Hills Snyder's "Strays" Surveys Five Decades at Amarillo Museum of Art

Key facts

• "Hills Snyder: Strays (1973-2026)" is on view at the Amarillo Museum of Art through December 13.
• The exhibition features 33 works made over more than 50 years.
• Snyder described the works as "one-off works, which, like sudden love, come over night from fugitive circumstance or perhaps made in response to random stimuli."
• Snyder has been a formative and influential presence in San Antonio and later moved to remote Magdalena, New Mexico.
• "Drawn and Quartered" (1989) is a shaped acrylic-on-wood painting of Vitruvian Man cut off at the hands and feet with a 3D arrow penetrating the femoral artery and the text "ONE SENTENCE AS LONG AS EVERYTHING."
• "Displacement Study" (2000) is a three-panel drawing referencing the folk song about Dear Liza's bucket, with the final panel showing a bullet hole and "GSR" (gunshot residue).
• "How Big Is Your Love?" (1992) is an 18-panel drawing tracing the life-sized outline of a 1959 Cadillac, referencing Buddy Holly's lyric "My love is bigger than a Cadillac" from "Not Fade Away."
• "Monochrome" (2020–2024) is a Confederate flag boiled in sodium hydrosulfate and exposed to sunlight, resulting in a starkly white flag.