This exhibition focuses on America's strained, and often tenuous, relationship to its various domestic workers on the home front, as well as the workforce doing the menial and entry level jobs on the business front. Whether Nanny, Butler, Gardener, Maid, Handyman, or Housecleaner, the American Family cannot simply do without the help of these workers. Busboys, Servers, Housekeeping Maids, Security Guards, Migrant Workers, Home Health Caregivers, and Dishwashers are job titles that bear little status but without which many businesses, both large and small, could not survive.

Artists included in this exhibition are: Juventino Aranda, Jack Daws, Ramiro Gomez, Patrick Kam, Paul Rucker, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Joyce Scott, Roger Shimomura, John Sonsini, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Kara Walker, and Lynne Yamamoto. My gallery has not and will not shy away from politically based art. This exhibition is, in many ways, a protest against Donald Trump and his battle against those at the bottom of the economic ladder. Trump's divisive rhetoric on the campaign trail; his threats made toward routing immigrants or halting immigration; and his promises to build a wall at the Mexican border, all apparently sounded good to a great many Americans. But, given Hillary Clinton's decisive win of the popular vote, a great many more Americans were not convinced of the good in those opportunistic promises.

It was our hope to put this exhibition together during the 2016 campaign as the derisive vitriol increased and Trump's candidacy took on its bitter tone. But we just couldn't get it together fast enough-and we hoped and prayed that Clinton would prevail. Now, a few months into Trump's presidency, we've seen many of his policies questioned and many of his campaign promises fail. Yet these urgent issues have not disappeared or even lessened. Trump, and his policy makers, seem as determined as ever to diminish justice and to dismiss the needs of the least powerful among us. The least fortunate ones in any society are often simply, "the other." Be they immigrants who have gotten here legally or simply out of desperation; the uneducated or the disadvantaged; or those who are made to assume the role of "the other" simply by being the minority rather than the majority.