Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago (b. 1939) is a multimedia artist, art educator, writer and founder of the first feminist art program in the United States. Chicago’s extensive career is highlighted by significant collaborative art installations, often pairing stereotypical female and male techniques such as needlework and welding.

Voices from the Song of Songs

At Graphicstudio, Chicago created Voices from the Song of Songs, a portfolio of six images and six text pages. She worked with Marcia Falk’s new translation of the ancient biblical text, which emphasizes its human and erotic nature as well as the mutuality of desire.

The images fuse the heliorelief photographic woodblock method with lithography, while the text pages in both English and Hebrew are rendered in heliorelief for the beautiful background gradations and polymer plastic relief for the text, along with handcoloring by the artist.

“(Voices from the Song of Songs) is a print series of stunning but carefully concealed virtuosity, which is accessible in a fashion which few contemporary artists are able to achieve. All those who have felt the emotion of romantic love will find something that speaks to them.” — Edward Lucie-Smith

 

Further Resources

Artist's Site: judychicago.com

Printmaking + Sculpture Terms

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Sales

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Copyright + Reproduction

Images of the artwork are jointly owned by the artist and Graphicstudio. Reproduction of any kind including electronic media must be expressly approved by Graphicstudio.