Nancy Youdelman
Fashioning a Feminist Vision 1972 – 2017
October 27 – December 8, 2018
Reception: Saturday, October 27 4-6pm
Artist Talk: Monday, October 29, 10am
In Conversation: Saturday, November 10, 2pm:
California State University, Northridge Art Galleries is honored to present the exhibition Nancy Youdelman: Fashioning a Feminist Vision. Nancy Youdelman is one of the early participants in the feminist art movement that began five decades ago at her alma mater, California State University, Fresno, under the tutelage of Judy Chicago. Youdelman earned her B.F.A. at CalArts in 1973 and her M.F.A. in Sculpture from U.C.L.A. in 1976, and her work expresses a concern for preserving her gender’s memories and experiences.
This exhibition illustrates the development of Youdelman’s practice during the past five decades with a variety of meticulously crafted objects. Drawn from the Fresno Museum retrospective originally curated by Michele Ellis Pracy, the artworks in this exhibition are comprised of assemblages, collages, dresses, and shoes handcrafted from a variety of traditional and alternative media. A catalogue from the Fresno Museum exhibition will be available for purchase.
:In conjunction with the exhibition, a panel discussion, titled In Conversation, will be moderated by Art Historian Betty Ann Brown, with Youdelman, and artists Ruth Weisberg and Linda Vallejo.
A major art exhibition space in the San Fernando Valley, the CSUN Art Galleries are located just a few miles north of downtown Los Angeles. The Galleries have mounted over 500 exhibitions since 1980 with yearly gallery attendance averaging 25,000 visitors.
Gallery hours are from noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 8 p.m. on Thursday. More information and press images are available upon request; call the Art Galleries at (818) 677-2156 or visit www.csun.edu/artgalleries.
Image Credit: Nancy Youdelman, Zippers & Pins, 2009, Mixed media with encaustic, 54 x 37 x 4 inches
photograph by Michael Karibian
