TRUE CRIME AMERICA

True Crime America, is a mixed media gallery show, that includes photos, audio diaries, a documentary film, and environmental art installations of crime detris created by investigative journalist Don Sikorski.

For the last five years, Sikorski has had a visceral and street level view within America’s war on drugs, law enforcement, mass Incarceration, and the criminal justice system.

This personal intimate journey by the artist, has informed his reporting, relationship to criminal subjects and police, and a front row seat inside some of America’s most dangerous neighborhoods.

The use of photography informs experiences inside police cars, jails, criminal courts, and it juxtaposes heated debates inside mass and social media around the fraught relationship between race, law enforcement and mental health.

Short documentary footage exposes the intimate lives of police officers, criminals, lawyers, and victims of violence and murder, while audio diaries create a harrowing personal narrative that attempts to reconcile trauma.

 The gallery show deals head on with America’s growing obsession with crime, and how documented audio, video, & photography has become a 3rd observational eye, around dangerous encounters, that the public rapidly consumes.

Environmental installations of damaged bullet proof vests, police scanners, 3D printed ghost guns, hidden police files, police uniforms & guns, provide a physical & weighted experience around the tools of policing and a hyper surveillance state.

In a final created Short Film journey Sikorski poses the challenge to young journalists to look at how they report on crime, and the reckoning it could have on families, victims, and suspects.