View Joan Snyder Stroke Paintings UK. Joan snyder, (born april 16, 1940), is an american painter from new york. 1940, highland park, new jersey, us) made her breakthrough in the late 1960s with 'stroke' paintings such as lines and strokes (1969) and symphony (1970).
This led to her gesture stroke paintings in the early 1970s as she and other feminist artists brought more process into their art making.
Snyder first gained public attention in the early 1970s with her gestural and elegant stroke paintings. She is a macarthur fellow, a guggenheim fellow, and a national endowment for the arts fellow (1974). Joan snyder, red squares, 1973. She is a macarthur fellow, a guggenheim fellow, and a national endowment for the arts fellow.