Through the Flower celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Womanhouse with a historical exhibition at the Through the Flower Art Space in Belen and a contemporary re-envisioning of Womanhouse in a nearby mid-century house. Megan Malcom-Morgan, Executive Director of Through the Flower, organized a team of community volunteers who were involved in the planning of this exciting project. Both shows opened on June 18th and ran until October 9th.
Womanhouse opened in Los Angeles as part of the first Feminist Art Program, originally established by Judy Chicago at California State University, Fresno, and later expanded at CalArts. Chicago and co-educator, artist Miriam Schapiro, worked with a group of students and local artists to transform a dilapidated house in Los Angeles into a setting for a series of imaginative installations and established a performance space in the living room. During its month-long exhibition, over ten thousand visitors came to see Womanhouse, which later captured a global audience through filmmaker Johanna Demetrakas’s documentary on the project. The installation has gone on to inspire numerous works of art around the world and has contributed to significant changes in the very nature of art and expanded the conversations around which materials are considered suitable for artistic expression.
As a result of the changing definitions of gender and inclusivity, the Wo/Manhouse 2022 project was open to proposals by New Mexico artists across the gender spectrum. The selected artists transformed sixteen rooms into works of art that explore the subject of the home, which can be a place of love and nurture, but also one of power dynamics, abuse, struggles over gender roles, parenting issues as well as cultural and socioeconomic constraints. Nancy Youdelman, a successful artist and one of Chicago’s Fresno students who went to Cal-Arts and participated in the original Womanhouse, facilitated the project with Judy Chicago as advisor.
Catalog cover : Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago on the steps of Womanhouse, 1972
Pearl tree & other works
Solo Exhibit in Oakland California, Sept 11 - Oct 30, 2021
The Fourth Wall Gallery 473 25th St. Oakland CA 94612 • Hours: Saturdays 12-5pm First Fridays, 5-9pm, by appointment: 4thwallart@gmail.com
Catalogue available
Contact Nancy Youdelman at nyoudelman@mac.com
Cover of catalogue produced by The Fourth Wall Gallery, designed by Marlene Angeja
Purchased for the permanent collection in 2021
2019
The Female Gaze
Review by Betty Brown
Ellen’s Regret, Fashioning a Feminist Vision: CSU Northridge Art Galleries
Zippers & Pins, 2009, mixed media with encaustic, 54 x 37 x 4 inches, photo by Michael Karibian
Retrospective: Fashioning a feminist vision
at California state university, northridge
October 27 - December 8, 2018
Reception: Saturday, October 27, 4 - 7 pm
CSUN Art Galleries, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330
Gallery Hours:Monday - Saturday 12 - 4pm, Thursday 12 - 8pm
818-677-2156
Bending Towards the Light of the Sun
August 21 - October 11, 2018
Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, curated by gallery director Elena Harvey Collins
Reception: Thursday, September 6, 2018, 5 - 8pm
“Bending Towards the Light of the Sun, consists of seven weeks of rolling programming that center the Fresno area as a site of artistic and cultural production. Like the city itself, it sprawls outward, ranging from film screenings to artist publications, archival materials, and installation.
Artists: Maia Ballis, Caleb Duarte, Carissa Garcia, Laguna Collective, R.L. Muas, Sylvia Savala, Christian Vargas, Nancy Youdelman.
”Bending Towards the Light of the Sun” is anchored by archival materials relating to Fresno’s history of activism and art making. Printed materials, photographs, and posters by Nation Land for People (NLP) and the Fresno chapter of Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom (WILPF) will be in the gallery. ”
JTT, 191 CHRYSTIE ST., NEW YORK NY, 212 574-8152
Photo of the artist by Donald Munro, taken at the Fresno Art Museum three days before her reception on May 19, 2017.
Review by Donald Munro, to read it, click here: Restyling Memories
Nancy Youdelman standing with Self Portrait as Ophelia on May 19, 2017 at the Fresno Art Museum, where her retrospective, Fashioning a Feminist Vision, 1972-2017, took place.
Read Joanne Mattera's blog post, click here: An Aggregate of Forces: 60 Women Artists Over 60
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