Global Icons, Local Spotlight: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer @ Portland Art Museum

Global Icons, Local Spotlight: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer

Portland Art Museum

September 6, 2025 – January 11, 2026

Jeff Koons, American, (b. 1955)

Gazing Ball (da Vinci Mona Lisa), edition 38/40, 2016

Archival pigment print with inlaid mirrored glass

40 11/16 x 27 3/4 in. Overall

Published by Two Palms, New York, NY

Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer

© Jeff Koons

Photography Courtesy of the artist and Two Palms, NY

Dinh Q. Lê, Vietnamese-American, (1968 - 2024)

I am Large, I Contain Multitudes, edition AP 1/1, 2009

Bicycle, steel, mirrors, wood, plastic, rubber, and metal lock

72 x 90 x 40 in. Overall, 90 x 106 1/2 x 57 in. Crate

Published by the artist

Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

© Courtesy of Elizabeth Leach Gallery and the Dinh Q. Lê Estate

Photography Aaron Wessling

Amy Sherald, American, (b. 1973)

As Soft as She Is..., edition 2/35, 2024

70-color screenprint on Lana Aquarelle 600 gsm

50 5/8 x 42 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. Frame, 

45 1/4 x 37 in. Sheet, 40 1/4 x 32 in. Image

Published by Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY

Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

© Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Photography Aaron Wessling

Portland Art Museum (PAM) presents Global Icons, Local Spotlight: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer, an exhibition that shares works from Oregon’s foremost fine art collector by some of today’s leading artists with local Portland audiences.

Highlighting recent acquisitions from the collections of Jordan Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, the exhibition includes more than 75 works—some of which have never previously been exhibited—by celebrated artists of the 20th century, such as Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Rauschenberg, in addition to contemporary luminaries such as Nick Cave, Jenny Holzer, Mickalene Thomas, and Hank Willis Thomas.

Jordan Schnitzer, who has been named an ARTnews Top 200 art collector globally, is a lifelong Portland resident and local business owner. His collaboration with PAM to exhibit these collections is an extension of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation’s mission to share art with audiences across the globe.

“Instead of having to travel to New York City to go to the Museum of Modern Art or the Whitney, all you have to do is visit the Portland Art Museum to see exceptional artwork by some of today’s biggest artists," said Jordan Schnitzer. “Each year, when I collect new works, I think about how to share them with museums across the country through the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation exhibition program. My hope is that they will inspire audiences who might not otherwise have the opportunity to see works by these amazing artists.”

Jeffrey Gibson

Native American, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians 

and Cherokee, (b. 1972)

SPIRIT AND MATTER, 2023

Acrylic paint on elk hide inset in custom wood frame

90 x 72 1/2 x 5 in. Frame

Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

© Jeffrey Gibson

Photography Aaron Wessling

Tschabalala Self, American, (b. 1990)

Untitled (Bodega Run), 2023

Unique cast and pigmented paper in artist designed frame

40 1/4 x 49 1/4 in. Sheet, 45 3/4 x 54 3/4 x 6 7/16 in. Frame

Published by Two Palms, New York, NY

Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Courtesy of the artist and Two Palms, NY

Photography Aaron Wessling

Katherine Bernhardt, American, (b. 1975)

Untitled, 2024

Monotype in watercolor and crayon

100 3/4 x 52 3/4 x 2 5/8 in. Frame, 96 x 48 in. Sheet

Published by Two Palms, New York, NY

Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Courtesy of the artist and Two Palms, NY

Photography Aaron Wessling

The exhibition features works across various media including paintings, textiles and tapestries, sculpture, photography, glass, ceramics, mixed media, and more, many of which will be shown publicly for the first time. Additional artists in the exhibition include Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, Helen Frankenthaler, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Dinh Q. Lê, Julie Mehretu, and Tschabalala Self. The wide array of artists represented in this presentation includes numerous women, Native American and Black artists, and other artists of color, building on PAM’s own work to spotlight underrepresented artists who represent the myriad communities that comprise Oregon.

