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Judy Fiskin

February 12, 2024

Judy Fiskin (born April 1, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American artist working in photography and video, and a member of the art school faculty at California Institute of the Arts. Her videos have been screened in the Documentary Fortnight series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; her photographs have been shown at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, at The New Museum in New York City, and at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Judy Fiskin
Born
Judy Bartman

(1945-04-01) April 1, 1945 (age 78)
Chicago IL, U.S.
Alma materB.A. Pomona College
OccupationPhotographer
SpouseJon Wiener
Parent(s)Cecile and Fred A. Bartman

Biography edit

Born Judy Bartman, the daughter of Cecile and Fred A. Bartman.[1][2] She was raised in Los Angeles and graduated from Pomona College, where her classmates included future artists Chris Burden and James Turrell. She got a master's degree in art history at UCLA, compiled and edited the journals of Richard Neutra, and was co-director of Womanspace Gallery in the mid-1970s.[3] She started teaching photography in the art school at Cal Arts in 1977. In addition to her photography and video, she's also an award-winning writer for her essay "Borges, Stryker, Evans: The Sorrows of Representation."[4]

Photography edit

 
Judy Fiskin, Untitled from the series "31 Views of San Bernardino," 1974.

Since her first show at Castelli Graphics in New York City in 1976, Fiskin's photographs have had the same distinctive format: small black-and-white images, two and one-half inches square, printed on letter-sized white paper. She began with vernacular architecture in Los Angeles and gained critical attention for her "Dingbat" series, anonymous small 1950s apartment buildings (of the dingbat type) in Los Angeles shot from across the street in a deadpan style. Other series focused on desert scenes, military buildings, and period furniture. In 1992, MOCA in Los Angeles held a mid-career retrospective for Fiskin; critics praised the intelligence, wit, and stylistic coherence of her work. Her photographs have been exhibited widely, including the Pompidou Center in Paris displaying 24 prints as part of their historic 2006 exhibit, "Los Angeles 1955-1985, Birth of an Art Capital," and MOCA Los Angeles displayed 15 prints in their 2009-2010 show "Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years." Her photos were shown at five Pacific Standard Time exhibitions in 2011 and 2012: "Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81," at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;[5] "In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945-1980," at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles;[6] "It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973," at Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont;[7][8] "Seismic Shift: California Landscape Photography, 1944-1984" at the California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside,[9] and "Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center" at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.[10] One of Fiskin's photos was featured in the Los Angeles Times article "50 Masterpieces at LACMA" in 2015.[11]

Video edit

 
image from Judy Fiskin's video "The End of Photography," 2007.

Fiskin began making video in 1998 with "Diary of a Midlife Crisis," a serio-comic video diary about a middle-aged photographer whose fear of moving the video camera provided a metaphor for her feeling of being creatively at a standstill. The video won awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival and at Worldfest Houston, and was screened at MOCA in Los Angeles, and in Bonn, Kassel, and Brisbane, among other places. Critical acclaim for that work led the J. Paul Getty Museum to commission the video installation "My Getty Center" in 2000,[12] another comic personal video diary that chronicled the opening of the new Getty Center in Los Angeles. LACMA commissioned "What We Think About When We Think About Ships," a video installation at LACMALab based on a painting in its collection. Her 2003 video "50 Ways to Set the Table" documented the competition in table setting at the Los Angeles County Fair – a metaphor for the creative process and the work of the critic.[13] That video has been screened in the Documentary Fortnight series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, at the Berkeley Film and Video Festival and at Angles Gallery, Santa Monica. Her 2007 video, "The End of Photography," a three-minute elegy for the darkroom, was exhibited in Paris, Berlin, Kassel, and in Los Angeles at the Getty, LACMA, MOCA, and at Angles Gallery. "Like all great works of art," David Pagel wrote in a review in the Los Angeles Times, the video "tells more than one story."[14] In her 2010 video, "Guided Tour," which premiered at Angles Gallery in Los Angeles, the voices of two museum docents seem to describe various works of high and low art. "By turns poetic and funny," Fiskin said, "the film is about the talk around art and the mute beauty of photography, the disconcerting ties between kitsch and art, and the ultimate inadequacy of all kinds of description." Christopher Knight, art critic for the L.A. Times, called the video "inspired… a surprising journey into your own conflicted assumptions about substance and significance."[15] "All Six Films" ran at Angles Gallery in Los Angeles in September 2011; that show was named to a "Best of 2011" list in ArtForum.[16] Fiskin’s video "I’ll Remember Mama" is featured in the Hammer Museum Biennial, "Made in L.A. 2014." The video, an autobiographical account of loss and change, is a meditation on the eventual passing of her mother – the objects that she will leave behind and the memories and knowledge that will disappear with her passing.[17] As a part of "Made in LA 2014," the Hammer also screened Fiskin’s "Art Talk Trilogy" – her videos "My Getty Center," "50 Ways to Set the Table" and "Guided Tour."[18] Fiskin’s Hammer video and other works were the subject of an interview with Tyler Green on the Modern Art Notes podcast.[19]

