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Print Details:
Artist: Jenny Schmid
Title: Libertines
Medium: Hand drawn 3-D lithograph with chine-colle
Dimensions: 26 x 14 x .75 inches
Date: 2008
Edition Size: 20
Printer: Deborah Chaney
Price available upon request. Please contact RBPMW at rbpmwpublications@efanyc.org.
About this Image:
Libertines is a stone lithograph printed on Yatsuo Japanese paper. It was then mounted to heavyweight German paper, cut out by hand, and attached to brackets which stand ¾” from the wall. This places the print in low relief, casting shadows and taking the work out of a traditional print format. Like much of her work, Libertines rethinks the roles boys and girls are asked to play. Schmid imagines two worlds governed by opposing philosophies of life: libertinism and nihilism. Though reality may exist as a blending of the two, Schmid’s prints confront our expectations of gender, dominance, and partnership.
Artist Bio:
Jenny Schmid lives and works in Minneapolis, MI, where she runs Bikini Press International and is an assistant professor at the University of Minneapolis, Department of Art. Schmid recently received a McKnight Fellowship and The Bush Artists grant, in addition to being a Fulbright Fellow in 1998. Schmid creates a fictitious world that inverts traditional gender roles and obligations; dark, dense, and intensely beautiful, these works present the realm of adolescence as the site of the difficult construction of sexual identity. You can visit Bikini Press' website at www.bikinipressinternational.com.
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