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Judy Chicago
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Turning Inward, JUDY CHICAGO, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, traces Judy Chicago’s development as an artist and Jewish woman across six decades, from her early formal vocabulary of geometric color abstraction and Land Art pyrotechnic installations to the powerful explorations of self-identity, power politics of gender, and her personal formative experiences.
Together, these works chart the boundary-pushing path of the artist named Cohen by birth and Gerowitz by marriage, who, in defiance of what she called the patriarchal structure of the Los Angeles art world, decided to change her name and make a mark on history. In October 1970, Judy Chicago announced her chosen identity with a full-page ad in Artforum, divesting “herself of all names imposed upon her through male social dominance.” The same year, Chicago founded the first feminist art education program in the United States at California State University, Fresno, a pedagogical approach that she has continued to develop over the ensuing years.
The museum is free on the first Saturday of the month.