Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art, Visual Art

Lorie Novak

Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art, Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987, 1990, 2000
More: www.lorienovak.com
Lorie Novak is an American artist and educator. 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 explore issues related to memory and transmission, identity and loss, presence and absence, shifting cultural meanings of photographs, and the relationship between the intimate and the public. Her Web project collectedvisions.net, 1996-present, exploring how family photographs shape our memory was one of the earliest interactive storytelling sites. Novak's works are in different permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fogg Art Museum, George Eastman House, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Studios

Adams

Lorie Novak worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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