“Portland Art Museum is a vital cultural resource for the region, which is why we are thrilled to partner with the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation collection to provide our community more opportunities to access and find inspiration in the art that brings the world to Portland,” said Brian Ferriso, Director. “Jordan and his family have long been ardent supporters of the Museum and our city, and we are grateful for his collaboration with PAM to further our mission to engage and enrich Portland’s diverse communities through art.”

Nick Cave, American, (b. 1959)

Rescue, 2014

Mixed media including ceramic birds, metal flowers, 

ceramic Basset Hound, and vintage settee

70 x 50 x 40 in. Overall

Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

© Nick Cave. Photo by James Prinz Photography 

Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Alison Saar, American, (b. 1956)

Plucked, 2022

Charcoal and acrylic on vintage cotton picking bag, 

found hooks and chain, 93 x 28 in. Overall

Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

© Alison Saar. Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.

Photography Aaron Wessling 

Christopher Myers, American, (b. 1974)

Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me, 2022

Stained glass lightboxes and tent

42 3/4 x 42 3/4 x 5 in. Frame

Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

© Christopher Myers 2022 

Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York 

Photo by Dan Bradica

Other notable works in the exhibition include Christopher Myers' immersive and mesmerizing installation Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me, on view for only the second time since debuting at Art Basel Miami in 2022. Featured in the Museum’s grand Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Sculpture Court, the installation is a suite of stained glass paintings in lightboxes installed within a freestanding octagonal architectural structure, creating a chapel for contemplation of the illuminated compositions.

Several of the artists featured in the exhibition have previously exhibited works at PAM or are represented within PAM’s encyclopedic collection, including Hank Willis Thomas, with whom PAM organized a traveling solo exhibition in 2019, and Jeffrey Gibson, whose work PAM commissioned and exhibited at the Museum in 2023 before serving as co-commissioner for his exhibition for the U.S. Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (the Venice Biennale).

PAM has also previously featured works from the collections of Jordan Schnitzer in its exhibitions including En Suite: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation (2001), Location/Dislocation: Recent Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation (2003), Minimalism/Postminimalism: Selections from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation (2007), Ellsworth Kelly Prints (and Paintings) (2012), Anish Kapoor: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer (2015), Andy Warhol Prints (2016), Josiah McElheny’s Cosmic Love (2018), and Jeffrey Gibson: To Name An Other (2022).

This exhibition is organized by the Portland Art Museum in partnership with The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. 

ABOUT THE JORDAN SCHNITZER FAMILY FOUNDATION

Jordan Schnitzer 

Courtesy of 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, Ore.—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. Jordan 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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1219 SW Park Avenue Portland, OR 97205

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Futuristic Footwear Design Exhibition @ Portland Art Museum - "Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks"

Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks

Portland Art Museum

March 30 - August 11, 2024

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Nike

Nike MAG

2015

Courtesy of the Department of Nike Archives,

American Federation of Arts, and Bata Shoe Museum

Zaha Hadid x United

Nude NOVA, 2022

First designed in 2013

Image © 2023 Bata Shoe Museum

Courtesy American Federation of Arts 

and Bata Shoe Museum

F_WD XP4_Mavy, 2021

Image © 2023 Bata Shoe Museum

Courtesy American Federation of Arts 

and the Bata Shoe Museum

Portland Art Museum, in partnership with the Bata Shoe Museum in Canada, presents Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks is a groundbreaking exhibition that features nearly 60 futuristic footwear designs pushing the boundaries of what footwear can be.

Featuring an incredible mix of fashion, design, gaming, new media, architecture, and material arts as well as sustainable and collaborative practices, the exhibition features work by designers as diverse as Rem D. Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, innovators Mr. Bailey and Salehe Bembury, as well as designs made in collaboration with fashion icons Rick Owens, Stella McCartney, and Yohji Yamamoto, and top gaming companies including PlayStation, EA Sports, and more.

