Judy Chicago now represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery

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Pioneering feminist artist, Judy Chicago, is to be represented by Jessica Silverman gallery in San Francisco.

Chicago, born in 1939 as Judy Cohen, until 1971 she kept the name of her first husband, Gerowitz, before changing to Chicago, ridding herself of any masculine domination.

Since the late 1960s, Chicago has used performance, installation, drawing, painting and photography to subvert male chauvinism and the rejection of women within art history.

The vagina is a recurring motif within her work in varying forms of abstraction, concealed by rings, flowers or butterflies. In her most celebrated work, The Dinner Party the vagina is an installation, a large triangular table with 39 famous women gathered for an imaginary dinner. The work was a collaborative piece and is now one of the Brooklyn Museum’s most visited works.




 

The artist’s work also is part of the LACMA and JUMEX collections. Chicago will exhibit at Jessica Silverman in fall 2017. Her work is currently on display at the CAPC Bordeaux until September 4.


image: Installation view of Wing One, featuring Primordial Goddess and Fertile Goddess place settings from The Dinner Party 1974 – 1979 Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Collection of the Brooklyn Museum. © Judy Chicago