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Lot 488:
Joan Lyons, born in 1937, has been consistently creating images for over six decades. She has fearlessly pioneered a wide array of image-making techniques, both historical and contemporary, along with newly developed reproduction technologies from the 1960s to the 1980s. From the 1960s through the 1980s, she embarked on a feminist exploration of deeply personal and unique subjects for her art. To this day, she continues to scrutinize the influence and conventions of photography, image creation, and representation in Western culture. Throughout her career, which began in the 1937s, Joan Lyons has displayed her art in galleries and museums worldwide. Her work is also held in the permanent collections of notable institutions like 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, her career was showcased in a significant exhibition at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York and Paris. In addition to her contributions to photography, Lyons served as the Founding Director of Rochester’s Visual Studies Workshop Press, a role she held from 1972 to 2004. During her tenure, she oversaw the production and publication of 450 titles, including over 30 editions of her own artist books. She also edited the influential works "Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook" (1986, 1988, 1991, 1993) and "Artists’ Books: Visual Studies Workshop Press 1972–2008" (2009). This unusual abstract by Lyons follows her trend toward feminist themes and was likely created in the early 1980’s.
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