For more than a decade, Jenny Schmid has been crafting prints that lob subversive wit at notions of gender and liberty. Working in lithography and mezzotint, and most recently with an experimental hybrid of manual and digital techniques, her images are luxuriant, exquisitely wrought and iconographically rich. Schmid quotes from Europe's Medieval and Renaissance printmaking precedents, the medium's traditions of social satire and arch caricature (e.g., Bruegel, Hogarth, Goya and Daumier), journalism and sociology, feminist scholarship, graphic novels, and various strains of popular culture--visual, musical, and literary. Densely packed with symbols and language, her images trace the distant past to the immediate present with a wry humor that carries the sharp poke of contemporary critique. Designed to evoke the fanciful visual pleasures of a storybook, Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia provides a comprehensive survey of the artist's series since 2000. Includes an essay by University of Arizona Museum of Art Chief Curator Lisa Fischman and a previously unpublished work of allegorical fiction by acclaimed journalist and novelist Ben Ehrenreich, author of The Suitors (2006).

Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia

Arts & Photography

Fischman, Lisa

Individual Artists

The University of Arizona Museum of Art

Featuring 163 pages of 53 color plates, exhibition checklist with provenance, exhibition and illustration history, and essays from contributors. "Modernist break down the conventional formulas of representation, adopt new techniques, examine subjects from a multitude of viewpoints, and generally speaking, eschew realism.They draw attention to the artistic process and the materials used in creating a work of art. Experimentation, aesthetic introspection, and a re-examination of existence are all hallmarks of modernism. One or more elements of these traits can be found in each of the works in Modernist Intersections."- W. James Burns

Modernist Intersections: The TIA Collection

Miller, Olivia et al.

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Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia

Modernist Intersections: The TIA Collection