Janis Crystal Lipzin | |
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Born | 1945 (age 78–79) United States |
Education |
Ohio University, New York University, San Francisco Art Institute, University of Pittsburgh |
Occupation(s) | Visual artist, educator |
Known for | Experimental filmmaking, photography, video, audio, multi-media installations, media performance |
Janis Crystal Lipzin (born 1945), is an American artist and educator, working with film, photography, video, audio, multi-media installations, and media performance. Lipzin is known for her work in many media and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute for over three decades. Lipzin's films offer a unique blend of rigorous conceptual structure, formal investigation, and sensual discovery. The Bladderwort Document is a haunting visual fantasia of her life on a farm in the 1970s; Trepanations is a droll meditation on social forces and women's appearance; and Seasonal Forces, Part One creates a fluid and immediate record of the cultural and seasonal changes in the rural landscape where she lives. [1]She has been an active filmmaker since 1974, [2] when she became attracted to using Super-8 cameras, in part because of their easy portability and flexibility to make changes to a film up to the moment of projection. [3] Her more recent work incorporates both digital and analog film methods. [4] [5] wherein light and photo-chemistry collide and conspire to reveal aspects of our world deserving of more careful scrutiny. Her work blends an enduring interest in the volatility of nature and human events with a sympathy for alternative, hand-made methods that she interweaves with digital processes. [6] Lipzin is based in Sonoma County, California. [7]
Janis Crystal Lipzin was born in 1945, in the United States. Lipzin attended Ohio University, where she received a BFA; New York University where she studied painting; and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received an MFA. She attended the University of Pittsburgh where she received an MSLS in library and information science. [8]
Her work has been recognized with exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, [9] New York Film Society, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Venice Biennale, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern [10] and other international venues. [11] Lipzin's work was included in the Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905–2016 exhibition and the Color of Light exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. [12]
She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 2009 where she served as Chair of the Film Department and before that directed the Film/Photography Program at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. [11]
Among her awards are fellowships, commissions and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, [13] National Endowment for the Arts, Center for Cultural Innovation, Ohio Arts Council, California Arts Council, Mission Eye and Ear, and Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles. [11]
Lipzin's work is included in the Carnegie Museum of Art's collection [14] Berkeley Art Museum, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. [15]
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