Lorie Novak (born 1954) is an American artist and educator.

Lorie Novak
Born1954
NationalityAmerican
Known forPhotography, Visual Arts

Biography edit

Novak is professor of Photography and Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Associate Faculty at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She is known for using different techniques to represent exploration of issues, related to memory, identity and loss, presence and absence. Novak's projects include shifting of cultural meanings of photography as well as redefining relationship between the public and intimate. Her most known work is interactive web project Collected Visions, which is running from 1996, explores how family photographs shape our memory.[1] Novak lives and works in New York City.

Novak's works are in different permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago,[2] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fogg Art Museum,[3] George Eastman House, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art,[4] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[5]

Exhibitions edit

Solo edit

Group edit

  • 2015 "Collaborative Archives: Connective Histories". Leroy Neiman Gallery. Columbia University. New York City.[8]
  • 2015 "Photography restaged". Photoville Pavilion. New York City.[9]

References edit

  1. ^ "Lorie Novak".
  2. ^ "Collections - The Art Institute of Chicago". The Art Institute of Chicago.
  3. ^ Harvard. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Untitled". www.harvardartmuseums.org.
  4. ^ "Lorie Novak - MoMA". www.moma.org.
  5. ^ "The Tierney Fellowship - Leadership". www.tierneyfellowship.org. Archived from the original on 20 June 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Encounters in the Aftermath: Works by Lorie Novak Exhibition: October 10 – 21, 2011 | Columbia University School of the Arts". Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
  7. ^ "Lorie Novak: Photographs, 1983-2000". Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  8. ^ "New York exhibition delves into memories of violence". Archived from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  9. ^ "Photography Restaged - Photoville". Archived from the original on 2015-09-01. Retrieved 2016-02-06.

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Further reading edit

Rosenblum, Naomi (2014). A History of Women Photographers (3 ed.). New York: Abbeville. ISBN 9780789212245.

Novak, Lorie (1990). Projections. Madison, Wisconsin: Madison Art Center.

Novak, Lorie; DuPont, Diana C (1991). Lorie Novak. Long Beach, California: University Art Museum.