JUDY CHICAGO
Heads Up

June 14 - July 26, 2014

Public Opening Reception: Saturday, June 14, 2:00 - 5:00 PM

Artist Gallery Talk with Judy Chicago and Dr. Kathy Battista:
Saturday, June 14, 3:30 - 5:00 P.M.


David Richard Gallery, LLC
Railyard Arts District
544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
p 505-983-9555 | f 505-983-1284 
www.DavidRichardGallery.com



Judy Chicago utilizes cast and painted glass, bronze and ceramics as media for exploring a range of human emotions and behaviors in "Heads Up", her newest body of work. The thought-provoking sculptures and paintings seduce us with their surfaces as a metaphor for human appearances, but challenge viewers to look more closely at a person and go beyond skin deep. 

David Richard Gallery will present Heads Up, the newest body of work by Judy Chicago in cast glass, bronze and ceramics that explores human emotions and behavior. The exhibition will be presented June 14 – July 26, 2014 with an opening reception on Saturday, June 14 from 2:00-5:00 PM and a gallery talk from 3:30 – 5:00 PM between Judy Chicago and Dr. Kathy Battista, a feminist scholar, writer, curator and Director, Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Battista will accompany the exhibition. The gallery is located on 544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, phone 505-983-9555 in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District.

Heads Up, by Chicago, is a thought-provoking study of human behavior. The work goes beyond feminist issues, embracing a wider audience and addressing a topic that ponders the human condition by connecting at a personal and individual level. The presentation includes a selection of cast glass, bronze and ceramic sculptures, paintings on clear glass panels and watercolor studies on paper. Glass is the perfect medium for exploring a topic as diverse and complex as human emotions and behaviors, with its range of transparent and translucent properties. By painting the surface, glass can also become opaque, allowing no transmission of light or view inside, like a shield or mask. The sculptures, with their combinations of painted glass, cast bronze and applied metal furthers Chicago’s fascination with smooth and pristine surfaces, yet the facial expressions and content goes beyond the skin's surface. The painted glass panels provide a glimpse into facial expressions and the accompanying musculature and skeletal apparatus required to pull them off, like a medical rendering. However, that is just the physical analysis of the underlying cause or effect for the behavior. While we do not know the models for these sculptures or paintings, we can identify with their emotions of anger, disappointment and envy as they evoke a memory or distain for someone that we—the viewer—do know. 

This exhibition is part of the year-long, nation-wide celebration of Judy Chicago's 75th birthday and a companion show to Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico, curated by Merry Scully and opening June 6th at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. Local Color is paired with the recently opened and widely acclaimed exhibition at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Chicago in L.A.: Judy Chicago's Early Work, 1962-1974, site of the permanent housing of Chicago's most well-known work, The Dinner Party.

Judy Chicago is an artist, writer, educator, collaborator and feminist who is not afraid to explore every artistic medium and communication device to speak on the behalf of and create opportunities for hearing women’s voices in the arts. Her multimedia artmaking practice has spanned over 50 years and included painting, drawing, sculpting and performing, using canvas, acrylic, watercolor, glass, bronze, photography and fireworks to name but a few media. Her intellectual impact influences the art world as well as numerous social, political and academic causes. Internationally recognized as a pioneer and defender of the rights of women and anyone else who feels powerless against those with power, she has received much critical acclaim for her artwork, writing and educational efforts with numerous reviews, publications, awards and honorary degrees. Chicago is best known for the Womanhouse project created with Miriam Schapiro in the 1970s, The Dinner Party, 1974-79, Birth Project, 1980-85, PowerPlay series, 1982-87, Holocaust Project, 1985-93 and her most recent work comprised of cast glass hands and heads.

David Richard Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Santa Fe, specializes in post-war abstract art including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, geometric and hard-edge painting, Op Art, Pop Art, Minimalism, Feminism and Conceptualism in a variety of media. Featuring both historic and contemporary artwork, the gallery represents many established artists who were part of important art historical movements and tendencies that occurred during the 1950s through the 1980s on both the east and west coasts. The gallery also represents artist estates, emerging artists and offers secondary market works.

Associated Artist

• Judy Chicago

Associated Exhibitions

• JUDY CHICAGO
  Heads Up
  June 14, 2014 - July 26, 2014
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Associated News

• 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
  
  


• 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
  
  


• October 23, 2014
  "Judy Chicago" at Denver's RedLine honors great American troublemaker
  The Denver Post, 10/23/2014
  Ray Mark Rinaldi
  
  


• 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
  
  


• May 22, 2014
  Judy Chicago: Early Work at the Brooklyn Museum
  NYArts Magazine, 05/22/2014
  Anni Irish
  
  


• 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
  
  


• 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
  
  


• March 28, 2014
  Judy Chicago Celebrates 75th Birthday


• March 28, 2014
  Judy Chicago
  ArtForum, 03/28/2014
  Paige Bradley
  
  


• March 6, 2014
  Chicago on Chicago
  Harvard Gazette, 03/05/2014
  Valerie Vande Panne
  
  


• January 18, 2014
  Can Judy Chicago make D.C. her sister city?
  The Washington Post, 01/18/2014
  Philip Kennicott
  
  


• March 1, 2013
  WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH ARTISTS: CELEBRATING WHM WITH JUDY CHICAGO AS THE KING OF HEARTS
  Huffington Post, 03/01/2013
  
  


• 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
  
  


• 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
  
  


• August 1, 2012
  
  JUDY CHICAGO: REVIEWING POWERPLAY
  THE Magazine, August 2012
  Susan Wilder
  
  


• 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
  
  


• 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
  
  


• 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
  
  


• 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
  
  


• June 20, 2011
  Press Release - Artist Judy Chicago Is Now Represented by David Richard Contemporary