Jenny Schmid

Current Position
Assistant Printmaking Professor, St. Cloud State University

Website
www.jenski.com

Email
jenny@jenski.com

Title "Fast Girl, Knocked Up"
Year Spring 2002
Medium Seven-Color Photo Lithograph, Chin-Collé.

Statement
My work explores the sometimes-contradictory forces of feminine beauty and power and I use humor to lure the viewer into the work. I gravitate to printmaking as a way to reference and edit history, and also use digital media to “collaborate” with my mentors: a 15th century engraving can morph in PhotoShop and is recycled in the form of a hand-printed lithograph. Although my work is grounded in traditional, time-consuming and excruciatingly laborious media, use of digital media also serves to continually renew my approach to image making.