Nov 9th, 2002-Jan 4th, 2003

Inside Bayview Maguire encouraged and helped the prisoners to do their own work during the workshops.  With the consent of the prisoners, he too painted their portraits over concentrated periods of time.  These prison portraits represent a form of social alchemy, where the traditional portrait, a symbol of social status and achievement, is subverted and used to affirm the worth of the incarcerated.

  The Bayview Correctional Center, where many New York women spent the last two years of their sentences, recently closed and retains one of its floors for historic posterity.