Johanna King, Kathy Radie, Pat Rose, Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity

February 2, 2024 – February 29, 2024
First Friday Art Walk Opening Reception: February 2, 2024, 5-8pm

Aurora Gallery
1004 Main Street
Vancouver, WA 98660
360-696-0449
www.auroragalleryonline.com
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-5:30pm; Sat 10am-4pm

The phrase “women’s rights are human rights” has been used by champions of women’s causes for over a century. When Hillary Clinton used the phrase in her 1995 speech at the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, it quickly became the rallying cry for the international women’s movement. The message that empowering women ultimately empowers all of humanity resonated with particular fervor on January 21, 2017, when women’s rights advocates organized the first Women’s March on Washington, giving rise to concurrent “sister” marches in major cities in the US and throughout the world. The event supported gender equality and many other important social issues that were expected to suffer under the newly inaugurated US President. The 2017 Women’s March was the largest single-day demonstration in US history, and it has now become an important annual event. The photos in this exhibit were made by three women who participated in the Women’s March in three cities in the Pacific Northwest: Kathy Radie in Seattle, WA, and Pat Rose in Portland, OR, during the inaugural march on January 21, 2017, and Johanna King in Port Townsend, WA, during the first anniversary march on January 20, 2018.

Johanna King is a Portland-based photographer who likes to do contextual portraits of both people and animals. She is a veteran traveler, a serious birder and a natural history buff, pastimes that have provided excellent opportunities for her photography. She spent her working career as a clinical psychologist, and perhaps because of that, she loves to make photographs that have a narrative thread. She wants each of her images to tell a story and to engage the viewer in speculation about why the photographs were made, what is happening and what will happen next. Her work has been shown in a number of galleries in the Pacific Northwest.

Kathy Radie currently splits her time between Oregon and Alaska, two of the many places that have shaped her life view and photographic eye. Her images have found a home in juried art shows, commissions for one percent for the arts, and the permanent collection at the University of Alaska Museum. She studied Fine Art Photography and History of Photography at the University of Iowa. Her work includes landscape, portrait, abstract and street photography. Landscape photography appeals to her introspective self, portrait photography expresses her love of human diversity, her street photography reflects her passion for travel, and her abstract work says “let’s give this a second look.” You may view more of her work on Instagram at www.instagram.com/kathyradie1/.

Pat Rose is a Portland-based photographer whose work includes landscape, street, portrait and botanical photography. She is a retired English as a Second Language teacher who has taught in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, in Austin, Texas, and most recently at Portland State University. Her photographs have been accepted into various juried group exhibitions in several galleries around the country, and she has won many awards for her work. Her landscape photos have been published in two outdoor guidebooks. Pat also writes about photography for Oregon ArtsWatch, the online journal for culture and the arts in the Pacific Northwest. Much of her work can be found on her website at www.patrosephotography.com.