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Oral history interview with Judy Chicago

Archives of American Art

Oral history interview with Judy Chicago, 2009 August 7-8, Transcript
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Object Details

sova.aaa.chicag09
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw928399961-f9b0-4d50-8a17-8cf441459e13
General
Originally recorded on 4 compact discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 40 min.
Interviewee
Chicago, Judy, 1939-
Interviewer
Richards, Judith Olch
Names
ACA Galleries
LewAllen Contemporary (Gallery)
Bergen, Jeffrey, 1955-
Bullard, E. John (Edgar John), 1942-
Copeland, John
Dobbins, Norman
Dobbins, Ruth
Flack, Audrey
Hopkins, Henry, 1928-2009
LaMonte, Karen, 1967-
Lemon, Jack
LewAllen, Arlene
Lu, Jie, 1958-
Lucie-Smith, Edward
Marisol, 1930-2016
McFadden, David Revere
Neel, Alice, 1900-1984
Perkins, Flo
Pruitt, Tom
Rodee, Susannah
Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978
Saint-Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002
Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-
Semmel, Joan, 1932-
Taylor, Mary, 1947-
Thompson, Viki D., 1947-
Woodman, Donald
Youdelman, Nancy, 1948-
Occupation
Installation artists -- California -- Los Angeles
Performance artists -- California -- Los Angeles
Sculptors -- California -- Los Angeles
Painters -- California -- Los Angeles
Educators -- California -- Los Angeles
Topic
Feminism and art
Art -- Technique
Women artists
Women performance artists
Women painters
Women sculptors
Women authors
Provenance
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Interviewee
Chicago, Judy, 1939-
Interviewer
Richards, Judith Olch
Sponsor
Funding for this interview was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Biographical / Historical
Interviewee Judy Chicago (1939- ) is a feminist artist and author who lives and works in Belen, New Mexico. Interviewer Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former executive director of iCI in New York, New York.
Function
Artists' studios -- New Mexico
Extent
74 Pages (Transcript)
Date
2009 August 7-8
Archival Repository
Archives of American Art
Identifier
AAA.chicag09
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Genre/Form
Sound recordings
Interviews
Scope and Contents
An interview of Judy Chicago conducted 2009 August 7 and 8, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at Chicago's home and studio, in Belen, New Mexico.
Chicago speaks of her work since the late 1980s, having previously discussed her early life and works; printmaking projects with various print studios around the country; giving archived documents to important museums; creating a foundation with her husband Donald Woodman to protect the legacy of their art; the non-profit organization she started in 1978, Through the Flower; her studio practices and her most practiced techniques; keeping a regular schedule; her interest in collaborative projects such as The Dinner Party [1974-1979], the Birth Project [1980-1985], the Holocaust Project [1985-1993] and Resolutions: A Stitch in Time [1994-2000]; working with various textile and glass artists; feeling a kin with other female artists, like Nikki de Saint Phalle and Marisol Escobar; the responsibility she feels to share underrepresented information; her enjoyment of the process of making art and the hope that she creates art that is not bound by time; her relationships with galleries though the years including the ACA Galleries in New York and LewAllen Contemporary in Santa Fe; her intention in making art was not create proactive or controversial art; various teaching positions; her interest in combining text and images in works like Song of Songs [1997-1999]; her more current interest in glass; experimenting with the techniques of casting and etching to achieve her desired images; her want to change institutional policies that underrepresent women artists in museums and the absence of images of women by women artists. Chicago also recalls Henry Hopkins, Mary Ross Taylor, Susannah Rodee, John Bullard, Jack Lemon, Alice Neel, Edward Lucie-Smith, John Copeland, Harold Rosenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Jeffery Bergen, Audrey Flack, Joan Semmel, Nancy Youdelman, David McFadden, Viki Thomson Wylder, Tom Pruitt, Arlene LewAllen, Flo Perkins, Norman and Ruth Dobbins, Karen LaMonte, Lu Jie and others.
AAA.chicag09
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw928399961-f9b0-4d50-8a17-8cf441459e13
AAA.chicag09
AAA
Record ID
ebl-1596355214192-1596355214195-0
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