Time Visions: A Pop-Up Shop of Work by Incarcerated Artists
Fierman Gallery, 19 Pike Street
Opening Thursday June 26, 6 to 8
Open to the public Friday June 27, 10 to 6; Saturday June 28, 10 to 6; and Sunday June 29, 10 to 2
Did you know that Shandaken Projects has produced hundreds of hours of art classes for incarcerated artists over the past three years?
These programs take place largely out of public view, but starting June 26, we’ll finally have a chance to show the world what our students have been working on. Time Visions is a one-weekend-only opportunity to purchase prints and multiples by incarcerated artists affiliated with Shandaken, and their collaborators. All artists will receive 100 percent of proceeds from the sale of their work.
On Thursday evening, June 26, Shandaken will open Time Visions by celebrating the world premiere of our forthcoming book Sullivan County Correctional Facility April 2023 to October 2024, and the NYC debut of Fraught Imaginaries, published last fall. Then, throughout Pride weekend, artwork made by contributors to these publications will be available at affordable prices.
Sullivan County Correctional Facility April 2023 to October 2024 presents a selection of artwork by participants in Shandaken Projects’ ongoing art education program inside of NY State prisons, a part of the Arts in Corrections NYS initiative. Inspired by Paolo Freire’s belief that teachers and students educate one another, and that education can be a tool for liberation, our weekly classes prioritized peer-led conversation and skill sharing to cultivate participants’ critical thinking, drawing, and printmaking abilities. Complementing the skills-based instruction, participants also discussed visual culture and art history—learning about, observing, and critiquing significant contemporary artworks.
Fraught Imaginaries is a limited edition coloring book that was printed and bound in a limited edition of 125 in Shandaken Projects' print studio, presenting artwork by Maggie Hazen and six incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated youth, together known as the Columbia Collective. The book channels a visual lexicon of familiar prison objects into a new terrain of imaginative reality, inviting participants to dream in concert with the artists of a wild, wonderful, decarcerated reality.
Both of these books will be available for purchase in-person at Time Visions, along with work by contributing artists including Maggie Hazen, Jay, Juste-A, Marilynn, Marshmallow, Rory Rei, and Toni.
Time Visions presents work by The Columbia Collective, a coalition of emerging female and trans artists who are currently or formerly incarcerated founded by artist Maggie Hazen in 2019. Rooted in the maximum-security juvenile facility where it began, the collective creates across carceral boundaries—crafting a shared vision beyond confinement. Through practices of healing and radical imagination, the collective works to reimagine and transform the prison system from the inside out.
The exhibition is co-hosted by FIERMAN, a gallery focusing on queer perspectives and undersung voices, and Open Studio (co-founded by FIERMAN) showcasing the work of artists with disabilities created at supportive studio programs.