I gathered with a few friends this past week and went to a very exciting exhibit. We Are the Revolution features over 100 works by 32 artists and is just a smidgen of the vast collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation. The collection currently numbers well over 20,000 works of art, each personally selected by Jordan Schnitzer.
I won’t be sharing all 100 works here, just the ones that stopped me in my tracks. I will definitely be going back for another viewing before the closing in December.
In the 1972 print We Are the Revolution, the artist Joseph Beuys faces the viewer confidently. Standing more than six-feet tall, he strides firmly into the future while encouraging others to do the same. Designed as a poster for a 1971 Beuys exhibition in Naples, Italy—the original print reads La rivoluzione siamo Noi (under his signature) —the work currently serves as the title for a remarkable, once-in-a-lifetime, curated exhibition of Portland’s premiere collection of contemporary art. I apologize for the poor quality of this photograph. Professional photographs are available by clicking on the link in the first paragraph above. Click on images for a lager view.
I saw the cotton in this stunning fabric art from across the gallery and I was drawn very close by the eyes of the young girls.
You will most likely recognize this artists style. He is the artist who Obama sat for.
The artist with Arlene Schnitzer.
The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation was established in 1997 as a non-profit organization to manage the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, provide supplemental funding for education and outreach in conjunction with related exhibitions, and publish scholarly texts. Since the program’s inception, the Foundation has organized over 160 exhibitions and has art exhibited at over 120 museums.
This exhibit will be on view through December 1, 2023.
Fascinating and very impressive work! The deYoung just had a Kehinde Wiley exhibit. The size of the work and the skill of the artist was stunning.
It was a great treat to see the Obama portraits in San Francisco and then in Washington D.C. at their permanent ‘home’. I think Wiley already had a name, but Obama surely super-charged his career. Nice to see.
Thanks for sharing. It looks like it was quite the inspiration.