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Bud Snow
TARA BLACKWELL is American but lives in North America
Her STORY
Bud Snow paints vivid, gooey dreams across cityscapes and the things that exist within them. Her imagery speaks to the relationships between nature and humanity while the colors reflect the feeling of the subconscious. Though Snow is based in Oakland, CA, her prolific street murals can be found in the US, Canada, and Mexico. To behold her pieces in person is an electric experience.
Bud Snow grew up acting, taking photographs, making collages, drawing, painting, dressing up, finding artifacts, making zines, skateboarding, moving a lot, making small films, writing plays, and pretending to have all kinds of careers! Street theater and theatrical activism played an important roll in Bud's development to adulthood. As a young person, she traveled with a small circus, performing with fire, on stilts, and inside puppets which inspired her artistic lens.
She grew up in a family of artists. Her stilt waking father would take young annual road trips to Camp Winnarainbow, Wavy Gravy's circus camp in Northern California, where she picked up further awareness of costume and performance literacy. Her mother, a widely recognized Canadian painter mother was a strong influence in her exposure to painting and artistic practice, stating: “In both my parents I noticed a daily attention to their craft that seemed liberating. They taught me by example.”
She most recently has explored Neo-Primalism, a school of work she associates with automatism in community space. Snow also pursues intuitive painting, photography, and installation as direct response to the ample ironies and absurdities of living. She remains concerned with Humanism, Animalism, and Neo-Primalism, working often with a medium format rangefinder, a spray can, and a paintbrush. For her, working outside is key.
What we love
Bud Snow is a strong and early supporter of NFTs. Her NFT enthusiasm stems from her believe that they can bring change starting that “It’s a shifting landscape from the 3rd-party-paradigm of gallery representation indicating success (and taking up to 50%) and banks facilitating the transactions (that take our money and run oil pipelines though native land and fund wars in other countries) - to a more direct, peer-to-peer experience outside of those traditional, elite, and predominantly white-male systems.” While she loves museums and galleries, she does not think those organizations should be the only indication of an artist’s talent, drive, presence, and career in the art-world. Her activist voice and passion are infectious: “The arts need to be more equitable and NFTs are a direct route to a growing and diverse art space if we all chose to get involved! From proof of authorship, tracking provenance, connecting directly to collectors, to receiving royalties for your work - these are just a few of the exciting aspects to NFTs.” We couldn’t agree more.
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