#nancy youdelman

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Nancy Youdelman: Shattered Blouse (1979)

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Womanhouse (1972): Léa's Room, created by Karen LeCocq and Nancy Youdelman and based on Colette's Chéri.

"The piece de resistance of Léa's Room was Karen LeCocq's performance. She sat in front of the mirrored vanity and made up her fictional aging face. As she creamed, rouged, powdered, painted her eyes, reddened her mouth, and fixed her hair, she stared closely into the mirror as if she were telling it secrets. Her hands moved expertly, her eyes spoke. She was desperately trying to save her fading beauty, for which she had in the past received favors, friendship, love, and wealth. The performance in real time lasted as long as the process itself. It seemed interminable because each act was a reminder of moments, hours, days, weeks, months, years of a woman's life—precious time. Older women watched and cried. By the time she finished, we had seen only half the piece. Before our eyes, she began to remove all of the makeup. Slowly, she creamed her face, wiped it, wetted it, doused it, unglued it, and finally, patting it dry, she was once again—naked." — Miriam Schapiro

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Nancy Youdelman, Thorn shoe, 1976

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Featured artists, Pamela Sneed, Nancy Youdelman and Claudia Hart discussed their art in an Artist Talk held as part of the opening of “Threshold in Parameters of what it is to be…” which runs from Jan. 23-Feb. 16 at the PhebeConley Gallery and the M Street Graduate Studios. The exhibition includes the works of 52 women artists from Ethiopia, Yemen, Iran, Bosnia, Russia, Ukraine, Jamaica, Canada, Peru and Mexico alongside local artists. #pamelasneed #nancyyoudelman #claudiahart #csufresno #fresnostateartanddesign #phebeconleygallery (at Phebe Conley Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7UsSLpQuMsaCHbuu_oX9r1M2GuhoNm3jF2lM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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By Nancy Youdelman,2005

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"Remnants .Nancy Youdelman 1974.

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Nancy Youdelman - Captive, 2005 

mixed media sculpture, 20 x 15 x 6 inches

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Nancy Youdelman was a costume design student at Fresno State University in 1970 when she joined Judy Chicago’s groundbreaking Feminist Art Program. Since then, Youdelman has fused her background in textiles and costumes with pointed feminist critique. In Thorn Shoe (1976), a child’s shoe stuffed with hair and adorned in prickly thorns alludes to the potential pain and suffocating sacrifice of motherhood under patriarchy. Youdelman was part of a wave of feminist artists in the early 70s who advocated for women to make art based on their own real-life experiences.

Posted by Carmen Hermo Nancy Youdelman (born New York, New York 1948). Thorn Shoe, 1976. Rose thorns, fabric, leather, metal hardware, human hair. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Gail Levin and John B. Van Sickle, 2018.35.

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Nancy Youdelman

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NANCY YOUDELMAN  b. 1948, American artist

Pink Boot with Eggbeater 2014

mixed media with encaustic

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Thorn Shoe, Nancy Youdelman, 1976, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Size: 3 × 5 × 2 in. (7.6 × 12.7 × 5.1 cm) Medium: Textile, leather, metal, organic material

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224559

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Hair Dress, 1974, mixed media

by artist Nancy Youdelman

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Remnants

1974

Nancy Youdelman

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Feminist/body musings/quotes from Sally! LFF Founding Editor

Hi! I don’t typically feature myself! But I have had some thoughts lately, about feminism/body and the complexity around that issue as I am a feminist, while also enjoying participating in some of mass media culture some feminist’s may disagree with -- I’m a finalist for Maxim Mag’s Cover Model 2020 - very small chance - but how cool would it be to infiltrate with an almost 40 year old feminist??. 

I am a mother artist curator and sometimes art model! I am a complex feminist and while obtaining a graduate degree in art history and feminist theory, I always found myself challenging and agreeing with both sides, while attracted to more real world theory than deconstruction theory.

Sally Brown Deskins: “Sword (Tribute to Wanda Ewing”, acrylic and ink on canvas

My abstract body prints challenge social and cultural body standards by abstracting my body. Beauty is subjective, though I believe objectification is human and can be coupled with respect. I don't believe it has to be one or the other. Recognizing my privilege as a woman who does have a relatively culturally acceptable look (I could point out "flaws" but waste of time). I celebrate my body along with everyone elses’ (and their celebration too whatever qualities!) when I make my work both artistically and as an art model.  In this light, I’m going to share some quotes from feminists and artists around these topics, all of which I agree with, though some of them seemingly in opposition, with some of their art to complement...

“...the battleground of greatest intensity has been and remains the body--the female body.  The taboos are still in place. The transgressive works...focus on outrage accorded to the male sensibility, constructs of male culture. Female creative assaults--with their deep spiritual implications, their attention to gender declivities are surfacing in male consciousness...we are still streaming in from the Moon...from our planet.” ~ Carolee Schneemann, in conversation with Aviva Rahmani, 1989, M/E/A/N/I/N/G

Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1967)

“There’s a greater power and charisma when a woman is aware of her sexual prowess when it’s not necessarily about victimization or someone else’s pleasure but her own feeling about her own body and understanding and loving herself.” Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas, Racquel: Come to Me, 2016. Collage, 108 x 84 inches. 

