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In the Lorenzen Gallery through Oct. 26, 2024: Maggie Middleton
In the East Oregonian Gallery:
Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art
From the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
August 8-Oct. 26, 2024
The Pendleton Center for the Arts will open the seventh exhibition in their collaboration series with the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation on Thursday, August 8th with an opening reception from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in the East Oregonian Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation draws on the curatorial work of Dr. Chang Tan, Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies, and the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State. Her exhibition, Global Asias, featured 45 works by 15 artists and traveled to other large museums across the United States.
Featured Artists:
Jacob Hashimoto
Dinh Q. Lê
Hung Liu
Roger Shimomura
Akio Takamori
Barbara Takenaga
Rirkrit Tiravanija
“We’re proud to be showing a wonderful cross-section of work from the Global Asias exhibition,” said PCA Executive Director Roberta Lavadour. “Our gallery will feature seven artists and twenty-three works that were selected for the range of imagery, styles, and printmaking techniques.
In addition to featuring artists with roots in China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Americas, the works display a range of printmaking and papermaking techniques, including lithography, copperplate etching, chronogenic printing, collage, archival inkjet, pulp painting, and Mixographia® works.
“The educational opportunities that come with an exhibition like this are endless,” said Lavadour. “We’ll be talking to students of all ages about everything from geography to handmade paper. The Palmer Museum of Art’s staff is sharing the amazing interpretive and educational materials that they created for Global Asias, and we plan to take full advantage of their generosity.”
Jacob Hashimoto, one of the artists featured in the exhibition, will be in Pendleton for the opening reception. Hashimoto lives and works in New York and creates complex worlds from a range of modular components: bamboo-and-paper kites, model boats, even astroturf-covered blocks. His accretive, layered compositions reference video games, virtual environments, and cosmology, while also remaining deeply rooted in art-historical traditions notably, landscape-based abstraction, modernism, and handcraft.
The exhibition marks the seventh collaboration between the Pendleton Center for the Arts and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. Past events include solo exhibits by Chuck Close, Louise Bourgeois, Ellsworth Kelly, Kara Walker, Enrique Chagoya, and Leonardo Drew, each of whom is an icon of American contemporary art.
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday, 10 AM – 4 PM and Saturday 12 – 4 PM and admission is always free. Gallery talks, group visits, and access outside of regular business hours are available by calling 541-278-9201. FREE drop-in, hands-on activities inspired by the work in the exhibit will be available every Saturday for all ages. More information is available online at PendletonArts.org.
About the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation:
The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation’s contemporary art collection is one of the most notable in North America. The Foundation has shared its art with millions across the U.S. and internationally through groundbreaking exhibitions, publications, and programs.
Founded by ARTnews Top 200 Collector Jordan D. Schnitzer—whose passion for art began in his mother’s contemporary art gallery in Portland, Oregon—the Foundation has organized over 180 exhibitions from its collection and additionally loaned thousands of artworks to over 120 museums at no cost to the institutions. Schnitzer began collecting contemporary prints and multiples in 1988 and today is North America’s largest print collector. His Foundation’s collection consists of more than 22,000 works of art including a wide variety of prints, sculptures, paintings, glass, and mixed media works.
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