Judy Fiskin
Los Angeles-based Judy Fiskin’s gelatin silver prints captures varied landscapes and vernacular architecture highlighting planned and unplanned symmetries, natural forms mirroring man-made, and anthropomorphic structures. Informed by her study of art history, Fiskin’s attraction to her signature small-scale photography arose from looking and discovering works of art through reproductions. Humor permeates her various series, where certain information, emotions, and ideas of beauty are shown through visual means. Fiskin edits her surroundings, underlining certain repeated visual choices made by the public at large, and presents variations on a theme.
Fiskin’s late work shifts from photography to film and video. In her black and white film The End of Photography (2006), a female voice laments the demise of film in photography as well as the end of the darkroom while images of the traditional landscape and architecture of Los Angeles flash every few seconds. These film frames have the same attention to composition and detail as Fiskin’s photographic works.
She has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as The New Museum in New York, Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Paper Architecture in Minneapolis, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, and Arco Center for Visual Arts in Los Angeles. Her work has …
Los Angeles-based Judy Fiskin’s gelatin silver prints captures varied landscapes and vernacular architecture highlighting planned and unplanned symmetries, natural forms mirroring man-made, and anthropomorphic structures. Informed by her study of art history, Fiskin’s attraction to her signature small-scale photography arose from looking and discovering works of art through reproductions. Humor permeates her various series, where certain information, emotions, and ideas of beauty are shown through visual means. Fiskin edits her surroundings, underlining certain repeated visual choices made by the public at large, and presents variations on a theme.
Fiskin’s late work shifts from photography to film and video. In her black and white film The End of Photography (2006), a female voice laments the demise of film in photography as well as the end of the darkroom while images of the traditional landscape and architecture of Los Angeles flash every few seconds. These film frames have the same attention to composition and detail as Fiskin’s photographic works.
She has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as The New Museum in New York, Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Paper Architecture in Minneapolis, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, and Arco Center for Visual Arts in Los Angeles. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Portland Art Museum, , among others.
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J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, France
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA
California State University, Los Angeles, CA
California State University, Long Beach, CA
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Film in the Cities, Minneapolis, MI
Francis Lehman Loeb Art Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Grünwald Center for Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