Books edit

The Getty published Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin, by Virginia Heckert, in 2011. The volume includes reproductions of nearly three hundred images taken from 1973 to 1995. Since Fiskin turned to video in the late 1990s, this compendium represents her complete photographic oeuvre, including many images never before published.[20]

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Cecile Bartman died Sept. 29 at 95. Survived by son John (Barbara); daughter Judy Fiskin (John Wiener); 2 grandchildren. Hillside". Jewish Journal. November 4, 2015.
  2. ^ "Cecile C. Bartman". Los Angeles Times. September 30, 2015.
  3. ^ "Womanspace Gallery records, 1972-1974," Archives of American Art, http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/womanspace-gallery-records-8766
  4. ^ Judy Fiskin, "Borges, Stryker, Evans: The Sorrows of Representation," Views: The Journal of Photography in New England, vol. 9, no. 2, Winter 1988, pp.2-6; reprinted in Multiple Views: Logan Grant Essays on Photography, 1983-1989, University of New Mexico Press, 1991, pp.247-69. The book "Multiple Views" is a collection of award-winning essays on photography. https://www.amazon.com/Multiple-Views-Essays-Photography-1983-89/dp/0826312446 http://www.loganfdn.org/grants-in-support-of-new-writing-on-photography.html
  5. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2011-09-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-07. Retrieved 2011-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ . Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
  8. ^ McGrew, Rebecca; Phillips, Glenn, eds. (August 31, 2011). It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973. Pomona College Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-9818955-8-1.
  9. ^ . Archived from the original on 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
  10. ^ "Pacific Standard Time at the Getty".
  11. ^ Christopher Knight, "50 Masterpieces at LACMA," Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2015. http://graphics.latimes.com/lacma-amazing-art-collection/
  12. ^ J. Paul Getty Museum. Departures: 11 artists at the Getty. Judy Fiskin. My Getty Center. Retrieved August 29, 2008.
  13. ^ see Jan Tumlir, "Judy Fiskin," Artforum, April, 2004, p. 265
  14. ^ David Pagel, "Farewell to an Art, Farewell to an Era," Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2007, E20 http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-galleries13apr13,1,3232222.story
  15. ^ Christopher Knight, "Judy Fiskin at Angles Gallery," Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2010 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/03/art-review-judy-fiskin-at-angles-gallery.html
  16. ^ "Judy Fiskin: All Six Films," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, http://www.anglesgallery.com/ssp_director/exhibitions.php?id=160; Michael Ned Holte, "Ten Best," Artforum, December 2011, p. 235; http://judyfiskin.com/press/artforum_2011.html
  17. ^ Hammer Museum "Made in LA 2014" Judy Fiskin page: http://hammer.ucla.edu/made-in-la-2014/judy-fiskin/
  18. ^ Hammer Museum programs and events: "Judy Fiskin: The Art Talk Trilogy," http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2014/07/judy-fiskin-the-art-talk-trilogy/
  19. ^ MAN Podcast, http://manpodcast.com/
  20. ^ Virginia Heckert, Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin. Getty Publications, 2011. http://shop.getty.edu/products/some-aesthetic-decisions-978-1606060810 2014-07-30 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 1606060813.

Artist's Books, Exhibition Catalogues and Monographs edit

Virginia Heckert, Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin. Getty Publications, December 2011. ISBN 1606060813.

Paul Schimmel, et al., Under the Big Black Sun: California Art, 1974-1981. Los Angeles, Prestel Publishing, 2011, pp. 150–151. (2 reproductions from 1975 "Military Architecture" series.)

