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Biography 2007 Dorit Cypis, works as an artist (MFA, Cal Arts, 1977), a conflict communications mediator (Masters of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University, 2005), a public programs director, and teacher. Since the late 70’s Dorit Cypis has been exploring the relationship between personal and social identity, questioning subjectivity in relation to corporeal, social, political and psychological spaces by employing strategies of photography, performance, installation, sculpture and social interaction. Cypis’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the Whitney Museum of American; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center; Musee d'Art Contemporaire, Montreal; Musee des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Corps de Garde; De Zaak, Netherlands; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal; Hammer Museum; Optica Gallery, Montreal; Orange County Museum; Noga Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Most recently Cypis’ began studying conflict resolution to understand the relationships between dualism (victim-victimizer) and dialecticism (the negotiation of power), seeking a social and political ethics that engage empathy and comprehension of difference and sameness. Her work today mines aesthetics and ethics. Cypis’ museum exhibitions, are immersive laboratories abstracting forms, positions, gestures, and meanings to shed light on the paradoxes of identity, while her public works/actions are social/political extensions, mediating aesthetic abstractions into living life. Here form truly meets function and ideology shifts back to experience. Among other her artistic platforms Dorit Cypis has generated cultural programming over the last 25 years with notable projects as F.A.R. 1979-1982, Los Angeles, questioning the production of art, the role of artists and the ability of artists to penetrate cultural domains. In 1992-1999, Cypis developed Kulture Klub Collaborative, Twin Cities, bridging survival and inspiration through networking between homeless youth and artists. Both these organization continue today. Her new project, Foreign Exchanges, offers strategies of engagement bridging personal and cultural differences through aesthetics, ethics, conflict resolution and somatic arts, for leaders in culture, education, business and philanthropy. FE represents the strengths of Cypis’ work as an artist, a mediator, and an educator. |
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