Marking Time
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Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Nicole R. Fleetwood
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A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system.
More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America’s prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them.
Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. Working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions—including solitary confinement—these artists find ways to resist the brutality and depravity that prisons engender. The impact of their art, Fleetwood observes, can be felt far beyond prison walls. Their bold works, many of which are being published for the first time in this volume, have opened new possibilities in American art.
As the movement to transform the country’s criminal justice system grows, art provides the imprisoned with a political voice. Their works testify to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment and offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century.
目录
List of Illustrations*
Preface
A Note on Method
Introduction
1. Carceral Aesthetics: Penal Space, Time, and Matter
2. State Goods: Clandestine Practices and Prison Art Collectives
3. Captured by the Frame: Photographic Studies of Prisoners
4. Interior Subjects: Portraits by Incarcerated Artists
5. Fraught Imaginaries: Collaborative Art in Prison
6. Resisting Isolation: Art in Solitary Confinement
7. Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Practices of Belonging, and Carceral Landscapes
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index
* Illustrations
Ronnie Goodman, San Quentin Arts in Corrections Art Studio
James “Yaya” Hough, I Am the Economy
James “Yaya” Hough, How Big House Products Make Boxer Shorts
Todd (Hyung-Rae) Tarselli, untitled (chipmunk painting)
Muhammad al Ansi, untitled (Alan Kurdi)
Gil Batle, Sanctuary
Russell Craig, State ID
Ndume Olatushani, Winds of Change
Eddie Kates, Chain Gang
A Southern Chain Gang
Tameca Cole, Locked in a Dark Calm
Raymond Towler, Passing Time
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Ain’t I a Woman
Duron Jackson, Rikers Island Jail, NY/li>
Stephen Tourlentes, Lucasville, Ohio, State Death House
Maria Gaspar, Wretched and Paramount I (Extreme Landscapes Series; Google study of Cook County Jail in Chicago)
Sarah Jane Rhee, “Bomba Con Buya,” at Freedom Square, Day 10
Kenneth Reams, Capitalization
Daniel McCarthy Clifford, One Ton Ježek from The Leavenworth Project
Dean Gillispie, First Date
Dean Gillispie, Spiz’s Dinette
Dean Gillispie, Spiz’s Diner
Gilberto Rivera, An Institutional Nightmare
Jesse Krimes, Apokaluptein 16389067
Jesse Krimes, Apokaluptein 16389067: II
Jared Owens, Oculus
Jared Owens, Ellapsium: master & Helm
Unidentified man, Arkansas prison identification photo
Callie Brown, Arkansas prison identification photo
Sara Bennett, Keila on the Subway, Life After Life in Prison
Sara Bennett, Tracy, Life After Life in Prison: The Bedroom Project
Zora J Murff, Jerome at 15
Deborah Luster, L.C.I.W. St. Gabriel, Louisiana
Deborah Luster, E.C.P.P.F.
Chandra McCormick, Young Man
Dread Scott, Stop
Calvin Gorham, Self-Portrait
Michael Moses El, Self-Portrait with Desi
Edward, Portrait of Doris, DeCarrio, and Family
Cleveland, Portrait of DeCarrio
Daniel McCarthy Clifford, Mugs
George Anthony Morton, Mars
Letter from James “Yaya” Hough to Russell Craig with a portrait of Craig’s infant daughter
Titus Kaphar, The Jerome Project (My Loss)
Jesse Krimes, Purgatory
Mark Loughney, Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration
Mark Loughney, Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration (detail)
Ronnie Goodman, Self-Portrait with Boots
Ronnie Goodman, portrait session at San Quentin State Prison
Tyra Patterson, Moon
Lisette Oblitas, In Your Eyes
James “Yaya” Hough, Portrait of Yaya
Russell Craig, Self Portrait
Russell Craig, Locks
Women of York, Shared Dining
Lisette Oblitas, Phyllis Porter Place Setting
The Reentry Think Tank, Reentry Bill of Rights, Preamble
Printmaking class at San Quentin State Prison
DonChristian Jones and Rikers mural students, Staying above the Water
DonChristian Jones and Rikers mural students, Keep Your Head Up
Jerome Washington, drawings for Moth and Light
Ron Cauthern, New Monument for Nashville
Prison Renaissance, Metropolis
Billy Sell, Self-Portrait
Carnell Hunnicutt Sr., Supermax Cell at Northern C.T.
Aron “Akili” Castlin and Ricky D. Matthews, An Architect’s Dream
Omar Broadway and Douglas Tirola, An Omar Broadway Film
Omar Broadway and Douglas Tirola, An Omar Broadway Film
Moliere Dimanche Jr., untitled drawing on back of prison form
Moliere Dimanche Jr., Black Jesus
Moliere Dimanche Jr., Pills and Potion
Moliere Dimanche Jr., Tango
Ojore Lutalo, Being Persecuted for Political Thoughts
Ojore Lutalo, Seeing Is Believing
Ojore Lutalo, Torture Chamber
Justin Goh for Tamms Year Ten, I AM A MOM with Brenda
Laurie Jo Reynolds for Tamms Year Ten, My Picture with Blue Sky (for Roberto)
Jessica Posner for Photo Requests from Solitary, Sunset over Water (for Geri)
Frances and De’Andre
Deana Lawson, Mohawk Correctional Facility
David Adler, Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside
David Adler, Marlo, Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside
Sharon, Allen, and Eleanor
Nicole, Allen, and Sharon
Allen, Valentine’s Day portrait
Eric, De’Andre, and Nicole
Nicole and De’Andre
Fleetwood daughters
Winter holiday greeting card
Eleanor, Allen, Nicole, and Sharon
Sandy, Eleanor, Allen, Yvonne, Yvette, and Nicole
Sable Elyse Smith, C.R.E.A.M.
Sable Elyse Smith, BACKBEND
Sable Elyse Smith, Avenal
Sable Elyse Smith, And Here Is a List of Names
Sable Elyse Smith, The Body Keeps the Score