Above: Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke [Crow], born 1981), Yakima or Yakama – Not For Me To Say, 2016, lithograph with archival pigment ink photograph, edition 2/20, published by Crow’s Shadow Press, Pendleton, Oregon, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer
Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Feb 03, 2023 – May 14, 2023
Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation features more than 180 prints by contemporary women artists who employ a strategy of fragmentation in their artistic process. A notable strength of the exhibition is its focus on women artists of color who historically have been underrepresented in many museums’ permanent collections and in exhibition programming.
Artists like Mickalene Thomas challenge historical narratives by creating compositions that echo those of nineteenth-century European painters but through wholly novel techniques and media, combining woodblock, screen-printing, and digital photography.
Wendy Red Star, an indigenous American artist of the Crow Nation, creates colorful, often playful prints that nonetheless convey the struggles of indigenous marginalization and the legacy of European colonization on the continent by combining appropriated indigenous motifs with images of everyday life on the reservation.
Ethiopian-born Julie Mehretu creates large-scale abstract compositions that speak to the traditions of European and American abstraction while compounding these histories with contemporary global concerns regarding climate change and migration.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.
SELECTED WORKS
Judy Chicago (American, born 1939), Through the Flower 3, 1972, lithograph, edition 8/10, published by Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Judy Chicago (American, born 1939), Through the Flower 4, 1972, lithograph, edition 8/10, published by Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Judy Chicago (American, born 1939), Through the Flower Twice, 1972, lithograph, edition 6/10, published by Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Judy Chicago (American, born 1939), Through the Flower Twice, 1972, lithograph, edition 6/10, published by Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Judy Chicago (American, born 1939), Mary Queen of Scots, 1973, lithograph and serigraph, edition Artist’s Proof 1/7, published by Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles, California, Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Swoon (Caledonia Curry) (American, born 1977), Thalassa, 2020, silkscreen with hand-painted acrylic gouache on paper mounted to wooden door, published by unknown, Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Swoon (Caledonia Curry) (American, born 1977), Dawn and Gemma, 2017, silkscreen and acrylic gouache on paper and found object (glass and wood), edition Artist’s Proof, published by unknown, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer
Swoon (Caledonia Curry) (American, born 1977), Yaya, 2016, block print on Mylar with coffee stain, sewn panels, and acrylic, published by unknown, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer
Kara Walker (American, born 1969), Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated): Scene of McPherson’s Death, 2005, offset lithography and screenprint, edition 21/35, published by LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies Columbia University, New York, New York, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer
Kara Walker (American, born 1969), Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated): Buzzard’s Roost Pass, 2005, offset lithography and screenprint, edition 21/35, published by LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies Columbia University, New York, New York, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer
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