Friday, December 19, 2003—Sunday, February 8, 2004
Minnesota Artists Gallery
Free Exhibition
Opening December 18 is an exhibition of neo-feminist narratives by printmakers Faye Passow and Jenny Schmid. Passow deals with feminine identity and family dysfunction in a series of humorous lithographs depicting multiple calamities converging on small family groups. Schmid's double-edged work deals with the drug use of women and girls through history. Inspired by historical documents, especially the 19th-century use of morphine to "calm the nerves" of depressed young women, Schmid's lithographs present allegorical images of "things that cause teenage girls to be bad."
"Unprepared" will open with a free public reception on Thursday, December 18, from 7 to 9 p.m.
"Unprepared" Related Events:
"The Mystery of Lithography Revealed" Studio Demonstration
Passow and Schmid talk about their work and demonstrate their craft in the lithography studio
MCAD Studio 411
Saturday, January 17, from 1 to 3 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
"Critics Trialogue"
A panel discussion about the exhibition "Unprepared" features critics Clea Felien, Valerie Valentine, and Amanda Vail and artists Faye Passow and Jenny Schmid
MAEP Gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Sunday, February 8, at 2 p.m.
Free and open to the public
The Critics Trialogue Series is co-sponsored by VACUM (the visual arts critics union of Minnesota)
The Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program is an artist-managed curatorial department of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts made possible by generous support from the Jerome Foundation.
