The early '70s in L.A. was a heady time. There was not only the women's movement, but the Black Panther movement, the Chicano movement, the beginnings of the gay and lesbian movement, change was in the air.
Judy Chicago
Time-limited edition
Edition of 140Judy Chicago revisits a pioneering work from her early feminist art era in this limited edition print.
Heaven is For White Men Only, originally painted in 1973, marks a monumental shift in Judy's practice where she began openly expressing that she was a woman after nearly a decade of trying to hide her gender.
An ode to intersectional feminism, Heaven is For White Men Only consists of multiple "flesh bars" which represent different races and ethnicities, cross-hatched to symbolically gatekeep the blue sky behind reserved only for white cis men – "which was my understanding at the time then and is certainly my understanding now when the manosphere is taking over the world again."
The print is embellished with a silkscreen shimmer layer, emulating the hypnotic irradiance of the original large-scale painting.
