Rachel Stroy's practice stems from deep, steady gazes into the invisible spaces of urban and rural African-Americana. Stroy creates an aesthetic vernacular for forgotten black life and nuance complicated storied pasts of incarceration, injustice, and displacement. Her current body of work, Thirty Thousand Five Sixty-Two, is composed of 30 large scale drawings depicting black men of various ages, disfigured by varying states of incarceration and imprisonment.