generate new assemblages, that can and must age, themselves becoming artifacts.
My life has been deeply influenced by the mark we have left on our landscape.
Our justification and consequence combine to tell a story, of ecosystem and habitat. I feel compelled to observe my surroundings and recount through actions and objects.
Language cannot express that which is communicated through art.
It is a principal of humanity to endeavor towards this, in an effort to share what cannot be spoken. An affirmation of the living world we all inhabit.
One in which I imagine possibilities and solutions through the creation of multiples. Expressing the myriad of variation in natural and human experience.
Borrowing from the tradition of scholar stones.
I seek to realize dynamic forms that exhibit different qualities of beauty and completeness. Often to be found in nature and appreciated through contemplation.
I do not hesitate to employ technology and mechanics, acknowledging history, progress, and development. I generate new assemblages, that can and must age, themselves becoming artifacts.
My life has been deeply influenced by the mark we have left on our landscape.
Our justification and consequence combine to tell a story, of ecosystem and habitat. I feel compelled to observe my surroundings and recount through actions and objects.
Language cannot express that which is communicated through art.
It is a principal of humanity to endeavor towards this, in an effort to share what cannot be spoken. An affirmation of the living world we all inhabit.
The Summer 2011 Vista show at Socrates Sculpture Park
Return, a show at the Connectcut Garbage Museum curated by Will Machin
A write up on the Make Magazine Blog
The Steel Yard press page!
