Janis Crystal Lipzin is an intermedia artist based in Sonoma County, California.
Light sensitive materials and lens-based tools are her gateway to re-imagining and interpreting her visual world. She has been making art in virtually every form of reproducible media for nearly forty years. Utilizing such diverse media as 8mm and 16mm film, various kinds and formats of photographic prints and transparencies, video, audio, digital photography, multimedia installations and media performance and artist books, she has confronted an array of uncomfortable subjects such as pyromania, prehistoric murder, pesticide abuse, reproductive rights, and mortality.
A central foundation of her practice is a diverse approach to materials. In her hands, light-sensitive film becomes a medium to be worked marked chemically altered, affected by light both within and exterior to a camera. Lipzin's work frequently has been at the forefront of an avant-garde art practice that seeks to push the limits of what is possible with the media arts while enriching their possibilities for personal expression. " Lipzin's films offer a unique blend of rigorous conceptual structure, formal investigation, and sensual discovery. "(Steve Anker, Past Dean of Film/Video, Cal Arts).
Her work has received recognition with grants & fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Center for Cultural Innovation and National Endowment for the Arts and by recent exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of Art's Dreamlands show, the Tate Modern in London, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. In addition her films and photo work have been featured in museum shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Kunstmuseum in Berne, Switzerland, and in the Venice Biennale.
She was born in Colorado and spent her childhood in western New York. She studied painting and art history at New York University, art history at SUNY Buffalo, and received a BFA in studio art from Ohio University. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute where she taught for three decades. She led the Antioch College Film /Photography Program in Yellow Springs, Ohio for 4 years and also holds a MSLS in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She held a position as an art cataloger at the Frick Fine Arts Library, Pittsburgh, before moving to California in1974.
She has been active in critical writing and curatorial actions throughout her career and she founded the pioneering microcinema eye music that produced media events at the Exploratorium and New Langton Arts in San Francisco and internationally.
Light sensitive materials and lens-based tools are her gateway to re-imagining and interpreting her visual world. She has been making art in virtually every form of reproducible media for nearly forty years. Utilizing such diverse media as 8mm and 16mm film, various kinds and formats of photographic prints and transparencies, video, audio, digital photography, multimedia installations and media performance and artist books, she has confronted an array of uncomfortable subjects such as pyromania, prehistoric murder, pesticide abuse, reproductive rights, and mortality.
A central foundation of her practice is a diverse approach to materials. In her hands, light-sensitive film becomes a medium to be worked marked chemically altered, affected by light both within and exterior to a camera. Lipzin's work frequently has been at the forefront of an avant-garde art practice that seeks to push the limits of what is possible with the media arts while enriching their possibilities for personal expression. " Lipzin's films offer a unique blend of rigorous conceptual structure, formal investigation, and sensual discovery. "(Steve Anker, Past Dean of Film/Video, Cal Arts).
Her work has received recognition with grants & fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Center for Cultural Innovation and National Endowment for the Arts and by recent exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of Art's Dreamlands show, the Tate Modern in London, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. In addition her films and photo work have been featured in museum shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Kunstmuseum in Berne, Switzerland, and in the Venice Biennale.
She was born in Colorado and spent her childhood in western New York. She studied painting and art history at New York University, art history at SUNY Buffalo, and received a BFA in studio art from Ohio University. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute where she taught for three decades. She led the Antioch College Film /Photography Program in Yellow Springs, Ohio for 4 years and also holds a MSLS in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She held a position as an art cataloger at the Frick Fine Arts Library, Pittsburgh, before moving to California in1974.
She has been active in critical writing and curatorial actions throughout her career and she founded the pioneering microcinema eye music that produced media events at the Exploratorium and New Langton Arts in San Francisco and internationally.
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