BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA.- The Indiana University Art Museum is proud to be the first venue east of the Mississippi for Pressure Points, an exhibition featuring fifty-four contemporary prints from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation. Selected from a combined holding of over 2,700 prints assembled by one of the nations foremost print collectors, the exhibition surveys major trends in contemporary printmaking and includes new worksall produced within the last six yearsby twenty-three nationally and internationally recognized artists, such as Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, Kiki Smith, and Kara Walker. A wide range of contemporary issues, or pressure points, are explored in the exhibition, including memory, identity, racial stereotypes, consumer culture, and AIDS. Not all of the concepts are easy to grasp, but, as art historian Elizabeth Anne Bilyeu notes in the exhibitions accompanying catalogue, Like any good intellectual experience, the works dare viewers to think, question, and react.
