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Nigel Poor, Prison Rock Band, June 26, 1975; Courtesy the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco
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Deborah Luster, Layla “Roach” Roberts (Inquisitor), from the series Passion Play, 2012–13 Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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Sable Elyse Smith, from the book Landscapes & Playgrounds (San Francisco: Sming Sming Books, 2017) © and courtesy the artist
Exhibition
Prison Nation
7 Feb 2018 – 7 Mar 2018
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:30
Cost of entry
This event is FREE and open to the public
Address
- 547 West 27th Street
- New York
New York - 10001
- United States
At a moment when 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the US, 3.8 million people are on probation, and 870,000 former prisoners are on parole, how can images tell the story of mass incarceration?
About
This exhibition coincides with the publication of “Prison Nation,” Aperture magazine’s spring issue organized with the scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood, an expert on art’s relation to incarceration. Addressing the unique role photography plays in creating a visual record of a national crisis, this exhibition and issue are accompanied by a series of six public programs—featuring speakers such as Nigel Poor, Aliya Hana Hussain, Keith Calhoun, Chandra McCormich, Jamel Shabazz, Deborah Luster, Bruce Jackson, Shani Jamila, Jesse Krimes, Sable Elyse Smith, Joseph Rodriguez, and more—all to take place at Aperture Foundation’s gallery.
Exhibited Artsits:
Lucas Foglia / Bruce Jackson / Emily Kinni / Jesse Krimes / Jack Lueders-Booth / Deborah Luster / Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun / Zora Murff / Nigel Poor / Joseph Rodriguez / Jamel Shabazz / Sable Elyse Smith / Stephen Tourlentes
