Known for his labor-intensive, dark-humored drawings in the 1970s and '80s and his iconic 1990s Plexiglas installations, San Antonio-based artist Hills Snyder has spent recent decades focusing on performance and interactive mixed-media projects. A major arc of his career stems from his 1997 murder ballad "Song 44," which inspired a recurring series of exhibitions originating with his 2005 Book of the Dead residency at Artpace and continuing through projects like Misery Repair Shoppe (2006) and Casual Observer/Causal Observer (2010). His conceptual work includes a nine-day road trip through Texas and New Mexico in October 2010 for Artpace’s On The Road exhibition, where he retraced curator Jens Hoffmann’s route in reverse to return stereotypically regional artifacts—such as sand to White Sands and a Stetson to Blind Lemon Jefferson’s grave—back to their original locales.