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Women's Work:
Contemporary Women Printmakers
from the Collections of
Jordan D. Schnitzer
and his family foundation
For Release: February 01, 2008
Women's Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation will open at The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, with a lecture and preview reception on Sunday, February 24.
Art historian Prudence Roberts will lecture at 3 p.m. in the Wiegand Center for Teaching and Learning, next to The Art Gym on the third floor of the B.P. John Administration Building. The reception will follow in the gallery until 6 p.m.
The exhibition continues through April 2. The gallery will be closed Easter weekend, March 21-23. Admission is free.
At noon, Tuesday March 11, curator Terri Hopkins will moderate a gallery talk with artists Sherrie Wolf and Marie Watt.
Women's Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation is a major exhibition of work by contemporary women printmakers. The exhibition will present a range of prints from the past 35 years by some of the foremost contemporary women printmakers at work in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Women's Work was organized collaboratively by Terri M. Hopkins, Director of The Art Gym, Marylhurst University and John Olbrantz, the Maribeth Collins director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. Included in the exhibition will be works by such distinguished women printmakers as Anni Albers, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Suzanne Caporeal, Fay Jones, Judy Pfaff, Kiki Smith, and Kara Walker, among others. A number of themes will be explored in the exhibition, including abstraction, humor and satire, politics, race, gender and the environment.
In addition to the works on display, the exhibition will include a full-color brochure by Dr. Robin Reisenfeld, an Associate Professor at Christie's Education in New York and a leading authority on modern and contemporary printmaking. Dr. Reisenfeld holds a B.A. degree from Colorado College in studio art, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in the history of art and was associate curator of prints and illustrated books at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the late 1990s.
The Art Gym
The Art Gym, Marylhurst University is located at 17600 Pacific Hwy (Hwy 43), Marylhurst, Oregon, 97036. The gallery is open Tuesday - Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. The Art Gym is located on the third floor of the B.P. John Building on the Marylhurst University campus, one mile south of Lake Oswego. Admission is free. (503.699.6243)