Good Game
Featuring the work of Daniel Turner and Colin Snapp
Performance: Wednesday, June 30, 5:30 PM
Screening and Reception to follow.
41 Grand Street between West Broadway and Thompson.
This event marks the launch of TRIAL, a new project series at Recess curated by Elizabeth Lovero.
Good Game takes the youth baseball exercise of slapping hands after a game as a point of departure. Two teams of teenage female athletes sporting artist-produced uniforms will stage a reenactment of the gesture, repeating and elongating the act. Snapp and Turner, who have collaborated for many years under the moniker Cornrow Rider, use this obligatory ritual of sportsmanship to explore the nuanced ways in which young women and men learn to bond and compete.
The performance will take place at 5:30 PM. The artists will project the footage of the act directly after it’s completion, continuing the drawn-out gesture.
Artist Bios
Colin Snapp was born on Lopez Island in 1982 and received a BFA in film making from the San Francisco Art Institute. While attending SFAI Snapp spent his summers teaching youth filmmaking seminars in Washington state. Upon graduation he spent a year living in Portland Oregon teaching art at Harold Oliver elementary school. He has traveled extensively throughout Central America, Australia, and the Mediterranean working on documentaries on subjects ranging from architecture to immigration while assisting for National Geographic Traveler, Maha Productions, and BBC News. Snapp has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Mexico City and Berlin. He currently lives and works in New York, NY.
Daniel Turner was born in Portsmouth Virgina in 1983 and holds a BFA in Fine Art from The San Francisco Art Institute. Turner has participated in museums and galleries throughout Mexico, The United States, and Europe and has received several major grants from the Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond Virginia. The artist has taught mixed media and painting courses to elementary school students as well as lectured at several prestigious University’s including New York University, Old Dominion University, and The San Francisco Art Institute. He is currently a visiting scholar at New York University and a recipient of The Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils Workspace Residency Program.
Turner and Snapp met while studying at The San Francisco Art Institute and have been collaborating for over a decade.
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