On view October 18, 2024 - December 7, 2024
November 2nd Thursday Reception: November 14, 6p - 9p

The Voice of the People is a juried open-call exhibition featuring 12  InLiquid Member Artists. This exhibition invited current InLiquid artist members to submit works that explore American Politics. Each artist brings a unique artistic perspective on the political choices we make, the systems we exist within, and portrayed security within our political environment. 

Florence Weisz and Deanna Mclaughlin bring back pieces that were shown in InLiquid’s 2020 exhibition, Satirical Candidacy. Florence reworked her interactive collaged portraits of Joe Biden and Donald Trump to now feature Kamala Harris alongside Donald Trump. Deanna’s interactive Operation USA invites audience members to pull indicators from a large-scale replication of the classic board game Operation. Each piece is a symbol of a national crisis that persisted through our history, and is still relevant today. Both artists show the similarities between the political choices we made 4 years ago, and the ones we are faced with this year. 

As audience members are interacting with Florence’s collage portraits, they’re facing a gallery wall in which Geoffrey Stein’s large scale collages of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are sitting on either side of E. Sherman Haymans L’Amer-EEK! — an American flag pieced together with quotes by political figure heads that seemingly disintegrates at the ends. Geoffrey’s portraits are made of clippings from pivotal speeches, court documents, and images that defined each figurehead's career. Each artwork shows that a whole is greater than the sum of its parts, each small piece alone is easy to look over but standing together creates a clear picture. 

Peter Sparber’s American Elegy series looms over audience members as they sit faced with portraits of our current presidential candidates. His five large-scale drawings display the myths of the American Political archetypes; Liberty, Property, Authority, Equality, and Insurrection. Seemingly hopeless, heartbroken, and hypocritical. 

When facing Peter’s dominating imagery, Carol Taylor-Kearney’s flag series offers a glimpse of hope. Her large, colorful pieces are amalgamations of the American Flag and Tibetan Prayer flags. By overlaying the naturally symbolic colors of Tibetan flags and imagery of joy over the worn American flag, she is reimagining them as vessels of an optimistic future in which children are agents of nature, compassion, and peace. 

As audience members make their way to the last section in the gallery, they are met with the byproducts of existing within the current American Political landscape. Imagery from protests, propaganda-style posters, and direct responses to the seemingly never-ending fight for reproductive rights. Each artist in this section is using their voice and artistic expression to cope with the hardships that we endure when faced with moments of oppression, opposition, and nation-wide hardships. 

‍Kathleen Greco creates portraits in which a frayed American flag is seemingly unraveling around a female figure, hinting at the stronghold that the American government has over reproductive freedom. Printmaker and Activist, Rhonda Babb, creates reimagined propaganda-style posters that encourage viewers to think about the impact they have on their own future. Sandra Benhaim and Gary Grissom show composite images of protests and movements, a hopeful display of country-wide mobilization at times of distress. Dolores Poacelli’s piece is a direct reference to voices collecting under one message - the imagery indicative of viewing swaths of protest signs when looking over a crowd. Carole Loeffler shows us the voices of the unheard, with embroidered messages from women imagined.

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