Tracey Snelling's new sculptures and assemblages are influenced by old horror films, true-crime TV shows, and island voodoo who-done-its. Mystery Hour invites viewers into another dimension; sculptures of haunted houses and damsels in distress are illuminated by glowing, sinister neon words while a large projection of a nighttime island mystery looms behind three-dimensional tropical seams of mayhem. Rum and whiskey will be offered from a life-size swampy Tiki-bar. Large-scale posters, movie displays, and a billboard eerily announce the horror and suspense thrillers that never existed...but do now.
Snelling was born in 1970, in Oakland, California. She received a BFA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and currently lives and works in the Bay Area. Recent exhibitions include Nervous Women: Two centuries of women and their psychiatrists, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium and a solo show at Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium. Snelling's installation, Woman on the Run, has been travelling to First Museum, Nashville, TN, SECCA, Winston Salem, NC, and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
