Charolette R. Yudis, American 1939-2007, Printmaker, Modernist, Abstract

A fabulous set of rare prints from this important printmaker whose work was always done in very small editions.

There are examples of her work online at the Woodmere Art Museum and 3 videos about the artist on youtube.

Etching

Phytologic Selection No. 4

Edition:  six proofs - number three and four

Signed and dated lower right

Sheet size: 13" x 14"

Image: 8 1/4" x 11 3/4"

Heavy Rag paper

Will be rolled up and shipped in mailing tube.

Charolette R. Yudis Bio

B.F.A., Tyler School of Art, Temple University; studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

Charlotte R. Yudis was an instructor of printmaking, bookmaking, and papermaking at the Fleisher Art Memorial from 1991 through 2006, and part of the Philadelphia Museum of Arts Education Department since 1994. Ms. Yudis had also taught at the Moore College of Art & Design and Duke University.

Some of the venues in which Yudis exhibited her work include: Fleisher Art Memorial (as both a faculty member and a Challenge artist), The Creative Artists Network, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Painted Bride Art Center, Esther M. Klein Gallery at the University City Science Museum, Florida Printmakers Society, Muse Gallery, Hunterdon Museum of American Art, Louisiana State University, and many others.

She had medical laboratory experience and began using human blood cells to create art in a way "no one else had ever done," said her husband, Charles. She manipulated magnified blood cells to produce Expressionist prints that Inquirer art critic Edward Sozanski called "ethereal beauty as well as perfect equilibrium between fact and imagination."

Mrs. Yudis also produced photogravure prints with translucent paper overlays that incorporated botanical material. Other prints featured the magnified vascular systems of plants.

During her career, Yudis received several honors for her work, including a Fleisher Challenge Exhibition, a Creative Artists Network service grant, a Print & Paper Fellowship from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, a Geraldine R. Dodge Grant, and a Dene M. Louchheim Faculty Fellowship. 

Ms. Yudis has work included in the following collections: the Noyes Museum, Montclair Museum, New Jersey Council for the Arts, Jersey City Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, The Woodmere Art Museum, and others.