Noteworthy

Stuart Snoddy

Juror’s Pick p126

In art, as in many other cultural forms—if not in life itself—it is increasingly difficult to encounter something genuinely elicits feelings of intense concern while tapping into our accrued art-historical unconscious. (Have I seen this figure before in … Goya’s Any number of Kara Walker works? at the Sistine Chapel?) The rakish pomp of the figure in —with an upturned collar bearing the rainbow Pride flag—is underscored by a facial expression full of childlike wonderment and confident optimism. Snoddy’s deft use of color and compositional strategies may draw us in, but the sensitivity in rendering the human form takes us to entirely deeper emotional and psychological places.