A Riflemaker Exhibition

HAITIAN VODOU FLAGS

curated by Leah Gordon

until 30 August 2013

While Massimiliano Gioni's Venice Biennale has Haitian vodou flags curated by Cindy Sherman, we follow up our current exhibition of Haitian Sculpture with flags and paintings from the ateliers of Grand Rue, Port-au-Prince. These ritual 'drapos' originally made for ceremonial use are nowpart of Haitian contemporary art. Work by Silva Joseph and Edgard Jean Louis (both Vodou priests from Bel Air, Port-au-Prince) joins paintings by Alexander Gregoire and sculpture by Andre Eugene, Celeur Jean Herard and Papa Da.

Monday - Friday 10-6pm Saturday 12-6pm

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'The Sculptors of Grand Rue'

apocalyptic sculpture from Haiti curated by LEAH GORDON

Monday 13 May 6-9pm

Financial Times review of the Haitian art exhibition 'Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou' at Nottingham Contemporary, featuring the Grand Rue sculptors

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

Click to download JUDY CHICAGO press release

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Alice Broughton at Theresa Simon Communications 0207-734-4800

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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

click to read the essay

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