“The girls have their own home now — I’m like, Go and be well”
Photo: Gabriel Olsen/FilmMagic Judy Chicago is in her early 80s now but remains entirely committed to the bit, showing up to her Art Basel exhibition with indigo hair and a sequin-spangled top. She’s here for the opening of her show — Judy Chicago in Glass — which runs through January 15 and features a collection of lesser-known glasswork that dates back to the early aughts.
Judy Chicago, Extended Hand with Golden Fingernails, 2008, Gold-leaf on cast glass Photo: ©Judy Chicago/Artist Rights Society New York; Photo © Donald Woodman/ARS, NY Courtesy of The Artist; Nina Johnson Gallery We’re all chatting about how the inside view of one hand sculpture — a frosted glass piece with a translucent tunnel leading from arm to hand — brings to mind images of sperm traveling through a vaginal canal when two women in the gallery pretty much prove Chicago’s point.
When you change materials, the meaning changes. The bronze, it evokes mortuary reliefs, marble death masks. But glass, it makes the fragility of death, the vulnerability of it, more evident. We live in a culture that denies death and tries to hide it. I wanted to understand it, and face it with some level of dignity, and not end up terrified.
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