#mark loughney

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I visited the monumental show at PS 1, Marking Time : Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, which features works made by people in prisons and work by nonincarcerated artists concerned with state repression, erasure, and imprisonment. Here’s a selection of hundreds of drawings by Mark Loughney.

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Mark Loughney, Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration(detail), 2014–, 

graphite on paper, approx. 600 drawings, each 12 × 9".

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Mark Loughney: Addressing Incarceration and Reentry through Art and Advocacy

The U.S. rate of incarceration has dropped in recent years, but not by much. Today, the U.S. imprisons 650 persons for every 100,000 citizens. This remains the highest rate of incarceration in the world.  According to one report, the United States has about 4.2 percent of the world’s population, but houses around 20 percent of the world’s prisoners. If you visit Eastern State Penitentiary in…

Mark Loughney: Addressing Incarceration and Reentry through Art and Advocacy