We Got the Power! Show at CAMP Gallery

Artwork by Elaine Luther at others at the We Got the Power Show/Women Pulling on the Threads of Social Discourse, October – December, 2024.  Photos courtesy of CAMP Gallery.

Here are close ups of my two pieces:

Textile Collage by Elaine Luther, Copyright Elaine Luther 2024.  12″ x 24″.

Textile Collage by Elaine Luther, Copyright Elaine Luther 2024.  12″ x 24″.

This was the 6th annual Women Pulling on the Threads of Social Discourse, I was also in the traveling version of that year’s show in 2023 at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee.

Here’s what the gallery director wrote on Instagram about this year’s show:

“Each of the 110 artworks on the walls have been deliberately placed edge-to-edge to form segments of an ancient Greek frieze, an elaborate, manual effort in adorning classical structures. However, this installation, its purpose, and thus Aristophanes’ entry into the fossilized narratives kept alive in the Western canon, brilliantly disassemble ideologies of powerlessness. This soft frieze allows what are considered stories of collateral damage to overflow. We Got the Power, like Lysistrata, exemplifies exactly how war, violence, slaughter, and distortion are not where we should find power and greatness.” – @gabidigiammarco