Elizabeth Josephson "Drawing I – Women"

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poster for Elizabeth Josephson "Drawing I – Women"

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This exhibition in two parts presents a series of drawings the artist Elizabeth Josephson made, while teaching at the Rikers Island correctional facility. Drawing I shows ten large portraits of incarcerated women who collaborated with the artist by writing autobiographical information over their portraits.

Drawing I – Women
This exhibition in two parts shows a series of drawings the artist Elizabeth Josephson made while teaching at the Rikers Island Correctional Facilities. The first installation, ten portraits of adult women, 4ft. x 5 ft. printed in a medicine buddha ultra marine blue, are an imposing installation on the gray walls of the gallery. They show the women looking straight at the artist: defiant, despondent, but never shy or with feelings of ambiguity about this moment of being drawn and thereby represented to the world at large. Josephson has asked the women to collaborate with her by writing autographical information over their portraits. The results of this collaboration are the ten posters that show Josephson’s raw and powerful portraits of the women and give a confrontational insight into the sitter’s mind.

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from February 11, 2010 to February 28, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-02-13 from 16:00 to 19:00

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