Judy Chicago

Susie Monday

50 x 30 inches

2019

ARTIST STATEMENT

Judy Chicago, 1939 – Chicago, IL

Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, executed between 1974 and 1979, upended the art world with its feminist stance, iconic images and collaborative nature, as it embraced women’s history, conceptual art, and “women’s word.” Completed with hundreds of volunteers, it is now installed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Chicago has remained steadfast in her commitment to the power of art as a vehicle for social change. As a young artist, who wanted to be taken as seriously as my male counterparts, Chicago modeled both that women are and can be artists, and that the dynamic of male dominance of the art world was not just my imagination.

MATERIALS

Cotton, batting, threads

Digital fabric design, fusing, machine quilting, hand-stitching