Opening
New York, NY 
Rush Arts Gallery

Post Code Criminals 
September 13 – October 20, 2012 
Opening reception: Thursday, September 13, 6pm-8pm

Last year New York police stopped 686,000 people as part of their “Stop and Frisk” policy.

Post Code Criminals is a collaboration between myself, Joann Kushner, an artist in Liverpool UK, and young adults in Brooklyn and Liverpool whom we have been working with since Fall, 2011.

In 1996 NY police chief William Bratton met with his counterpart Ray Mallon in the UK to share zero tolerance policing strategy. The result was that youth in Liverpool and in New York were further criminalized based on where they live—their post code (the UK zip code).

Post Code Criminals is multifaceted project that addresses this criminalization of youth on either side of the Atlantic. The exhibition will include some amazing cell phone photos made by young adults documenting their East New York Brooklyn neighborhood and collages and images by UK youth that address police control of their lives, including The Matrix—what UK police brazenly call their surveillance system. Joann will present a video project. And my video installation Stop will be shown for the first time in this exhibition.

For more info about the project, the short video and description included in the successful Kickstarter campaign will bring you up to speed. Thanks again to all of you who enabled Stop be made through your contributions.

I really hope you will stop by this important and timely show and that I see you at the opening.

Thursday, September 13, 6pm - 8pm 
Rush Arts Gallery 
526 W 26th St, Suite 311 
New York, NY 10003 
212.691.9552 
rushartsgallery.org