DEBORAH REMINGTON / JUDY CHICAGO
Huffington Post, 09/01/2012
Peter Frank
DEBORAH REMINGTON / JUDY CHICAGO
Huffington Post, 09/01/2012
Peter Frank
Deborah Remington was one of America's most enigmatic contemporary painters. Evolving out of Bay Area abstract expressionism, Remington had developed an inimitable and impossible-to-classify imagery, and technique to go with it, by time she moved to New York in the 1960s. Her forms are at once organic and geometric, erratic and heraldic, hard-edged and sensuous, gemlike and fleshy, seductive and frightening. Luminous, almost electric colors describe the finely wrought edges of large, empty spaces, each composition ultimately posing a single huge, weird, eternally metamorphosing form clearly composed of several interlocking, likewise elusive components. The centrality of these forms after the mid-1960s, each featuring a void as its prominent nucleus, led feminist aestheticians to identify her work as quintessentially woman-identified. Remington resisted this construction, not wanting her unstable, feverish imagery to be fixed by an essentialist interpretation; but she never rejected the interpretation outright. This helped make the juxtaposition of some of Remington's most compelling and important canvases from the '60s and '70s with some of Judy Chicago's most compelling and important canvases of the '80s so coherent - and yet so dramatic. The vaporous, super-charged glow that pervades Chicago's work from the 1980s, carried over from her better known work of the previous decade, also connects the two painters' oeuvres. But the descriptiveness and deliberate bombast of Chicago's often immense figurative statements are light years from the circumspection of Remington's images. The "PowerPlay" series allowed Chicago to exploit and improve upon the cartoonish neo-expressionism of Schnabel, Kostabi, the German Neue Wilde, and other heroes of the moment, turning their pretense at angst and anomie into actual sociopolitical statements, rife with actual anger and confusion. In depicting man's struggle to manifest aggression and maintain dominance over woman, Chicago was able to convey, even in the cruelest and most violent images, a sense of universal tragedy. Everybody loses, the "PowerPlay" paintings and studies insist, and men are as trapped in and diminished by their roles as women in and by theirs. (David Richard, 544 S. Guadalupe St., Santa Fe; www.davidrichardgallery.com)
Associated Artist
Associated Exhibitions
- DEBORAH REMINGTON Select works from 1964 to 1975
June 29, 2012 - August 11, 2012
MORE INFO - JUDY CHICAGO ReViewing PowerPlay
June 29, 2012 - August 11, 2012
MORE INFO
Associated News
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May 14, 2015
Press Release - Judy Chicago "Heads Up" -
December 1, 2014
Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal Part 2 launched Dec. 1
Penn State, 12/01/2014
Catherine Grigor
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October 30, 2014
History Was Impetus, But It's Future Work That Drives Judy Chicago -
October 26, 2014
Invitations on the Journey: Wisdom from Elders
Patheos, 10/27/2014
Elizabeth Nordquist
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October 23, 2014
"Judy Chicago" at Denver's RedLine honors great American troublemaker
The Denver Post, 10/23/2014
Ray Mark Rinaldi
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July 24, 2014
Santa Fe Retreat: Judy Chicago
Lofty Ambitions Blog, 07/23/2014 -
July 7, 2014
Heads Up! New Works by Judy Chicago
Artsy.net, 07/07/2014
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May 22, 2014
Judy Chicago: Early Work at the Brooklyn Museum
NYArts Magazine, 05/22/2014
Anni Irish
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April 23, 2014
Judy Chicago at the Brooklyn Museum and Environs
Paradigm Shift, 04/23/2014
Heather Saunders -
April 23, 2014
Judy Chicago Proves She's About More Than Vagina Plates at Brooklyn Museum Show
The Village Voice, 04/23/2014
Lilly Lampe
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April 10, 2014
The Breakfast That Preceded ‘The Dinner Party’ ‘Chicago in L.A.’ Focuses on Judy Chicago’s Early Work
The New York Times, 04/10/2014
Ken Johnson
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March 28, 2014
Judy Chicago Celebrates 75th Birthday -
March 28, 2014
Judy Chicago
ArtForum, 03/28/2014
Paige Bradley
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March 6, 2014
Chicago on Chicago
Harvard Gazette, 03/05/2014
Valerie Vande Panne
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January 18, 2014
Can Judy Chicago make D.C. her sister city?
The Washington Post, 01/18/2014
Philip Kennicott
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March 1, 2013
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH ARTISTS: CELEBRATING WHM WITH JUDY CHICAGO AS THE KING OF HEARTS
Huffington Post, 03/01/2013
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February 16, 2013
JUDY CHICAGO
Woven and Stitched
February 15 – March 23, 2013
Gallery Lectures and Discussions on Tapestries and Textiles:
Saturday, February 23, 2:00—4:00pm -
August 30, 2012
PUSSYRIOT: WOMEN STILL A POTENT FORCE, SAYS FEMINIST ART FOUNDER JUDY CHICAGO
International Business Times, 08/30/2012
Gianluca Mezzofiore
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August 20, 2012
A SERIES OF JUDY CHICAGO EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS IN THE UK FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1985
ArtDaily.org, 08/20/2012 -
August 8, 2012
Judy Chicago: Reviewing Powerplay
ArtInfo.com, 08/08/2012
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August 8, 2012
DEBORAH REMINGTON: SELECTED WORKS FROM 1964 to 1975
Santa Fe New Mexican
Pasatiempo, 07/20/2012
Michael Abatemarco
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August 1, 2012
JUDY CHICAGO: REVIEWING POWERPLAY
THE Magazine, August 2012
Susan Wilder
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July 12, 2012
Interrogating Heroic-Ness – and Judy Chicago’s Cultural Powers
Adobe Airstream, 07/12/2012
Ellen Berkovitch -
July 1, 2012
Press Release - Deborah Remington "Selected Works from 1964 to 1975" -
June 16, 2012
Press Release - Judy Chicago "ReViewing PowerPlay" -
March 3, 2012
THE CROCKER ART MUSEUM OPENS A SURVEY OF GROUNDBREAKING ARTIST JUDY CHICAGO
Art Knowledge News, 03/03/2012
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February 23, 2012
THE INAUGURAL PALM SPRINGS FINE ART FAIR FEATURES MORE THAN 2,000 POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY WORKS
Art Knowledge News, 02/15/2012
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February 5, 2012
Press Release - Judy Chicago "Material Girl" -
December 12, 2011
JUDY CHICAGO TO RECEIVE THE PALM SPRINGS FINE ART FAIR'S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Visual Art Source, 12/12/2011 -
October 30, 2011
Q&A: JUDY CHICAGO
Los Angeles Times, 10/30/2011
Jori Finkel
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October 26, 2011
JUDY CHICAGO'S UPCOMING DISAPPEARING ENVIRONMENTS: HOW DO YOU MAKE ART OUT OF GIGANTIC PYRAMIDS OF DRY ICE? LA Weekly, 10/26/2011
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June 20, 2011
Press Release - Artist Judy Chicago Is Now Represented by David Richard Contemporary -
September 1, 2012
DEBORAH REMINGTON / JUDY CHICAGO
Huffington Post, 09/01/2012
Peter Frank