Holly Crawford

Art Engaging Gangs Holly Crawford

Publisher Marketing: A group exhibition of artists who have engaged with gangs in different ways. This art is the flip side of Norman Rockwell's middle American paintings of Thanksgiving gatherings or getting immunized, a shot, from the doctor to protect you from unseen danger. This is a different kind of danger: the danger of poverty, lack of work and opportunity. The work reflects and documents the violence and death that surrounds the lives of the gang members and the victims. AC Institute June 6 - July 27, 2013 Curated by Holly Crawford Participating Artists: Erik Bergrin, Mark Dillon, Jasmine Johnson, Nadin Ospina, Joseph Rodriguez, Paula Roush, Maayke Schurer, Robert Taub, Zefrey Throwell Contributor Bio:  Crawford, Holly Holly Crawford holds a Ph. D. in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex. Her other degrees are in Economics and Behavioral Science from UCLA. She has written about contemporary art in books and essays that include Attached to the Mouse, Outsourced Critics and Critical Conversations in a Limo. She is a curator, critic and artist.