Delita Martin
Together We Stand, 2025
Acrylic, Charcoal, Pastel, Relief printing, Hand-stitching, Printed papers
10ft W x 6ft H.
Excerpt from Glasstire's article featuring Martin:
The contrast between the work of David McGee, Letitia Huckaby, and Delita Martin, the final artist in the gallery, is one of the things I like most about this exhibition. As I looked at Martin’s stunning installation and the additional singular works exhibited, I was taken by how powerful her imagery has gotten over the years. Martin is known for her use of the Black woman as a focal point in her work, but these new pieces convey an expanded conversation around empowerment.
Taking the work beyond a prescribed frame and giving it a sculptural embodiment makes so much sense for Martin as she doubles down on a visual conversation about the spiritual nature of Black sisterhood. Just as the spiritual world is uncontainable, Together We Stand, a 10-foot-long mixed media piece, explodes on its wall, defying the notion of demureness in favor of untethered-ness. As a part of a series entitled Song Keepers, a body of work that imagines an island of Black women living in harmony with nature, the ancestors and their own person, Together We Stand is the perfect personification of Delita Martin’s imagined world. –Vicki Meek
