CHOICE NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION

At a time when the erosion of women’s reproductive rights is causing women in some parts of the country to feel that Roe vs Wade is a distant history, women artists from all across the nation interpreted and created artwork to the theme, Choice.  They give us insight to their artwork through their writings about Choice.  While one might think Choice is just about abortion, the artists and juror Catharine Clark show us that Choice encompasses the spectrum of reproductive rights:  if and when to be a mother, method of contraception and termination of pregnancy.  It is about celebrating a wanted pregnancy and weeping over a pregnancy wanted and not fulfilled.  It is choosing to terminate a pregnancy without regret or feeling conflicted with loss wishing circumstances were different.  The artists tell us Choice is what each woman must have: the right to decide for herself.

Juror Catharine Clark, owner and Director of Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco writes,  “...choice is an exceedingly complex topic, I think it merits a thoughtful voice. Artists whose work is approaching the topic with the depth and complexity the subject demands was chosen for the exhibit”

GALLERY
Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom, San Francisco, CA 94103 

EXHIBITION  
December 12, 2013 - January 12, 2014, 

JUROR: CATHARINE CLARK
Catharine Clark is the owner and director of Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, established in 1991. 
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EXHIBITION DIRECTOR
Kelly Hammargren

ARTWORK IN THE SHOW
https://www.ncwca.org/choice-online-gallery.html

CATALOG
Catalogs with all 61 pieces can be purchased for $27 (includes shipping and sales tax) by sending a check written to NCWCA for $27.00 and mailed to 4Choice2013, P.O. Box 728, Berkeley, CA 94701-0728.  Include your mailing address for the catalogue and email for communication. 

GALLERY ARTISTS, ARTWORK TITLE
(All Artists and Artwork in the gallery exhibit will be in the catalogue)
Lennell Allen: Ocean Beach Meditation
Jung Ran Bae: Project CU
Yvette Brown: Maria
Jessica Burke: It Was Only One Night, Pregnant Paula as Spock of the USS Enterprise
Francine Dailey: Radiant Sky
Jessica Damsky: Bella Donna
Amanda Dandeneau: Sabrina, Spayed
Stephanie Eley: Brown Paper Bag
Meryl Feigenberg: If and When
Alexa Garbarino: Helena at Mickey's Beach, Johanna & Reggi
Guerrilla Girls on Tour!: It's Not Just About Choice Anymore
Jennifer Hawk: Reproduction
Jo Anna Hickman: Control, enough
Bernadette Howard: Conversations With One's Self, no 6
Tonia Klein: Sofia
Christine Knox: To Reach
Liza KaBarge: The Annunciation
Suzanne Lacke: In The Garden
Rahshia: Linendoll-Sawyer: Injected Forms
Katrina Majkut: In Control 2, Plan B
Stela Mandel: Women's Health for Dummies
Juliet Mevi: Post-War and Pre-Choice
Miwako Nishizawa: Uteri
Priscilla Otani: You Are Not Forgotten
Judi Parks: Choice
Amy Puccio: IUD-NO STRINGS ATTACHED
Tamra Seal: Bindi, Chemistry, Fulcrum
Cindy Shih: Waiting
Jackie Skrzynski: Woman Growing Beets, Woman Growing Rasberries
Priscilla Smith: Four and Twenty
Diana Unterspan: Rejection
Deborah Wheeler:  Introspection
Vera Ximenes: Out of the Desert in Red
Jennifer Zona: Death

CATALOG ARTISTS, ARTWORK TITLE
Chambers Austelle: His
Ulla Barr: Candle Light Vigil, Pro-Choice, Anti-Choice
Laurie Edison: High Stakes
Alyssa Eustaquio: Swiss Army Classic Design, The Marie Stopes Edition
Maria Kazanskaya: Mask #1, Mask #2, Mask #3
Keri Rosebraugh: Pro Choice
Elizabeth Sowell-Zak: Choice/Schleeping the Troops, Gathering Sustenance, Tough Love
Simone Spicer: The Women's Section
Deborah Wheeler: Catharsis 
Jennifer Zona: Purity, Energy of Life