Detroit native brings 'Revolutionary Times' to the Flint Institute of Arts
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Two New Exhibitions at Cranbrook Art Museum Highlight Detroit Artists
Not every show that opens at the Cranbrook Art Museum unfolds like a modern mystery and highlights a budding star of the next generation of Detroit artists — but maybe all the great ones do.
Two exhibitions kicking off the Cranbrook Art Museum’s fall season aim to cement the reputations of the contemporary artists defining the city today and to showcase the groundbreaking artist whose influence on those very painters goes largely unappreciated, locally and beyond. Both shows, Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit and LeRoy Foster: Solo Show, open on Oct. 28.
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Rooted in History, Mario Moore's Paintings Introduce Multidimensional Subjects to Recontextulize Black History
Mario Moore wants to keep things interesting. The artist, 35, who lives and works in Detroit Michigan, finds unique ways to stay intrigued in the studio. His personal process starts with an idea to showcase his subjects, a blend of contemporary and historical figures in Detroit, after which he begins considering the material. To bridge the gap between past and present, he keeps history top-of-mind—exploring naturalism and realism through his oils, and creating captivating scenes that are accessible to even those viewers who know nothing about history or art. What are we going through now? Moore posits before starting a new painting.
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Read MoreAndrew Wyeth: Life and Death
Mario Moore, Fall, 2017
This exhibition is the first public presentation of recently rediscovered drawings in which artist Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) imagines his own funeral. The artworks, made in the early 1990s, portray Wyeth’s friends, neighbors, and wife, Betsy, surrounding a coffin at the base of Kuerner’s Hill in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, a site the artist long associated with death, including that of his father. Some of the drawings offer a view inside the coffin, revealing a rare self-portrait.
The exhibition connects the sketches now known as the Funeral Group to Wyeth’s decades-long engagement with death as an artistic subject in painting, his relationships with the models depicted, and his expressive and exploratory use of drawing. It also places his work in conversation with other artists’ self-portraiture and reflections on mortality. Works on view by Wyeth’s contemporaries Duane Michals, Andy Warhol, and George Tooker explore the nature of being by picturing the artists’ own passing, while artists of later generations such as David Wojnarowicz, Janaina Tschäpe, and Mario Moore investigate the universality of death as a social experience. Through such juxtapositions, Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death shows Wyeth deeply engaged in existential questions that have long preoccupied conceptual, performance, and activist artists.
Artist-In-Residence at the Rubenstein Arts Center in Spring 2022
Several Lifetimes, Oil on canvas, 60 x 72, 2019
“Mario Moore, a painter recently commissioned by Duke University to paint a portrait of Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, will be the artist-in-residence at the Rubenstein Arts Center in Spring 2022. While in Durham, Moore will visit classes at Duke and beyond, present public programs, and develop new work.”
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Enshrined: Presence + Preservation
Mario Moore, Clyde Sky High, 2018.
“Mario Moore | Enshrined: Presence + Preservation, Moore’s first solo exhibition in California, brings together work from early in his career as well as his most recent series, The Work of Several Lifetimes (2019), created with the support of Princeton University’s esteemed Hodder Fellowship. Together, these works represent the artist’s desire to make visible the dedicated work of marginalized groups in this country.”
This show will run from March 23 - October 2, 2022.
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Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus
Jewel 1
Oil on copper, 12 x 20, 2013
“Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus puts art from the CMA’s permanent collection in conversation with a vanguard of emerging and mid-career Black artists, as each explores the fundaments of art making, embracing and challenging art history. The connections between the artworks and the themes in this exhibition are best described both as currents, which are more predictable and easier to trace, and as constellations, which are less predictable and more difficult to follow.”
This show will be on display from Sunday, February 2nd to June 26th, 2022.
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Homebody | Cranbrook Art Museum Exhibition
“On January 26, 2022, Cranbrook Art Museum will open the new exhibition Homebody, which examines our relationship to the concept of “home.” Featuring nearly 30 works from 20 artists with connections to Detroit, the exhibition looks to unpack the layers of home by placing artistic interpretations of the emotionally complex word in conversation. It will be on view through June 19, 2022.”
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PBS NEWSHOUR
Artist Mario Moore’s work seeks to enshrine Black Americans' presence.
Shattered Glass: An Exhibition of 40 Artists of Color Ushers in a New Era of Inclusivity at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery Los Angeles
“A fourth through line connects artists who reverse the white male gaze, building on feminist critiques. Mario Moore’s grand portraits honor black people in the way that powerful white men have been immortalized by portraits for centuries. His masterful Standing in the Roaring 20’s effectively uses spatial dynamics to present an impeccably dressed black man in a blue coat with satin lining and a blue fedora; this man’s determined gaze is focused on the viewer as he weathers a storm and prevails through the looming terrors in the distance behind him.”
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CNN Mario Moore
Portraits on university campuses usually portray school founders, presidents and donors.
But at Princeton University, portraits of blue-collar campus workers are now taking center stage. A new set of paintings are offering a fresh perspective on the working class, racial struggle and empowerment at the Ivy league school.
Mario Moore, the artist behind the paintings, views his artwork as more than just decoration. By showcasing the university's workers, he wants to pay tribute to them and "put them in positions of power," he told CNN.
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CBS This Morning
Princeton University panel discussion
The Program in Visual Arts presents a panel discussion on artist Mario Moore’s exhibition of large-scale paintings, etchings and drawings of Black men and women who work at or around the Princeton University campus in blue collar jobs. Panelists joining Moore include Lewis Center Chair, Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing Tracy K. Smith; Princeton’s Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies Imani Perry; and Hank Towns, the University’s retired head equipment manager and one of Moore’s portrait subjects.
Solo Exhibition at Princeton University
Check out this link for my upcoming solo show at Princeton University September 19th 6pm-8pm:
https://arts.princeton.edu/events/the-work-of-several-lifetimes/
Detroit Performs PBS
Artist Mario Moore asks, "Is it ever possible to truly rest?" Episode 801/Segment 1.
Excited to share this clip from a recent episode of Detroit Performs. Check it out and if you want to see the full episode take a look here.
RECOVERY, E-Catalogue
A Student’s Dream
by Wayne Northcross
In contemporary art, portraits of black men by black artists are rare, their inner lives hidden, their subjectivity overshadowed by the realities of race in America. A few notable exhibitions have changed that. In 1994, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Thelma Golden curated Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. This explosive exhibition explored the social and cultural history of the black male body in contemporary art and media after the Civil Rights era. Since that time, artists like Lorna Simpson, Barkley Hendricks, and Glenn Ligon have opened up the idea of blackness or black identity, exposing the viewer and the public to a black body contextualized not only by race and history but also by sexuality, gender and class.
Mario Moore is an heir to the legacy of Black Male, and one of its most dynamic, young standard-bearers. With a painting practice based in figurative realism, Moore teases out complex and psychological transactions between himself in the positions of artist, subject and viewer through contemporary interpretations of black male identity and the history of Western painting. His new exhibition, Recovery, at the David Klein Gallery in Detroit, explores the idea of the black male body at rest.
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AFROPUNK
Rising painter Mario Moore’s latest solo exhibition, “Recovery”, is a thought-provoking study of an emotional walkthrough of his recent journey back to health after undergoing an awake neurological surgery. Taking place in the artist’s hometown of Detroit, at David Klein Gallery on June 30, the stirring show features works of silverpoint drawings, large-scale oil paintings on canvas and copper, and video to explore themes surrounding the treatment of black male bodies in America, in art and medicine.
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