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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: M Street, Sylvia Snowden (1978-1997) (EMPIRE LINES x White Cube Paris)
Description: Contemporary artist Sylvia Snowden figures different approaches to expressionism, layering Western European and African American art histories, through their paintings of M Street, in Washington DC (1978-1997).
In 1962, the young artist Sylvia Snowden spent a summer in France on a student tour led by her teacher, the watercolourist Loïs Mailou Jones. They visited museums such as the Louvre, the Musée de l'Orangerie, and the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, where they likely first experienced the work of expressionist artist Chaïm Soutine. His gestural brushwork and use of impasto soon ‘saturate...