All+ Women Unite is supported in part by the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.
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Exhibition Location: Dallas Tin District, 2506 Sylvan, Dallas, TX 75212.
Event will be open-to-the-public!
All+ Women Unite: Womanhood knows no boundaries, and women worldwide are fearlessly fighting for their rights, finding inspiration in the seemingly boundless freedom and liberty enjoyed by their American counterparts. However, beneath the surface, a quiet and incremental erosion of women's rights is unfolding in America, subtly challenging the very essence of female freedoms.
Performances
Brady Wolchansky
Manic Pixie Dream Girl Syndrome
When an alluring bachelorette’s emotional transformation gains control so does her physical metamorphosis as well, unbeknownst to her suitors.
Erica Felicella
My Body Is Stronger Than One
Since the conservative takeover of the supreme court women's and LGBTQIA+’s rights have been attacked and in some cases removed entirely. As a woman and a lesbian I have felt hopeless and weary of the battle that has to continue and and in some cases begin again. The reality is when women and women identifying folx come together we can stand and move through these unsure times together. Yes there is power in one and when that one becomes millions the message can be deafening to those who oppose it. We walk wearing the marks of this opposition but we are many. From the darkness there shall be light.
www.ericafelicella.com | @felicella
Kirschen TeX Wolford
TeX and the Tripl3 Thr3tz
The concept of this performance is to create an experience that is heartfelt and long lasting through live instrumentation.
Shahrzad Hamzeh
Roosari
Performing with Jason Purcell to the tune of Mehdi Yarahi's latest song, "Roosarito."
Resembling a mere piece of fabric, it might appear innocuous. Sometimes, it's worn by women as a stylish accessory. Yet, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the roosari holds significance beyond aesthetics – it embodies a force more potent than fashion. It stands as a representation of oppression, a weight so heavy that its removal could lead to imprisonment. Amidst this reality, I found myself yearning for the warmth of sunlight on my hair. But every such desire was met with the weight of mandated attire, a garment that symbolized all the restrictions imposed upon me as a woman. It silenced my unspoken protests, forced me to avert my gaze, and curtailed my very voice. In this context, girls were confined to silence, and forbidden from dancing, from experiencing love, and from expressing desires openly. However, in the face of these constrictions, I've chosen a different path. Defying the expectations that the piece of cloth embodies, I dance – an act of opposition, a rebellion against its oppressive implications.
Tamitha Barbosa Curiel
Sick and (Lemon) Twisted
This performance seeks to hold a mirror to the relentless hoops women have to navigate in their pursuit of healthcare, particularly when they are primary caregivers for others, and especially when they care for children with special needs. The artwork blends elements from the childhood toy Lemon Twist with paperwork, medical books, and pill bottles to depict the challenges faced by women within the failing healthcare system. The performance aims to shed light on the impact of these struggles on women’s health, especially artists, who often lack access to proper healthcare and face additional caregiving responsibilities that detrimentally affect their well-being.
@tejanacosmica | @sweet_t_menagerie
Taylor Alex Hayden
Ghost of the Lady of the Moon’s Heels
This spoken-word piece surfaces hardships of women's safety and objectification.
Writer’s Garret | @tayloralexhayden
Video
Carmen Menza
Star Spangled Banner, 2023
Millions of women and girls across the United States have suffered an alarming deterioration in access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, following the US Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022. Our right to bodily and reproductive autonomy is deeply grounded in the U.S. Constitution and our decisions about childbearing are grounded in the federal constitutional rights of privacy and liberty. Now is not the time to be quiet. If we do not speak then who?
Director of Film: Matthew Osbourne/19 Production House carmenmenza.com | @carmenmenzaart
Danielle Georgiou
The Waiting Room
"The Waiting Room," a short film, is a meditation on the body and the overall loss of bodily autonomy that women face. The threat is always present; a looming shadow. Five women strut through a liminal space, flaunting a synthetic silhouette of power. Each body negotiates a deal with the other, weight and pressure their only currency.
www.dgdgdancegroup.com | www.daniellegeorgiou.com | @dgdgdancegroup | @iellageorgiou | @daniellegeorgiou
Katrin Fallah
Presents two videos about two women during the 19th century who had very broad influence in society, and they are recognized as leaders of the women's movement in history. One in the west, and one in the East, and both emerged around the same year in 1848.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The video is inspired by the historical moment of performing the "Declaration of Sentiments' by Cady Stanton in Senaca Falls convention in 1848. This is a reenactment and recall of this very first step toward women's rights in the US made by Cady Stanton and her colleagues in That convention. They started a movement that challenged institutions and practices at that time to gain women's rights. The Seneca falls occurred around the same year as the "Badasht" conference happened in1848, led by Tahirih, her counterpart in the East.
