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“I was really out of step with the art world for a very very long time. I had a different set of values. I did not believe in destroying the earth in order to make art. I believed in trying to bring my aesthetic into the environment and share it, rather than impose it on anybody or anything.” —Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (b. 1939, Chicago) is a favorite around here at Daily Plinth HQ, and we were pretty excited to catch her fantastic retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, A Reckoning, that opened during Miami Art Week in December (through April 21, 2019). Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose career spans over five decades. Her influence both within and beyond the art world is attested to by her inclusion in hundreds of publications throughout the world, and her art has been frequently exhibited in the US and throughout the world. In addition, a number of the books she has authored have been published in foreign editions, bringing her art and philosophy to readers worldwide.
Unfortunately, we were not able to catch the performance of her newest smoke work A Purple Poem for Miami, (2019), which she performed in Miami on February 23, 2019. So we can think of no better way to start off our Women’s History Month programming than with this video from the ICA, in which Chicago talks about the history and inspiration for her smoke works, walks us through the Miami installation, and shares a few choice words for some of her male contemporaries in land and installation art.
