Jenny Schmid
Peace Insurgent, 2006
Silkscreen, 42 x 36 inches
Edition 20
Published by Fresh Hot Press, University of Wisconsin Madison
See a
slideshow preview of Jenny Schmid's art - then
come to the museum
and experience it for yourself!
Download the
gallery guide for Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia
(1.4mb Adobe Acrobat file, may take a moment to download)
See Jenny Schmid's lecture on
The Vistas of Gender Utopia as a podcast.
requires iTunes software for viewing
The University of Arizona Museum of Art is pleased to present
Jenny
Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia, an exhibition marking the
emerging
printmaker's first comprehensive solo museum presentation and monograph
publication.
Jenny Schmid's "gender utopia" project explores notions of gender and
liberty through images that fuse Old Master print precedents with a hip
contemporary sensibility. Critical yet humorous, Schmid's work quotes
from Europe's Medieval and Renaissance print precedents, the medium's
traditions of social satire and arch political caricature (including
Bruegel, Hogarth, Goya, and Daumier), contemporary journalism and
sociology, feminist scholarship, graphic novels, and various strains of
popular culture -- visual, musical, and literary. Densely packed with
symbols and language, the work traces the distant past to the immediate
present with a wry humor that carries the sharp poke of contemporary
critique.
Born in 1969, Jenny Schmid was educated at Macalester College (BA) and
the University of Michigan (MFA). Since 2005, she has been Assistant
Professor of Printmaking at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Schmid has received numerous awards, including the Fulbright Fellowship,
the Jerome Foundation Fellowship, the McKnight Foundation Fellowship,
and the Bush Foundation Fellowship.
Her work is held in both national and international collections,
including: The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Janet Turner Print Museum
at California State University-Chico, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
The Seattle Arts Commission, The Southern Graphics Council, The Spencer
Art Museum, and The University of Arizona Museum of Art; The Museum of
Royal Arts (Antwerp, Belgium), Centrum voor Grafiek Frans Masereel
(Kasterlee, Belgium), and The Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, National
Museum (Poznan, Poland).
Jenny Schmid lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. She is represented by
the Davidson Galleries, in Seattle, WA, and Gráficas Gallery, on
Nantucket, MA.
Exhibition Catalog
Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia
Texts by Lisa Fischman and Ben
Ehrenreich
Designed to evoke the fanciful visual pleasures of a storybook,
Jenny
Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia features a comprehensive
survey
of
the artist's series since 2000. The full-color catalog includes an essay
by UAMA chief curator Lisa Fischman, and a previously unpublished work
of allegorical fiction by acclaimed journalist/novelist Ben Ehrenreich,
author of The Suitors (2006).
Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia
ISBN: 978-0-9814840-1-3
Clothbound Hardcover, 10.75 x 7.75 in.
96 pages / 60 color plates / illustrated throughout / 2-3 gatefolds
U.S. $45, publication date September 2008
Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia was
also made possible through support from The University of Minnesota.
The exhibition catalog was realized with additional support from:
University of Minnesota
The University of Arizona Museum of Art & Archive of Visual Arts
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Gráficas Gallery, Nantucket, MA
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Neil Elliott
Saul Wasserman
