Positive Fragmentation: From the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Long Beach Museum of Art | LBMA Ocean, East Ocean Boulevard 2300, 90803, Long Beach

June 26, 2026 – September 27, 2026

Positive Fragmentation includes over 180 prints drawn from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, each a work by a contemporary artist who employs fragmentation in different ways. For many artists, the act of creation begins with one of destruction as they dissect shape, color, perspective, text, idea, or stereotype. Other artists assemble fragments to create a new whole defined by its different parts. Feminist scholar and critic, Lucy Lippard, describes positive fragmentation, or the "collage aesthetic," as particularly suited to historically marginalized artists (including women), as it "willfully takes apart what is or is supposed to be and rearranges it in ways that suggest what it could be." This exhibition explores the impulses that drive these creative approaches in the work of contemporary artists.