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Judy Fiskin
Long Beach Pike (Octopus), 1980
gelatin silver print7.5 x 5.125 in. (19.05 x 13.02 cm)
Purchase, NEA Commission
© Judy Fiskin
Judy Fiskin (American, b. 1945)
In 1980, aided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the University Art Museum commissioned six photographers (Joe Deal, Judy Fiskin, Anthony Hernandez, Kenneth McGowan, Grant Mudford, and Leland Rice) to document the changing landscape of the City of Long Beach. The resulting exhibition, Long Beach: A Photography Survey (November 10–December 14, 1980), a project of the Museum Graduate Certificate Program, yielded six very personal views of the city. Judy Fiskin has previously photographed 1920s stucco houses in Los Angeles, 1940s military architecture, shopfronts, alleys, and the desert, all seemingly anonymous subjects meant to convey isolation, loneliness, and mystery. Fiskin’s works created for Long Beach: A Photography Survey are particularly striking, due, in part, to her manipulation of the image with regard to size and detail, and provide haunting vignettes of familiar places devoid of human presence. She encourages us to establish an intimate relationship with the work, to “search our own memory file for personally relevant experiences.” A selection from this commissioned body of work, including Long Beach Pike (Octopus) was shown again from October 8 to November 17, 1996 in the exhibition Long Beach Odyssey: Joe Deal, Judy Fiskin, Anthony Hernandez, Kenneth McGowan, Grant Mudford, Leland Rice (A Photography Survey).
Fiskin has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Asher-Faure in Los Angeles, and Curt Marcus and Castelli Photographs in New York. She compiled and edited the journals of Richard Neutra and was co-director of Womanspace Gallery. Her work has been published in the Paris Review, Arts and Architecture and Art & Design among many other publications. Her work also has been shown at museums and galleries around the country and internationally. Her videotape Diary of a Midlife Crisis was shown internationally and won the Silver Spire award at the San Francisco Film Festival. Her video My Getty Center was shown at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1999 and she has a video installation for LACMA Lab at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on view from November 2001 to August 2002. She received her master’s degree in art history from UCLA.
