Stuart Gulliver, Group Chief Executive of HSBC, oversees a company engaged in conspiracy and fraud, painted by Mario “A.B.” Beltran (PRISON ID #437846), serving 3.5 years for receiving stolen goods
We at Dangerous Minds always admire passionate political art, so how could we pass up a chance to write up the Captured Project, a series of paintings of the criminals of the corporate world, undertaken (in their parlance, “captured”) by those serving time for more workaday crimes like assault and armed robbery?
Or as the Captured Project puts it:
“People in prison painting people who should be.”
Every painting is accompanied by a lengthy account of the subject’s crimes, and if you think that a rabble-rousing project of this type ain’t rigorous on the research, you really need to click through and read this shit. The crimes (and sentences) of the artist are presented as well, often to mordant effect.
The paintings, which mostly are angry by implication, favoring a fairly standard, if unflattering, portrait approach, remind me just a tad of Robbie Conal‘s enraged poster art from the 1980s depicting several evil Republicans as wrinkly zombies.
The book costs $40 and all proceeds go to help elect the only Socialist in the presidential race, Bernie Sanders.
Sepp Blatter, former president of FIFA, oversaw a company engaged in theft and supporting slave labor, painted by Lewis Walters (PRISON ID #38699-007), serving 72 years for assault with intent to commit murder
Indra Nooyi, CEO of Pepsico, oversees a company engaged in accessory to murder and conspiracy to deceive, painted by John Vercusky (PRISON ID #55341-066), serving 22 years for armed robbery
Ben Van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, oversees a company engaged in accomplice to murder and reckless endangerment, painted by Mitchell Hand (PRISON ID #054005), serving 33 years for selling stolen goods and burglary (with priors)
Brady Dougan, former CEO of Credit Suisse, oversaw a company engaged in conspiracy and treason, painted by Jerry Lee Jenkins (PRISON ID #03339-087), serving 18 years for bank robbery
Clarence Otis, Jr., former CEO of Darden Restaurants, oversaw a company engaged in corporate welfare abuse and deception, painted by Mark Crawford (PRISON ID #76603-079), serving life in prison for murder, kidnapping, racketeering, and fraud related charges
Michael Corbat, CEO of Citigroup, oversees a company engaged in conspiracy and economic destruction, painted by Garrett Rushing (PRISON ID #10706-091), serving 17 years for drug trafficking with a firearm and possession with intent to distribute (over 500 grams of meth)
John S. Watson, CEO of Chevron, oversees a company engaged in bribery and accessory to rape and murder, painted by Daniel Raines (PRISON ID #10662419), serving 3 years for possession of stolen vehicle (2 times)
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Maybe Monsanto isn’t the world’s most evil corporation, maybe it’s Nestlé