“The future is always being shaped by the present. The exhibition includes many incredible and innovative new footwear designs that are promising to transform what we will wear tomorrow. From sneakers created to address issues related to sustainability and inclusion to shoes that blur the line between the real world and the metaverse, this exhibition explores how forward-looking creators are helping us step into the future.” — Elizabeth Semmelhack, Director and Senior Curator, Bata Shoe Museum.

 

EKTO One Robotic VR boots, 2021

Collection of Brad Factor

Courtesy American Federation of Arts 

and the Bata Shoe Museum

Jeff Staple x RTFKT

Meta-Pigeon K-Minus, 2021

Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum,

gift of RTFKT

Courtesy American Federation of Arts 

and the Bata Shoe Museum

Future Now features sections exploring Innovation, Sustainability, Transformative, and Virtual shoes, and include digitally designed and 3D-printed shoes, sneakers made from mushroom leather and reclaimed ocean plastics, and footwear created for the metaverse. The ahead-of-its-time Nike Mag, conceived for Back to the Future Part II by Portland’s own Tinker Hatfield, will also be on display, as well as recent innovators MSCHF’s Big Red Boots and EKTO VR’s One Robotic Boots and artist collaborations like Takashi Murakami x RTFKT.

“This exhibition expands the possibilities of what footwear design can be, presenting the future right at our feet,” says Amy Dotson, Director of PAM CUT and Curator of Film & New Media for Portland Art Museum. “The show is a love letter to all of the artists, storytellers, designers and visionaries who dare to think differently—many who live and work right here in Portland, the shoe capital of the United States.”

SCRY

Undercurrent P Virtual Prototype, 2022

© Bata Shoe Museum

Courtesy American Federation of Arts 

and the Bata Shoe Museum

Salehe Bembury x Cocs

Pollex, 2021

© Bata Shoe Museum

Courtesy American Federation of Arts 

and the Bata Shoe Museum

Mr. Bailey

Octopus Shoe, 2018

Collection of Mr. Bailey

Courtesy American Federation of Arts 

and the Bata Shoe Museum

Featuring wildly mold-breaking exhibition design by local female-driven Osmose Design—whose work has been featured in The New York Times and Architectural Digest and includes the recent reimagining of PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater—this show is an incredible opportunity to set foot into a world of cutting edge thinking around new artistic practices and technology that are revolutionizing our tomorrow.

Unique to Portland Art Museum’s presentation of the exhibition is a collaboration with Doernbecher Freestyle, celebrating its 20th year of partnership between OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital and NIKE, Inc. This partnership pairs Doernbecher patient-designers with NIKE, Inc. product creation employees to create footwear that brings each patient’s vision and story to life – with 100% of the profits from retail sales donated to the children’s hospital.

Curated by Elizabeth Semmelhack, Director and Senior Curator, Bata Shoe Museum, and curated for PAM by Amy Dotson, Director of PAM CUT// Center for an Untold Tomorrow and Curator, Film and New Media. The exhibition is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Bata Shoe Museum.

Upcoming exhibitions at Portland Art Museum:

- Monet to Matisse: French Moderns

June 8 - September 15, 2024

- Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm 

September 14, 2024 - January 19, 2025

- Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s 

October 19, 2024 - March 30, 2025

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205

www.portlandartmuseum.org

Throughlines: Connections in the Collection @ Portland Art Museum

Throughlines: 

Connections in the Collection

Portland Art Museum

October 28, 2023 – November 1, 2024

Corita Kent (American, 1918-1986) 

somebody had to break the rules, 1967

Color screenprint on Pellon, image/sheet: 29 7/8 in x 36 1/16 in 

Museum Purchase: Print Acquisition Fund.

