Featured Artist Dobee Snowber

Artist Dobee Snowber presents a compelling collection of figurative paintings and selections from her Pool series. Learn more by visiting her website.

 

 

I paint out of want and need. When people ask me why I paint, I immediately respond, “It’s about connection.”

 

 

It’s a bridge to the common ground I share with others and a direct connection to myself. Perhaps this is what all art is.

 

 

My work is about moments, familiar bits and pieces that combine in different ways and make up a life.

 

 

I don’t know when I start a piece which moment I will zero in on.

 

 

Over the past few years, I have worked on a series around swimmers, pools and water. The swimmers plunge into or emerge out of the water, like the constantly changing moments in any given day; the effort to swim up and out and to breathe.

 

 

Sometimes they are anonymous figures clustered or alone. At other time there are faces that tell a story.

 

 

These figures and portraits are about entropy and the history they hold. Mixed in are images of home and structure. Again, a reflection of entropy and survival.

 

 

Despite what life has imposed on them, they stand strong.

 

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