DAVID RICHARD GALLERY HAPPENINGS
David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. consistently acts as host to various exhibitions and interesting events. This week, we’ve asked David Eichholtz and Richard Barger to write a little about some of their most recent happenings. Enjoy!
DAVID RICHARD GALLERY SHOWS
David Richard Gallery is featuring two solo textile exhibitions, Judy Chicago, Woven and Stitched and June Wayne, The Tapestries: Forces of Nature and Beyond, through March 23 in Santa Fe, NM, www.DavidRichardGallery.com.
The textiles by Judy Chicago were produced from 1983 through 2000. They are from two of her many projects that incorporate textiles, Birth Project and Resolutions for the Millennium: A Stitch In Time. These artworks are comprised of tapestry, embroidery, appliqué, quilting, macramé, beading and other needlework techniques and materials, either alone or in various combinations. By pairing proverbs and adages with contemporary imagery that evoke compassion and tolerance, Chicago examines in these artworks our birth and how we can live together in harmony in international, multi-cultural communities.
June Wayne (1918-2011) was a multi-faceted artist: lithographer, painter, writer and filmmaker. She was best known for founding and running the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles from 1960 through 1970. After transferring Tamarind to the University of New Mexico, she then focused her attention on these magnificent tapestries produced in France from 1970 through 1975. The tapestries are based upon lithographs produced by Wayne, featuring her contemporary images in a very traditional and historic medium, but updated through the use of abstraction, vibrant colors, complex weaving and deep textures. Wayne was fascinated by technology, so the images are centered on science-based themes of interest to her at the time, including tidal waves, DNA, the cosmos, binocular vision and optical effects—all forces of nature and beyond human control.
The gallery hosted lectures and a panel discussion on Saturday, February 23 that included Elissa Auther, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Janet Koplos, contributing editor to Art In America; and David Eichholtz, curator and art writer at David Richard Gallery. The speakers noted that both artists were and are provocateurs, responsible directly and indirectly for inspiring and influencing other artists and generations with respect to re-examining the use of textiles and addressing women’s issues. Auther discussed the importance of Chicago’s textiles and in particular her use of embroidery, not just as “a relic of an irrelevant politics associated with the women’s art movement of the 1970s,” but instead, “as a living, viable contemporary art form.” Auther spoke of other artists using embroidery in contemporary artwork. One such artist, Orly Cogan, collects household embroidery in antique shops and uses it as the point of departure for her own original work to create narratives and commentary on contemporary culture, from sex and drugs to pastries and other indulgences. Cogan’s images seem to focus on women and like Chicago’s art practice, appear to challenge preconceived notions of what is appropriate for women to dream of and do.
Janet Koplos noted the tactile nature of the surfaces and the literal or illusionistic tension between the two and three-dimensional planes of the textiles in the exhibition. Since the 1950s there has been a significant trend away from purely two dimensions in textiles to more sculptural and three-dimensions.
Associated Artist
Associated Exhibitions
- JUNE WAYNE The Tapestries: Forces of Nature and Beyond
February 15, 2013 - March 23, 2013
MORE INFO - JUDY CHICAGO Woven and Stitched
February 15, 2013 - March 23, 2013
MORE INFO - LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS: JUNE WAYNE'S TAPESTRIES AND JUDY CHICAGO'S TEXTILES
February 23, 2013 - February 23, 2013
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 17, 2014
PMCA offers a glimpse of the many talents of artist June Wayne -
July 7, 2014
Heads Up! New Works by Judy Chicago
Artsy.net, 07/07/2014
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July 1, 2014
“June Wayne: Paintings, Prints, and Tapestries”
Art LTD, July 2014
Christopher Michno
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May 22, 2014
It’s June all summer at Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Jewish Journal, 05/22/2014
Jonathan Maseng
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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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May 20, 2014
June Wayne: The Printmaker Who Started a Renaissance
Glendale News - Press, 05/20/2014
Kirk Silsbee
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May 9, 2014
Framed: The Stuff of Life Looks Like an Angel of Death in 'Col Noir'
Los Angeles Magazine, 05/09/2014
Lyle Zimskind
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May 2, 2014
June Wayne retrospective celebrates an artist who loved science
Los Angeles Times, 05/02/2014
Deborah Netburn
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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 11, 2013
JUNE WAYNE: THE TAPESTRIES — FORCES OF NATURE AND BEYOND
Santa Fe New Mexican
Pasatiempo, 03/11/2013
Michael Abatemarco
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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 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 -
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 -
February 28, 2013
DAVID RICHARD GALLERY HAPPENINGS