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.She has been an active filmmaker since 1974, 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. Her more recent work incorporates both digital and analog film methods.
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. Lipzin is based in
Sonoma County, California
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Sonoma County comprises the Santa Rosa-Petaluma ...
.
Early life and education
Janis Crystal Lipzin was born in 1945, in the United States. Lipzin attended
Ohio University
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, where she received a BFA;
New York University
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where she studied painting; and the
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a Private college, private art school, college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mis ...
, where she received an MFA. She attended the
University of Pittsburgh
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where she received an MSLS in library and information science.
Career
Her work has been recognized with exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,
New York Film Society,
Centre Pompidou
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(Paris),
Venice Biennale
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,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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, the
Tate Modern
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and other international venues.
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
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.
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
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.
Among her awards are fellowships, commissions and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,
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.
Lipzin's work is included in the
Carnegie Museum of Art's collection
Berkeley Art Museum, and the
New Museum of Contemporary Art
The New Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum at 235 Bowery, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker.
History
The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-name ...
in New York.
References
External links
Official websiteReproductions from New Museum catalog for Outside New York: The State of Ohio
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1945 births
Living people
Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area
American women artists
American women experimental filmmakers
San Francisco Art Institute alumni
American women photographers
American fine art photographers
21st-century American women
San Francisco Art Institute faculty