Adam de Boer (b. Riverside, California 1984) graduated from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006. He has received awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Cultural Development Corporation, the Santa Barbara Arts Fund, and in 2011 he won the prestigious Arts for India Scholarship to support his post-graduate studies at London’s Chelsea College of Art and Design. In 2012 he participated in a studio residency at the International Institute of Fine Arts in Modinagar, India. He paints using gouache and oil and incorporates elements of Javanese folk art, wood carving and textiles into his work.

"In July 2011, I travelled to my father’s birthplace in Purwokerto, Central Java to investigate my Eurasian heritage. I searched for the locations and landscapes that appear in an old family photo album. I met distant family friends, observed and participated in their lifestyles, and heard their versions of my grandparents’ departure to raise their children and continue their lives following a forced immigration as the country gained independence from Dutch colonial rule. Along the way, I became increasingly fascinated by Javanese furniture and folk art and made a point to spend time with and learn the processes of traditional wood carvers and textile designers. I travelled with cameras, sketchbooks, and watercolors to document the sojourn, and returned to the studio to distill and deconstruct my findings. The ongoing series of work examines my Eurasian heritage as a way to help me better understand a part of my cultural identity that I have had trouble connecting to throughout my life. Most importantly, it is helping me to know how that identity influences my participation in the world" Adam de Boer

JUDY CHICAGO
'Deflowered'

final day of the JUDY CHICAGO exhibition - Tuesday 12 March (10am - 6pm)

A series of JUDY CHICAGO exhibitions and events in the UK
for the first time since 1985

click here to view the works in the exhibition


"For me, she is America's most important living artist"

Edward Lucie-Smith, quoted in The Huffington Post, November 2012

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BIOGRAPHY

Judy Chicago is an artist, writer and activist whose work has set the agenda for women's art over the past five decades. A pioneering force who came to prominence during the late 1960's and early 1970's, she helped re-shape the male-dominated art landscape by creating innovative work from a woman's perspective - reacting to social and political injustice during revolutionary times.

Her art and her ideas continue to exert a palpable influence on generations of women artists who came after her. In 2011, her contribution was recognised and in some ways rediscovered during Pacific Standard Time, the California-wide celebration of the history of the L.A. Art Scene which saw sixty cultural institutions collaborate in one six-month long initiative (pacificstandardtime.org/) and featured work across various media by Judy Chicago. The artist is widely represented in museums and public collections worldwide.

JUDY CHICAGO: 'Before Womanhouse: Ms Chicago and the California Boys'
by Andrew Perchuk, deputy director, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

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Judy Chicago
cover of the exhibition catalogue Womanhouse
(showing Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro).
Design by Sheila de Bretteville.
(Valencia: Feminist Art Program, California Institute of the Arts, 1972).
photo © Donald Woodman, courtesy of Through the Flower archive