Judy Chicago
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We meet the LEGENDARY, trailblazing artist, author, educator and feminist icon Judy Chicago (b. 1939, Chicago, USA!!! We explore her major retrospective in New York\'s New Museum. Judy Chicago: Herstory spans her epic sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist\\u2019s contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking.
Expanding the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition will place six decades of Chicago\\u2019s work in dialogue with work by other women across centuries in a unique Fourth Floor installation. Entitled \\u201cThe City of Ladies,\\u201d this exhibition-within-the-exhibition will feature artworks and archival materials from over eighty artists, writers, and thinkers, including Simone de Beauvoir, Hildegard of Bingen, Artemisia Gentileschi, Zora Neale Hurston, Frida Kahlo, Hilma af Klint, and Virginia Woolf, among many others.
Taking over four floors of the Museum, \\u201cHerstory\\u201d traces the entirety of Chicago\\u2019s practice from her 1960s experiments in Minimalism and her revolutionary feminist art of the 1970s to her narrative series of the 1980s and 1990s in which she expanded her focus to confront environmental disaster, birth and creation, masculinity, and mortality. Contextualizing her feminist methodology within the many art movements in which she has participated\\u2014and from whose histories she has frequently been erased\\u2014\\u201cHerstory\\u201d will showcase Chicago\\u2019s tremendous impact on American art and highlight her critical role as a cultural historian claiming space for women artists previously omitted from the canon.
Summer 2024, Serpentine gallery in London will present a new exhibition of Judy Chicago. Revelations will be Chicago\\u2019s first solo presentation in a major London institution. One of the most provocative and influential artists working today, Chicago came to prominence in the late 1960s when she challenged the male-dominated landscape of the art world by making work that was boldly from a woman\\u2019s perspective.
With a specific focus on drawing \\u2013 a medium that has occupied Chicago\\u2019s artistic practice for over seven-decades \\u2013 Judy Chicago: Revelations charts the arc of the artist\\u2019s career allowing visitors to uncover the breadth of her practice. It brings together archival and never-before-seen artworks, preparatory studies, notebooks and sketchbooks that reveal her working process and rigour in incorporating intensive, often years-long research. The exhibition presents the ways in which drawing functions as a mode to express Chicago\\u2019s innermost thoughts, hopes and, at times, most painful memories and experiences.
Judy Chicago lives and works in New Mexico, USA.
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Visit HERSTORY at the New Museum until 3rd March 2024: https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/judy-chicago-herstory
Visit Judy\'s official website: https://judychicago.com/
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