This exhibit presents works from the University Galleries' permanent collection created by women artists to mark the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Through paintings, prints, sculpture, and artists' books, the artists here challenge traditional gender roles and societal norms while addressing intersectional dialogues between issues of gender, race, sexuality, and class. The 19th Amendment granted many American women, but not every Black, Asian American, and Indigenous woman, the right to vote. Accounting for this gaping disparity, we honor suffragists beyond 1920 who contributed to the social momentum for subsequent critiques of dominant power structures including the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, and the LGBTQIA+ movement. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Michal Reed's accordion-bound artist's book of the same name that uses data visualizations, linguistics, and photography to lay bare some of the stark realities of life after divorce. Anatomy and the female body, race, and text emerge as consistent sub-themes within this group of work. Clarissa Sligh's Reading Dick and Jane with Me (1989) captures the artist's reactions to the canonical children's book as a person of color. Adrian Piper's artist's book Pretend (1990) examines the audience's implicit racial bias and asks readers to "pretend not to know what you know." This exhibition also highlights several donations accepted by the University Galleries in the past year. Artist Rodríguez Calero donated a collection of Puerto Rican and Nuyorican prints, three of which are on view here. Artist Lucille Nurkse donated two works by feminist artists May Stevens and Joan Snyder. As we reflect on the past one hundred years, these works expose our biases and remind us that individual identity cannot be bound to imagined constructs or external perceptions. Artists included are Isabel Bernal, Rodríguez Calero, Patricia Cudd, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Tracey Emin, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Robin Kahn and Sarah Blake, Catherine LeCleire, Kimberly Loewe and Jill Spector, Margot Lovejoy, Debra Pearlman, Adrian Piper, Erena Rae, Michelle Ray and A.B. Gorham, Michal Reed, Carol Rosen, Clarissa Sligh, Joan Snyder, May Stevens, Stella Waitzkin, Anne Wilson and Sally Alatalo, Marcia Sandmeyer Wilson, and Janet Zweig.
