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  • Advice Taken
    Advice Taken
    Advice Taken? | Pressure-Treated Lumber, Homer Buckets, Ratchet Strap, Concrete, and Sand | 105" x 73" x 78" | 2018
  • Sterile Tradition
    Sterile Tradition
    Sterile Tradition | PVC Lattice Panels | 86" x 96" x 54" | 2018
  • Holding This Moment
    Holding This Moment
    Holding This Moment | Pine and Sawhorse Brackets | 6’ x 2’ x 4" | 2014
  • Set Us Apart
    Set Us Apart
    Set Us Apart | Plastic Chair and Concrete | 22” x 24” x 36” | 2013-2017

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About Kirk

Baltimore City
Kirk Amaral Snow is a Baltimore-based intermedia artist whose practice investigates the relationship between the built world and performative aspects of culture. He holds BA’s in Art History (2002) and Studio Art (2003) from the University of Rhode Island, and an MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2011). Amaral Snow has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at The Franklin (Chicago, IL), Gallery Kayafas (Boston, MA), Proof (Boston, MA),… more
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ICA Baltimore
11/9/18-12/8/18

For the last decade, Kirk Amaral Snow has developed a body of work that investigates the relationship between the built world and performative aspects of culture. Drawing on an immediacy inherited from the DIY Punk scene, he makes simple, poetic objects that reference encounters with vernacular building as a contrast to highly crafted design.

With MORE DOING, Amaral Snow digs deeper into the language of home-center improvement projects and YouTube “Do-It-Yourself” design. Displaying gestures and materials that echo and repeat, the works in the exhibition reveal a process of iteration and experimentation often absent from polished media representations of “making”.

  • Race To Finish Last
    Race To Finish Last
    Race To Finish Last | PVC Pipe and Polycarbonate Panel | 72" x 96" x 24" | 2018
  • Just Comfortable Enough
    Just Comfortable Enough
    Just Comfortable Enough | Performance with Plywood Stools and PVC Lamp | 30-Minute Duration | 2018
  • Once Called
    Once Called
    Once Called | Steel Studs, Cedar Shims, and Wood | 103" x 138" x 78" | 2018
  • Search For Ourselves
    Search For Ourselves
    Search For Ourselves | Steel Stud, Speed Square, and Clamp | 66″ x 39″ x 30" | 2017
  • The Unknown Glow
    The Unknown Glow
    The Unknown Glow | Pine Board and PVC Pipe | 72" x 53" x 3.5" | 2018
  • Running In Place
    Running In Place
    Running In Place | Steel Stud and Spring Clamps | 67″ x 5″ x 7" | 2017
  • The Fortunate One
    The Fortunate One
    The Fortunate One | PVC Pipe and Wood | 55" x 23" x 3.5" | 2018
  • Advice Taken
    Advice Taken
    Advice Taken? | Pressure-Treated Lumber, Homer Buckets, Ratchet Strap, Concrete, and Sand | 105" x 73" x 78" | 2018
  • Sterile Tradition
    Sterile Tradition
    Sterile Tradition | PVC Lattice Panels | 86" x 96" x 54" | 2018
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    • The Lonesome Crowded…

    Solo exhibition at The Distillery Gallery (Boston, MA).
    • The Lonesome Crowded…
      The Lonesome Crowded…
      The Lonesome Crowded… | Installation Shot | 2015
    • Fact Leaves a Ghost
      Fact Leaves a Ghost
      Stair Stringer, Concrete, Sign Stand, and Rigid Foam | 60” x 61” | 2015
    • Transept
      Transept
      Tarp, Steel Stud, Screws, and Tape | 8’ x 9’ x 4’ | 2014
    • Half-Friend
      Half-Friend
      Half-Friend | Waferboard and Sign Stand | 20” x 26.5” | 2015
    • Infrastructure
      Infrastructure
      Infrastructure | Pine Studs and Crutch | 6’x8’x5’ | 2013-2015
    • Spire (detail)
      Spire (detail)
      Spire | Tarp, Steel Studs, and Tape | 59” x 38” x 48” | 2015
    • Spire
      Spire
      Spire | Tarp, Steel Studs, and Tape | 59” x 38” x 48” | 2015
    • Cornerstone
      Cornerstone
      Cornerstone | Concrete and Plastic Storage Bins | Dimensions Variable | 2015
    • Holding This Moment
      Holding This Moment
      Holding This Moment | Pine and Sawhorse Brackets | 6’ x 2’ x 4" | 2014
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    • LEANDRO & AMARAL SNOW

