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This exhibition presents the artists from the legendary Spiral Group and the ways their artwork and production were influenced by their brief association. The Spiral Group was a New York–based African American artists’ collective active from 1963 to 1965. Founded by Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Hale Woodruff to explore the relationships between art and activism. The group also included artists Emma Amos, Calvin Douglass, Perry Ferguson, Reginald Gammon, Felrath Hines, Alvin Hollingsworth, William Majors, Richard Mayhew, Earl Miller, Merton D. Simpson and James Yeargans.

This exhibition will include paintings and works on paper by Richard Hambleton (1954-2017), a Canadian artist celebrated for his pioneering role in the street art movement of the 1980s. Born in Vancouver, he gained widespread recognition for his enigmatic "Shadowman" series, which featured dark and eerie silhouettes painted on urban surfaces.