CLinton Snider
Clinton Snider received a BFA from College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His photographs, paintings and sculptures examine how nature continues to adapt to an ever-increasing human presence.
Recent exhibitions include the Making Home exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Who Where They Then at Oakland University Art Gallery, in Rochester. Snider’s artworks have also been exhibited at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Mott Community College in Flint, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany and multiple venues within the Metropolitan Detroit area. Snider’s artworks can also be found in many public and private collections such as The Detroit Institute of Arts, Henry Ford Hospital and the Kresge Foundation.
Clinton Snider Statement
On May 19, 2020, 7 inches of rainfall was enough to breach the Edenville Dam, which led to its total collapse, resulting in a “500-year” flood. This disaster also took out the nearby Sanford Dam and devastated the Midland area, causing houses to be flooded and lakes drained.
As the dam failed, the deluge of water and debris washed away a 900-foot-wide section on the Tittabawassee River side of the earthen embankment. The force of the water, so strong, it erased entire sections of forest, changing the landscape and reversing the current of the river.
This not-so-natural disaster, which obliterated the Krieger Ranch, afforded one rare primordial sensation, the first or last human to traverse a landscape, even before deer dared to return.
My artworks in this exhibition are an attempt to reckon with this calamity and this new, strange and scarred landscape, using a variety of media: oil painting, castings, diorama, and video.
Recent exhibitions include the Making Home exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Who Where They Then at Oakland University Art Gallery, in Rochester. Snider’s artworks have also been exhibited at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Mott Community College in Flint, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany and multiple venues within the Metropolitan Detroit area. Snider’s artworks can also be found in many public and private collections such as The Detroit Institute of Arts, Henry Ford Hospital and the Kresge Foundation.
Clinton Snider Statement
On May 19, 2020, 7 inches of rainfall was enough to breach the Edenville Dam, which led to its total collapse, resulting in a “500-year” flood. This disaster also took out the nearby Sanford Dam and devastated the Midland area, causing houses to be flooded and lakes drained.
As the dam failed, the deluge of water and debris washed away a 900-foot-wide section on the Tittabawassee River side of the earthen embankment. The force of the water, so strong, it erased entire sections of forest, changing the landscape and reversing the current of the river.
This not-so-natural disaster, which obliterated the Krieger Ranch, afforded one rare primordial sensation, the first or last human to traverse a landscape, even before deer dared to return.
My artworks in this exhibition are an attempt to reckon with this calamity and this new, strange and scarred landscape, using a variety of media: oil painting, castings, diorama, and video.