Rebecca Peabody, et al., Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 2011, p. 275. (1 reproduction from "Military Architecture," plus 1982 LAICA journal cover.)

"Judy Fiskin Interviewed by Rebecca McGrew." It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973. Pomona College Museum of Art, 2011, 282-87. (includes 5 reproductions from the 1973 "Stucco" series.)

Lyn Kienholz, L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980. California/International Arts Foundation, 2010, p. 185.

Ann Goldstein et al., This is Not to be Looked At: Highlights from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art. MOCA Press, Los Angeles, 2008, pp. 98–99.

Karen Higa, Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art. Japanese-American National Museum, Los Angeles, 2009, pp. 5, 44-45

Catherine Grenier, ed., Los Angeles 1955 - 1985: Birth of an Art Capital. exhibition catalog from the Centre Pompidou, 2006, pp. 251, 290-291.

Lisa Lyons, "Judy Fiskin: My Getty Center." in Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty. exhibition catalogue from the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2000, pp. 24–27.

Judy Fiskin, Some More Art. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1992.

William Bartman, ed., Judy Fiskin. A.R.T. Press, Los Angeles, 1988. Essay by Christopher Knight. Interview with John Divola. 26 reproductions of work from 1973-1988.

Judy Fiskin and Dick Barnes, Thirty-one Views of San Bernardino. Los Angeles: Spectator Press, Pomona College, 1975

External links edit

  • Judy Fiskin Official Website 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
  • Judy Fiskin Cal Arts page
  • MOCA "Collections" retrospective
  • Pompidou Center exhibition 2012-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
  • ArtForum review by Jan Tumlir
  • Judy Fiskin interviewed by John Divola
  • Archives of American Art, "Oral history interview with Judy Fiskin"
  • "In Focus: Los Angeles 1945-1980" Getty Center - Pacific Standard Time exhibition
  • Hammer Museum "Made in L.A. 2014" Judy Fiskin page
  • Richard Telles Fine Art: Judy Fiskin page
  • Van Doren Waxter Gallery, New York: Judy Fiskin page

