Today Charlotte will come alive with activities to honor one of its native sons – Romare Bearden. The celebration was perfectly timed to begin on the centennial of Bearden’s birth. While other cities around the country, including New York City, Charlotte’s celebration will be the sweetest as we can claim the right to be called […]
Ask Michael B. Platt to explain his work, and the Washington, D.C., artist hesitates for a moment. He has been described as a “printmaker” (he prefers the phrase image maker), someone who takes photography and manipulates it to create something that’s entirely different – not exactly a photo, not exactly a collage, and certainly not a painting or drawing. Platt calls it “computer-generated imagery.”
