Nancy Youdelman

Catalogue inquiries: Send email directly to Nancy Youdelman at nyoudelman@mac.com

May 8 through July 31, 2019

https://www.heatherjames.com/exhibitions/the-female-gaze-women-surrealists-in-the-americas-and-europe/

Nancy Youdelman and Suzanne Lacke

The Secret Lives of Dresses

March 9 - May 4, 2019

March 1 - May 3, 2019
Curated by Julia Woli Scott

Clovis Community College, Fresno California

Thorn Shoe, 1976, mixed media sculpture, 3 x 5 x 2.5 inches

Detail, at CSU Northridge Art Gallery, Fashioning a Feminist Vision.

This piece is a recreation of an installation that I did in 1977 at Mt. Saint Mary's College in Los Angeles and in 2107 at the Fresno Art Museum.  I used plaster casts taken from my own body, with pungent potting soil and fragrant white flowers (stock, carnations, gardenias and mums) to create an experience of romanticized death. 

November 10, 2018: Panel discussion participants with Betty Ann Brown as the moderator.

This catalogue is 44 pages with lavish color photographs and essays by Michele Ellis Pracy, Judy Chicago and Gail Levin. It can be purchased by clicking here: Fashioning a Feminist Vision

This piece is a recreation of an installation that I did in 1977 at Mt. Saint Mary's College in Los Angeles.  I used plaster casts taken from my own body, with pungent potting soil and fragrant white flowers (stock, carnations, gardenias and mums) to create an experience of romanticized death. This work was part of my recent retrospective at the Fresno Art Museum in California.

This is a casting of a dress that I covered with the dried flowers from my installation "Self Portrait As Ophelia".  I used texture paste and layers of metallic paint to preserve the flowers and create a texture over which I added broken pearl necklaces and fragments of jewelry.

A bouquet of dried Calla lilies bound with silk thread, covered with broken jewelry and encaustic.

This short film about Nancy Youdelman was written and directed by Julia Woli Scott and is 18 minutes 57 seconds.  It was produced by CMAC, Fresno CA and fully funded by a grant from the Tree of Life Foundation.

Photo-copied letter with envelope, mounted on panel and sealed with encaustic medium.

I purchased some negatives from Lee Dowdy, the same dealer that I purchased the 100+ letters from.  I was delighted to be able to see Allen Watkins in his white linen suit and be able to see why so many women were enamored with him.

I have often wondered if this is Betty...

This is a short excerpt of the 8 minute sound recording along with a photo of "Who Was Betty Potter?", an installation that is based on actual letters written by Betty Potter to Allen Watkins in 1930-31.

On view are an array of artifacts that could have belonged to Betty, while the sound recording is read by the artist. The reading is interspersed with music of the time, "Would You Like to Take a Walk", Annette Hanshaw.  This song is mentioned more than once by Betty in her letters.

Note: "Skeezix" was a character in a popular newspaper comic strip, "Gasoline Alley".  An orphaned baby, named Skeezix (cowboy slang for a motherless calf) actually grew up during the years it was in print.  Betty used "Skeezix" as a nickname for herself.  

From the Dearest Allen series. 

Twig Shoe, 2007, bronze, edition of nine, 5 x 10 x 3 inches