The University of Arizona Museum of Art presents "Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia," an exhibition marking this exciting emerging printmaker’s first comprehensive solo museum presentation and monograph publication.
Schmid will offer a lecture on her work on Sept. 18 at 4 p.m. and a book signing and opening reception will follow from 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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 is luxuriantly colored, exquisitely wrought, and iconographically rich. Her prints quote from Europe’s Medieval and Renaissance print precedents, the medium’s traditions of social satire and arch political caricature (including Breugel, 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.
Audience: All, Small (1-50)
UA Museum of Art
Gary Nusinow
UA Museum of Art
520-621-9507
garyn@email.arizona.edu
http://artmuseum.arizona.edu