Love's Armor

Sculpture

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di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

Far Out 2025

Far Out 2025

Name/Title

Love's Armor

Entry/Object ID

1947

Description

Painted assemblage in form of dress

Artwork Details

Medium

Mixed media

Category

Sculpture

Acquisition

Accession

AR1947

Source or Donor

SFMOMA Rental Gallery

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Made/Created

Artist

Nancy Youdelman

Date made

2000

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Object

Height

49 in

Width

36-1/2 in

Depth

4-1/2 in

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Far Out

Notes

August 2 - October 4, 2025, di Rosa SF

Research Notes

Research Type

Curator

Date

2022

Notes

Nancy Youdelman (b. 1948, New York City) is a mixed media sculptor who lives and works in Clovis, California. A student of Judy Chicago, she participated in the 1972 Womanhouse and remains a prominent figure in the Feminist Art Movement. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Love’s Armor reflects her longtime practice of transforming feminine garments into sculptural objects by addition of found objects and encaustic. It evokes the vicissitudes of feminine experience; and the need to defend love in all its forms.