BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — “JAILBIRDS,” AN EXHIBITION featuring new and recent work by Gilberto Rivera, whose practice is deeply influenced by his two decades of incarceration, opens at the Center for Art and Advocacy in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Friday, Oct. 17 and remains on view through Feb. 15, 2026. This exhibition marks Rivera’s first solo exhibition and the second exhibition at the Center’s flagship location, which opened last spring. His work explores “the psychological effects of solitary confinement, the entanglements of the U.S. criminal legal and immigration systems and the broader legacies of colonialism and exploitation embedded within the prison industrial complex,” the Center says.

In his “Jailbirds” paintings, Rivera, a 2022 Center Fellow, uses the metaphor of birds to symb

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