War on Women Exhibition

THE WAR ON WOMEN

October 1- 26, 2024
Reception: Thursday October 3, 6-8pm

Exhibition Artists: Jo-Ann Brody, Elizabeth Myers Castonguay, V. L. Cox, Jayne Gaskins, Judith Greenwald, Zhen Guo, Melanie Hickerson, Leigh Jerome, Carla Rae Johnson, Tania Kravath, Carole Kulikowski, Virginia Mallon, Christine Mottau, Mary Alice Orito, Elizabeth Downer Riker, Judy Werlin.

Ceres Gallery is pleased to present a timely exhibition addressing the issues faced by women in this present, noxious, political moment. Women have fought for their personal liberty since the founding of this country and fifty years ago they finally won the right to bodily autonomy, an essential element of liberty. We struggled long and hard and were finally successful with the passage of Roe v. Wade, but now with the Dobbs Decision, there is a wide-scale effort across the country to restrict women's rights, especially reproductive rights, including abortion. We are all, women and men, as well as LGBTQIA, being forced back to a patriarchal, misogynistic reactionary time. Meanwhile, laws against gender-based violence have loosened and violence against women has proliferated. Women are dying. Our health care decisions must be made by us in consultation with our families and medical professionals, not by petty ignorant politicians or jurists. Women are in the world and we will not be forced to retreat from it. The artists in this exhibition, and Ceres Gallery as a whole, are outraged and refuse to allow our daughters and granddaughters to be denied the basic human rights that we fought for and won. This exhibition is a call to action. We will not go back!

For more information please contact:
Stefany Benson, Director
Ceres Gallery
art@ceresgallery.org