Global Asias

Drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Global Asias examines the cosmopolitan and the mundane, the exuberant and the somber, and the subtly subversive and enigmatic characteristics of contemporary Asian and Asian American art. Though the artists featured in the exhibition share a common Asian heritage, their backgrounds and styles differ vastly, and each artist draws on an array of motifs, techniques, and cultural motivations to construct diverse "Asias" in a modern global context. The fifteen artists represented here were born in Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Argentina, or the United States; all are adept at crossing borders-not only physical ones but also those in media, styles, genre, and materiality. The full recognition of works by Asian and Asian American artists, this exhibition suggests, rewrites the history of modern art as well as the history of American art, both of which turn out to be more vibrant and colorful than we knew, once we embrace such inclusivity.