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Today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has, "Exonerated prisoners' stories are depicted in artist's project," written by Mary Thomas.Daniel Bolick never expected to meet his Muse in the darkness he was navigating through. But out of torment came purpose and a clarity about the direction of his artwork that has taken him beyond anything he could have imagined. The resultant series of paintings and drawings form his solo exhibition, "Resurrected," at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg. At 7 p.m. tomorrow he'll give a free gallery talk, "Damnation to Redemption," about his own path and those of the exonerated prisoners he depicts who once sat on death row or faced life imprisonment. It's a subject that people don't want to talk about, and when they do they find reason to excuse the legal system's faults or to blame the accused, Bolick observes...continue to full post

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