ARTIST STATEMENT
This is what I want to say to SCOTUS Alito! My repackaged clip gives voice to how I felt after hearing about the leaked documents from ultra-conservative Judge Samuel Alito’s opinion prior to the recently explosive Roe v Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. That document cited some of the most extreme anti-abortion views dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
In reading highlighted excerpts of his opinion, I became enraged by the deeply regressive and repressive stance against abortion–and a woman’s right to choose–that he took on behalf of SCOTUS, and that he relied on a 2008 CDC report, which showed there was a “supply-and-demand shortage of children available for adoption in the US.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cynthia Kerby is a visual artist, former design professor, jewelry designer, curator, and co-founder of True Ideas, a design studio in Evanston. She shows familiar objects in unfamiliar ways and makes observations of life’s frailties or uncertainties through a lens of personal awareness and curiosity. Her focus is to create work that facilitates change in human behavior and the role she plays in promoting public awareness towards action.
Cynthia Kerby’s visual art has been included in ArtPrize, and shown at the Art Center Highland Park, Evanston Art Center, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 1100 Florence Gallery, at Woman Made Gallery and The Gunder Mansion in Chicago, at White Bear Center for the Arts in Minnesota, in the Port Townsend Wearable Art Exhibition, at the Center for the Arts at Mission Point, and at the Taubman Center for Design Education, in Detroit.
Cynthia has curated exhibitions at The Westchester Children’s Museum in New York and at Space 900 in Evanston. She was a featured artist in (Re) An Ideas Journal in New York and also a recipient of a Ragdale Foundation Artist Residency in Lake Forest, Illinois. Cynthia earned her MFA in Visual Communication from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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