Prisonation: Visions of California in the 21st Century

A series of landscape paintings and prints depicting all of California's thirty-three state prisons, inspired by paintings of the American West from the 19th century.

The entire series was exhibited at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in 2001.
A book has been published about the project: "Incarcerated: Visions of California in the 21st Century." A similar series was completed in 2002, depicting all fifteen of New York State's maximum security correctional facilities and exhibited at Debs & Co. Gallery, NYC, in a show entitled
"Maximum Security: Visions of New York in the 21st Century".

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- TN