Panel text reads:
opening at Laurence Miller on Spring Street
World’s Fair sculpture, 1964
Chain Bridge Bodies, 1991
Winter 1948, the 1st tensegrity form
Mozart I, Stanford University
My solution to Prof. Albers’ Chinese dovetail puzzle.
My first loft, not legal in 1968. “If they come and check your closet,” Andy the plumber explained, “say you got a penthouse uptown but you need clothes here ‘cause you’re a ratty dresser.”
Triple crown, Kansas City, 1991
The brown cottage, August, 1949
Extremely serious, in full Fullerian trance; Pendleton, Oregon, December 1949
Japan & U.S. negotiate
In 1960 I shot 192, 2 minute long, golf-instruction films in Hollywood, Florida.
The Great Wall April, 1995
In 1960 I built many studies with plastic rings to form spheres and became fascinated with the riddle of the form of structure of the electronic atom.
K. Snelson 1995
My 16” Cirkut camera, c. 1917. Each panoramic shot makes a negative 16” high by 12 feet long.
“Needle Tower” at the Hirshhorn Museum.
Katherine & Hilde (95 in ‘95)
Needle Tower II, 1969, 90’ x 20’ x 17’
Kroller Muller Museum, Otterlo, Holland
Serpent Atom, 1991
Two years after Black Mountain
Still on the G.I. Bill, in paris [sic] with: Atelier Fernand LÉGER
Were we any younger then?
At one time I convinced myself that compression members ought to be shaped like bones.
Easy-K, 1970 ; 100’ cantilever; Arnhem, Holland
Kenneth, 68; Andrea, 23
Katherine, younger (than anyone)
“Forest Devils’ Moon Night”, 1989; SGI Computer, Wavefront software
Snelson’s Studio in 1991
K. Snelson 1995
opening at Laurence Miller on Spring Street
World’s Fair sculpture, 1964
Chain Bridge Bodies, 1991
Winter 1948, the 1st tensegrity form
Mozart I, Stanford University
My solution to Prof. Albers’ Chinese dovetail puzzle.
My first loft, not legal in 1968. “If they come and check your closet,” Andy the plumber explained, “say you got a penthouse uptown but you need clothes here ‘cause you’re a ratty dresser.”
Triple crown, Kansas City, 1991
The brown cottage, August, 1949
Extremely serious, in full Fullerian trance; Pendleton, Oregon, December 1949
Japan & U.S. negotiate
In 1960 I shot 192, 2 minute long, golf-instruction films in Hollywood, Florida.
The Great Wall April, 1995
In 1960 I built many studies with plastic rings to form spheres and became fascinated with the riddle of the form of structure of the electronic atom.
K. Snelson 1995
My 16” Cirkut camera, c. 1917. Each panoramic shot makes a negative 16” high by 12 feet long.
“Needle Tower” at the Hirshhorn Museum.
Katherine & Hilde (95 in ‘95)
Needle Tower II, 1969, 90’ x 20’ x 17’
Kroller Muller Museum, Otterlo, Holland
Serpent Atom, 1991
Two years after Black Mountain
Still on the G.I. Bill, in paris [sic] with: Atelier Fernand LÉGER
Were we any younger then?
At one time I convinced myself that compression members ought to be shaped like bones.
Easy-K, 1970 ; 100’ cantilever; Arnhem, Holland
Kenneth, 68; Andrea, 23
Katherine, younger (than anyone)
“Forest Devils’ Moon Night”, 1989; SGI Computer, Wavefront software
Snelson’s Studio in 1991
K. Snelson 1995
Artwork: 1995.88.1
Remembering Black Mountain
This work was created for the 1995 exhibition Remembering Black Mountain College curated by Mary Emma Harris in conjunction with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the BMC alumni reunion organized by Mary Holden Thompson, founding director of BMCM+AC.
24 x 18 inches
In copyright
Gift of Kenneth Snelson
Kenneth Snelson, Remembering Black Mountain, 1995. Iris print on paper and collaged photographs. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.