Title

Beat Down By Time

Artist

Yusef "Q" Quals-El

Artist Statement

Beat Down By Time

Format

20 x 16

Medium

Acrylic

Subject

painting

confinement

paint

race

Description

A painting of a red brick cell block with four Black men in prison uniforms standing on small barred platforms, and one tied to a whipping pole. There are two white men; a judge holding a whip, and a cop pointing a gun at the imprisoned men. In the bottom corner there are multiple clocks on the ground.

Prison

Macomb Correctional Facility

Location in the Gallery

Wall G

Log Number

426-22

Source

26th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners

Date

2021