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2016.89.1

Gabriel Revel (French, 1643-1712) 

Portrait of a Sculptor, ca. 1680 

Oil on canvas, 26 1/4 in x 22 1/4 in 

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Binney, 3rd.

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 68.34

Bue Kee (American, 1893-1985) 

Self-Portrait, ca. 1930 

Oil on canvas, 19 1/4 in x 15 1/2 in 

Gift of Michael Parsons and Marte Lamb. 

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2005.114.3

Yanagihara Mutsuo (Japanese, born 1934) 

Mandolin, 1966 

Stoneware with brown and yellow glaze, 23 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 10 5/8 in

Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund. 

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 68.23

The seventh oldest museum in the United States, the Portland Art Museum is internationally recognized for its permanent collection and ambitious special exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s holdings and the world’s finest public and private collections. The Museum’s collection of more than 50,000 objects, displayed in 112,000 square feet of galleries, reflects the history of art from ancient times to today. The collection is distinguished for its holdings of arts of the native peoples of North America, English silver, and the graphic arts. An active collecting institution dedicated to preserving great art for the enrichment of future generations, the Museum devotes 90 percent of its galleries to its permanent collection.

Throughlines: Connections in the Collection offers a fresh look at the Portland Art Museum’s collections by bringing together artworks from diverse geographies, cultures, and time periods that do not typically share a gallery.

Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (American, Klamath, and Modoc, born 1982) 

After Boarding School: In Mourning, 2011

Oil on canvas, 36 in x 24 in 

Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Native American Art Council 

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2012.100.1

Kehinde Wiley (American, born 1977) 

Likunt Daniel Ailin (The World Stage: Israel), 2013 

Bronze, 45 in x 23 in x 19 in, Museum Purchase:

Funds provided by patrons of the 2014 New for the Wall 

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2014.125.1

William Cumming (American, 1917-2010) 

Three Kids, 1968 

Oil on Masonite, 23 1/2 in x 35 5/8 in 

Gift of Sandra Stone Peters. 

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 86.70.5

Throughout time and place, artists have created images, objects, and experiences that ask us to consider ourselves and our world from different perspectives. Leading with a sense of curiosity and wonder, the curatorial team searched the collections, reflecting on the ways art connects everyone across time. They asked themselves and each other: What does a video art installation share with a European oil painting? A conceptual art photograph with a Native American woven basket? A Chinese vase with a print emblazoned with a poetic message?

The curatorial team developed four themes, including each collection broadly and in surprising ways. Drawing from portraits and figurative art, Pose looks at our desire to represent one another and to be represented. Environment explores how artists help us understand and honor nature and place. Expect the Unexpected shows how artists innovate with materials and explore unconventional processes in ways that broaden how art can be made and what it might mean. Color presents the powerful pop of pigments, paints, inks, glazes, and dyes, vibrantly lifting the senses.

The exhibition will also include programming curated by PAM CUT// Center for an Untold Tomorrow, the Museum’s film and new media arm, along with the Museum’s Learning and Community Partnerships department. Programs and activations include screenings, discussion groups, pop-ups, workshops, and more.

Throughlines is intended to be fun, inspiring, and thought-provoking for visitors who are accustomed to seeing the collection in siloed galleries. As the Museum campus undergoes transformation, this exhibition offers a preview of the kinds of collaborations and creative approaches that visitors will encounter when the Museum’s renovation and expansion project is complete.

Tim Bavington (American, born England, born 1966) 

Voodoo Child, Slight Return (solo), 2002

Acrylic on canvas, 54 in x 72 in 

Gift of the Contemporary Art Council. 

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2002.12

Zhang Hongtu (Chinese, active United States, born 1943), 

After Shitao's Landscape Album:

Shitao–Van Gogh, from the series Ongoing Shan Shui, 2002

Oil on canvas, 48 in x 36 in, 

Gift of Judith B. Anderson

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2017.31.1

Raymond Jonson (American, 1891-1982) 

City Perspectives, 1932 

Oil on canvas, 47 3/4 in x 37 3/4 in 

Gift of Mr. Arthur H. Johnson. 

