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Snow, Michael
Race La course
1984 1984

Michael Snow is known internationally for his facility with media as various as drawing, sculpture, painting, holography, photography, installations and filmmaking. In addition, he has achieved success a jazz musician. Snow was born in Toronto in 1929 and graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1952. By 1970, a major retrospective of his work was held at the AGO. At that point Snow was best known for his Walking Women series, which brought issues of representation and perception to the forefront of his artistic practice.

In the 1980s Snow turned increasingly to photography to explore these concerns. In Race, Snow creates human-like figures out of clay that appear to be caught in freeze frame while running. The work combines references to various media, the several meanings of the word “race,” and comments humorously on the theatrical urgency that characterizes modern urban life.

Snow, Michael
Toronto ON 1929-Toronto ON 2023 Toronto ON 1929-Toronto ON 2023
Race La course
1984 1984
photograph, paint on board Photographie et peinture sur panneau
height / width: 175.30 x 315.00 cm; 69.02 x 124.02 in.
Purchase: Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund, 1991 Achat, Fonds commémoratif du chancelier Richardson, 1991
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