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NABIL KANSO

Behind Bars

Filling the picture frame three nude figures are confined in iron cages. Each look directly at the viewer and grasp the bars. Horizontal format, sepia and black on white.

Behind Bars, Untitled, 2012,

18 in x 24 in, Oil on canvas

A wide ranging series, executed from 2012 to 2018, on mass incarceration, racial injustice, and the devastation caused by inequities in the U.S. criminal legal system. Kanso's Individual Support Grant from the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation helped to support his work on the series.

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