August 23, 2022 | 11am (PT)
Whether you are new to Portland or simply interested in connecting with community members, OJMCHE, the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, and the Mittleman Jewish Community Center invite you to join us for a special summer event for adults ages 45+. Join Adjunct Curator for Special Exhibitions Bruce Guenther and OJMCHE Director Judy Margles for a tour of Turning Inward, JUDY CHICAGO, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation followed by a reception on the museum’s stunning rooftop patio.
Turning Inward, JUDY CHICAGO traces Judy Chicago’s development as an artist and Jewish woman across six decades, from her early formal vocabulary of geometric color abstraction and groundbreaking work with pyrotechnics to the powerful explorations of self-identity, the politics of gender, and her personal formative experiences.
Curated by Bruce Guenther and Judy Margles and drawn from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, this exhibition of 35 pieces primarily focuses on works on paper as well as a group of large-scale photographic prints of Chicago’s Atmospheres series.
Throughout her often tumultuous, challenging, and frequently controversial career Chicago continued to push forward a feminist-based approach to art and art education, dedicating herself more fully to researching and surfacing the histories of women in Western civilization and combating the systemic erasure of women’s achievements from the historical record of contemporary art. Beyond the politics of gender, Chicago went on to explore and create a whole series of works around challenging themes such as the Holocaust, birth, and patriarchy’s hunger for power and dominance.
Turning Inward, JUDY CHICAGO, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation brings into focus an artist whose lifelong artistic exploration has at its foundation art as activism. For six decades, Judy Chicago has remained steadfast in her commitment to women’s rights to engage in the highest level of art production and to the power of art as a vehicle for intellectual transformation and societal change.