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Image Not Available for WIPP-ed [from the series Nuclear Waste(d)]
WIPP-ed [from the series Nuclear Waste(d)]
Image Not Available for WIPP-ed [from the series Nuclear Waste(d)]

WIPP-ed [from the series Nuclear Waste(d)]

Artist (American, born 1939)
Artist (American, born 1945)
Date1989
Mediumsprayed acrylic, oil, prismacolor and photography on photolinen
DimensionsCanvas: 15 7/8 × 20 × 3/4 in. (40.3 × 50.8 × 1.9 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman, 2011
Object number2011.11.2
DescriptionA painting on a photograph that pictures a semi-truck hauling three large green containers of nuclear waste. Truck is in front of a typical New Mexico landscape in background.
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In the Nuclear Waste(d) series, Judy Chicago addresses the negative consequences of the nuclear industry in New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb. These are collaborative works that employ photographs by Donald Woodman of various nuclear-related sites throughout the state, that were then painted on by Judy Chicago. Among the sites the series addresses are the Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated; Grants, where much of the uranium was mined for the bombs, causing great health and environmental problems for the Native Americans upon whose lands the mines are located; and WIPP, the waste site in southern New Mexico. WIPP-ed is a play on words that references the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico, where the waste on the truck pictured is headed to dispose of the nuclear waste it carries.
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