STATEMENT
Texture is very important to me. With a sculptor’s sensibility, I build textures and surfaces to stress expressive illusion of color and space, treating painting as object with the intent to obliterate the line between painting and sculpture.

I search for origins that exist in genetic memory. The search is motivated by a hunger for structural and formal content. As an expression of faith, a supernatural vision, I place my trust in the spirit of my Ancestors to guide instinctual conceptual choices and material usage, with the hope to speak voices without words.

EDUCATION
1976 – Masters of Arts Degree in Fine Art (Sculpture) 1973 – Bachelors of Arts Degree in Design, California State University at Los Angeles
1972 – Scholarship, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2007 – Gallery Fifty, Traverse City, Michigan
2005 – Diaspora Contemporary Art Gallery, Williamsburg, Michigan
2001 – Mt. San Jacinto College Gallery, San Jacinto, California
2000 – L.A. Atrcore Center for Arts, Los Angeles, California
1998 – van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 – Galerie Christine Colas, Paris, France
Group
2007 – “Getting the Bugs Out”, (Pest in Show) Gallery Fifty, Traverse City, Michigan
2006 – “Four by Four Exhibit”, Michigan Artists Gallery. Suttons Bay, Michigan
2005 – “The Shields of Rufus Snoddy”, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2004 – “FADE” (1990-2003) A Survey Exhibition, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, California
2003 – “Shields, Totems and Masks in an Industrial Age”, Belstone Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
2001 – “Skin/Veneer-hiding/holding” Angels Gate Art Center, San Pedro, California
1998 – “Cross Cultures”, LewAllen Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994 – “Middlebrook and Snoddy”, Los Angeles City College-Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles1990 – “Emerging Artists, New Expressions”, California Afro-American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

AWARDS, MAJOR COMMISSIONS and GRANTS
Red Mesa Grille (Mural), Traverse City, Michigan
Los Angeles City Cultural Affairs Percentage For The Arts Program, Harley Davidson of California (Painting and Mural), Harbor City, California
University of California at Los Angeles Spirit Store (Murals), Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles Department of Recreation Bath House (Murals), Los Angeles, California
USS Emerald Seas Cruise Liner (Murals), Miami, Florida
Pacific Southwest Airline (Mural), Los Angeles, California
CETA Art in Public Places Grantee, Los Angeles, California

PUBLICATIONS
Northern Express Weekly, Volume 16, Number 36, A Fish Out of Water, Sept. 13, 2006
Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine, Volume 23, Number 3, An American Artist, August, 2003, p. 19
Art Week, Previews Section, May 20, 2001, San Francisco, CA
LA Artcore Quarterly, Volume I, #3; May/August, 2001, Los Angeles, CA
LA WEEKLY, Calendar, Exhibitions-Events, Etc., "Gallery Pick Of the Week", February 25-March 2, 2000, Los Angeles, CA
Pasatiempo; The SantaFe New Mexican Magazine, “Crossing cultures provide impetus for art show”, May 1, 1998
California Artists Directory, Volume I; LA Artcore, 1998
Visions Art Quarterly, fall 1994, Los Angeles; pp. 50-52
Tendance – Pap L’art, Mai/Juin 1995, Paris, France, p. 12
Los Angeles Times, Music and Arts Section, November 11, 1994, p. 5
The Fine Art Index, Volume I, 3rd Edition; International Art Reference, Chicago, IL; 1994, p. 266
Los Angeles Times, Entertainment and Arts Section, February 27, 1991, pp. F1 & F7

Television/Visual Media
Carol Duvall Show, HGTV, "Rufus Snoddy, Construction Paintings, 'Shields', May, 2003

SELECTED LIST OF PRIVATE AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
American Savings and Loan, Los Angeles, California
Mr. and Mrs. Kay and Andy Black, San Francisco, California
Chase Manhattan Bank, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Mme. Christine Colas, Paris, France
Mr. Bruce Gordon, New York, New York
Mr. Mark Greenfield, Los Angeles, California
Harley Davidson, of California Harbor City, California
Kaufman and Broad Developers, Los Angeles, California
Ms. Kathy Loo,k Traverse City, Michigan
Nobu Matsuhisa, Beverly Hills, California
Dr. Alan Pachtman, Santa Monica, California
Charles Pankow, Los Angeles, California
Dr. Maria Swan, Beverly Hills, California
David and Joyce Petrokovitz, Cadillac, Michigan

BIOGRAPHY
Rufus Snoddy emerged from "separate but equal" East Texas in the late 1950's. He arrived in Los Angeles at the age of eleven. His father had been run out of Texas by his politically powerful white employer who falsely accused him of working for the NAACP. Growing up in Los Angeles, Rufus lived in a world peopled by colorful characters experiencing tragedy as a matter of course. With a desire to explore he traveled by sail boat throughout the world for many years. He created works inspired by this period of his life.

Rufus was the first of his family to attend and graduate from college. Today he continues to find new means of expression, as typical, being inspired by his immediate environment.