Beat Down By Time

Title: Beat Down By Time
Artist: Yusef "Q" Quals-El See all items with this value
Artist Statement: Beat Down By Time
Format: 20 x 16
Medium: Acrylic
Subject: painting See all items with this value; confinement See all items with this value; paint See all items with this value; race See all items with this value
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 See all items with this value
Location in the Gallery: Wall G
Log Number: 426-22
Source: 26th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Date: 2021

Media: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8othahnigetrkfm/Wall%20No%20Mat%20MC54-8527.jpg?dl=1