    Works from a two-person exhibition with Melissa Leandro at The Franklin (Chicago, IL), co-sponsored by ACRE.
    • Franklin Installation
      Franklin Installation
      Franklin Installation | Kirk Amaral Snow | 2015
    • When Surface Was Depth (Performance Remnant)
      When Surface Was Depth (Performance Remnant)
      Ikea Lack Table | 21” x 21” x 17” | 2011
    • Every Effort Made
      Every Effort Made
      Pine and Sawhorse Brackets | 3’ x 9’ x 2’ | 2014
    • Night Shift
      Night Shift
      Fan, Plastic Bag, and Trash Bin | 30" x 16" x 14" | 2013
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    • Live Works

    Select performances and live works.
    • Untitled (Studio Soto)
      Untitled (Studio Soto)
      Performance with Sand, Empty Sandbags, and Utility Knife | Studio Soto (Boston, MA) | 2013 | photos by Daniel DeLuca
    • Untitled (8-Hour Projects Performance)
      Untitled (8-Hour Projects Performance)
      8-hour Performance with Sandbags, Glasses, Pitcher, and Water | Allegheny College (Meadville, PA) | 2013
    • What Lies Beneath (5)
      What Lies Beneath (5)
      Five-Hour Performance with Drywall, Spackle, and Screws | MEME Gallery (Boston, MA) | 2010
    • Untitled (Fonderie Darling)
      Untitled (Fonderie Darling)
      30-minute Performance with Sandbags | Fonderie Darling (Montreal, QC) | 2012
    • It’s Hard to Stand on My Own
      It’s Hard to Stand on My Own
      Performance with Plaster, Sandbags, and Modified Crutches | Grace Exhibition Space (NYC) | 2011
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    • Additional Sculpture 2009-2014

    Additional sculptural works produced between 2010-2014.
    • Set Us Apart
      Set Us Apart
      Set Us Apart | Plastic Chair and Concrete | 22” x 24” x 36” | 2013-2017
    • Market Reliance
      Market Reliance
      Market Reliance | Pine, Corrugated Plastic, and Fluorescent Vinyl | 30" x 39" x 92" | 2013
    • When Transition Becomes Stasis
      When Transition Becomes Stasis
      Ladder, Drywall, Aluminum Studs, Adjustable Clamps, Joint Compound, and Paint | 2’ x 4’ x 8’ | 2010
    • Conspicuous Consumption
      Conspicuous Consumption
      Cardboard, Packing Tape, and PVA | 18” x 16” x 72” | 2010
    • Palisade
      Palisade
      Quikrete and Reflective Driveway Markers | Dimensions Variable | 2012
    • Poor Outlook
      Poor Outlook
      Pine, Concrete Bricks, Corrugated Plastic, and Fluorescent Vinyl | 30" x 33" x 50" | 2012
    • We’ll Get Back To You
      We’ll Get Back To You
      Pine, Concrete Bricks, Corrugated Plastic, and Fluorescent Vinyl | 30" x 39" x 20" | 2012
    • Sometimes It’s Hard To Go On
      Sometimes It’s Hard To Go On
      Book of Portuguese Fairytales, Two Fans, and Pine Platform | 40” x 20” x 10” | 2009
    • What Lies Beneath
      What Lies Beneath
      Plywood, Molding, Screws, Interior Paint, and Primer | Dimensions Variable | 2011
    • Traditional Values
      Traditional Values
      Copper Pipe and Handrail Brackets | 68" x 53" x 3" | 2013
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