Jenny Holzer: The Power of Words at College of the Desert’s Marks Gallery. The exhibition featured prints and electronic sculptures from the collection of Jordan Schnitzer and the Schnitzer Family Foundation.
More than 50 works of art by prolific, world-renowned artist Jenny Holzer is a parallel program of Desert X, the international site-specific art exhibition taking place throughout the Coachella Valley.
The UNT Art Gallery exhibit of acclaimed artist Alison Saar, “Mirror Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar” is part of the Southern Graphics Council International Conference and celebrates Saar receiving the 2019 SGCI Lifetime Achievement Award. Saar’s art primarily focuses on African-American culture, primarily the diaspora of Africans, and gender.
Ellsworth Kelly: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, opens on Thursday, March 14 and will be open through May 3, 2019. Admission is free for all ages.
“We’re so proud to be part of the Foundation’s outreach efforts,” said PCA Executive Director Roberta Lavadour. “It’s incredibly gratifying to see people in the community form a deep appreciation for an artist’s work after seeing it in person. To see a local kid come in and connect with a great work of art, coming to understand that art and culture is not something that’s above them or beyond their reach – that’s one of the best parts of my job.”
Michelle Karas writes about Helen Frankenthaler’s technique and reputation as one of the great American artists of the 20th century. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College will exhibit “Fluid Expressions: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation,” Friday through June 2.
Brenda Cronin, writes of Jordan D. Schnitzer’s “teaching collection” of prints.
“I would hope that every student at every community college, every college and university, would make going to an art museum…part of their ordinary campus experience,” he says. He wants to bring art to people in remote areas and break down “the psychological walls that a museum is for someone else, some elitist few.”
In addition to growing his art collection he has grown Harsch Investment Properties, a company founded by his farther, Harold, in 1951.
Schnitzer says he finds pursuing real estate and art equally thrilling. The hunt, for properties or prints, is what propels him. “It’s wonderful to have the passion for wanting and never be able to get everything that you want,” he says, “because that would be pretty sad.”
The Jordan D. Schnitzer Gallery opened at Dieu Donné in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in late October.
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The Hallie Ford Museum of Art presents “Witness: Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary Printmaking and Photography from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation” exhibition through December 20, 2018.
“The theme represented in this exhibition, social justice, is the most important discussion all of us in the country need to have with each other,” says Jordan D. Schnitzer. “We continue to proudly support the Hallie Ford Museum and our numerous collaborations together.”
Blayklee Freed with the Tulsa Voice writes of the transformation Mel Bochner’s work has taken over the years. Bochner initially followed abstract impressionism and pop art and slowly evolved as he began using numbers and playing with perspectives.
“If we look nationally about how we talk to each other, about discourse, about words and what they mean or do not mean, there is no one better in the art world today than Mel Bochner,” Schnitzer said. “[His work] forces us to deal with our thoughts and our words.”
The Hallie Ford Museum of Art has a new exhibition featureing Enrique Chagoya, “Reverse Anthropology,” from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. The exhibition features 28 works by the internationally acclaimed Mexico-born painter and printmaker, opens on November 3, 2018, and will continue through January 27, 2019.
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Enjoy a conversation between StudioTulsa and Mel Bochner.