




Art Basel 2025
Art Basel 2025
June 19-22, 2025
Jessica Silverman is proud to present rare works by Judy Chicago (b. 1939, Chicago, IL), a pioneering artist fearless in her aesthetic experimentation and pursuit of women’s freedom. Chicago is best known for The Dinner Party, an ambitious multi-media installation which toured a dozen cities from 1979-1984 and is now on permanent display at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. After acclaimed museum solo retrospectives in California, New York, Britain, France, and Germany, the entire oeuvre of the 85-year-old artist is being re-examined and celebrated. As the Financial Times declares, “The feminist artist finally takes her deserved place in the modern canon.”
As part of Art Basel Feature on the ground floor of the Messe, the booth (D16) will showcase significant works made before 1999. The exhibition includes: feminist minimalist abstractions from the 1960s; porcelain “test plates” for the Dinner Party and a unique series of annotated Polaroids about Chicago’s Atmosphere Earthworks from the 1970s; a rare Birth Project tapestry from the 1980s; and color pencil drawings from the artist’s “Thinking about Trees” series from the 1990s.
INSTALLATION VIEW










SELECTED WORKS

Large Dome Drawing Blue/Green, 1968-1969
Prismacolor on paper on board
58 x 58 x 2 1/4 inches / 147.3 x 147.3 x 5.7 cm

Dome Drawing #4, 1968
Prismacolor on paper
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches / 69.8 x 69.8 cm


Three Star Cunts, 1969
Sprayed acrylic lacquer on acrylic
28 x 28 x 1 1/2 inches / 71.1 x 71.1 x 3.8 cm

Silver Doorways Proof C, 1972
Hand-colored lithograph with Prismacolor and collage
27 3/8 x 27 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches / 69.5 x 69.5 x 3.8 cm

Donut Drawing #7, 1968
Prismacolor on paper
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches / 69.8 x 69.8 cm
Three Star Cunts, 1969
Sprayed acrylic lacquer on acrylic
28 x 28 x 1 1/2 inches / 71.1 x 71.1 x 3.8 cm
Silver Doorways Proof C, 1972
Hand-colored lithograph with Prismacolor and collage
27 3/8 x 27 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches / 69.5 x 69.5 x 3.8 cm
Donut Drawing #7, 1968
Prismacolor on paper
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches / 69.8 x 69.8 cm


Model For Flesh Garden, 1971
Sprayed acrylic lacquer on acrylic
30 x 30 inches / 76.2 x 76.2 cm

Model for Fresno Fan #6, 1971
Sprayed acrylic lacquer on acrylic
16 1/4 x 31 3/8 x 2 inches / 41.3 x 79.7 x 5.1 cm


Northwest Coast Atmospheres, 1970-1975
Photography and graphite on board; Photo by Lloyd Hamrol
Installation size: 41 x 60 inches / 53.3 x 152.5 cm


Virginia Woolf Test Plate, #1, 1975-1978
China paint on porcelain
14 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 4 inches / 36.8 x 36.8 x 10.2 cm

Elizabeth Blackwell Test Plate #9, 1975-1978
China paint on porcelain
14.5 x 14.5 x 3 inches / 36.8 x 36.8 x 7.6 cm

Eleanor of Aquitaine Test Plate #1, 1975-1978
Bisque porcelain
15 x 15 x 3 inches / 38.1 x 38.1 x 7.6 cm

Mary Wollstonecraft Test Plate #5, 1975-1978
Bisque porcelain
14 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 3 inches / 37.5 x 37.5 x 7.6 cm

Hrosvitha Test Plate #2, 1975-1978
Glazed porcelain
14 x 14 x 2 inches / 35.6 x 35.6 x 5.1 cm
Eleanor of Aquitaine Test Plate #1, 1975-1978
Bisque porcelain
15 x 15 x 3 inches / 38.1 x 38.1 x 7.6 cm
Mary Wollstonecraft Test Plate #5, 1975-1978
Bisque porcelain
14 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 3 inches / 37.5 x 37.5 x 7.6 cm
Hrosvitha Test Plate #2, 1975-1978
Glazed porcelain
14 x 14 x 2 inches / 35.6 x 35.6 x 5.1 cm
- Hrotsvitha (c. 935–973), a Medieval poet, playwright, and historian considered the first woman writer from the German world.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204), a clever political mover, who was the Queen of France at 13 and then the Queen of England at 30.
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), a philosopher whose book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is the foundation of English-language feminism.
- Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), who fought gruesome, horrific discrimination to become the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US and UK.
- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), an influential English novelist whose works include Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, and A Room of One’s Own.
- Isabella D’Este (1474-1539), an important diplomat, arts patron, and fashion icon of the Italian Renaissance, is represented by a detailed color drawing of her final plate.


Isabella d'Este as a Majolica Plate, 1976
Prismacolor on Somerset Paper
16 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches / 42.2 x 50.2 cm

China-painting test plate, Raised Paste/Raised Enamel/Flown Enamel, 1972-1974
China paint on porcelain
Framed: 16 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 3 inches / 41.9 x 41.9 x 7.6 cm ; Diameter: 10.25 inches


Childbirth in America: Crowning Quilt 7/9, 1982
Quilting, embroidery and petit point over drawing and hand-painting on batik fabric
36 x 52 1/2 x 2 inches / 91.4 x 133.3 x 5.1 cm


Dancing Trees, 1995
Mixed media on Magnani paper
24 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches / 62.9 x 83.2 x 3.8 cm

Ghost Trees in the Gulf of Mexico, 1996
Mixed media on Magnani paper
24 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches / 62.9 x 83.2 x 3.8 cm

Study for Joy Trees - Pencil & Paint, 1996
Mixed media on Magnani paper
24 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches / 62.9 x 83.2 x 3.8 cm
Dancing Trees, 1995
Mixed media on Magnani paper
24 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches / 62.9 x 83.2 x 3.8 cm
Ghost Trees in the Gulf of Mexico, 1996
Mixed media on Magnani paper
24 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches / 62.9 x 83.2 x 3.8 cm
Study for Joy Trees - Pencil & Paint, 1996
Mixed media on Magnani paper
24 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches / 62.9 x 83.2 x 3.8 cm

ARTIST BIO
Judy Chicago (b. 1939, Chicago, IL) is a pioneering artist who has made an irrevocable impact on art history. Over the past five years, she has enjoyed critically acclaimed solo retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany; LUMA Foundation, Arles, France; Serpentine, London; New Museum, New York; de Young Museum, San Francisco; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., and ICA Miami. Her works are collected by many museums, including British Museum and Tate, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; National Gallery, Washington D.C.; the Getty, Hammer Museum, LACMA, and MOCA LA in Los Angeles; Art Institute of Chicago and MCA Chicago; SFMOMA and the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; and over 25 university art museums. Since 2020, Chicago has collaborated with the international fashion house Dior on set design for Couture shows and Lady Dior handbags, with further projects to come. Chicago lives and works in Belen, New Mexico.