Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Taubman Museum of Art 110 Salem Avenue SE, Roanoke, VA, United StatesFor many artists, the act of creation begins with one of destruction as they dissect shape, color, perspective, text, idea, or stereotype. For some, the result is enough: pulling apart and fragmenting images and ideas exposes what lies beneath or heralds the inherent value of each part. Other artists assemble fragments to create a new […]
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Johnson Museum of Art – Cornell University 114 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY, United StatesMarie Watt (Seneca, b. 1967) is one of the country’s most celebrated contemporary artists whose work draws on personal experience, indigenous traditions, proto-feminism, mythology and art history. Drawing on the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and the University of San Diego, Marie Watt Prints will present a mid-career retrospective of Watt’s […]
Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art 2200 Parks Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA, United StatesA leading artist of her generation, Kara Walker (b. 1969) works in a range of mediums, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, film, and the large-scale silhouette cutouts for which she is perhaps most recognized. In Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick, her powerful and provocative images employ contradictions to critique the painful legacies of slavery, sexism, […]
Global Asias: Contemporary Asian & Asian American Art
USC Pacific Asia Museum 46 N Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, CA, United StatesGlobal Asias examines the cosmopolitan, playful, and subtly subversive characteristics of contemporary Asian and Asian American art. The exhibition highlights the work of fifteen artists of Asian heritage who draw on a rich array of motifs, techniques, and cultural motivations to construct diverse “Asias” in a modern global context. Organized by the Palmer Museum of […]
Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Bellevue Arts Museum 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA, United StatesStrange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation features 89 exceptional artworks spanning five decades, from 1977 to 2021, that have been drawn together for how they creatively call attention to the impact and history of forced migrations, industrialization, global capitalism, and trauma on humans and the contemporary landscape. This […]