Charles Snowden b. 1989
Using symbolic imagery from antiquity and everyday life, Charles Snowden’s ceramic sculptures reflect on the cycles of life and death. Invoking ancient rituals, he recasts apotropaic objects—protective forms intended to ward off threats of evil or harm—with imagery from nature. Senescence refers to the process of deterioration with age, indicating the loss of a cell’s power for division or growth. With the garden as a site for the investigation of mortality and clay as a material synonymous with the body, the artist recalls historical imagery as a vehicle for understanding the temporal nature of our existence.
Snowden mines historical rituals both for their connection to the regenerative processes at work within nature, as well as the symbiotic relationship between life, death, and decay. At the intersection of sculpting, gardening, and apotropaic ritual, his works confront the body’s inextricable link to nature and mortality. The hand itself, in tending to the garden and sculpting clay, becomes a votive object that dismantles the notion that there is any separation between us and the natural world.
Charles Snowden (b. 1989, San Diego, CA; Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain and Los Angeles, CA) received his BA from Humboldt State University and his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Snowden’s solo exhibitions include Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; Hill Street Country Club, Oceanside, CA; and Blue Gate Gallery, Oceanside, CA. Group exhibitions include Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; San Diego Art Institute, CA; Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA; and Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA. His works are in the permanent collection of the San Diego Art Institute and have been featured in Hyperallergic, Artillery Mag, and Cultured Mag.
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Charles SnowdenSacred Scraps, 2024Ceramic, glaze10 ½ x 9 x 4 ½ in
26.7 x 22.9 x 11.4 cm -
Charles SnowdenSoft Pet, 2024Ceramic, glaze14 ½ x 5 ½ x 10 in
36.8 x 14 x 25.4 cm -
Charles SnowdenWhat if these things sleep inside every one of us?, 2024Ceramic, glaze30 x 42 x 7 in
76.2 x 106.7 x 17.8 cm -
Charles SnowdenBrimming, 2023ceramic, glaze, split rings10 x 9.5 x 46
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Charles SnowdenSnag, 2023ceramic, glaze13 x 7 x 5 ½ in
33 x 17.8 x 14 cm -
Charles SnowdenNodding Tendril, 2022ceramic, glaze25 x 25 x 7 in
63.5 x 63.5 x 17.8 cm -
Charles SnowdenSoothsayer, 2022ceramic, glaze14 x 17 x 9 in
35.6 x 43.2 x 22.9 cm -
Charles SnowdenThird Thresh, 2022ceramic, glaze13 x 9 x 12 in
33 x 22.9 x 30.5 cm -
Charles SnowdenAfter Every Unswept Floor, 2021Ceramic, clay, soil, live plants, mold, organic waste20 x 96 x 48 in
50.8 x 243.8 x 121.9 cm -
Charles SnowdenInvocation of Worms, 2021Ceramic, stainless steel, organic waste, worms, epoxy, Paracord12 x 60 x 22 in
30.5 x 152.4 x 55.9 cm -
Charles SnowdenWearing New Bones, 2023Ceramic, glaze37 x 9 x 9 in
94 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm -
Charles SnowdenGoblin, 2023Ceramic, glaze27 x 17 x 7 in
68.6 x 43.2 x 17.8 cm -
Charles SnowdenSenescent Stone, 2022ceramic, glaze25 x 9 x 12 in
63.5 x 22.9 x 30.5 cm -
Charles SnowdenWindow, 2022ceramic, glaze23.5 x 17.5 x 1 in
61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm -
Charles SnowdenStomach Growl, 2023Ceramic, glaze10 x 10 x 8 in
25.4 x 25.4 x 20.3 cm
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Charles Snowden: Senescent Stone, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, September 17 – October 29, 2022.
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Charles Snowden: Senescent Stone, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, September 17 – October 29, 2022.
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Charles Snowden: Senescent Stone, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, September 17 – October 29, 2022.
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TEN YEARS, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, July 9 - August 27, 2022.
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Charles Snowden: Wayfinding, Clay Biennial at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, June – Septmeber 2023
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Charles Snowden: Wayfinding, Clay Biennial at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, June – Septmeber 2023
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Friends and Lovers
15 Jul - 19 Aug 2023Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Friends and Lovers, an exhibition that brings together over twenty artists exploring ideas of kinship. Featuring painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, the exhibition spans eight decades, uniting a cross-disciplinary and intergenerational group of artists. FEATURing Alina Perez Alex Bradley Cohen Anthony Iacono Charles Snowden...Read more -
Charles Snowden
Senescent Stone 17 Sep - 29 Oct 2022Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Senescent Stone, a new series of free-standing and wall-based ceramics by Los Angeles-based artist Charles Snowden. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Using symbolic imagery from antiquity and everyday life, Snowden’s ceramic sculptures reflect on the cycles of life...Read more -
10 Years
9 Jul - 27 Aug 2022Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles is pleased to present 10 YEARS, a special group exhibition celebrating this milestone anniversary for the gallery. To mark the anniversary, founder Shula Nazarian and co-owner Seth Curcio have selected works by more than twenty artists from the gallery’s program. The exhibition will be on view...Read more
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Dallas Art Fair
Coady Brown, Daniel Gordon, Charles Snowden 4 - 7 Apr 2024 -
NADA New York
Dickon Drury, Daniel Gordon, Annie Lapin, Charles Snowden, Wendy White 18 - 21 May 2023For NADA New York 2023, Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present new works by Los Angeles-based artists Annie Lapin and Charles Snowden, London-based artist Dickon...Read more