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jennifer schmidt
bio
Jennifer Schmidt (b. 1975, Bedford, Indiana) is an artist who lives and works in Boston, MA. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Delaware in 1997. She currently teaches screenprinting as Regular Full-time Faculty within the Print and Paper Area at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Recent exhibitions and screenings include: 50th International Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, Repeat, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, OCD, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, AIM V:SYZYGY, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, Ocularis, Brooklyn, NY, Repo(session)s, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL, Suddenly, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, Sensitized Shopping, Silicon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, LINGO, ONI Gallery, Boston, MA, Experimental Sound, Video and Film Programmation, Institute Jean Vigo, Perpignan, France, Magazine (FGA Space) at The Stray Show organized by Thomas Blackman Associates, Chicago, IL, What I did this Summer, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA, Installations 2001, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL, The Program, The Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN, Living, Room, RAW SPACE, ARC Gallery, Chicago,IL, Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, Consumer Product Installation, ARTSCAPE, Baltimore, MD and Inherently Pink, SPACELAB, SPACES, Cleveland, OH. Recent publications include: Collezioni:Edge Magazine, May/June 2002, Eleven Bulls Online Magazine, May 2002, and Big Red and Shiny Online Magazine, February 2004. In addition to exhibiting her work as an artist, Jennifer also curates exhibitions. Recent curatorial projects include: Mybrary, BUILD, San Francisco, CA, LINGO, ONI Gallery, Boston, MA, 13/Proof, Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL, and Packing List Enclosed, 2nd Floor Apt., Chicago, IL. She has received numerous awards and reviews including articles in NYarts Magazine, New Art Examiner, Art New England, and the Boston Pheonix.
statement
"What is real is therefore always overshot by what we bring to it in the form of expectation, desire and feeling." Bachelard
Most of my creative projects are inspired by the everyday objects and linguistic commonplaces of American culture. I use, re-arrange, and re-present these ordinary materials and signs in order to explore notions of individual identity, objectivity/subjectivity, history/fable, and the inherent value implied by a gesture or act of intervention. Many of my artworks can be read as waves, signals of hello or goodbye, in which the meaning of the work exists in the participants ability to infer meaning based on their knowledge of everyday symbols, beliefs, situational context.
Through punning titles, I extend open-ended invitations for attributing meaning to the explicit text and materials used in the physical manifestation of the work. The resemblance, identification, and reciprocity of information after being presented with givens is the process by which I approach the world around me.
(I like to read into things.)
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