Judith Bernstein

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Horizontal Plus 3, 1975, charcoal on paper,<br />108 X 336 inches

SELF-PORTRAIT
text and photography by JUDITH BURNSTEIN 

All images courtesy of the artist and The Box L.A.

 
As a 70-year-old activist artist whose work has experienced censorship on a big scale, I’m thrilled to continue to outrage. My art references the subliminal. It is a psychological amalgamation of sex, war and feminism in different orders and priorities.
Union Jack-Off Flag 1967, charcoal and mixed media on paper, 26 5/8 X 30 inches
As a graduate student at Yale School of Art in the 1960s, during a time when Yale had an all-male undergraduate program, the gender inequality was extreme in my environment and the outside world. This fact and many others led to my obsession with feminism and political injustice.

I became fascinated with explicit bathroom drawings. Graffiti is…