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 78.17

Curatorial Team

Throughlines: Connections in the Collection is presented by the Portland Art Museum’s curatorial team, in collaboration with colleagues in  PAM CUT// Center for an Untold Tomorrow and the Museum’s Learning and Community Partnerships department.

Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native American Art

Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Curator of Prints and Drawings

Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Senior Curator of Photography

Amy Dotson, Curator of Film and New Media and Director of PAM CUT

Becky Emmert, Head of Accessibility

Erin Grant, Assistant Curator of Native American Art

Jaleesa Johnston, Head of Public Programs and Engagement

Jeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D., The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art

Grace Kook-Anderson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art

Sara Krajewski, The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Stephanie Parrish, Director of Learning and Community Partnerships

Ben Popp, Head of Artist Services, PAM CUT

Teena Wilder, Art Bridges Community Partnerships & Curatorial Fellow

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

1219 SW Park Aveenue, Portland, OR 97205

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Whiting Tennis @ Russo Lee Gallery, Portland - Studio

Whiting Tennis: Studio

Russo Lee Gallery, Portland

April 1 – May 1, 2021

Russo Lee Gallery presents Studio by WHITING TENNIS. Based in Seattle, Tennis is known for working in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, collage, installation, set design, public art, and musical performance. While loosely referencing wood, architecture, and structure, his compositions avoid settling into one style or meaning. This exhibition, referencing a Modernist vibe, features small works on paper and mid-size paintings and collages. There is also a new, large-scale mixed media work titled Studio Wall, from which the show takes its title. Whiting Tennis received a BFA from the University of Washington. He is represented by Greg Kucera Gallery of Seattle and Derek Eller Gallery in New York City. 

Artist Statement

This exhibition is a survey of works from a few years old to brand new. Most of the paintings are derived from drawings and collage, which are themselves generated in the “automatic” mode. Popularized by the surrealists of the early 20th century, this is the experimental practice of releasing control of the drawing implement and allowing, as much as possible, the image to draw itself. My experience with it has inspired a much less skeptical view of the realm of the subconscious. If an inanimate object can be said to have power, its source must be within ourselves. What we bring, what we imagine, what we project, reflects back onto us in waves of awe and desire. Art flows from and within this mysterious rapport and its voice is accumulative; art consumed and forgotten creating the ingredients for more art. My work addresses this idea by drawing, literally and figuratively from where these expired images go to rest and attempts to connect with all that is latent or buried within us. 

The title of the show is intentionally generic, but hopefully in a positive way, expressing my affection for the place where artists go to make their work and follow the paths that the room, the routine, and the materials create.

Whiting Tennis

RUSSO LEE GALLERY

805 NW 21st Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97209

www.russoleegallery.com

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Paris 1900 @ Portland Art Museum

Paris 1900: City of Entertainment
Portland Art Museum
Through September 8, 2019

The Portland Art Museum presents Paris 1900: City of Entertainment, a sumptuous look back at the City of Light during the prosperous years spanning the turn of the century. 

Travel back to Paris at the dawn of the 20th century and experience the splendor of the sparkling French capital as it hosted the world for the International Exposition of 1900. This was the height of the Belle Époque, a period of peace and prosperity in France when fine art, fashion, and entertainment flourished as never before. Fifty-one million visitors from around the world attended the Exposition and flooded the city, where they enjoyed its posh restaurants, opulent opera house, artistic cabarets, and well-tended parks. For the French, it was an opportunity to show off their prowess in the arts, sciences, and new technology, and to highlight what made Paris unique from rivals London and Berlin.

