{"id":9649,"date":"2022-01-26T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=9649"},"modified":"2022-01-26T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T15:00:21","slug":"sherrill-roland-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/26\/sherrill-roland-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherrill Roland at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After serving time for a crime he didn\u2019t commit, now-exonerated artist Sherrill Roland makes artwork that reflects on the physical limits and daily realities of prison life.\u00a0 At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanyabonakdargallery.com\/exhibitions\/625-sherrill-roland-hindsight-bias-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-new-york\/\">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery<\/a>, his geometric sculptures trace the outline of a cinder-block cell wall and lightboxes present text of letters written to family.\u00a0 Here, two acrylic glass cubes-within-cubes recall the basketball tournament Roland helped organize while incarcerated and include a hoop and three bags inside one cube containing commissary items as awards for tournament winners.\u00a0 Recalling Damien Hirst\u2019s freestanding steel and glass vitrines, Roland\u2019s less heavy-seeming cubes bear greater psychological weight, conveying personal suffering caused by confinement. (On view in Chelsea through Feb 5<sup>th<\/sup>. Masks and social distancing required.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9652\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9652\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9652\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9652\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-9.57.17-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-9.57.17-AM.png 1942w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-9.57.17-AM-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-9.57.17-AM-500x377.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sherrill Roland, Home and Away, acrylic glass, steel, primer, basketball, basketball rim, basketball net, three plastic bags with commissary goods, two cubes: 97 \u00bd x 97 \u00bd x 97 \u00bd inches, 2021 \u2013 22.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After serving time for a crime he didn\u2019t commit, now-exonerated artist Sherrill Roland makes artwork that reflects on the physical limits and daily realities of prison life.\u00a0 At Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, his geometric sculptures trace the outline of a cinder-block cell wall and lightboxes present text of letters written to family.\u00a0 Here, two acrylic glass &hellip; 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