"Backlash" Exhibition
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery
This event has ended.
Forty years after the founding of feminist institutions such as Ms. Magazine, Title IX, A.I.R. Gallery, and SOHO20, many of the rights won by the second-wave generation of feminists seem to be slipping away. In 2012, women have been denied the legal right to equal pay for
equal work, American nuns have been deemed “femi-nazis,” access to birth control and abortions has become more and more difficult and the word “vagina” has become so contentious as to be banned from the senate floor.
However: Feminism is not dead. Women and men in this country and beyond are fighting back, in new, innovative and creative ways. Backlash brings together a group of artists from across the globe who are a part of this fight. The response to the call for this “unjuried”
exhibition was overwhelming; Backlash includes the work of men and women, across generations, working in a variety of media to express fear, anger, despair, but also hope, fortitude, and solidarity.
Media
Schedule
from July 17, 2012 to August 11, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-07-19 from 18:00 to 20:00