The Environment

Confronting humankind’s impact on the environment has been a significant concern in Judy Chicago’s work throughout her career, starting with her Atmospheres series, begun in 1969, which was a direct commentary on the more destructive, imposing Earth Works of her male contemporaries. Chicago has continued to expand her definition of feminist principles to include not only equal rights for women, but a need for global justice that includes the humane treatment of all creatures and care for the Earth. These ideals are at the forefront of her most recent major body of work, The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction.

26 items on this page

Artwork, Drawing

Black-and-white drawing of a kneeling man urinating on a landscape

PowerPlay. Study for Pissing on Nature

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Black-and-white drawing of a man urinating on a landscape

PowerPlay. Study for Pissing on Nature

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=35864&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false
Drawing in black and red of a man holding chains encircling the Earth

PowerPlay. Blood Chain

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=35871&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false
Black-and-white drawing of three men where one is holding reins, one is extending his hand like a gun from which liquid spurts, and the third is urinating on a landscape

PowerPlay. Study for Pissing on Nature and Handgun

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=35875&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false
Black-and-white drawing of a nude man standing with one knee propped up, urinating

PowerPlay. Study for Pissing on Nature

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=35877&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false
Drawing in shades of blue, gray, and yellow of a kneeling man urinating into a landscape

Pissing on Nature 2

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=35787&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1982

Mixed media on rag paper

22 x 30 in.

Drawing in black and yellow of a man propping up one leg and urinating

Study for Pissing on Nature

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=35826&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1983

Mixed media

22 x 14 in.

Black-and-white drawing of a man holding reins encircling the Earth on fire

PowerPlay. Study for Driving the World to Destruction

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=35880&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1983

Drawing of three figures: a woman with lesions on her arms exhaling over a mushroom cloud, a man wearing a miner's hat cradling one of his lungs, and a mother cradling a baby in the rain

Nuclear Waste(d)

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36030&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1989

Prismacolor on Arches

23 x 29 in.

Drawing of missiles in an underground bunker

Study for Banality of Evil

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=35997&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1989

Artwork, Painting

Painting in rainbow colors of a nude man propping his leg on a landscape and urinating into flames

Pissing on Nature

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1984

Sprayed acrylic and oil on Belgian Linen

108 x 72 in.

Painted photograph of five missiles leaking underground beneath a factory with handwriting below

Gang Bang at the WIPP Site [from the series Nuclear Waste(d)]

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36028&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1989

Sprayed acrylic, oil and photography on photolinen

16 x 20 in.

Painted photograph of a shirtless man wearing a miner's helmet standing next to a barbed wire fence with a glowing, rainbow-colored mountain range in the background

Grants, New Mexico [from the series Nuclear Waste(d)]

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36025&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1989

Sprayed acrylic, oil and photography on photolinen

16 x 20 in.

Painted photograph of a woman cradling a baby above nuclear reactors

Poisoned Power [from the series Nuclear Waste(d)]

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36026&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1989

Sprayed acrylic, oil and photography on photolinen

16 x 20 in.

Painted photograph of four nuclear reactors with two topped with corks

Put a Cork In It [from the series Nuclear Waste(d)]

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36027&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1989

Sprayed acrylic, oil and photography on photolinen with cork

16 x 19 15/16 in.

Painted photograph of a woman with lesions on her arms and face, exhaling over a barren landscape

Trinity Site [from the series Nuclear Waste(d)]

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36029&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1989

Painted photograph of three glowing green boxes on a semi trailer truck

WIPP-ed [from the series Nuclear Waste(d)]

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36024&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1989

Sprayed acrylic, oil, prismacolor and photography on photolinen

16 x 20 x 7/8 in.

Two panels: The left depicts death, war, and natural disasters in bleak gray colors; the right depicts thriving nature, animals and people of different religions, races and countries dancing in a circle.

It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn (Hope)

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2000

Sprayed acrylic, oil paint, and embroidery on portrait linen

24 x 40 in.

Artwork, Textiles

Close up of embroidery of aquatic animals

Detail of Creation of the World: Embroidery 1/9

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=37128&index=185&total=230&categoryId=7211&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Birth+Project&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1981

Embroidery on fabric

Close up of a quilt in red and pink shades covered with various animal species

Detail of EU-07 Creation of the World Q2

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=37110&index=131&total=230&categoryId=7211&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Birth+Project&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1982

Spray painting over quilting and embroidery

Textile depicting a human figure giving birth to an embryo and holding a sun while animals crawl down its leg into the sky and water.

The Creation

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1984

Modified Aubusson tapestry

42 x 163 in.

Color illustration of tree stumps and cut logs

Detail from Turn Over A New Leaf (Conservation)

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36861&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

2000

Painting, applique, and embroidery on linen and charmeuse

Color illustration of tree stumps and cut logs, overlaid with a turning page, a leaf, and a tree on the right and text below the leaf

Detail from Turn Over A New Leaf (Conservation)

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36862&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

2000

Painting, applique, and embroidery on linen and charmeuse

Color illustration divided diagonally by a turning page and a leaf In the lower left are tree trunks and cut logs In the upper right is a living tree

Turn Over A New Leaf (Conservation)

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36860&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

2000

Painting, applique, and embroidery on linen and charmeuse

18 x 24 in.

Artwork, Mixed

Multi-panel mixed media wall work with nude figures, mushroom clouds, a boxcar, a semi truck with a trailer, and unidentified machinery

See No Evil/Hear No Evil

https://nmwa.assetbank-server.com/assetbank-nmwa/action/viewAsset?id=36038&index=26&total=34&categoryId=7265&categoryTypeId=2&collection=Resolutions%3A+A+Stitch+in+Time&sortAttributeId=0&sortDescending=false

1989

Sprayed acrylic, oil, Marshall photo oils, photography, and photo screen printing on photolinen and canvas

45.3 x 176.3 in.