MrsSpringsteen
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I was going to post his drawing but I don't want to give him the publicity..
I don't believe he should be profiting from this, he can create all the art he wants but not for profit. If he can be in any way "rehabilitated" and the art helps in that way that is fine too, but not for any gain other than that. I edited out the web site too
"A Massachusetts serial sex slayer’s crayon drawing of Jesus will be auctioned online starting tomorrow and could reap the cultured killer a handsome windfall while he awaits word on whether he’ll be showcased in a Manhattan art show next month.
“Will they be showing pictures of the women he murdered at the same time?” an angry Hampden District Attorney William Bennett asked on behalf of Alfred J. Gaynor’s victims: JoAnn Thomas, Loretta Daniels, Rosemary Downs and Joyce Dickerson-Peay.
Bidding for the Gaynor original, “A Righteous Man’s Reward,” will start at $15. Bay State laws don’t prohibit the latter-day Boston Strangler from profiting from his notoriety.
One true-crime memorabilia Web site is asking $5,000 for a 1982 oil painting of a clown by Illinois serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Gaynor’s homage to the son of God is one of 287 inmate entries the Fortune Society will cull to 130 for its show titled, “Insider Art: The New Outsider Art.”
“The man is a convicted serial killer,” Bennett said of Gaynor, 38, who is serving four life sentences at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley. “The deaths created a great deal of fear in our community.”
Thomas, 38, Daniels, 38, Downs, 42, and Dickerson-Peay, 37, were sodomized and choked to death between late 1997 and early 1998. Jesus and jungle cats are popular subjects of prison paintings, said the show’s project manager, Chelmsford native Kristen Kidder. Some inmates dabble in melted M&Ms or coffee grounds, fashioning paint brushes from their own hair.
“The same people who are capable of murdering children are capable of listening to music,” argued Fortune Society president JoAnn Page.
“We believe strongly that in addition to the punishment, there should be rehabilitation.”
Collectors who attend the show or simply peruse the artwork online will not be told of the crimes behind the creations. And don’t expect Gaynor to be sipping champagne at the show’s Dec. 13 premiere at the Lab Gallery on Lexington Avenue. Diane Wiffin, spokeswoman for the Department of Correction, said there have been no furloughs from Souza-Baranowski since 1995.
The prison does not have a formal art program, but Gaynor is allowed to draw in his cell using approved art supplies he pays for, Wiffin said.
I don't believe he should be profiting from this, he can create all the art he wants but not for profit. If he can be in any way "rehabilitated" and the art helps in that way that is fine too, but not for any gain other than that. I edited out the web site too
"A Massachusetts serial sex slayer’s crayon drawing of Jesus will be auctioned online starting tomorrow and could reap the cultured killer a handsome windfall while he awaits word on whether he’ll be showcased in a Manhattan art show next month.
“Will they be showing pictures of the women he murdered at the same time?” an angry Hampden District Attorney William Bennett asked on behalf of Alfred J. Gaynor’s victims: JoAnn Thomas, Loretta Daniels, Rosemary Downs and Joyce Dickerson-Peay.
Bidding for the Gaynor original, “A Righteous Man’s Reward,” will start at $15. Bay State laws don’t prohibit the latter-day Boston Strangler from profiting from his notoriety.
One true-crime memorabilia Web site is asking $5,000 for a 1982 oil painting of a clown by Illinois serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Gaynor’s homage to the son of God is one of 287 inmate entries the Fortune Society will cull to 130 for its show titled, “Insider Art: The New Outsider Art.”
“The man is a convicted serial killer,” Bennett said of Gaynor, 38, who is serving four life sentences at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley. “The deaths created a great deal of fear in our community.”
Thomas, 38, Daniels, 38, Downs, 42, and Dickerson-Peay, 37, were sodomized and choked to death between late 1997 and early 1998. Jesus and jungle cats are popular subjects of prison paintings, said the show’s project manager, Chelmsford native Kristen Kidder. Some inmates dabble in melted M&Ms or coffee grounds, fashioning paint brushes from their own hair.
“The same people who are capable of murdering children are capable of listening to music,” argued Fortune Society president JoAnn Page.
“We believe strongly that in addition to the punishment, there should be rehabilitation.”
Collectors who attend the show or simply peruse the artwork online will not be told of the crimes behind the creations. And don’t expect Gaynor to be sipping champagne at the show’s Dec. 13 premiere at the Lab Gallery on Lexington Avenue. Diane Wiffin, spokeswoman for the Department of Correction, said there have been no furloughs from Souza-Baranowski since 1995.
The prison does not have a formal art program, but Gaynor is allowed to draw in his cell using approved art supplies he pays for, Wiffin said.