Judy Chicago’s iconic installation The Dinner Party now has company in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Cent
Judy Chicago’s iconic installation The Dinner Party now has company in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art’s Herstory Gallery. Opening today, Women of York: “Shared Dining” was produced in 2014 by ten women incarcerated at York Correctional Institution in Niantic, Connecticut in response to Chicago’s feminist masterwork.Shared Dining mirrors The Dinner Party in structure with a triangular banquet table featuring ten place settings, each honoring a woman of significance to the artists, accompanied by six entry banners. In keeping with Chicago’s methodology, Shared Dining was a collective effort produced through a series of collaborative workshops held over a six-month period.Though the two works share significant parallels, what has been especially interesting to observe are the points at which they diverge, reflecting the unique conditions of their creation. Where Chicago executed The Dinner Party with painted porcelain, intricately embroidered runners, and hand-woven tapestries, the members of Women of York have made use of more pedestrian media, adapting to the constraints of producing work in a correctional facility. Viewers will notice the innovative reappropriation of an array of materials from paper plates and Styrofoam cups, to playing cards, and collaged images from magazines.You’ll also have the opportunity to hear first-hand from the artists about the stories behind their place settings in a series of audio recordings accompanying the installation. We hope you’ll join us on Sunday, September 13 at 2pm as we continue our dialogue on mass incarceration in the panel discussion “Touching Humanity: Creativity and Transformation” with Kelly Donnelly and Lisette Oblitas-Cruz, two of the members of Women of York, joined by esteemed author Wally Lamb as part of our ongoing series States of Denial: The Illegal Incarceration of Women, Children and People of Color.Posted by Stephanie Weissberg -- source link
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