Bigamy Hood Dinner Plate

Feminist art pioneer Judy Chicago dared to explore color, geometry and the female form like no one before her. One of her earliest works is this image adorned a car hood (‘Bigamy Hood’) – and now, it adorns our Prospect tribute dinner plate. Said Chicago, “The painting was done while I was still in graduate school and it was greeted with derision. As a result, I destroyed it, but not before laying it out on a car hood after I went to auto body school in order to learn to spray paint. It references an interrupted connection, brought about by the deaths of both my father (when I was thirteen) and my first husband (when I was twenty-three). The symbols include a broken heart, double crosses and a phallic form that yearns for the female-centered forms at the top of the image.