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Judy Chicago
- Textile Museum of Canada
- 55 Centre Ave. • View on map »
- 416-599-5321
- http://www.textilemuseum.ca
The Dinner Party, a giant 1979 installation consisting of a triangular table onto which places are set for women artists both famous and unsung, cemented Judy Chicago’s status as a giant in the feminist art canon. The piece doesn’t just celebrate female artists but also the practices with which they have been traditionally associated—china painting and textile manufacture, for instance. And these practices also characterize much of Chicago’s other, lesser-known work, the subject of this new Textile Museum exhibit curated by Allyson Mitchell (of Lady Sasquatch fame). The gist here is technique as content: not only do Chicago’s textiles depict voluptuous, fecund figures, they are also made with a painstaking care that emphasizes the complexity and power of the sexuality, and the consciousness, they are conveying. Artwork not for sale.—David Balzer
- When:
- Feb. 11/09 - Sep. 7/09
- How Much:
- $6–$12
Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Ave.
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