“Pasadena Lifesaver Red #1” is on display at the Memorial Union Gallery. A late 1960s piece from Judy Chicago’s Minimal Works, it belongs to the gallery’s permanent collection. Regional artwork also is on display exhibiting ceramic artists from North Dakota and Minnesota.
Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator and intellectual whose career now spans four decades. Her influence both within and beyond the art community is attested to by her inclusion in hundreds of publications throughout the world. Her art has been exhibited frequently in the United States as well as in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. A number of the books she has written also have been published in foreign editions, bringing her art and philosophy to thousands worldwide.
In the early 1970s after a decade of professional art practice, Chicago pioneered Feminist Art and art education through a unique program for women at California State University, Fresno, a pedagogical approach that she has continued to develop over the years.
The regional ceramic artists include NDSU graduate Khara McIntosh and world-renowned potter Richard Bresnahan. Bresnahan is most noted for directing the St. Johns Gallery at St. Johns University. He earned the recognition of Master Potter after a four-year study in Japan.
The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday. For more information, contact visual arts and gallery coordinator Esther Hockett at 1-8239 or esther.hockett@ndsu.edu.
March 9, 2009