Diggs Gallery Director Belinda Tate
Winston-Salem State University’s Diggs Gallery hosted a closing reception for the Herbert Gentry exhibition, which ended its run Dec. 6.
The public was invited for one last chance to experience the art of Herbert Gentry and enjoy an evening of light jazz, cookies and hot cider.
Herbert Gentry: The Man, The Magic, The Master was Gentry’s first major retrospective in the Southeast and the exhibit has attracted thousands of visitors as well as hundreds of kindergarten through 12th grade students. The closing reception was the final event at Diggs Gallery.
Gentry (1919-2003) was raised in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance. He was influenced at an early age by jazz, theatre, and dance. The spirit of the performing arts is still seen throughout his paintings.
Exhibit painting by Herbert Gentry
The exhibition explored more than 50 years of Gentry’s expressive and improvisational figurative abstractions and documents over 40 years of the artist’s career in Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Malmo and New York City. It features generous loans from the estate of Herbert Gentry, the personal collections of Gentry’s widow Mary Anne Rose and George N’Namdi, and three works from the George and Carmen N’Namdi Collection at Winston-Salem State University’s Diggs Gallery.
