SCULPTURE

Snouffer’s works tend to shift from physical to psychological. She is interested in the balance between order and chaos and understanding the delicate shift between the two. Playing between geometric and organic, rigid and soft, natural and artificial, Snouffer creates a setting that feels both stable and unstable. Her small-scale sculptures, made of wood and paint, often rest precariously on stilts and at angles, as if one slight change could knock the whole piece off balance. The imbalance is replicated in larger installations, where the work has an architectural scaffold that has been built up and broken down. She has likened it to her experience with improvisational dance when a figure’s movement is sometimes slowed to a suspended moment in space.

Meaghan Kent, curator, Hollywood Arts and Cultural Center,
Abstracted exhibition brochure, 2023