Color Outside the Lines

From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
August 19, 2025 – March 14, 2026

Events, September 25

12:00-1:00pm, CURATORIAL TOUR with Maryanna G. Ramirez and Ryan Hardesty 
3:00-4:00pm, ARTIST LECTURE Spirit Citizen: Provocative Native American Public Art and Studio Practice, by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds 
4:00-6:00pm, OPENING RECEPTION: Exhibitions Anish Kapoor: Dissolving Margins and Color Outside the Lines 

Exhibition

Color Outside the Lines from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation examines the ways artists have used color to question institutions, beliefs, and expectations. Some of the artists included here celebrate and amplify colors intrinsic to their cultures, showcasing beauty once dismissed or rendered invisible.

Artists like Faith Ringgold and Christopher Myers, for instance, create works inspired by African quilts and stories; these pieces emphasize the vivid contrasts in color often prevalent in African textiles. Other artists employ color to confront stereotypes and subvert expectations. Derrick Adams’s Eye Candy (2022) incorporates images of a Black man wearing brightly colored leotards; these images are borrowed from 1970s underwear advertisements, prompting contemplation of ideas around masculinity, sexuality, and who is considered worthy of being portrayed.

Artists

Artists include Derrick Adams, Polly Apfelbaum, Antonius-Tín Bui, Iván Carmona, Lauren Hana Chai, Caitlin Cherry, Sam Gilliam, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Ana María Hernando, Jenny Holzer, Salomón Huerta, James Lavadour, Christopher Myers, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din, Andy Warhol, and Stanley Whitney.

About The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation’s contemporary art collection is one of the most notable in North America. The Foundation has shared its art with millions across the U.S. and internationally through groundbreaking exhibitions, publications, and programs. Founded by ARTNews Top 200 Collector Jordan D. Schnitzer—whose passion for art began in his mother’s contemporary art gallery in Portland, Ore.—the Foundation has organized over 180 exhibitions from its collection and additionally loaned thousands of artworks to over 130 museums at no cost to the institutions. Schnitzer began collecting contemporary prints and multiples in 1988 and today is North America’s foremost print collector. His Foundation’s collection consists of thousands of works, including a wide variety of prints, sculptures, paintings, glass, and mixed media works.

Color Outside the Lines was curated by Maryanna G. Ramirez. Funding for this exhibition and related programs has been made possible by a grant from Jordan Schnitzer and The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, by the Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Endowment, and friends of the museum.

Location

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium/Gesa Field and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus.

Visit

The museum is located at the heart of campus. Visitors can park closest in the Smith Center For Undergraduate Education parking garage. Daily parking permits can be purchased the same day online at parking.wsu.edu.

Exhibition Artworks

To view selected artworks from the exhibition, click on the arrows after each image, or click the individual work to scroll through full size images of the works.