Janis Crystal Lipzin
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New York University,
San Francisco Art Institute,
University of Pittsburgh
Janis Crystal Lipzin | |
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 Janis Crystal Lipzin in October 2017 | |
| Born | 1945 (age 80–81) United States |
| Education | Ohio University, New York University, San Francisco Art Institute, University of Pittsburgh |
| Occupations | 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]