February 12, 2024
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Judy Fiskin born April 1 1945 in Chicago Illinois is an American artist working in photography and video and a member of the art school faculty at California Institute of the Arts Her videos have been screened in the Documentary Fortnight series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles her photographs have been shown at MOCA the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles at The New Museum in New York City and at the Pompidou Center in Paris Judy FiskinBornJudy Bartman 1945 04 01 April 1 1945 age 78 Chicago IL U S Alma materB A Pomona CollegeOccupationPhotographerSpouseJon WienerParent s Cecile and Fred A Bartman Contents 1 Biography 2 Photography 3 Video 4 Books 5 Notes 6 Artist s Books Exhibition Catalogues and Monographs 7 External linksBiography editBorn Judy Bartman the daughter of Cecile and Fred A Bartman 1 2 She was raised in Los Angeles and graduated from Pomona College where her classmates included future artists Chris Burden and James Turrell She got a master s degree in art history at UCLA compiled and edited the journals of Richard Neutra and was co director of Womanspace Gallery in the mid 1970s 3 She started teaching photography in the art school at Cal Arts in 1977 In addition to her photography and video she s also an award winning writer for her essay Borges Stryker Evans The Sorrows of Representation 4 Photography edit nbsp Judy Fiskin Untitled from the series 31 Views of San Bernardino 1974 Since her first show at Castelli Graphics in New York City in 1976 Fiskin s photographs have had the same distinctive format small black and white images two and one half inches square printed on letter sized white paper She began with vernacular architecture in Los Angeles and gained critical attention for her Dingbat series anonymous small 1950s apartment buildings of the dingbat type in Los Angeles shot from across the street in a deadpan style Other series focused on desert scenes military buildings and period furniture In 1992 MOCA in Los Angeles held a mid career retrospective for Fiskin critics praised the intelligence wit and stylistic coherence of her work Her photographs have been exhibited widely including the Pompidou Center in Paris displaying 24 prints as part of their historic 2006 exhibit Los Angeles 1955 1985 Birth of an Art Capital and MOCA Los Angeles displayed 15 prints in their 2009 2010 show Collection MOCA s First 30 Years Her photos were shown at five Pacific Standard Time exhibitions in 2011 and 2012 Under the Big Black Sun California Art 1974 81 at The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 5 In Focus Los Angeles 1945 1980 at The J Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles 6 It Happened at Pomona Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969 1973 at Pomona College Museum of Art Claremont 7 8 Seismic Shift California Landscape Photography 1944 1984 at the California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside 9 and Civic Virtue The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Los Angeles 10 One of Fiskin s photos was featured in the Los Angeles Times article 50 Masterpieces at LACMA in 2015 11 Video edit nbsp image from Judy Fiskin s video The End of Photography 2007 Fiskin began making video in 1998 with Diary of a Midlife Crisis a serio comic video diary about a middle aged photographer whose fear of moving the video camera provided a metaphor for her feeling of being creatively at a standstill The video won awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival and at Worldfest Houston and was screened at MOCA in Los Angeles and in Bonn Kassel and Brisbane among other places Critical acclaim for that work led the J Paul Getty Museum to commission the video installation My Getty Center in 2000 12 another comic personal video diary that chronicled the opening of the new Getty Center in Los Angeles LACMA commissioned What We Think About When We Think About Ships a video installation at LACMALab based on a painting in its collection Her 2003 video 50 Ways to Set the Table documented the competition in table setting at the Los Angeles County Fair a metaphor for the creative process and the work of the critic 13 That video has been screened in the Documentary Fortnight series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin at the Berkeley Film and Video Festival and at Angles Gallery Santa Monica Her 2007 video The End of Photography a three minute elegy for the darkroom was exhibited in Paris Berlin Kassel and in Los Angeles at the Getty LACMA MOCA and at Angles Gallery Like all great works of art David Pagel wrote in a review in the Los Angeles Times the video tells more than one story 14 In her 2010 video Guided Tour which premiered at Angles Gallery in Los Angeles the voices of two museum docents seem to describe various works of high and low art By turns poetic and funny Fiskin said the film is about the talk around art and the mute beauty of photography the disconcerting ties between kitsch and art and the ultimate inadequacy of all kinds of description Christopher Knight art critic for the L A Times called the video inspired a surprising journey into your own conflicted assumptions about substance and significance 15 All Six Films ran at Angles Gallery in Los Angeles in September 2011 that show was named to a Best of 2011 list in ArtForum 16 Fiskin s video I ll Remember Mama is featured in the Hammer Museum Biennial Made in L A 2014 The video an autobiographical account of loss and change is a meditation on the eventual passing of her mother the objects that she will leave behind and the memories and knowledge that will disappear with her passing 17 As a part of Made in LA 2014 the Hammer also screened Fiskin s Art Talk Trilogy her videos My Getty Center 50 Ways to Set the Table and Guided Tour 18 Fiskin s Hammer video and other