Fragmentation in Long Beach
Barbara Takenaga, Shaker Blue , 2024 (lithograph, silkscreen, and hand coloring). Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer Real estate developer Jordan D. Schnitzer has an eponymous museum in Portland, Ore. , for his massive collection of contemporary prints and multiples. A selection will be coming to Long Beach this summer. Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts , "Positive Fragmentation: From the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family" draws on art historian Lucy Lippard's notion of a feminist collage aesthetic that "willfully takes apart what is or is supposed to be and rearranges it in ways that suggest what it could be." About 180 prints will be shown at the Long Beach Museum of Art. The artists, all women or nonbinary, span Louise Bourgeois, Nicole Eisenman, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Wendy Red Star, Betye Saar, and Kara Walker. "Positive Fragmentation" runs June 26 to Sep. 27, 2026 at LBMA Ocean.
