Glendale Library, Arts and Culture and ReflectSpace Gallery presents “You Can’t Arrest an Idea,” an exhibition by Sheila Pinkel, that brings together an important selection of the artist’s social and political work never before shown together.

Sheila Pinkel is an American visual artist, activist and educator who has been creating engaged political and socially conscious art for four decades. Her topics of inquiry are as varied as her techniques and approaches. A research-based artist, she employs data visualization, digital and medical technologies, photography and Xerox machine works to make critical and ethical inquiries into often invisible but pressing issues of current times. Casting a wide net across multiple subject matters – from the military-industrial complex, nuclear industry, consumption, incarceration, environment and others –Pinkel’s work is ambitious and outspoken. “You Can’t Arrest an Idea” weaves many of these threads together to present a decades-long and unrelenting vision of an artist attempting to make the invisible visible in nature and in culture.

​ “You Can’t Arrest an Idea” runs through Nov. 5 at ReflectSpace Gallery in the Glendale Central Library at 222 E. Harvard St., Mondays-Thursdays, 9 a.m. – 9 p.m., and Fridays and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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