Bigamy Hood Plate - Judy Chicago (2020)

THE BIGAMY HOOD PLATE (2020) IS BASED ON AN EARLY IMAGE THAT APPEARED ON BOTH A PAINTING AND SUBSEQUENTLY, A CAR HOOD. THE ORIGINAL PAINTING WAS DONE WHILE | WAS STILL IN GRADUATE SCHOOL AT UCLA AND IT WAS GREETED WITH DERISION BY MY PAINTING INSTRUCTORS. AS A RESULT, I DESTROYED IT, BUT NOT BEFORE LAYING IT OUT ON A CAR HOOD (BIGAMY HOOD) AFTER | WENT TO AUTO BODY SCHOOL IN ORDER TO LEARN TO SPRAY PAINT WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT | HAVE DONE THROUGHOUT MY CAREER. THE IMAGERY REFERENCES AN INTERRUPTED CONNECTION, BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE DEATHS OF BOTH MY FATHER (WHEN | WAS THIRTEEN AND MY FIRST HUSBAND WHEN | WAS TWENTY-THREE).
THE SYMBOLS INCLUDE A BROKEN HEART, DOUBLE CROSSES AND A PHALLIC FORM THAT YEARNS FOR THE FEMALE-CENTERED FORMS AT THE TOP OF THE IMAGE.

Pioneering artist Judy Chicago worked on representations of the female form and sexual yearning. She is perhaps most famous for her ‘Dinner Party’ installation, a huge ceremonial banquet on a triangular table, each place setting representing a woman from history, including the plates.

Fine Bone China - Ceramic

10 4/5" diameter | 27.5 cm diameter | Limited Edition of 500

Multidisciplinary artist Judy Chicago helped pioneer the feminist art movement in the 1960s and ’70s; for decades, she has made work that celebrates the multiplicity of female identity. Chicago’s practice spans painting, textile arts, sculpture, and installation and has explored the intricacies of childbirth (as seen in her “Birth Project” series, 1980–85), the possibilities of minimalist sculpture, and the relationship between landscape and the female body. Her most famous work, an installation called The Dinner Party (1974–79), is an homage to 39 influential female figures from Eastern and Western mythology and civilization. Chicago studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. She founded a groundbreaking and widely influential feminist art program while on staff at California State University, Fresno. Her work has been exhibited in New York, London, Milan, Chicago, and San Francisco and belongs in the collections of the British Museum, Moderna Museet, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Tate, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.