Judy Chicago (by Merry Scully) PDF

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“Retrospective in a Box”’ ○ series of images ○ minimalist ○ birth ○ power play ○ self-portrait (aging, women’s roles) born in Chicago Chicago Art Institute UCLA graduate (BA & master of fine arts in sculpture) only woman/one of few women in classes dry ice enviro. work ○ light in space, ethereal, stacks of dry ice creating foggy/futuristic atmosphere “Rainbow Picket” ○ minimal, nonrepresentational ○ of aesthetic of the time -- reductive, masculine ○ rainbow pickets leaning against wall moved away from masculine/linear work w/ more rounded forms “Atmospheres” ○ colored smoke & figures in landscape work w/ Suzanne Lacey (feminist artist) & other ○ 3 tubs -- eggs, blood, clay ○ audio of women telling rape experiences ○ over few hr.’s ○ women in tubs then wrapped in bandages ○ healing ceremony/exposure opened feminist study program w/ Miriam Schapiro (feminist art program) ○ Womanhouse -- where taught coursework & displayed works ○ consciousness raising techniques -- pop. w/ feminist movement; workers/women didn’t know were being oppressed so needed consciousness raised to understand ○ domestic sphere to comment on women’s lives ○ discuss women’s biology, roles, etc. take on own I.D. by taking on own name instead of husband/father ‘’Through the Flower” ○ trying to define female iconography ○ flat, round flower “Peeling Back” ○ women think more about their lives, roles, I.D. ○ what’s truly theirs/what’s been placed upon them ○ struct. reveals hidden form -- here I am w/ woman’s body & POV ○ vaginal-like depiction ○ b/c needed to peel back more, other work wasn’t enough “Dinner Party” ○ over 6 yr.’s

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○ 3 sided table setting for 39 women ○ 13 ppl @ last supper x 3 ○ wanted dinner for ppl who usually doing dishes ○ each place setting -- chalice, silverware, plate, embroidered setting ○ embroidery considered lower art b/c shown in home ○ take domestic craft into museum ○ 100’s of volunteers ○ plate idea of peeling back -- vaginal/vulva like ○ research to find women’s history b/c wasn’t widely avail. ○ heritage floor -- 999 additional significant women ○ religious overlay (raised secularly) ○ toured to 16 places; defined career criticism from mainstream & feminist mvmt. hard to find venues worked on power play project -- construct of masculinity “In the Shadow of the Handgun” ○ man’s hand like gun, tip of finger shooting blood “Driving the World to Destruction” ○ man holding steering wheel by firelike enviro. diff. medias in power play “Nuclear Wasted” ○ power plants plugged w/ corks & spewing neon green ○ nuclear storage facility in New Mexico -- all waste to be stored in city in NM, driven thru country ○ worried about health of planet comb. work w/ husband’s photo. work in collab. holocaust project -- worked on w/ husband for 8 yr. ○ sound & visual ○ both Jewish ○ researched heritage, visited concentration camps ○ banality of evil -- turn off & on morality ○ 4 Questions -- 2-sided installation, based on 4 ques.’s asked in ?, striped pics, 2 diff. views depending on perspective; bioethical issues ○ from darkness into light ○ colored triangle w/ colors of diff. lvl’s of degenerates, surrounded by barbwire & fire ○ celebrate religion “Resolutions -- A Stitch in Time” ○ collab. w/ other women ○ needlepoint ○ family, responsibility, conservation, tolerance, human rights, hope, change ○ things imprt. to them self-portrait ○ around 75th birthday

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aging woman, artist jew “everyone would see who she really was” vulnerable...