"I Will Always Be Here Before You", Digital Pigment Print on paper by Michael Platt

Upon returning from the Biennial in Sydney, Maitland, Melbourne, Australia, the Washington D.C. based artist Michael Platt will exhibit his new body of work influenced by the Australian and Aboriginal culture fused with his signature techniques of using digital image making, conventional photography, drawing, and printmaking as a means to explore/expose "the human condition...in particular, the history and experiences of African and African Diaspora culture."

Platt has received numerous grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and received the Mayor's Art Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts in 1999. He has public collections in institutions such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the David C. Driskell Center of the University of Maryland, Yale University Art Gallery, Hampton University Museum, and Schomburg Research Center in Black Culture.

Stan Squirewell

"Third Eye Blind", Mixed Media by Stan Squirewell

 

Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series National Winner, Stan Squirewell works with photography, collage, sculpture and painting to create a visual vocabulary that fuses ancient forms and spiritual symbols influenced by the African Diaspora with contemporary technology to positively envision the future. His most recent works bind the virtual world with physical reality, as he paints 

 and collages directly onto his printed images, illustrating the travels of a personal spiritual journey.

 

 

Squirewell has exhibited in many galleries and museums, including International Visions Gallery (DC), Irvine Contemporary (DC), Luther College (Decorah, Iowa), Parrish Gallery (DC), Rush Arts Gallery (NYC), Corridor Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Flashpoint (DC),Walters Museum (Baltimore, MD), Hampton University Museum (VA), Banneker Douglas Museum (Annapolis, MD), Howard University Blackburn (DC), and Warehouse Gallery (DC).