Lyn Blumenthal

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Lyn Blumenthal ( 1949 in Chicago , Illinois - July 21, 1988 in Manhattan ) is an American video artist and writer.

Life

Lyn Blumenthal studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago Loop , where she received her Masters in 1976 . Together with her former college colleague Kate Horsfield, she co-founded the Video Data Bank from 1974 to 1976 , building on a small collection of student videos that Phil Morton had created. Today the Video Data Bank is one of the largest video archives in the country.

After purchasing a Portapak video camera, Blumenthal and Horsefield started a series of more than 60 videos featuring interviews with leading female artists of the 1960s and 1970s. On Art and Artists had her first conversations with the painters Joan Mitchell , Ree Morton and Agnes Martin and the curator Marcia Tucker . Alice Neel , Lucy Lippard , Lee Krasner , Barbara Kruger , the Guerilla Girls , Yvonne Rainer , Christine Choy , Martha Rosler , Nancy Spero and many others followed later .

In 1987 Lyn Blumenthal and Carole Ann Klonarides exhibited the work Arcade at documenta 8 in Kassel.

In memory of the video artist Lyn Blumenthal, who died at the age of 39, the members of the Video Data Bank founded the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund (LBMF) to support artists and art projects.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New York Times Lyn Blumenthal, 39, An Artist and Writer, accessed April 12, 2015
  2. ↑ Video Data Bank Website Video Data Bank , accessed April 12, 2015.
  3. ^ Video Data Bank On Art and Artists , accessed April 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 314; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5
  5. ↑ Video Data Bank Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund , accessed April 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Blumenthal, Lyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American video artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1988
Place of death Manhattan