Isabelle Brourman, a 32-year-old artist from Pittsburgh, has spent months sketching inside 26 Federal Plaza's immigration court with a large easel and supplies. She records immigrants pleading their cases and depicts masked ICE agents removing fathers, mothers, daughters, and sons in hallways. Brourman has sketched high-profile moments such as Luigi Mangione's court appearances and President Donald Trump's arraignment while also labeling her ICE work "aftermath." She combines courtroom and hallway scenes into larger compositions she calls "structural collapse." Photography is denied inside proceedings, making her sketches a unique visual record of those events.
For the past two months, 32-year-old Isabelle Brourman has entered 26 Federal Plaza's immigration court with a large easel and art supplies. Putting pen to paper inside the facility's courtrooms and hallways, she has not only illustrated immigrants as they plead their cases, she has also borne witness to masked ICE agents dragging fathers and mothers, daughters, and sons out of sight.
Hailing from Pittsburgh, Brourman sought to capture some of the Big Apple's most significant moments in recent history, including the court appearances of Luigi Mangione and the arraignment of President Donald Trump. Yet for Brourman, the ICE seizures at New York's immigration court system have been such a dramatic and significant point in American history that she believes it has reconceptualized all of her previous work.
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