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Charlotte Yudis

Biography

Charlotte Yudis is a printmaker and painter who presently serves as faculty representative to the Board of Directors at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial. Yudis is also an instructor at Fleisher where she teaches various adult printmaking classes. As a printmaker, her work has been exhibited nationally and can be found in the collections of the Newark Public Library, the Jane V. Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, the Jersey City Museum, the NJ Council for the Arts, the Morris Museum, and the Montclair Museum, to name just a few.

Yudis has been a recipient of many professional awards including: the Dene M. Louchheim Faculty Fellowship from Fleisher Art Memorial, the NJ State Fellowship for works on paper from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, and she was a 2001 Challenge recipient at the Fleisher Art Memorial. Yudis has participated in many artist residencies including at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York City, and the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, as well as several others. Yudis is a member of the Creative Artists Network in Philadelphia and has worked with several master printers including Eileen Foti at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Randy Heminghaus from Galamander Press in New York City, and Daria Swuylak from Crown Point Press in San Francisco.

Along with teaching at the Fleisher Art Memorial, Yudis has also taught at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania, and in the Division of Education at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has also served as a Museum Guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Yudis has received critical acclaim for her artwork and has been featured regularly in local and national press. Yudis received her B.F.A. from Temple University and also studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.

Statement

Following the hurricane of 1996, I began investigating the "healing" effects of water and its relationship to both the earth (as seen in plant cells) and the human body (as seen in blood cells). I saw the rainwater as a healing element for the parched earth just as I see water as a metaphor for blood and cells within each of us.

My body of work deals with the relationship between art and science. The elements of nature reveal their secrets abstractly and continue to provide fertile ground for making art as a wide range of options fall under its rubric. All the forms/movements found in the human body appear in nature. The opposite is also true; all movements and forms that the universe holds in readiness meet in the body and are thus united at a higher level.

The cell-oriented, mixed media prints explore the repetitive patterns of both the cells found within us as well as those found in vegetable and plant material. Each work is presented like a specimen - the cells being magnified up to twenty-five times. These tactile works on paper perhaps reveal a mystery, or simply revel in the artwork itself.

It is my feeling that water as metaphor for blood and this spiritual activity of the anthropomorphic and biologic belong together. I see the nature of one as a picture of the other.

Charlotte R. Yudis

 

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