JUDY CHICAGO "BIRTH TEAR/TEAR" SERIGRAPH, 1985Judy Chicago (b. 1939) is a world renowned American artist and preeminent figure of the Feminist Art movement of the 1970s. Throughout her career, Chicago has consistently challenged the (male dominated) art world with her creations by addressing issues of femininity, historical oppression, and power structures. Chicago is also notable for her embrace elevation of unconventional, craft or "feminine" materials such as needlepoint, embroidery and smoke.

that resembles a horseshoe crab

around the Bowery

AA Bronson

40”H 32”W (image)

"Untitled" (Reunion)

Italian art and architecture deepened Whitney's understanding of the complex relationship between color and structure

While these choices in subject matter were derided by critics at the time

"De la Famille des Étoiles"

which she has likened

he was commissioned by the MET to photograph the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Produced by Prospect and supported by Gagosian

his work feels more like an anomaly when positioned amongst Automatiste works and arguably has more in common with his American contemporaries associated with the Color Field movement