Janet Lipkin

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Janet Lipkin
Born
Janet Iva Lipkin

(1948-07-24) July 24, 1948 (age 76)
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Education Pratt Institute (BFA)
Occupation(s)Clothing designer, visual artist, educator
Known forCoat and jacket design, textile art, printmaking, painting
Movement Artwear
Spouse(s)Arthur Decker (m. 1969–1974; div.), Barry Lee Shapiro (m. 1981–2009; his death)
Children2
Website www.janetlipkin.com

Janet Lipkin (born July 24, 1948) is an American clothing designer, visual artist and educator. [1] She is known for her crocheted and mixed media apparel and is a leading figure in the Artwear movement from the 1970s and 1980s. Lipkin also works in textile art, painting, and printmaking. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in Richmond, California. [2]

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Early life, family, and education

Janet Iva Lipkin was born on July 24, 1948, in Jersey City, New Jersey, to parents Ruth (née Jacobson) and Milton Lipkin. [3] She graduated with a BFA degree in 1970 from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. [3] One of Lipkin's classmates at Pratt Institute was Jean Cacicedo. [1] Additionally she took classes at Penland School of Craft in Penland, North Carolina.

Lipkin was married to Arthur Decker from 1969 until 1974, ending in divorce. [4] [3] She remarried in 1981 to photographer Barry Lee Shapiro, together they had two children. [3] Shaprio died from cancer in 2009.

Career

In her early career she is known for her crocheted clothing, specifically coats and jackets. [5] She later used in her clothing design work the knitting machine, beading, hand knitting, and ikat dyeing. [6] [7] [8] [9] Her apparel work combine textures, colors, and materials. [10] Lipkin also started painting and printmaking in her later career. She is considered a leading figure within the Artwear movement. [11]

She worked for many years teaching art classes at the private Jewish day school Tehiyah Day School in El Cerrito, California, [2] before its closure in 2018. [12] She also taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension Program in the 1970s. [13]

Her artwork is in museum collections, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; [14] the Philadelphia Museum of Art; [15] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; [16] and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. [17]

References

  1. 1 2 "Janet Lipkin". Craft in America . Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  2. 1 2 Bean, Kyrsten (February 14, 2011). "Who's Who: Janet Lipkin, Artist and Teacher". El Cerrito, California Patch . Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Who's Who of American Women, 1997–1998. Marquis Who's Who. December 1996. p. 647. ISBN   978-0-8379-0422-1 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Marriage of Decker and Lipkin". Hartford Courant . June 16, 1969. p. 17. Retrieved 2024-12-11– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Wada, Yoshiko Iwamoto (2002). Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now. Kodansha International. p. 125. ISBN   978-4-7700-2777-1.
  6. ↑ Morris, Bernadine (December 25, 1979). "Sweater Designers Create a Warm and Wearable Art Form". The New York Times . p. 31.
  7. ↑ Barron, Stephanie; Bernstein, Sheri; Fort, Ilene Susan (2000). Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. University of California Press. p. 261. ISBN   978-0-520-22765-1.
  8. ↑ Searle, Karen (2008). Knitting Art: 150 Innovative Works from 18 Contemporary Artists. Voyageur Press. p. 14. ISBN   978-0-7603-3067-8.
  9. ↑ D.C.), Textile Museum (Washington (1996). The Kimono Inspiration: Art and Art-to-wear in America. Pomegranate. p. 184. ISBN   978-0-87654-598-0.
  10. ↑ Lauria, Jo; Fenton, Steve (2007). Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects. Clarkson Potter. p. 259. ISBN   978-0-307-34647-6.
  11. ↑ Art-com, Issue 14–19. Contemporary Arts Press. 1981. p. 5. ISBN   978-0-931818-03-5.
  12. ↑ Pine, Dan (2018-07-19). "Tehiyah Day School closes due to budget crisis, low enrollment". Berkeleyside . J Weekly . Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  13. ↑ "Quilting And Crochet Classes Offered". Santa Cruz Sentinel . September 27, 1973. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-12-10– via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Janet Lipkin". Museum of Arts and Design. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  15. ↑ "Bone Bag". Philadelphia Museum of Art . Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  16. ↑ "Woman's coat". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  17. ↑ "Janet Lipkin". LACMA Collections. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
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