Ferrara Showman Gallery is deeply honored to have four pieces by Dirk Staschke taken into the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation collection.
The Foundation’s contemporary art collection is one of the most notable in North America, consisting of more than 20,000 objects with some 1,500 artists represented. It has a national and international presence partnering with more than 130 museums to present over 180 exhibitions drawn from the collection.
The Foundation has considerable holdings of prints and multiples—the collection is by many accounts the largest in the world of its kind. Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Bourgeois, David Hockney, Alex Katz, and Ed Ruscha are just a few of the major names who make up the collection.
Staschke says of his work,
"I endeavor to explore the space in between sculpture and painting that neither medium can occupy alone. Look behind a painting and the illusion of space is lost. My work seeks to give that space a tangible form. The knowable gives way to a backdrop of structures that exist in support and in reaction to its creation. Representation becomes a departure point and a foil for examining skill and craft."
More about Jordan Schitzer,
Jordan D. Schnitzer is a West Coast businessman and philanthropist. He is President and CEO of Schnitzer Properties, one of the West Coast’s Top 10 private real estate owners with offices in six Western states.
Art played a major role in Schnitzer’s childhood as his mother, Arlene Schnitzer, owned the first contemporary art gallery in his hometown of Portland, Oregon. What began as an interest became a passion in 1988 when Schnitzer began collecting post-war prints and multiples. In 1997, he founded the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation to share artworks from his collection with the public.
Regarded as North America’s foremost print collector, today Schnitzer’s collection include sculptures, paintings, glass and mixed media works. One of ARTnews Top 200 Collectors, Schnitzer makes his private collection available to museums and institutions globally and supports many philanthropic initiatives.