Her Story: Margo Humphrey, Lithographs and Works on Paper
Her Story: Margo Humphrey, Lithographs and Works on Paper
Her Story: Margo Humphrey. Lithographs and Works on Paper surveys the career of the renowned printmaker Margo Humphrey. Works representing more than 40 years of the artist’s practice were on view from February 4 through March 12, 2010 at the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland. Her Story was jointly curated by the Center’s Executive Director, Dr. Robert E. Steele, and curator, Dr. Adrienne L. Childs. On Thursday, February 4 between 5:00 and 7:00pm the Driskell Center presented the public opening of the exhibition and a discussion between Margo Humphrey and Dr. Childs.
The works presented highlight more than 45 years of artistry by one of America’s most unique talents. Margo Humphrey’s bold, expressive use of color and freedom of form defy the two-dimensionality of the printmaking medium, creating a body of work that is engaging, exuberant and alive. Through personal narrative Humphrey takes the viewer on a voyage of self-discovery that chronicles her life, loves, family, fears, joys and more. Although often intimate and idiosyncratic, Humphrey’s personal stories can be linked to the political dynamics of the feminist art movement that emerged in the 1970s during her early years of development as an artist and printmaker. Her lithographs The Last Bar-B-Que (1987) and The History of Her Life Written Across Her Face (1991) have become iconic images in American visual culture, demonstrating her ability to capture aspects of a larger African American cultural experience through personal memory, confessional, and a unique symbolic language.
Travel Schedule
February 4 - May 9, 2011
Hampton University Museum, Hampton University 11 Frissell Ave. Hampton, VA 23669
September 8 - December 5, 2010
University Museums, University of Delaware, 204 Mechanical Hall Newark, DE 19716
February 4 - March 12, 2010
The David C. Driskell Center,
1214 Cole Student Activities Building, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742