“Behind Bars” Exhibition
Taller Boricua
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Los de Abajo’s mission as a collective is to create a body of work that addresses social, political and ecological issues.
Behind Bars showcases Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective’s new suite of prints denouncing the critical state of the prison system in the US, which to date houses close to 2,000,000 prisoners and counting.
The United States has the largest prison system in the industrialized world.A large percentage of the prisoners in this huge system are illiterate. Our society builds more prisons when it should be building more schools.
Los de Abajo’s work also addresses the way society at large has also become imprisoned by the ruthless capitalist machine that surveys and controls every move and every urge of its consumers.
What does it mean to lose your freedom? What does the way the prison complex works say about the kind of society we live in? The US currently puts more people in jail than any other country in the world. The impact such a punitive system has on the psyche of this nation is alarming and is having a
nefarious effect on the quality of life of its people.
The body of work developed for this exhibition includes woodcuts, linocuts, drypoints, stencils, chine collé, mixed media and installation created by the members of the collective: Kay Brown, Nguyen Ly, Poli Marichal, Don Newton and Marianne Sadowski.
Media
Schedule
from April 04, 2014 to May 10, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-04-04 from 18:00 to 21:00
Artist(s)
Kay Brown, Nguyen Ly, Poli Marichal, Don Newton, Marianne Sadowski