Affecting Drawings by LGBTQ Prisoners
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To create "On the Inside," a new group show at Abrons Arts Center, Tatiana von Fürstenberg worked with the prison-reform activist newsletter Black and Pink to solicit drawings from currently incarcerated members of the LGBTQ community. Here, "Genotype" (left) and "Life Study," two works by J.S. (The prisoners' full names cannot be cited here for legal reasons.) "This is the Michelangelo of my collection. It's photographic, sculptural, some of the most refined nude figure drawings that I have ever seen," von Fürstenberg says.
To create the group show "On the Inside," Tatiana von Fürstenberg worked with the prison-reform activist newsletter Black and Pink to solicit artwork.