Gage Gallery- Jerry Pritikin:San Francisco in the 1970s

From Gage Gallery


June 3 - Aug. 13, 2010
Opening reception June 3, 5-8pm


Roosevelt University Celebrates June Pride Month. Opening reception will take place from 5-8 pm in the Roosevelt University Gage Gallery. The show runs through August 13, 2010.

Gage Gallery- Eugene Richards: A Procession of Them: The Plight of the Mentally Disabled

From the Gage Gallery

February 11-May 14, 2010

"In some countries, they call them the "abandonados," the abandoned ones. They're the impoverished mentally ill and mentally disabled patients being warehoused in psychiatric asylums that are more run-down, more uncaring than the most brutal American prisons. Confined in cage-like cells, tied to beds soiled with human waste, medicated to the point of senselessness, or wandering naked in unheated and garage-like wards, they live in what can only be called the shadows, their plight unseen and too easily ignored by the rest of the human family. Working first as a journalist, later as a volunteer for the human rights organization Mental Disability Rights International, photographer Eugene Richards gained access to psychiatric institutions in Mexico, Argentina, Armenia, Hungary, Paraguay, and Kosovo. His wrenchingly intimate images reveal the often inhumane treatment suffered by the mentally disabled."

Eugene Richards