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Janis Crystal Lipzin
Janis Crystal Lipzin
	Janis Crystal Lipzin in October 2017
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]

Early life and education

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]

Career

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]

References

^ "Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films, Program 7". BAMPFA. 2014-12-22. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
^ Radical light : alternative film & video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000. Anker, Steve, 1949-, Geritz, Kathy, 1957-, Seid, Steve. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2010. p. 343. ISBN 9780520249103. OCLC 606760462.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ Radical light : alternative film & video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000. Anker, Steve, 1949-, Geritz, Kathy, 1957-, Seid, Steve. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2010. pp. 214–217. ISBN 9780520249103. OCLC 606760462.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ "A Salon with Janis Crystal Lipzin". Canyon Cinema. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ Lipzin, Janis Crystal. "A Materialist Film Practice in the Digital Age". Agnes Films. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ "Janis Crystal Lipzin". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
^ "Janis Lipzin Interview, 2009-04". Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ "About Janis Crystal Lipzin". Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ "Cineprobe" (PDF). Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ "A selection of works made by the filmmakers at the heart of the Canyon Cinema community". Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Janis Crystal Lipzen". Canyon Cinema. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ "Exhibitions". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ "Announcements". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
^ "Janis Lipzin". Carnegie Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ "Janis Crystal Lipzin". The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 25 February 2021.