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Introduction
Drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, this exhibition includes prints and multiples by twenty-one artists who use fragmentation. both stylistically and conceptually. The title comes from a 1978 essay by the feminist scholar and critic Lucy Lippard, who describes "positive fragmentation" as an approach well suited to historically marginalized artists, as it "willfully takes apart what is or is supposed to be and rearranges it in ways that suggest what it could be."
In the same essay, Lippard observes the historical tendency to elevate "high" or "fine" art, particularly painting and sculpture, over works of art executed in series. The prints and multiples that make up this exhibition collectively reject that notion by demonstrating that their power lies in the strength of their conception and the skill of their execution, not the exclusiveness of their existence.
The works are organized by three overlapping themes: body, environment, and text. Artists engage with these concepts in varied ways, all using fragmentation as their visual language in order to question the status quo and offer new perspectives. |