Editing Kenneth Snelson (section)

== Biography ==

Snelson was born in [[Pendleton, Oregon]], in 1927. He studied at the [[University of Oregon]] in Eugene, at the [[Black Mountain College]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hotgates.stanford.edu/Bucky/web_content/bucky_bios/snelson.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=June 18, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://swap.stanford.edu/20120821173500/http://hotgates.stanford.edu/Bucky/web_content/bucky_bios/snelson.html |archive-date=August 21, 2012 }}</ref> and with [[Fernand Léger]] in Paris. His sculpture and photography have been exhibited at over 25 one-man shows in galleries around the world including the structurally seminal [[Park Place Gallery]] in New York in the 1960s. Snelson also did research on the shape of the [[atom]]. Snelson continued to work in his [[SoHo]] studio, occasionally collaborating with animator [[Jonathan Monaghan]].<ref>[http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/Assets/Uploads/Documents/shorts.pdf 38th Rotterdam Film Festival Shorts Program]</ref> He lived in New York City with his wife, Katherine.

He held five United States patents: #3,169,611: Discontinuous Compression Structures, February 1965; #3,276,148:  Model for Atomic Forms, October 1966; #4,099,339:  Model for Atomic Forms, July 1978; and #6,017,220: Magnetic Geometric Building System; and most recently, #6,739,937: Space Frame Structure Made by 3-D Weaving of Rod Members, May 25, 2004.

Snelson was a founding member of ConStruct, the artist-owned gallery that promoted and organized large-scale sculpture exhibitions throughout the United States. Other founding members include [[Mark di Suvero]], [[John Raymond Henry]], [[Lyman Kipp]] and [[Charles Ginnever]]. Snelson was also a pioneer of [[digital art]], using a Silicon Graphics machine to produce artistic images in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/artwork/kenneth-snelson-worlds/  |title=Kenneth Snelson: Worlds |access-date=April 4, 2024 }}</ref>

After suffering from [[prostate cancer]], Snelson died on December 22, 2016, at the age of 89.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/arts/design/kenneth-snelson-dead-sculptor.html?smid=tw-nytobits&smtyp=cur Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89]</ref>

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File:KrollerMuller ParkSculpture4.jpg|''Needle Tower II'', 1968 ([[Kröller-Müller Museum]], [[Otterlo]], Netherlands)<ref>{{cite web |author=Kenneth Snelson |url=http://kennethsnelson.net/category/sculptures/outdoor-works/ |title=Outdoor Works |website=kennethsnelson.net |publisher=Kenneth Snelson |access-date=May 26, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://krollermuller.nl/en/kenneth-snelson-needle-tower |title=Needle tower, 1968 |website=krollermuller.nl |publisher=Kröller-Müller Museum |access-date=May 27, 2021}}</ref>
File:Kenneth Snelson - "Tree I".jpg|''B-Tree'', 1981 (National Institutes of Health, [[Bethesda, Maryland|Bethesda]], Maryland)<ref>{{cite web |author=Kenneth Snelson |url=http://kennethsnelson.net/category/sculptures/outdoor-works/ |title=Outdoor Works |website=kennethsnelson.net |publisher=Kenneth Snelson |access-date=May 26, 2021}}</ref>
File:Avenue K 02.jpg|''Avenue K'', 1968 ([[Hannover]], Germany)<ref>{{cite web |author=Kenneth Snelson |url=http://kennethsnelson.net/category/sculptures/outdoor-works/ |title=Outdoor Works |website=kennethsnelson.net |publisher=Kenneth Snelson |access-date=May 26, 2021}}</ref>
File:Osaka II (Kenneth Snelson), Große Wallanlagen, Hamburg (1).jpg|''Osaka II'', park ''[[Planten un Blomen]]'', [[Hamburg]]
File:"Indexer II" Sculpture, University of Michigan North Campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan - panoramio.jpg|"Indexer II" Sculpture, [[University of Michigan]] North Campus, [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
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