For last three decades Platt’s work has evolved trough thought provoking observations of the world with the human body. His current work involves tension between setting and subject, history and identity, and conventional representation with non-conventional representation. Through out his career, Platt has tried to create a new order and direction to explain his personal truth. In his new work his techniques engages us in several layers of artistic involvement, including painting directly on a model, photographing the model in the studio, and digitally collagen multiples images to compose the final work.

Platt was born and raised in Washington D.C. where he currently works and resides. He received his BFA at Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio, and his MFA from Howard University. He has held residencies at the Bob Blackburn’s The Printmaking Workshop in New York City and Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, MD.

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

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