Inspired by an exhibition originally presented in 2014 at the Petit Palais in Paris, Paris 1900 re-creates the look and feel of the era through more than 250 paintings, decorative art objects, textiles, posters, photographs, jewelry, sculpture, and film, and will plunge visitors into the atmosphere of the Belle Époque. These objects, drawn from several City of Paris museums—including the Petit Palais, the Musée Carnavalet, the Palais Galliera, the Musée Bourdelle, and the Maison de Victor Hugo—form a portrait of a vibrant and swiftly changing city.

The splendor of Paris unfolds in six sections or vignettes. The visitor enters “Paris: The World’s Showcase,” which highlights the International Exposition of 1900 and the sweeping architectural and technological changes made to the cityscape to welcome the new century. As Paris was also the self-proclaimed “Capital of the Arts,” the second section of the exhibition examines the vast range of styles and talent present in the city in the form of sculpture, painting, and prints. Viewers will delight to work by well-known artists such as Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot and will discover compelling paintings and sculpture by lesser-known masters of the time.

The seductive Art Nouveau style, so popular in the decorative arts, is the focus of the next vignette, which features furniture, jewelry, pottery, posters, ironwork, and fans that exhibit the whiplash curve and natural inspiration of this international style.

French fashion and style were at the heart of Parisian pride, and the next section examines the cult and myth of la Parisienne—the ideal French woman—through textiles, paintings, prints, and decorative arts. Strolling through the city was considered one of the great Parisian pastimes and is explored in “A Walk in Paris.” New modes of transport, such as the omnibus and the newly invented bicycle, competed with horses, pedestrians, and automobiles as the 20th century unfolded. The final vignette, “Paris by Night,” features a selection of the vast amusements that made Paris the center of European entertainment, from lowly cabarets to the most refined theaters and restaurants. The exhibition concludes with a look at a great French invention of the Belle Époque: the moving picture. Clips from early film animate the exhibition and allow the viewer to rediscover the dawn of cinema. 

Visitors can learn more about the exhibition in the companion publication Paris 1900: City of Entertainment by Cécilie Champy-Vinas, Curator of Sculpture, Petit Palais Museum of Fine Arts, Paris.

Exhibition organized by the Petit Palais Museum of Fine Arts, with exceptional loans from the Musée Carnavalet – History of Paris and the Palais Galliera Museum of Fashion, Paris Musées. Curated in Portland by Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Curator of Prints and Drawings.

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1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205
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Paige Powell @ Portland Art Museum - The Ride

Paige Powell: The Ride
Portland Art Museum
Through February 21, 2016

Paige Powell: Sting, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol, New York City, 1986. 

© Paige Powell, reprint of image by permission.

In 1980, Paige Powell, a fifth-generation Oregonian, left Portland for New York City. After landing at Interview magazine, where she rose to associate publisher, Powell became close with Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco and Alba Clemente, Tama Janowitz, Stephen Sprouse, and others who would come to define the New York art scene over the next decade. Camera in hand, she moved through the city, forming relationships with people and places that spanned across cultural and economic boundaries, capturing the city’s many realities.

Taking up video in the early ‘80s, Paige Powell was one of the first in New York to adopt camcorder technology. After returning to Portland in 1997, she continued to embrace digital tools as she documented the rising careers of close friends such as Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini and filmmaker Gus Van Sant.

Until recently, Paige Powell’s extensive collection of images, video, and ephemera from over a decade in New York lay tucked away in boxes. For the past two years she has been working with archivists, unearthing and cataloging her body of work.

Paige Powell: Andy Warhol studio, 860 Broadway, New York City, 1982.

© Paige Powell, reprint of image by permission.

Paige Powell: Andy Warhol and Kenny Scharf, Mr. Chow, New York City, 1986.

© Paige Powell, reprint of image by permission.

Culled from this archive, The Ride comprises a three-channel video featuring never-before-seen recordings of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring; candid photographs of Powell’s friends including Warhol, Haring, and Basquiat; and Beulah Land, an interactive installation of over 800 images recreating a 1984 exhibition of Powell’s photographs, with sounds mixed by artist David LaChapelle.

