Lives and works in Boston.
Kirk Amaral Snow was born in Providence, RI, USA to a family representing over 300 years of immigration to the Americas. He translated their focus on the values of history and tradition into academic studies in Art History at the University of Rhode Island (BA, 2002). The following year he began formal training in the Visual Arts, earning a BA in Fine Art from the University of Rhode Island (2003) and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Amaral Snow is currently enrolled as a Masters of Fine Art candidate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. His artistic research concentrates on interdisciplinary practice; exploring performance, installation, and photography. Amaral Snow has presented work at Mobius (Boston, MA), AS220 (Providence, RI), Hera Gallery (Kingston, RI), Washington Street Art Center (Somerville, MA), Boston University (Boston, MA), and The New England Gallery of Latin American Art (Boston, MA). In 2009 he was an artist-in-residence at the Homestead AK, an emerging artist residency in Sunshine, Alaska. “I mean what I say and say what I mean, but that doesn’t mean that what I say isn’t a lie.” Anonymous Yankee Peddler * What are the forces that drive us to conceal? If the concealment is effective, we are left surfaces, containers, objects and other signs emptied of portions of meaning: contingent objects without a present subject… mysteries. I think the term surface becomes important here, or maybe façade. In a sense it relates to the idea of a representation. There is something we can understand as “truth” in all representations, whether it is just the presence of physical materials or an image of something one knows from experience. It is also the white lie, the falsehood we believe to protect ourselves from the mystery being concealed. *Though this statement can be attributed to the archetype of the Yankee Peddler developed by B. A. Botkin, it is a representation fabricated by the author by paraphrasing from various sources through memory.
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Kirk Amaral Snow. Sunshine Alaska. 2009.
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