Tahirih Qurratul-Ayn
Tahirih" was the first woman who was unveiled in public, in a conference held in “Badasht”,1848 in Iran. She did this action as a symbol of rebellion to break the boundaries of traditions, in order to start the movement for women to gain their freedom and dignity. She was ultimately murdered. She said in her last words: “You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women.” This video is a recall on this action through symbolic performance, incorporating her poems, and her archived handwriting printed on fabrics.
www.Katrinfallah.com | @Katrinf.art
Niloo Jalilvand
Sacred Chains
"Sacred Chains" delves into the universal theme of religious extremism as an insidious form of tyranny. Through abstract storytelling and evocative imagery, the film confronts the viewer with the dangers of blind faith, showing how extreme devotion can become a cage that not only entraps the believer but also those around them. Regardless of creed, this film unflinchingly portrays the psychological and societal toll of dogmatic beliefs, challenging us to consider the blurred lines between piety and oppression.
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Gallery Artworks
Alisa Eykills
constraint
Photography
18” x 24”
300
nerves, ties, strings, myths are bonding and curtailing us in the name of...
Carmen Menza
Pretty Little Mouth, 2023
Acrylic, mixed media, neon, transformer
22” x 15.5” x 3.5”
price upon request
carmenmenza.com | @carmenmenzaart
Millions of women and girls across the United States have suffered an alarming deterioration in access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, following the US Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022. Our right to bodily and reproductive autonomy is deeply grounded in the U.S. Constitution and our decisions about childbearing are grounded in the federal constitutional rights of privacy and liberty. Now is not the time to be quiet. If we do not speak then who?
Emily LaCour
Nursing on the Couch, 2020
Oil on panel
12" x 9"
1100
emilylacourolson.com | @emevlac
In 2020, I asked friends to send me their “on the couch” photos to paint. The cropped mother nursing one child while the other curled up by her feet, surrounded by the maximalists patterns of the interior was a compelling reflection of those caring for children during this time. Emily LaCour is represented by Valley House Gallery and has a solo show opening September 30, 2023.
Erica Felicella
(In)Balance
Archival Pigment Print on Archival Luster Photo Rag Paper
limited edition 1/10
2800
ericafelicella.com | @felicella
We all live in two worlds, simultaneously: the one in our minds and the one facing the world. Which one is real, and which one is false? Or are they both truths that make a person whole?
(In)Balance examines life as it pertains to internal and external worlds, revealing the duplicitous nature of mental illness and the public eye.
Felicella examines the dichotomies of mental health to uncover what lies under the surface in one’s mind. For what we know to be true in this world typically has alternate realities, often left unobserved by the traditional gaze. Metaphor and visual cues are hints into the reality of one’s emotional state while facing the external world. As an individual who grapples with mental illness and as an advocate for mental health awareness, Felicella uses her work to interrogate these struggles. She achieves this by creating pieces that are accessible, granting insight into the psyche of the illnesses themselves in hopes to break down stigmas.
Fari Rahimi
Communion
Wood, Steel Wire, Scissors
NFS
NOW
What is concealed
Must be exposed
Let every strand unravel
Fari Rahimi
Don’t Leave
Steel Canvas, Wood
72" x 31" x 21"
Price upon request
Pale skin
Pocket full of blood
Arms Curled
Eyes shout
Reaching out through the back of his throat
But no sound, no breath
Nothing
Hands cupped around the pole
His pulse is his pendulum
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Gina Bender Kern
Mothering
Acrylic on wood
27.5" x 48"
700
Painted in the depths of the Covid Pandemic where he loss of life and the loss of living a normal life was overwhelming. The pain I felt watching kids gracefully adapt to the strangest and scariest of times was agonizing. Being a mother and seeing the strength they held intensified the nurture in me beyond boundaries I knew existed, one part in wanting to protect them, and the other part learning from them as they somehow took the lead in living flexibly and able to find joy.
Gina Bender Kern
Safe and Sound
Acrylic and charcoal on wood
43" x 24"
700
Inside the walls of our quiet, sometimes unheard emotions, we are pure, we are safe. We can keep ourselves here with all of the approved past familarites, blanketed by the values of the inside world of us, and comfort ourselves in case no one else truly can.
Goran Maric
‘Ppl who define who I am today - Women Warriors. - gORAN ist Indira Gandhi’
ink pen drawing
17” x 14”
I asked what would happen, would I learn anything new if I envisioned myself as a person whose life have had important roles in my national identity upbringing while growing up in the country that is long gone now, former Yugoslavia. Stories created, proliferated and consumed as a dose of potion to instill in myself a sense of Yugoslavian and what those stories are, the people those stories talked about. All these ideas have been moving through my head as fast as movie reels would move inside a movie projector so to be projected upon walls, the movies difficult to comprehend exactness of their narratives.
So, I decided to start doing drawings of well-known people whose lives influenced in direct and or indirect way who I am today. 'Ppl who define who I am today' is an ongoing project that addresses those questions. One part of that project goes to subgroup named, ‘Women Warriors.’
As I am doing these drawings, observing those faces, eyes, mouth, hair, I think what if I were it, the person and the deeds that person had done? Could I be it ever? It feels as if slowly new stories unravel as I am approaching to these people from a more sober grown man experience.