The Ride continues the Museum’s commitment to showing video and new media, inviting visitors back to the video space created for last year’s Richard Mosse: The Enclave. The multi-part installation in the Museum’s Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art immerses visitors in the creative climate of 1980s New York, while the gallery adjacent to the video space displays Kenny Scharf’s companion exhibition Cosmic Cavern and the Link Gallery downstairs presents key works by other pivotal contemporary artists, including Warhol and Basquiat.

Co-curated by Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography, and Brian Ferriso, The Marilyn H. and Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Director.

Co-presented with the NW Film Center.

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
1219 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205
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Scott Malbaum: Interim Director for Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland

Scott Malbaurn 

Interim Director for the Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland

Scott Malbaurn

Schneider Museum of Art Interim Director 

Photograph Courtesy of the Schneider Museum of Art

The Schneider Museum of Art announces the appointment of Scott Malbaurn as the new interim Director of the Schneider Museum of Art effective July 1, 2015.  Scott Malbaurn has a MFA degree from Pratt Institute and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art both degrees in Painting.

Scott Malbaurn was Acting Assistant Chairperson of Fine Arts at Pratt and oversaw the undergraduate Fine Arts program in the areas of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, jewelry and ceramics. Scott Malbaurn also worked at the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum located in Queens, NY where he worked in the Curatorial and Collections Department as well as Noguchi’s Design Department. Scott Malbaurn has an extensive background in independent curatorial work in New York and has had his own work displayed in many professional exhibitions nationally and internationally.  Scott Malbaurn was also co-owner and curatorial director of the H. Lewis Gallery in Baltimore, MD. This past year he taught drawing courses for Southern Oregon University.

The Schneider Museum of Art, which is part of the Oregon Center for the Arts, is going through an exciting period of development. Along with the new leadership, the Museum will create a strategic plan for a successful future. “We will be dreaming big and small”, says Scott Malbaurn. “We will continue to do the good work set forth by our predecessors and we hope to build upon that with additional programming focused toward connecting our student and community groups. We will attempt to visualize our programs and exhibitions as a spectrum where we create a context for contemporary art that supports the well established, the mid career, and the young emerging artist from Oregon and beyond. What we do over the span of a year is what will define us.”

The Museum’s fall exhibition, Breaking Pattern is curated by the New York based team Matthew Deleget and Rosanna Martinez who run Minus Space, a gallery located in Dumbo, Brooklyn that specializes in abstract and reductive art. The exhibition highlights several generations of artists from coast to coast whose works investigate and advance the discourse around pattern, optical, and perceptual abstract painting. The exhibition will feature recent paintings by seven American artists: Gabriele Evertz, Anoka Faruqee, Michelle Grabner, Gilbert Hsiao, Douglas Melini, Brian Porray, and Michael Scott. This exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art’s seminal exhibition The Responsive Eye curated by William C. Seitz.

Matthew Deleget and Rosanna Martinez are respective artists themselves and they will present a project of their own work in our Treehaven Gallery. Scott Malbaurn explains, “More and more artists today are beginning to wear many hats, from curating to art criticism and gallery operations. This is a great example of today’s contemporary art discourse.” One of the artists in this exhibition, Michelle Grabner, was one of three curators who curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American art in New York, NY. Grabner was also tapped to be the upcoming curator for the Portland 2016 Biennial. Grabner also runs a successful artist project space called The Suburban in Oak Park, Illinois.

Additionally there will be a Southern Oregon Site Project installation by Tannaz Farsi, an Iranian-American artist who teaches at the University of Oregon. She is designing a living “Persian Rug” comprised of plants native to the Rogue valley. This project, funded in part by The Ford Family Foundation, Roseburg, is designed to support the development and presentation of new art by Oregon artists.

SCHNEIDER MUSEUM OF ART

Southern Oregon University - SOU

1250 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland, OR 97520

www.sou.edu