The Mice, the Knife and the Farmer's Wife, 1993.
Scented acrylics on kitchen walls, cupboard doors, bench, taps, window, floor and refrigerator.
Private photographic collection, Santa Rosa, USA. (prints held by MONPA: New York, Tokyo, Newport).
478 x 369 x 196cm.

Artist
Snow, a four-year-old white short hair, is well known in California for his very extensive and exuberant works. His owner was first alerted to her cat's propensity for painting when she noticed the swirling filigree patterns he enjoyed making with the entrails of dead rodents on the kitchen floor.

Curatorial Notes
"Snow specializes in expansive works on three-dimensional structures which, because they refuse the repression of spatial containment and flow "off canvas" in a seemingly ill-disiplined manner, has seen them placed in the genre of Pseudo-Adolescent Funk. This is unfortunate, for despite the obvious violence inherent in each image and the prevailing impression of chaotic fragmentation, Snow's works are better considered in a broader, installational context where their combined ability to alter the environment (in this case an appropriated kitchen), so significantly, enables us to gain new insights into the absurdity of modern gastronomic life. This is not the stuff of some untamed adolescent vision..." Alexia Frame, exhibition catalog, 1994.

Sent In By: Mrs Alexia Frame of Santa Rosa, California, USA.

Estimated Value: Photographic prints of Snow's work usually fetch in the vicinity of $200 to $300. Were the work in question to have been preserved in situ, it could have been worth as much as $20,000 to $25,000 (MONPA).

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