This exhibit was spectacular! It took over four floors at The New Museum and it was the first comprehensive survey of this beloved feminist artist. It was loaded with goddesses! It is now traveling the nation and the New Museum is under construction.
Here is the museum's description of the exhibit: "Judy Chicago: Herstory" spans Judy Chicago's sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist's 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's work in dialogue with work by other women across centuries in a unique Fourth Floor installation. Entitled "The City of Ladies," 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."
Herstory traced Chicago's 60 year career and all her groundbreaking approaches. It showed her impact on American art and her role as a "cultural historian claiming space for women artists previously omitted from the canon."
Cheers to the curators. They did an amazing job.
-Laurie Sue Brockway
