Special Exhibition: Resist

June 2025

Resist! Standing Up for Parks and Democracy Exhibition

Stephen Johnson Photography, Pacifica Center for the Arts through June 2025

I have created an exhibition featuring some of the signs I’ve been making for our local Pro-Parks and Pro-Democracy protests here in Pacifica over the last few months and pictures of recent protesters and their signs from various protests these last few months.

I’ve been struck by the facial expressions, sincerity, and frustration of the people attending the protests and the signs they carried. This exhibition is a tribute to them by fellow protesters, encouragement to find ways of resisting this attack on our constitution, the rule of law and the poor.

The exhibition will be on display through June 2025.

I am very pleased to be showing this work at the same time as the Sanchez Art Center is showing Living Through History with work by Robin L Bernstein, Lidia Hasenauer and James Shefik. Their work is described as “Following the tradition of art as a mirror held up to society, raising awareness and confronting power structures, these artists' works meld the history we are living in today with the past, reflecting on themes of environmental chaos, disinformation, immigration, (in)justice, and the atrocities of war, capped with the hope for peace.”

This show is very much worth seeing and fits well next to my gallery and the Resist! show.