Wrestling with the Shadow for Her Life
Judy Chicago
Wrestling with the Shadow for Her Life, 2024
Stamped and numbered
Edition of 200 + 20 APS
Image size - 16 x 12 in. (40.64 x 30.48 cm)
Paper size as 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Somerset Radiant White Velvet 330 gsm
Digital print
£300 (incl. VAT)
Judy Chicago, Wrestling with the Shadow for Her Life from Shadow Drawings, 1982. Prismacolor on rag paper, 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm). © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo © Donald Wood-man/ARS, NY. Courtesy of the artist.
This new limited edition print of Wrestling with the Shadow for Her Life (1982) is released on the occasion of the exhibition Judy Chicago: Revelations (23 May – 1 September 2024) at Serpentine.
Wrestling with the Shadow for Her Life is part of Chicago’s series Shadow Drawings (1980s), which emerged from Chicago’s collaboration with needleworkers on the Birth Project (1980–85). Rendered in vibrant spectral colour and Chicago’s signature use of Prismacolor pencils, these works address the complexity of love, gender dynamics, familial structures, power, and sexuality. Highlighting the shadows cast on women’s lives by patriarchal value systems, the drawing vividly foregrounds the struggles of women in their expected roles as homemakers and caregivers, which impacts them socially, personally and economically.
© Photo: readsreads.info
Artist
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (b. 1939, Chicago, USA; lives and works in New Mexico, USA) is an artist, author, feminist, cultural historian, and educator. Named one of Time Magazine’s most influential people in 2018, she has garnered an enduring stature. Born Judy Cohen, and known briefly after her first marriage as Judy Gerowitz, Chicago attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1970, the artist adopted the surname ‘Chicago’ and initiated the United States’ first Feminist Art Programme at California State University, Fresno. She is the author of numerous books including The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago(Thames & Hudson: 2021); Institutional Time: A Critique of Studio Art Education (The Monacelli Press: 2014); The Birth Project (Doubleday: 1985); Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework (Anchor Press/Doubleday: 1979); The Dinner Party: A Symbol of our Heritage (Anchor Press/Doubleday: 1979); and Beyond the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist (Doubleday: 1975); among others. Judy Chicago gained prominence in the late 1960s for making work from a woman-centered perspective, which challenged the male-dominated landscape of the art world. An artistic polymath, Chicago’s work is characterised by a commitment to craft and experimentation, evident in her subject matter, methodology and choice of materials. Throughout her six-decade career, Chicago has contested the absence and erasure of women in the Western cultural canon, developing a distinctive visual language that gives visibility to their experiences. Her individual and collaborative projects address themes of birth; masculinity; Jewish identity; notions of power; extinction; and a longstanding concern for climate justice.
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