San José Museum of Art

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Women's Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation

  • Two grayscale human figures snuggled in a small bed under flowing blankets that form lips. Their hair is indecipherable from the blankets that fall to either side of the bed.

    Louise Bourgeois
    Bed #2, 1997
    Aquatint, drypoint, and engraving
    25 x 31 1/8 inches
    Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer

  • A black and white portrait of Patti Smith, wearing a white button down shirt, black pants, skinny black suspenders, and draping a blazer over her back. She looks relaxed and defiantly at the camera. Her angular hair is mussed, standing chaotically up.

    Barbara Kruger
    No, from “We Will No Longer Be Seen and Not Heard,” 1985
    Lithograph and collage
    20" x 20" inches
    Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer

  • Hung Liu
    Unofficial Portraits: The Bride, 2001
    Lithograph and collage
    30 x 30 inches
    Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer

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    This exhibition presented a broad range of prints from the previous 35 years by some of the foremost contemporary women printmakers at work in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Collectively, the 56 prints included in Women’s Work testify to the innovation and breadth of printmaking approaches taken by women since the early 1970s.

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    • McManis Faulkner