Stephanie Snyder
Snyder curated more than seventy original exhibitions, several of which traveled to collaborating museums across the country. These include: Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well, (Art Institute of Chicago and MoMA PS1) and Wynne Greenwood: Kelly (the New Museum). She has received two fellowships from the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles: the first to support her curatorial research, and the second to participate in the Getty’s Museum Leadership Institute. In 2013, her critical writing was recognized with an award from the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). She is currently working as an independent curator, living between the US and Greece, and authoring the first definitive book in English on the life and work of Romanian Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri.
Perhaps it’s the bright and cloud-like whiteness of their surfaces or their looming verticality that imbues Derek Franklin’s newest oil paintings with an atmosphere of foggy spiritual luminosity. The whiteness that Franklin has achieved doesn’t possess the patches of yellow warmth we expect from the sun, for instance, as it caresses the face on a summer morning. It is cool but not clinical.
