Edwin “Ned” H. Snider (b. 1975, Princeton, New Jersey) produces work which pulls from several disciplines including design, craft, and painting. By cultivating a relationship between organic materials and hard-edge painting, a goal is to elicit questions of how design and formalism might be propagated via the natural world. His work references a range of topics from graphic design history and logos(semiotics), to craft practices and personal narratives. Ned employs many tools beyond the brush, to create his paintings. By focusing on the materiality of the work, he incorporates manipulated, found-wood pieces to break the plane of the painting, and allows thread to serve as line work hovering above the surface of the canvas. These techniques, in addition to the the flat areas of acrylic, undercut the conventional notion of the painting as a two-dimensional object.