Joan Lyons
Joan Lyons (b. XXXX, Place ) founded VSW Press at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester in 1971[1]. There, she assisted artists in publishing upwards of artists' books. Her own visual artworks and artists' books incorporate photography, in particular photographic advancements in digital imaging utilizing the photocopy machine.
In 1984, she edited a critical anthology of essays Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook
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Ginny Lloyd (born February 21, 1945, Maryland, US) is an American artist, noted for her work with mail art, photocopy art, performance and photography. She founded Electro Arts Gallery in San Francisco in 1980[2] with programming devoted to promoting xerography. Her work was included in the exhibition, From Bonnard to Baselitz: A Decade of Acquisitions by the Prints Collection 1978-1988, at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France[3] and The Art Billboard Project[4]. Lloyd's artworks are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia[5], Artistamp Museum of Artpool[6], Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection at the Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago[7], and Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University[8].
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As a visiting artist in 1981, Lloyd worked with the Image Resource Center in Cleveland to create the first color Xerox billboard with Cleveland Institute of Art Printmaking faculty, Alexander Aitken.[9] As part of the New Mexico Artist in Residence Program, Lloyd worked with the International Space Hall of Fame in 1983. In 1984, Lloyd was involved with a project called Space: The Frontier Gallery with artists Mike Mages, Sam Sanmore, and Aron Ranen[10]. In collaboration, the artists referring to themselves as Art in Space hosted a rocket launch event in which artworks were micro-processed into a microchip and placed inside a rocket to be launched in Potrero del Sol Park in San Francisco[11].
In 1983, Ginny Lloyd published Ginny Lloyd's Blitzkunst : 54 artists of our era portrayed and questioned (alternate title Blitzkunst have you ever done anything illegal in order to survive?[12]) through Kretschmer & Grossmann in Frankfurt, Germany in English and German, with introductions by Judith Hoffberg, Carl Loeffler, and Hal Fisher. For the project, Lloyd photographed and published interviews with 54 artists working across a variety of formats and media including Anna Banana, Vittore Baroni, Monty Cantsin, Ulises Carrión, and Stefan Eins.
References
edit- ^ Artists' books : Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1971-2008. Lyons, Joan, 1937-. Rochester, N.Y.: Visual Studies Workshop Press. 2009. ISBN 0898221269. OCLC 278980825.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Winslow, Margaret (2015). Dream Streets: Art in Wilmington 1970–1990. Lulu.com. p. 52. ISBN 0996067620.
- ^ "LLOYD, Ginny". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
- ^ "Ginny Lloyd". ArtSlant. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- ^ "NGA Collection Search". Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- ^ "Lloyd, Ginny (USA)". www.artpool.hu. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- ^ "Ginny Lloyd's Blitzkunst: 54 artists of our era portrayed and questioned :: Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection". digital-libraries.saic.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- ^ "Copying for pleasure | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library". beinecke.library.yale.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- ^ "Faculty and Staff Notes" (PDF). Link: The Cleveland Institute of Art Magazine. Fall 1981. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- ^ "The Samore Gallery Ten Years Later". spot.hcponline.org. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- ^ "Receipt of Delivery: Art in Space Launch '84". Open Space. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- ^ Lloyd, Ginny (1983). Ginny Lloyd's Blitzkunst : 54 artists of our era portrayed and questioned. Frankfurt: Kretschmer & Grossmann. ISBN 3923205341.