Nov 9, Nov 10, Nov 11, Nov 12, Nov 13, Nov 14, 2010

12- 5pm Tue/Wed/Fri. 12-8 pm Thu. 1-5 pm. Sat-Sun. Asylum Inside the Closed World of State Mental HospitalsPhotography exhibition by Chris Payne runs August 27, 2010 December 30, 2010. This photographic exhibition presents images of abandoned buildings of state mental hospitals built during the 19th century across the United States. Over a period of six years, photographer Chris Payne visited over seventy institutions in thirty states, including the Athens, Ohio State Hospital, creating a haunting yet exquisite visual documentary of the architectural decay and the people who once occupied these buildings. Reception October 15, 6 8 PM

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