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Judy Chicagois an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University, Fresnowhich acted as a catalyst for feminist art and art education during the 1970s.
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About the Judy Chicago
Judy Chicagois an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University, Fresnowhich acted as a catalyst for feminist art and art education during the 1970s. Her inclusion in hundreds of publications in various areas of the world showcases her influence in the worldwide art community. Additionally, many of her books have been published in other countries, making her work more accessible to international readers. Chicago’s work incorporates a variety of artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Her most well-known work is The Dinner Party, which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The Dinner Party celebrates the accomplishments of women throughout history and is widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork. Other notable art projects by Chicago include International Honor Quilt, Birth Project, Powerplay, and The Holocaust Project. She is represented by Jessica Silverman gallery.
Chicago was included in Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2018”.
12 Quotes by Judy Chicago
- 1.
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
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There’s no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that’s really great.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
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I think what’s important is to give space to the range of human experience.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
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I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
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You shouldn’t have to justify your work.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
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Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn’t figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
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People have accepted the media’s idea of what feminism is, but that doesn’t mean that it’s right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
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I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
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I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
- 10.
Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
- 11.
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that’s definitely changed.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher
- 12.
I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I’m interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.
Judy ChicagoAmerican artist, author, and teacher