The artist JudyChicago joins us via FaceTime for a conversation about breaking glass.
’s ceramic place settings represented a number history-altering women, Chicago’s latest exhibition focuses on more sweeping themes that have intrigued the artist over nearly seven decades of practice.
Chicago joined us via FaceTime from the Nina Johnson Gallery to discuss her new exhibition, mastering glass on her own terms, and grappling with the medium’s unforgiving character. Recently, she celebrated the completion of her largest glasswork to date——only to have it shattered en route to the gallery. “Glass breaks,” says Chicago with a shrug, “It’s just part of the process.
CHICAGO: This is two feet high. Here’s a gesture that would normally be a gesture of power. It has all these associations with Black Power, also native power, brutal power. But you can see right through the glass. So now we’re talking about the vulnerability and fragility of that kind of power. To get a piece like this out of a kiln, it had to be annealed for two months.CHICAGO: Glass is poured molten. Then it’s hardened in the mold in a kiln.
SMALL: I love it. I feel like there’s almost a sci-fi undercurrent in the transparency of the anatomy.CHICAGO: If you look inside, you see musculature and structure, but of course the gesture with those polished nails, you know, is hiding all suggestions of animality and physiology.
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