Judy Chicago at London’s Ben Uri

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American artist, Judy Chicago is to have a major show at London’s Ben Uri gallery, 14 November–10 March, 2013. Chicago is best known for her iconic installation The Dinner Party. The Ben Uri’s survey of five decades of her works, primarily on paper, will juxtapose them with work by Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick and Tracey Emin. ‘Judy deals with women’s – and personal and often intimate issues – in her work’ says  David Glasser, executive chairof Ben Uri, the London Jewish Museum of Art.

The scale of ambition in the late 1970s for a (then) relatively unknown young artist with her work The Dinner Party, being able to conceive of this huge installation and what it was saying, was utterly remarkable. From a women’s perspective she is not afraid to be heard and is comfortably confrontational.

He added:

 We are dealing with a unique set of talents and it’s a huge privilege to do this exhibition but it’s challenging because she is a creative power-house who, alongside her photographer husband Donald Woodman, is as obsessive about reaching perfection as we are.

Judy Chicago is a legend in the USA and has a narrower but fiercely loyal following in the UK, and with this exhibition Ben Uri aims to generate a much wider audience for her work and her ground breaking career. See the two part interview with Judy Chicago published in Cassone July and August  2011.

Reporting: Darrelyn Gunzburg