PresstimeSPRING/SUMMER 2014 Pop Art and Beyond: an Exhibition from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation See story on page 3 Roy Lichtenstein Before the Mirror from the Mirrors of the Mind portfolio, 1975 lithograph and screenprint with embossing Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein HIGHPOINTPRINTMAKING.ORG 2 3 From Jerome Emerging Printmakers the Directors Program Updates & News Pop Art and Beyond Opening Reception at Highpoint: Friday, February 7, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Happy 2014! It arrived here with the Polar Gallery Talk with Siri Engberg, Senior Curator, Walker Art Center, at 7:00 p.m. Vortex, a term never heard before, but now On view: February 7 – March 29, 2014 we all know what it means. The end of the year and start of the new year is also a type of vortex at Highpoint: With great excitement we announce are featured alongside later icons of the Support for this exhibition has been the Annual Fund in December, end of fiscal renewed funding from the Jerome Pop movement: Roy Lichtenstein, Claes made possible by the Jordan Schnitzer year accounting and paperwork, major Foundation of this program for 2014-2015 The artist’s Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, Family Foundation. grants to be completed — plus getting this and 2015-2016! This year marks the 50th and Tom Wesselman. The exhibition also issue of Presstime out the door! anniversary of the Jerome Foundation job is to be includes work by other artists associated with Jordan D. Schnitzer has been fascinated and Highpoint is proud to be a grantee. or inspired by Pop: Jim Dine, David Hockney, by contemporary art for most of his life. But amidst all the year-end craziness we Congratulations to the Jerome Foundation Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, Julian Opie, His mother, Arlene Schnitzer, ran a gallery write this in great gratitude. Gratitude to on their longevity and great impact in the a witness Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud. These featuring Northwest contemporary art, our generous donors and funders over the lives of artists and arts organizations. artists have all been uniquely interested in and Schnitzer purchased his first painting year and during the Annual Fund — you The May 2014 exhibition/culmination of exploring art that takes everyday life as its at the age of fourteen. His passion for are all listed in this Presstime, with thanks the Jerome Residency is fast approaching, to his time focus, often celebrating vernacular subjects in contemporary art and prints led him to build beyond words. Gratitude for Highpoint’s as it always does! Mark your calendar for relation to and within the broader contexts of one of the most comprehensive collections in wonderful staff and board members who the opening reception on Friday, May 23, in history. consumer culture and mass production. the country, encompassing more than 8,000 keep us focused on what really matters. 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. The prints on view in Pop Art and works, primarily focusing on Northwest and Gratitude for the amazing artists — visiting Bryan Ritchie, Associate Professor of Beyond were made over 43 years (between contemporary art, and prints in particular. artists and co-op artists — who offer up Art at the University of Wisconsin Stout — Robert Rauschenberg 1967 and 2010), and span a range of subjects Artists featured in depth in his collection their creativity to collaborate in the visited Highpoint in early November and often employing a vibrant color palette. For include Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and process of making new, often risky art. Jennifer Phelps, Art Director at Le Meridien some of these artists, the print medium was Damien Hirst. And, gratitude to the thousands of young Chambers’ Burnet Gallery visited in January familiar territory, for others it was a new way As President of Harsch Investment people and community members who fill to offer their thoughts and advice to the to explore cutting-edge ideas. Some of the Properties, Schnitzer feels a strong sense our spaces each year with joy in the act of Jerome residents. Here’s what the three Professor Bryan Ritchie meets with Jerome artists prints fall into the category associated with of responsibility toward the communities hands-on printmaking. emerging printmakers have been up to: Pop Art’s interest in a machine-like quality, he lives and works in. He has served on the Lindsay Splichal has been collecting Michael Gordon began the residency employing strong colors and flat surfaces, boards of several arts organizations, including May 2014 bring you creative pursuits and objects related to printmaking that are not by selecting a site, one that satisfied the often achieved through screenprinting. the University of Oregon’s art museum, which peace. traditionally printed onto. She plans to criteria he set forth in his proposal. His initial Other artists represented in this exhibition is named after the Oregon alumnus. Because screenprint onto these objects. Rather than exploration consisted of onsite sketching, took advantage of the more drawing-like of the depth and size of his collection, Carla McGrath, Executive Director paper, items like tools, containers, and plates photography, and experiential recording. processes of etching and lithography to Schnitzer seeks to make the works available Cole Rogers, Artistic Director will become the prints. The nature of the He then selected artifacts within the site, create personal, lyrical imagery. to the public through exhibitions around and Master Printer print will be determined by the substrate as remnants of the former industry that once Highpoint Center for Printmaking is honored Pop Art and Beyond serves as a the country. Over the last twenty years, portions of imagery are likely to be altered occupied the place, and began to record to present Pop Art and Beyond, an exhibition wonderful opportunity for Highpoint’s 75 exhibitions of work from the collection or lost depending upon the printing surface. them. This process consisted of developing featuring prints from the collection of Jordan audiences to see a fantastic collection of have traveled to more than 43 museums. Ultimately, the collected and printed items casting techniques, making molds, and Schnitzer, a preeminent print collector based important prints that employ a variety of Highpoint is thrilled to partner with the will become an installation, with Lindsay casting these artifacts. The result is a in Portland, Oregon. In order to share the techniques in strikingly interesting, influential, Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation to bring using repetition to place them and establish collection of impressions that will provide a more than 8,000 pieces in his collection with and powerful ways. Jordan Schnitzer the group of prints included in Pop Art and their narrative. specific lens through which to understand the public, Mr. Schnitzer makes a concerted remarked, “The exhibition of Pop Artists Beyond to our gallery’s audiences. Utilizing traditional patterns of henna this place. After creating a number of molds effort to reach diverse audiences through speaks to a time and place in our country’s body art, Hend Al-Mansour is creating of various shapes and sizes, Michael has touring exhibitions such as this one, curated history that was remarkable. I am pleased that large screenprints of hands decorated with begun to make printing plates from them. by Elizabeth Leach, of Elizabeth Leach Gallery the Highpoint Center, a nationally significant patterns drawn from the henna body art The plates themselves gather the nuances in Portland, Oregon. art center, has chosen to exhibit these tradition of her native Saudi Arabia. Printed and details of the molds along with loose Artists represented in this show include works.” on fabric, the images will be displayed in material, detritus, and other site-specific pioneers who helped launch and shape the Pop Art and Beyond will be on view in such a way to create a containment space or American Pop movement, which emerged Highpoint’s galleries from February 7, 2014 Highpoint Center for Printmaking is a fiscal year 2014 recipient of a general evidence. He plans to now move his work operating grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is shrine-like enclosure. indoors and begin to print from the plates. in the early 1960s and was characterized through March 29, 2014. Please join us for made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board operating support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from by stark, almost symbolic representations. an opening reception on Friday, February 7, the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, when Siri Engberg, Senior Curator, Walker Art Funding provided in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, two of the early masters who led the way, Center, will present a gallery talk at 7:00 p.m. through an appropriation by the MN State Legislature, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and private funders. HIGHPOINTPRINTMAKING.ORG 4 5 Highpoint Editions Exciting New Collaborations in 2014! Highpoint Editions is honored to partner with Julie Buffalohead (b. 1972) to produce a new body of work through our visiting artist program. Buffalohead lives and works in St. Paul, MN, and is a member of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and a Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University. Buffalohead has received prestigious fellowships and grants from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations, as well as the Minnesota State Arts Board. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis), the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art (Indianapolis), the Carl N. Gorman Museum (Davis, CA), The Plains Art Museum (Fargo), and Artfit Exhibition Space (Phoenix), among others.