works were the subject of an interview with Tyler Green on the Modern Art Notes podcast 19 Books editThe Getty published Some Aesthetic Decisions The Photographs of Judy Fiskin by Virginia Heckert in 2011 The volume includes reproductions of nearly three hundred images taken from 1973 to 1995 Since Fiskin turned to video in the late 1990s this compendium represents her complete photographic oeuvre including many images never before published 20 Notes edit Cecile Bartman died Sept 29 at 95 Survived by son John Barbara daughter Judy Fiskin John Wiener 2 grandchildren Hillside Jewish Journal November 4 2015 Cecile C Bartman Los Angeles Times September 30 2015 Womanspace Gallery records 1972 1974 Archives of American Art http www aaa si edu collections womanspace gallery records 8766 Judy Fiskin Borges Stryker Evans The Sorrows of Representation Views The Journal of Photography in New England vol 9 no 2 Winter 1988 pp 2 6 reprinted in Multiple Views Logan Grant Essays on Photography 1983 1989 University of New Mexico Press 1991 pp 247 69 The book Multiple Views is a collection of award winning essays on photography https www amazon com Multiple Views Essays Photography 1983 89 dp 0826312446 http www loganfdn org grants in support of new writing on photography html Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2014 08 11 Retrieved 2011 09 17 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2012 09 07 Retrieved 2011 08 20 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Part 3 Pomona College Museum of Art Archived from the original on 2011 08 08 Retrieved 2011 08 20 McGrew Rebecca Phillips Glenn eds August 31 2011 It Happened at Pomona Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969 1973 Pomona College Museum of Art ISBN 978 0 9818955 8 1 Ucr Arts Archived from the original on 2021 06 29 Retrieved 2011 10 05 Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Christopher Knight 50 Masterpieces at LACMA Los Angeles Times April 9 2015 http graphics latimes com lacma amazing art collection J Paul Getty Museum Departures 11 artists at the Getty Judy Fiskin My Getty Center Retrieved August 29 2008 see Jan Tumlir Judy Fiskin Artforum April 2004 p 265 David Pagel Farewell to an Art Farewell to an Era Los Angeles Times April 13 2007 E20 http www latimes com entertainment la et galleries13apr13 1 3232222 story Christopher Knight Judy Fiskin at Angles Gallery Los Angeles Times March 12 2010 http latimesblogs latimes com culturemonster 2010 03 art review judy fiskin at angles gallery html Judy Fiskin All Six Films Angles Gallery Los Angeles http www anglesgallery com ssp director exhibitions php id 160 Michael Ned Holte Ten Best Artforum December 2011 p 235 http judyfiskin com press artforum 2011 html Hammer Museum Made in LA 2014 Judy Fiskin page http hammer ucla edu made in la 2014 judy fiskin Hammer Museum programs and events Judy Fiskin The Art Talk Trilogy http hammer ucla edu programs events 2014 07 judy fiskin the art talk trilogy MAN Podcast http manpodcast com Virginia Heckert Some Aesthetic Decisions The Photographs of Judy Fiskin Getty Publications 2011 http shop getty edu products some aesthetic decisions 978 1606060810 Archived 2014 07 30 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 1606060813 Artist s Books Exhibition Catalogues and Monographs editVirginia Heckert Some Aesthetic Decisions The Photographs of Judy Fiskin Getty Publications December 2011 ISBN 1606060813 https web archive org web 20140730015755 http shop getty edu products some aesthetic decisions 978 1606060810Paul Schimmel et al Under the Big Black Sun California Art 1974 1981 Los Angeles Prestel Publishing 2011 pp 150 151 2 reproductions from 1975 Military Architecture series Rebecca Peabody et al Pacific Standard Time Los Angeles Art 1945 1980 Los Angeles Getty Research Institute 2011 p 275 1 reproduction from Military Architecture plus 1982 LAICA journal cover Judy Fiskin Interviewed by Rebecca McGrew It Happened at Pomona Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969 1973 Pomona College Museum of Art 2011 282 87 includes 5 reproductions from the 1973 Stucco series Lyn Kienholz L A Rising SoCal Artists Before 1980 California International Arts Foundation 2010 p 185 Ann Goldstein et al This is Not to be Looked At Highlights from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Press Los Angeles 2008 pp 98 99 Karen Higa Living Flowers Ikebana and Contemporary Art Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles 2009 pp 5 44 45Catherine Grenier ed Los Angeles 1955 1985 Birth of an Art Capital exhibition catalog from the Centre Pompidou 2006 pp 251 290 291 Lisa Lyons Judy Fiskin My Getty Center in Departures 11 Artists at the Getty exhibition catalogue from the Getty Museum Los Angeles 2000 pp 24 27 Judy Fiskin Some More Art Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 1992 William Bartman ed Judy Fiskin A R T Press Los Angeles 1988 Essay by Christopher Knight Interview with John Divola 26 reproductions of work from 1973 1988 Judy Fiskin and Dick Barnes Thirty one Views of San Bernardino Los Angeles Spectator Press Pomona College 1975External links editJudy Fiskin Official Website Archived 2012 02 05 at the Wayback Machine Judy Fiskin Cal Arts page MOCA Collections retrospective Pompidou Center exhibition Archived 2012 02 20 at the Wayback Machine ArtForum review by Jan Tumlir Judy Fiskin interviewed by John Divola Archives of American Art Oral history interview with Judy Fiskin In Focus Los Angeles 1945 1980 Getty Center Pacific Standard Time exhibition It Happened at Pomona exhibition Hammer Museum Made in L A 2014 Judy Fiskin page Richard Telles Fine Art Judy Fiskin page Van Doren Waxter Gallery New York Judy Fiskin page Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Judy Fiskin amp oldid 1127488966, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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