Eroyn Franklin: Detained
Exhibition Running: July 1- 30, 2010 (4Culture will be closed July 2 – 5 for furlough & holiday)
Opening: First Thursday, July 1, 6 to 8:00 p.m.
Seattle-based cartoonist and visual artist Eroyn Franklin comes to Gallery4Culture this July with an exhibition of large-scale drawings centered on the stories of two individuals held as illegal immigrants in local detention facilities. Franklin has closely followed the work of a trio of independent journalists from the Common Language Project whose mission is to report under-told stories.
Two of the drawings, panoramic scrolls close to 50 feet long, are a graphic novel under development. Drawn in pen and ink with alterations in blue pencil, they offer not only compelling narratives, but a unique glimpse into the artist’s thought process. One panoramic drawing follows the life of a Mexican detainee, Gabriela Cubillos, inside the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma; the other tells the tale of a Cambodian detainee, Many Uch, held in a (now closed) Seattle facility. Both individuals have since been freed, although Many Uch could be deported at any time. Franklin’s two non-linear drawings concentrate on aspects of the everyday lives of Gabriela Cubillos and Many Uch outside of detention.
Please join us for a special event: Thursday, July 8, 7:00 p.m.
A presentation by artist Eroyn Franklin along with the CLP independent journalists whose reporting provided the content for this show. Free and open to the public.
© Detain (detail), pen and ink, color pencil on paper, photo by the artist
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