Upcoming Events opening May 20th 2017

Nancy Youdelman: Fashioning a Feminist vision 1972-2017

Fresno-based artist Nancy Youdelman is acknowledged as an original member of the feminist art movement that began five decades ago at her alma mater, California State University, Fresno, under the tutelage of Judy Chicago. Fashioning a Feminist Vision is a retrospective exhibition of Youdelman’s artistic career and encompasses the 45 years between 1972 and 2017. Exhibition Curator Michele Ellis Pracy has selected 56 pieces, divided by decade, to illustrate the development of the artist’s oeuvre beginning with her time as an art student in the early 1970s to her current command of her feminist vision as an established artist today. Exhibition Curator: Michele Ellis Pracy Exhibition Support: Drs. Kelli Beingesser and Gail Newel

Redress: New Artwork by Leslie Batty

In her newest body of work, Leslie Batty considers the subject of American feminine identity within the current political climate, addressing notions of “otherness” and conventional gender roles. Imagery of sewing and garments act as metaphor for identity, history, and culture in these paintings and collages, which aim to redress our assumptions of what it means to be “We the People.” Exhibition Curator: Kristina Hornback Exhibition Support: Drs. Kelli Beingesser and Gail Newel

Maurice: Order in Complexity

Maurice Cohen is an internationally known artist who lives in both Fresno and Paris. He has won coveted awards in France for his Expressionist paintings. Dr. Cohen is also Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at California State University, Fresno, Professor of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group at the University of California, Berkeley and at UCSF. The paintings exhibited here are exceptional examples of his Impressionist and Abstract styles. Cohen is acknowledged for his combinations of colors modeled with a knife, imagery that emerges from the compositional movement he achieves, and his command of painterly styles. Exhibition Curators: Michele Ellis Pracy and Kristina Hornback Exhibition Support: Dr. Donna Hudson and Dr. Samuel Hudson