Frank Stella Exhibition 8.18.2017 Stella Prints illuminates Stella’s remarkable career as a...
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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts News Release Contact: Cynthia Milledge, MMFA Public Relations and Marketing Director 334.240.4369; [email protected] Jordan Schnitzer Shares Frank Stella Prints with Montgomery Montgomery, AL, August 18, 2017–Frank Stella (American, born 1936) is one of the most important living American artists. Jordan Schnitzer is one of the most important collectors of contemporary works of art on paper in the United States. Eighty-three (83) of Schnitzer’s bold and colorful prints by Stella will be on view at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts beginning on Saturday, August 19. Frank Stella Prints: A Retrospective from the Collection of Jordan Schnitzer and his Family Foundation will be on view through October 29 thanks to the generosity of the collector and philanthropist and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation that have loaned the art, published a catalogue raisonné of Stella’s prints, and supported educational outreach programs associated with the exhibition at the Museum. For nearly six decades, Stella has created a significant body of abstract art comprised of paintings, reliefs, sculptures, drawings, and prints. Schnitzer says, “Stella bridges Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Pop. What I admire most about him is that he’s kept pushing himself into new mediums and themes.” -1-
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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts News Release
Contact: Cynthia Milledge, MMFA Public Relations and Marketing Director 334.240.4369; [email protected]
Jordan Schnitzer Shares Frank Stella Prints with Montgomery
Montgomery, AL, August 18, 2017–Frank Stella (American, born 1936) is one of the most important living American artists. Jordan Schnitzer is one of the most important collectors of contemporary works of art on paper in the United States. Eighty-three (83) of Schnitzer’s bold and colorful prints by Stella will be on view at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts beginning on Saturday, August 19. Frank Stella Prints: A Retrospective from the Collection of Jordan Schnitzer and his Family Foundation will be on view through October 29 thanks to the generosity of the collector and philanthropist and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation that have loaned the art, published a catalogue raisonné of Stella’s prints, and supported educational outreach programs associated with the exhibition at the Museum. For nearly six decades, Stella has created a significant body of abstract art comprised of paintings, reliefs, sculptures, drawings, and prints. Schnitzer says, “Stella bridges Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Pop. What I admire most about him is that he’s kept pushing himself into new mediums and themes.”
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Frank Stella Prints illuminates Stella’s remarkable career as a printmaker, showing how his innovations have redefined the traditional print. This is the artist’s first major print retrospective since 1982 and is the occasion for the publication of a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Richard H. Axsom, Ph.D., Frank Stella Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné (NY: Hudson Hills Press, 2016). Dr. Axsom, who also curated the exhibition, will present the 2017 Fleischman Lecture, “Perpetual Invention: The Printed Work of Frank Stella,” on Thursday, September 21, at 7 P.M. The Fleischman Lecture is sponsored by the Carolyn and Winton Blount Endowment. The lecture will be preceded by a reception at 5:30 P.M. The public is cordially invited to attend these free events. The exhibition is sponsored locally by Laura and Barrie Harmon, Melissa and Frank Wilson, Ann Hubbert, and Dr. Marla Wohlman and John Crews. For more information, please visit MMFA.org. The MMFA, a department of the City of Montgomery, is supported by funds from the City of Montgomery and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association. Programs are made possible, in part, by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Exhibition programs are supported by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. Jordan D. Schnitzer; Photo Courtesy of Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.
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