Título: Judy Chicago
Seção: Education and early career
Background: Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen, July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. By the 1970s, Chicago had founded the first feminist art program in the United States. Chicago's work incorporates a variety of artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with labor-intensive skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Chicago's most well known work is The Dinner Party, which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Conteúdo: While at UCLA, she became politically active, designing posters for the UCLA NAACP chapter and eventually became its corresponding secretary. In June 1959, she met and became romantically linked with Jerry Gerowitz. She left school and moved in with him, for the first time having her own studio space. The couple hitch hiked to New York in 1959, just as Chicago's mother and brother moved to Los Angeles to be closer to her. The couple lived in Greenwich Village for a time, before returning in 1960 from Los Angeles to Chicago so she could finish her degree. Chicago married Gerowitz in 1961. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1962 and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Gerowitz died in a car crash in 1963, devastating Chicago and causing her to suffer from an identity crisis until later that decade. She received her Master of Fine Arts from UCLA in 1964.  While in grad school, Chicago's created a series that was abstract, yet easily recognized as male and female sexual organs. These early works were called Bigamy, and represented the death of her husband. One depicted an abstract penis, which was "stopped in flight" before it could unite with a vaginal form. Her professors, who were mainly men, were dismayed over these works. Despite the use of sexual organs in her work, Chicago refrained from using gender politics or identity as themes.  In 1965, Chicago displayed work in her first solo show, at the Rolf Nelson Gallery in Los Angeles; Chicago was one of only 

user: where did Judy go to school?

assistant: While at UCLA, she became politically active, designing posters for the UCLA NAACP chapter

user: what type of work did she do in her early career?

assistant: While in grad school, Chicago's created a series that was abstract, yet easily recognized as male and female sexual organs.

user: where was the art featured?

assistant: In 1965, Chicago displayed work in her first solo show, at the Rolf Nelson Gallery in Los Angeles;

user: did she sell a lot of work there?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: did she ever collaborate with other artists?

assistant: In 1968, Chicago was asked why she did not participate in the "California Women in the Arts" exhibition at the Lytton Center,

user: is there anything else that's interesting about her early career?

assistant: In 1969, the Pasadena Art Museum exhibited a series of Chicago's spherical acrylic plastic dome sculptures and drawings in an "experimental" gallery.

user: was that well-received?

assistant: Art in America noted that Chicago's work was at the forefront of the conceptual art movement,