Black History Month Exhibition Featuring: Margo Humphrey, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Michael B. Platt, Preston Sampson, Stanley Squirewell and Therman Statom February 3-27

The Workhouse Celebrates Black History Month with an exhibit of works by several well-known African American featuring: Margo Humphrey, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Michael B. Platt, Preston Sampson, Stanley Squirewell and Therman Statom.  

A highly regarded artist and printmaker, Margo Humphrey's prints in this exhibit pay tribute to musician Raahsan Roland Kirk, who with all of his disabilities became a consummate musician.  Martha Jackson Jarvis has undertaken public and corporate art commissions across the country. Her sculptures have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad. Michael B. Platt, long known as a printmaker, now prefers the more encompassing designation, "imagemaker." Platt's imagery, centers "on ritual and the transformation of the human spirit that occurs when it confronts imagined or actual events and circumstance."

Preston Sampson sees his figurative portrayals as attempts "to emote, to touch, to move you to the center of it all, to enable you to feel certain changes, like fleeting moments of memory,"  while Stanley Squirewell, currently a member of the academic faculty at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, is "investigating the political desctuction of all things related to 'Blackness'," in his new series of works. Therman Statom has been described as a "tornado" and "hurricane" of activity. He is known for his daring temporary installations as much as for the gallery pieces which are included in numerous museums all over the world.

Date(s): 2/3/2010 to 2/27/2010

Venue: Gallery Building

Ticket Required: No

Photo Gallery

Margo Humphrey, "All Crossed Up"	Stanley Squirewell, "Bloodsucker"	Michael B. Platt, "Field Dancer #2"
Preston Sampson, "For the Love of the Game"	Martha Jackson Jarvis, "Isis in a Wind Storm"	Therman Statom, "Peras-Cielo"