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The House That Herman Built
An exhibition by artist Jackie Sumell and prison inmate Herman Wallace, "The House That Herman Built", opens Friday, April 11 at the Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art. Sumell’s five-year collaboration and correspondence with Herman Wallace, a Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate, tried to answer the question: What kind of house does a man who has lived in a six-by-nine-foot cell dream of after 30 years of solitary confinement? Herman Wallace has been in solitary confinement at Angola Prison in Louisiana for 36 years. Solitary confinement consists of a minimum of 23 hours a day in a cell. Herman’s case is currently set to come before a federal court, which will face the question of how long a sentence in solitary confinement is too long and at what point it becomes cruel and unusual punishment. Herman is one of two inmates at Angola who may have been held in solitary confinement longer than anyone else in US history. In the darkest moments of his confinement Wallace turned to designing his house as a means to survive. Plans are now underway to build this house in his hometown of New Orleans LA. The exhibition at the Alternator includes an actual size replica of Herman’s cell, a computer aided design video of Wallace's dream house as well as dozens of letters, drawings and diagrams. ____________________________________________________________________________ The opening reception is on April 11 at 7pm and all are welcome. The evening includes a panel discussion, "Imagination of Resistance", beginning at 7:30pm with Jackie Sumell (MFA Stanford), Dr. E. Wilma van der Veen (Ph.D Sociology), Shelley Cook (E.D. John Howard Society), Jim Meiklejohn (Architect), Edmund Lee (B.Arch) and moderated by Jake Kennedy. The exhibition continues to May 16. ____________________________________________________________________________ Also opening Friday in the Alternator lounge is "a sense of my Self", an exhibition organized by Amanda Scandrett working with the Ranch Ehrlo Society youth in Regina. This project presents the voices of youth at risk. ____________________________________________________________________________ Also new work by Mia Rushton, "festooned!", will be exhibited in the Alternator Community Window in April. With plush acorns, florescent pink birds, dark clouds, printed patterns galore and all connected by a fine sewn thread, Rushton has opened the vault to a surreal study of the everyday. ____________________________________________________________________________ The Alternator, an artist-run centre located on the main floor of the Rotary Centre for the Arts at 421 Cawston Avenue in Kelowna, BC, is open from 11 to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Admission is by donation. All are welcome. For information, contact the Alternator at (250) 868-2298, visit the website below or e-mail info@alternatorgallery.com |
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