Doing so I want to give them respect as the markers of historical narratives I observed, loved, enjoyed or hated, regardless…
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Haley Ryan
Wife Reading Alhambra Book
Acrylic and oil on canvas
24" x 24"
2100
Hayleeryanart.com | @hayleeryan
This painting is a part of my series titled. “To Make A Memory.” It was shown alongside 5 other pieces painted from a collection of found vernacular photographs/slides of a husband and wife traveling around Europe in the 60s. These candid and highly authentic painted photographs were displayed in comparison with a set of glamorous images from an elegant house party documented in LOOK magazine 1964.
The title “To Make a Memory” is a comment on the subtle differences between the curated or candid qualities of our memory making. This image of “Wife Reading Alhambra Book” was clearly taken by her amateur photographer husband in a moment of every day documentation: wife studying about a place she would soon travel to, slouched, hair a bit frazzled and a non-posed expression. I find this moment just as beautiful, if not more, than the perfectly-figured, tanned, posed, elegant internationals of the LOOK magazine spread.
My work as always begged the question, “What is beautiful to us?” How and why do we remember our moments? What do we pay attention to? What do we forget, abstract, and what do we hold onto in careful detail? What do we curate to the point of inauthenticity?
Jennifer Lewis
Directions
oil on canvas
34”x22”
Price upon request
“Directions” the choices we make for freedom.
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Jennifer Lewis
Surfacing
oil on canvas
16” x 16”
Price upon request
Like emerging from the water, the earth. A new life refreshed.
Jennifer Wester
Becoming Permeable
Synthetic Fibers & Wool
10”x10”x10”
As a woman, the greatest lesson I’ve learned is to be a tangible yet transient actor and space. I stretch but never can my fabric tear. I shift and mold to host and shelter, carry and contain, but my vessel is not for permanence, and not of storage… Success is resilience; not holding onto what I develop, what I nurture, what I create; the ability to let what needs me, pass through – changed for having experienced my form, and remaining my form, however too changed, nonetheless. My soft, textile vessels attempt to capture this: the comfort & scars of an un-container.
Kaysie Ellingson
A Rohingya Mother
pencil on paper
10" x 6"
1000
In 2017 over 100,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar following what was recounted as systemic rape, murder and arson. As the group poured into Bangladesh, a photo of a mother with her two children was snapped and featured prominently at the top of a news article published by NPR. According to the caption accompanying the photo, this woman lost several members of her family in the violence. The grief, horror and strength in her expression stayed with me for weeks until I decided to translate the image in my own way.
Kristin Colaneri
Manus minus Machina 'Women & Icon Series'
Mixed media, collaged photo, paper and paint framed
20” x 20”
350
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Kristin Colaneri
In Praise of Women 'Women & Icon Series'
Mixed media, collaged photo, paper and paint framed
20” x 20”
350
kristincolaneri.com | @sisso25
A 12 part photo and collage series with women and female identifying artists/models/actors that creates space to play with icons and iconography, high glamour, art movements and iconic ideas. It seeks to share and amplify women’s voices and contemplations. Each piece will be shown as a triptych - subject in their natural state, then as the icon and finally collaged. The collaged work is meant to subvert the previous image in a way that asks the viewer to think further and possibly re-contextualize the ideas presented whether historically or current. The final piece is also meant to play with the eye in a hand vs. the machine sort of way. It looks like a possible AI generated graphic but is all woven by hand, therefore, it challenges the notion that we as humans will lose our creative ability to the machine.
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Maryam Takalou
Beyond the Nets
Metal, Fabrics, Hair, Aluminum foil
Price upon request
Maryamtakalou.com | @mary_takallou
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Mari Hidalgo King
Y.O.M.P
Steel, fabric
12’ x 5’ x 5’
3200
thattheymay.com | @mari.h.king
This piece represents the abstract beauty of the female aura, power, soul and presence of a woman. The title, Y.O.M.P. stands for ‘your own marching pace’. There’s an assault on women’s rights throughout the world and this piece embodies the persistent march towards permanent women’s rights, liberation, autonomy and free-will. If we all unite for women’s rights, perhaps then, things can change. Made in collaboration with Joshua King.
Melissa James
Quechua Transcending
Mixed media on canvas
72" x 72"
1200
The imagery is based on a small artifact from Machu Picchu, Peru. The Quechua people are the indigenous peoples of South America who speak the Quechua languages. The painting is based on my own magical experiences with the people and culture of Peru in 1988.
Niloo Jalilvand
Roar: Unveiling Global Feminism
Video, fabric & steel
12’ x 5’ x 5’
Price upon request
uses a 3-D sculpture clad in a veil as a canvas for projecting images of women protesting for their rights worldwide. The piece challenges traditional perceptions of femininity and invites viewers to engage in a dialogue about gender, culture, and activism.
Structure made in collaboration with Mari Hidalgo King & Joshua King
Ramak Baghaie
Women’s Liberation
Acrylic and Pastel
46" x 46"
300
Through this art painting, we experience friendship, love, beauty, and music with the pursuit of freedom. It invites us to explore diverse lifestyles, guiding us towards a brighter tomorrow.
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Date: Saturday 9-2-2023 + Sunday 9-3-2023
Time: 7 PM- 10 PM
Location: Dallas Tin District, 2506 Sylvan, Dallas, TX 75212
Event is Open-To-The-Public and Free
