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December 19, 2006

Rochester, NY— Maker/Mentor: Joan Lyons,Selected Work/Four Decades & A Reading Room: Books from Visual Studies Workshop Press, opens at the Rochester Contemporary (RoCo) on January 26th, 2007 with an opening reception from 7-10pm. An artist’s talk is planned for February 9th at 7pm. This exhibition inaugurates RoCo’s 30th Anniversary year.

The Maker/Mentor Series is one of the cornerstones of RoCo annual programming. This program highlights one of the Rochester area’s “living treasures.” The artist selected is one who has been influential in the local arts scene for a number of years and in that time has helped to shape the careers of many others. The artist is then asked to select a group of other artists to exhibit with her.

As Founding Director of the VSW Press, a leading publisher and printer of artists’ books, Lyons has been active in the evolution and definition of the field and responsible for the production of more than 400 books by artists. Selected titles from the VSW Press are included in this exhibition.

Lyons has shown her work national and locally for over the past three decades. Her work is grounded in the understanding that photography and print, in their myriad permutations, are inextricably connected. This exhibition includes silver gelatin prints, archaic photography processes, pinhole photography, offset lithography, Haloid-Xerography, digital prints, a cyanotype quilt and artist’s books.

Additional information can be found on the artist's website at www.joan.lyons.name.

Maker/Mentor: Joan Lyons will be on display until February 25, 2007. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday 1-5.

All Images are the property of the artist. Reproduction for publicity use only without the expressed consent of the artist.

"Presences," 1980, offset lithograph, 17.5 x 24.5	Joan Lyons
Representation, 2000, digital inkjet print 25 x 24	Joan Lyons
"Personas," 2003, digital inkjet print, 17 x 22	Joan Lyons
Womans' Portraits, Haloid-Xerox lithograph, 1974, 19 x 26	Joan Lyons

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