"The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco celebrate pioneering feminist artist Judy Chicago with a retrospective spanning from her early engagement with the Californian Light and Space Movement in the 1960s to her current body of work, a searing investigation of mortality and environmental devastation, begun in 2015. The exhibition includes approximately 130 paintings, prints, drawings, and ceramic sculptures, in addition to ephemera, several films, and a documentary. Together, these works of art chart the boundary-pushing path of the artist named Cohen by birth and Gerowitz by marriage, who, after trying to fit into the patriarchal structure of the Los Angeles art world, decided to change her name and the course of history.

Organized on the heels of the 40th anniversary of Chicago's landmark installation, The Dinner Party, in San Francisco and opening in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote across the United States, Judy Chicago: A Retrospective pays homage to an artist whose lifelong fight against the suppression and erasure of women’s creativity has finally come full circle."

This text is respectfully taken from the de Young's web site. De Young Museum

 

 

 

Mortality Relief

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Patinated bronze

Detail of:

Mortality Relief

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

"I have come to understand that justice for women is inevitably connected to the necessity for a global justice that encompsses all living creatures, both human and non-human. Our own fate is inexorably tied to our treatment of other species and the planet."

--Judy Chicago, 2021

 

Finned

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Slit Open

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Battered

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Bleached

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Smuggled

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Targeted

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Smothered

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Harvested

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

 

Extinction Relief

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Patinated bronze

Stranded

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Vulnerable

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Declining

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Collected

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Detail of:

Collected

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Poached

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

Extinction Relief

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Patinated bronze

 

How Will I Die? #2

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

How Will I Die? #3

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

How Will I Die? #4

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

How Will I Die? #5

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

How Will I Die? #6

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

How Will I Die? #7

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

How Will I Die? #9

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2015

Kiln-fired glass paint on black glass

 

Extinction Relief

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Patinated bronze

Detail of:

Extinction Relief,

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Patinated bronze

Detail of:

Extinction Relief,

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Patinated bronze

Detail of:

Extinction Relief,

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Patinated bronze

 

Detail of:

Extinction Relief,

from

The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

2016

Patinated bronze

 

 

Two-Faced Toby Mugs

2010

Multi-fired china paint on porcelain

Two-Faced Toby Mugs

2010

Multi-fired china paint on porcelain

 

Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light

 

Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light

 

Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light

Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Fall

1993

The Fall

1993

Detail of:

The Fall

1993

Detail of:

The Fall

1993

Detail of:

The Fall

1993

Detail of:

The Fall

1993

Detail of:

The Fall

1993

 

Grand Snake Arm #2

2007

Etching, cold work, and gold leaf on cast glass

 

 

 

Detail of:

Treblinka/Genocide

1988

Sprayed acrylic oil and photography on photolinen, screenprinting and fabric

Treblinka/Genocide

1988

Sprayed acrylic oil and photography on photolinen, screenprinting and fabric

Detail of:

Treblinka/Genocide

1988

Sprayed acrylic oil and photography on photolinen, screenprinting and fabric

Detail of:

Treblinka/Genocide

1988

Sprayed acrylic oil and photography on photolinen, screenprinting and fabric

 

Driving the World to Destruction

1985

Sprayed acrylic and oil on Belgian linen

Rainbow Man

from

Power Play

1984

Sprayed acrylic and oil on Belgian linen

 

Doublehead with Gold Tear/Help Me #6

1996

Unique acrylic and oil paint on cast paper

 

Pissing on Nature

from

Power Play

1984

Sprayed acrylic and oil on Belgian linen

In the Shadow of the Handgun

from

Power Play

1984

Sprayed acrylic and oil on Belgian linen

Lavender Doublehead/Hold Me #5

1996

Unique acrylic and oil paint on cast paper

Detail of:

Rainbow Man

from

Power Play

1984

Sprayed acrylic and oil on Belgian linen

 

Detail of:

Driving the World to Destruction

1985

Sprayed acrylic and oil on Belgian linen

Detail of:

Driving the World to Destruction

1985

Sprayed acrylic and oil on Belgian linen

 

 

 

 

 

Butterfly Test Plates (set of 5)

1973-1974

China paint on porcelain

 

 

Testplate for The Dinner Party

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)

1979

Test plate for The Dinner Party

Virginia Woolf version 1

1975-1978

Virginia Woolf Test Plate #1 for The Dinner Party

1975-1978

Virginia Woolf Test Plate #2 for The Dinner Party

1975-1978

The Dinner Party

Test plate for The Dinner Party

Sojourner Truth 1797-1883

1979

Test plate for The Dinner Party

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

1979

Test plate for The Dinner Party

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

1979

Eleanor of Aquitaine Test Plate

1975-1978

Eleanor of Aquitaine Test Plate #3

1975-1978

 

Study for C. Herschel, S. Anthony, E. Blackwell, and E. Smyth Plates

1978

Study for The Dinner Party Plate of Emily Dickinson

1977

Study for The Dinner Party Plate of Virginia Woolf

1978

 

 

Red Flag

1971

Photo-lithograph on paper

Gunsmoke

1971

Offset photo-lithograph on paper

 

Through the Flower 2

1973

Sprayed acrylic on canvas

In the Shadow of the Handgun

from

Power Play

1984

Sprayed acrylic and oil on Belgian linen

Let It All Hang Out

1973

Acrylic on canvas

Mme. de Stael

from

Reincarnation Triptych

1973

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forever de Young: A Judy Chicago Performance

Saturday, October 16, 2021

5 pm / de Young

A one-time-only experience: see clouds of color transform Golden Gate Park in this live sculpture performance that is free and open to all. Judy Chicago’s Forever de Young employs media that mix with the wind and the light to create spectacular color effects. Don’t miss the artist’s largest public performance to date. This performance is free to public.

 

M. H. de Young

By Pablo Troubetzkoy (1866-1938)

ca. 1917

Bronze