Fine Art Photo Lecture Series: Joan Lyons
RIT's Fine Art Photography Lecture Series presents pioneering feminist artist Joan Lyons, in conversation with Associate Professor Meredith Davenport.
The talk is set for 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in Wegmans Theater (MAGIC Spell Studios).
About Joan Lyons
In addition to her work in photography, Lyons was founding director of Rochester’s Visual Studies Workshop Press, which she led from 1972–2004. She was responsible for the production and publication of 450 titles, as well as over 30 editions of her own artist books. She is the editor of the influential Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook (1986, 1988, 1991, 1993), and Artists’ Books: Visual Studies Workshop Press 1972–2008 (2009).
Since the start of her career, Lyons has exhibited her art in galleries and museums around the world. It is also in the permanent collections of the DeCordova Museum; J. Paul Getty Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Art; National Gallery of Canada; Norton-Simon Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. In 2007, Lyons had a retrospective exhibition at Rochester Contemporary Art Center, and in 2018, Lyons’ career was featured in a major exhibition at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York and Paris.
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