USU Art Museum Hosts Exhibit Featuring Contemporary Women Printmakers

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, located on the campus of Utah State University in Logan, hosts a major exhibition of work by contemporary women printmakers. The exhibition, Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, opened at the museum Aug. 26, and can be seen through March 14, 2009.

Women’s Work presents a broad 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.

 

The public is invited to an opening reception and opportunity to meet collector Jordan D. Schnitzer Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in the museum’s upper gallery (approximately 1100 E. 675 North, Logan).

 

“It adds a different perspective to our permanent collection and provides us the opportunity to develop educational programs, including a printmaking workshop and a panel discussion through the Gender Studies program,” said Victoria R. Berry, director of the museum.

 

Included in the exhibition are works by such distinguished women printmakers as Anni Albers, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Suzanne Caporeal, Helen Frankenthaler, Barbara Kruger, Fay Jones, Judy Pfaff, Kiki Smith and Kara Walker, among others. A number of themes are explored in the exhibition, including abstraction, humor and satire, politics, race and gender and the environment.

 

In addition to the works on display, the exhibition includes a full-color brochure by Robin Reisenfeld, associate professor at Christie’s Education in New York, and a leading authority on modern and contemporary printmaking. Reisenfeld holds a bachelor’s degree from Colorado College in studio art and master’s and doctoral 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.

 

Following its stay at USU’s museum, the exhibition travels to Cornerstone Art Center at Colorado College and San Jose Museum of Art, California.

 

“This exhibition gives us an opportunity to showcase artwork that explores themes and conceptual strategies by women artists over the last four decades that mirror trends in contemporary art,” Reisenfeld said. “At the same time, the exhibition brings into sharp focus the interaction between tools and ink that characterize the uniquely expressive look of a print.”

 

Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation  has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.

 

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art is located on the USU campus at 650 N. 1100 East, Logan, Utah, 84322. The museum is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, noon-4 p.m. The museum is closed Sundays, Mondays and holidays. Suggested admission donation: $3 per person. Museum members and USU faculty, student and staff with valid I.D. are free. The museum is accessible to persons with disabilities. Limited parking is available. For more information, contact the museum at (435) 797-0163 or 797-1414 or visit the museum’s Web site.

 

 

Contact: Victoria R. Berry (435) 797-0164
Source: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art