Photo by Tom Jimmerson, taken on Saturday June 29, 2024 prior to the opening reception. This is me with “Self Portrait As Ophelia”, the re-creation of a work that I did in 1977. It was originally shown (in 1977) at Mt. St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles. It consists of dirt, fresh flowers and life-cast body parts from my own body.
Five Women Artists in 1970s Los Angeles
June 29 - August 10, 2024
Nancy Buchanan, Hildegarde Duane, Susan Mogul, Susan Singer & Nancy Youdelman: The five women in this exhibition are linked by a number of shared commitments. These include but are not limited to their mutual interest in feminism, photography, storytelling and by a resourceful do-it-yourself approach to presenting their own ideas made necessary by the indifference if not active hostility that greeted the work of most young women artists in 1970’s Los Angeles. The exhibition at as-is.la coincides with a show by the same name and including the same five artists at Ortuzar Projects in New York. Taken together, the rich and diverse array of artworks presented in the two iterations of “Five Women Artists in 1970s Los Angeles” powerfully and effectively illustrate the political, social and aesthetic ethos of that time and that place.