“What is cunt? We have definitions of ourselves by men. Cunt is passive, cunt is receptacle, and cunt is vessel, cunt is giver of all rewards and blessings-mother, cunt is evil and demonic — will sallow you up. Those are all fantasy projections but what we have to do is seize 55 Broude & Garrard 61. 21 our own cunt, grab it firmly in our hands and proceed to announce what it is. Announce that it’s real, it’s alive, aggressive, outgoing, it looks like this, it needs this, it has this kind of dimension and what does that mean? It means to take control over our own identity as women and our cunts are symbolic of our identity as women. When people put people down by calling then cunt it means that it is an image of contempt. That is what a cunt is. We have to get a hold of our own image. That’s why I changed my name because I took hold of my own identity, henceforth I shall determine who I am, I reject the definition that society has given me because the definitions that society has given me are non-operable, they are incorrect, they are crippling, they are dehumanizing, so I take hold of my identity, I take hold of my cunt. Henceforth I shall say what cunt is, I shall build cunt myself.” Judy Chicago and the California Girls. DVD. Judith Dancoff, 1971. 

Miss Chicago and the California Girls, 1971. Poster produced by the Feminist Art Program. Fresno State College, California, 1970-71. Judy Chicago is Miss Windy City. Nancy Youdelman is Miss San Francisco. 

“I wish we didn’t have to be nude to be noticed. . . But given the game as it exists, women make decisions….I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.” Gloria Steinem

“If I vibrate with vibrations other than yours, must you conclude that my flesh is insensitive?”  ― Claude Cahun, Héroïnes

Claude Cahun, 1927

“No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.” Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele: Nude

“Censor the body, and you censor breath and speech at the same time...Write yourself. Your body must be heard.” Helen Cixous

“To diffuse self-prejudice, women must take control and have pride in the sensuality of their own bodies and create a sensuality on their own terms, without referring to the concepts degenerated by culture.” Hannah Wilke

Hannah Wilke: from SOS, 1974

“In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its phantasy on to the female form which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness.”  ― Laura Mulvey, Visual And Other Pleasures

“Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city walls of feminism.”  Caitlin Moran

"It is said that analysing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it. That is the intention of this article.”  ― Laura Mulvey, Visual And Other Pleasures

That last is one of my favorites - feminist killjoy at its finest. And I love that, and I also love complex, happy, reframing optimistic feminism, which we all hold as well. 

 Is it odd that i am a #maximcovergirl2020 contender as a feminist, almost 40? Probably but that's what is interesting. My selflove is about more than me and I'm excited to add to the hundreds of beautiful women out there, some of my fun, domestic, silly and artistic images in this contest. I can and do get dolled up as well becausec I'm a #playfulartist. Thanks for playing along. Voting is FREE and if in the slightest chance, I win, it will not be a traditional Maxim cover shoot. 

Find and vote for me me at maximcovergirl.com/2020/sally .

Sally Brown Deskins: “Prostitutes,” acrylic and ink on BFK

Photo of me by Faby and Carlo, London 2019

https://sallydeskins.wixsite.com/feministart

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Les Femmes Folles is a volunteer organization founded in 2011 with the mission to support and promote women in all forms, styles and levels of art from around the world with the online journal, print annuals, exhibitions and events; originally inspired by artist Wanda Ewing and her curated exhibit by the name Les Femmes Folles (Wild Women). LFF was created and is curated by Sally Deskins.  LFF Booksis a micro-feminist press that publishes 1-2 books per year by the creators of Les Femmes Folles including the award-winning Intimates & Fools (Laura Madeline Wiseman, 2014) , The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Laura Madeline Wiseman/Lauren Rinaldi, 2015 and Mes Predices (catalog of art/writing by Marie Peter Toltz, 2017).Other titles include Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 available on blurb.com, including art, poetry and interview excerpts from women artists. A portion of the proceeds from LFF books and products benefit the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Wanda Ewing Scholarship Fund.

Current prompts:

What does a womxn mean to you/your work?

Home Studios: Show us where you create!

https://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/post/614036096689504256/new-series-call-home-stud

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Ce printemps-là, toutes celles qui suivaient le cours de Judy Chicago participèrent à une performance de vingt-quatre heures nommée Route 126. La curatrice, Moira Roth, se souvient : “Le groupe a créé une succession d’événements qui se produisaient le long de l’autoroute au fur et à mesure de la journée. Celle-ci commençait par Car Renovation de Suzanne Lacy au cours duquel le groupe décorait une voiture abandonnée... et finissait sur le groupe de femmes assises sur la plage, regardant Nancy Youdelman enveloppée dans des mètres de soie diaphane s’enfoncer lentement dans la mer jusqu’à ce qu’elle paraisse se noyer...” [...] D’après l’Anthologie de la performance — recensement d’une décennie de l’art californien, cet événement remarquable n’a fait l’objet d’aucun article à ce moment-là alors que les travaux contemporains de Baldessari, Burden, Terry Fox donnent lieu à des bibliographies de plusieurs pages. Cher Dick, je me demande pourquoi chaque action racontant une expérience vécue par les femmes dans les années 1970 n’a été vue que comme “collaborative” et “féministe”. Les dadaïstes de Zurich travaillaient ensemble eux aussi mais ils étaient géniaux et ils avaient des noms.

I love Dick — Chris Kraus