Brooklyn Museum presents
Judy Chicago’s A Butterfly for Brooklyn, a monumental pyrotechnic performance piece drawing inspiration from her earliest explorations of feminist imagery, lit up the sky of Brooklyn’s Long Meadow in Prospect Park. The site-specific work, measuring approximately 200 feet wide by 180 feet high, was presented by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in partnership with the Prospect Park Alliance. The project was an outdoor component of the exhibition Chicago in L. A.: Judy Chicago’s Early Work, 1962-74, on view in the Sackler Center at the Museum from April 4 through September 28. Thousands of attendees witnessed the twenty-minute performance.
A Butterfly for Brooklyn was organized by Catherine J. Morris, Sackler Family Curator, with Jess Wilcox, Programs Coordinator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Major support was provided by Barbara and Eric Dobkin. Additional support provided by Barbara Lee.
Judy Chicago, A Butterfly for Brooklyn, 2014. © Donald Woodman