Randie Snow is a graphic designer and an assemblage artist born and raised in Chautauqua, New York, and currently living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Drawing on themes from her everyday life, Snow’s assemblages explore the natural balance of the human experience and often strive to find harmony amongst seemingly contradictory ideas. She relies on her experience as a commercial graphic artist to create a balanced, yet unique visual aesthetic and with a meticulous eye, she applies details by merging and layering individual found objects with contrasting or harmonious colors, shapes, and textures. Each assemblage brings a sense of energy and life lived and often takes on emotional, almost human-like qualities that together create a collective voice, ultimately telling the story of their combined experience.
The search for balance has inspired many of Snow’s collections, including a series of apothecary jars (“Through the Looking Glass”) that juxtaposed the semi-scientific “magic” of antique medicine against the fictional fairytale magic of the Alice in Wonderland story. In “Seeds of Wisdom,” she hand wrote proverbs onto seed pods from various plants to illustrate the parallel between the wisdom of human culture and nature’s own inherent wisdom of disbursement. Snow’s 2008 solo show, “Passages,” at Moxie Dada Gallery, used the seven deadly sins and seven saintly virtues of the Catholic faith to explore the ways an individuals’ choices and actions affect themselves, as well as the world around them.
In 2008, Snow won Best of Show at the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s 15-Minutes Gallery juried group show, Runner Up at the Hoyt Center for Arts “2022 Hoyt Regional Juried Exhibition,” and she was invited to be the featured artist at the Carnegie Museum’s “Earth Day Ecolution Fashion Show.” Her assemblages have been selected for many group exhibitions including, Westmoreland Museum’s “Juried Biennial Show;” “This Sacred Thing” and “Mean Girls,” at SPACE Gallery; “Book,” at 709 Penn Avenue Gallery; “In the Making: 250 Years/250 Artists” at Fe Arts Gallery; the “Showcase G20” exhibit at the Pittsburgh International Airport, which welcomed international delegates to the 2009 G-20 Conference; and the “Pittsburgh Visionary Arts Festival,” a three-day outdoor event that brought together more than 50 local visionary artists and innovators into a single venue.
She's a member of Group A and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh.
