Currently On View

2024 Workspace residency exhibition

Jordan Schnitzer Gallery at Dieu Donné
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Building 3, Suite 602 11205
On View by Appointment Only: June 30 - August 6, 2025

Featuring Crystal Z Campbell, Simonette Quamina, Jonathan Sánchez Noa, and Ye Zhu

Dieu Donné is excited to present Workspace Residency 2024, an exhibition showcasing the innovative works in handmade paper by our 2024 Workspace Residents: Crystal Z Campbell, Simonette Quamina, Jonathan Sánchez Noa, and Ye Zhu. Throughout their year-long residencies, these artists embraced experimentation and pushed the boundaries of hand papermaking.

About the Artists:

Crystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descents whose works center the underloved and public secrets. Campbell's Post Masters series explores the traces of US colonialism in the Philippines through skins of manila rope, manila envelopes, and abaca.

Simonette Quamina was born in Ontario Canada, and spent her early childhood living between South America, the Caribbean and New York City. Her diverse upbringing is constantly woven into the narratives of her monochromatic large-scale drawings, prints, and collages. They revaluate one’s perception of racial and social norms, while simultaneously challenging preconceived romanticized ideas of the Caribbean within an art historical context. At Dieu Donné, Quamina explored the relationship of color and allowed the process of the handmade paper to inform the direction of her work. Colored pulp became a substitute for seamlessly collaging the images together. Relying on intricately cut stencils and silkscreens, blocks of color were applied to the paper and the images later completed through an etching press.

Jonathan Sánchez Noa (b.1994, Havana, Cuba) is a multidisciplinary artist working with installation, papermaking, and sculpture. He creates artworks that examine how histories of colonial extractivism have impacted notions of race, identity, and climate. He utilizes Cuban tobacco as a medium to reconstruct narratives of displacement in relation to cultural and religious significance. At Dieu Donné, Sánchez Noa developed new methodologies to be able to integrate culturally significant materials such as cascarilla, cacao, and tobacco into his artworks. With a focus on natural dyes, he pigmented paper from materials like cochineal, osage, madder, and logwood, later embedding imagery through pulp silkscreening during the wet papermaking process. He also created a body of work through pulp casting techniques that used tobacco leaves as the main medium to bring together personal and diasporic histories with symbolism.

Ye Zhu Inspired by his own experiences with art in religious spaces, Zhu is interested in the power of scale to influence the viewer’s body, allowing the artwork to unite the effects of architecture, storytelling, and iconography. Zhu looks to spaces of worship to learn how knowledge and worldviews can be transmitted through visual experiences. At Dieu Donné, Zhu created sculptural reliefs inspired by his mother’s backyard garden. When Zhu was growing up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, the lush garden was, for him, a place of wonder and curiosity — his own sanctuary in NYC. The vine plants grew on makeshift trellises of lumber, metal, plastics, and electronic parts — a natural composition of vegetables, technologies, toys, and living things.

Past Exhibitions

About the Jordan Schnitzer Gallery

Dedicated to exhibiting works on paper by emerging and established artists, the Jordan Schnitzer Gallery will host exhibitions, lectures, and public programming related to papermaking inside Dieu Donné’s home at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Jordan Schnitzer states, “I am honored to have the gallery at Dieu Donné named for me, as someone who loves and promotes artists who make work on paper to further their artistic vision. Dieu Donné is the national leader in helping artists to create and use paper in their artmaking process. For over 500 years, art makers have made prints because of the magic created when ink, paint, and paper come together. I look forward to Dieu Donné’s many more decades of success.”
 
Susan Gosin, Founder and Co-Chair of Dieu Donné, remarks, “Jordan’s continued dedication to Dieu Donné exemplifies our legacy as one of New York City’s most significant cultural organizations. The Jordan Schnitzer Gallery will inspire others to connect with our 40+ year history and ensure that our gallery and studios remain a vital home for many more generations of artists working in handmade paper.”
 
Jordan Schnitzer is an influential collector of contemporary prints and multiples. Today, Jordan Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation collections exceed 13,000 works and include many of today’s most important contemporary artists. Jordan Schnitzer is president of Harsch Investment Properties, a privately owned real estate investment company based in Portland, Oregon, which owns and manages office, multi-tenant industrial, multi-family, and retail properties in six western states.