Joan Lyons
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© 1976 Joan Lyons

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ArtistAmerican, born 1937
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Untitled
Date1976
Place depictedUnited States
MediumElectrostatic print
DimensionsImage: 17 1/2 × 13 1/4 in. (44.5 × 33.7 cm)
Sheet: 25 7/8 × 19 in. (65.7 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number76.286
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Just as any artist infuses their personal experiences and vision into their work, Joan Lyons realized that her work could not be separated from her unique experiences as a woman and artist. Men have long dominated the field of contemporary art as the best-known painters, sculptors, and even photographers. So, over the past six decades, Lyons has employed a variety of difficult and obscure image-making processes, and by often using herself as the model, Lyons aimed to contradict, “everything that I had been taught art should be—namely abstract, universal, non-representational, and male.”



Provenance[Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Repeated Exposure: Photographic Imagery in the Print Media," W.R. Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, 25 March - 9 May 1982 (LN:82.2)

Exhibited "Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures",
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston December 3 - February 25, 2007
Austin Museum of Art May 19 - August 12, 2007
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi June 5 - August 24, 2008
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil, recto, bottom right below image: Joan Lyons 1976

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Joan Lyons
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Joan Lyons
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Joan Lyons
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