BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10448@cranbrookartmuseum.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220317T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220317T193000 DTSTAMP:20251223T111747Z URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/allie-mcghee-in-conversation-wit h-mario-moore/ SUMMARY:Allie McGhee in Conversation with Mario Moore DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between abstractionist painter Allie McGhee whose retrospective Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn closes on Sunda y\, March 20\, and figurative painter Mario Moore\, whose work is on view in the group exhibition Homebody through June 19. The pair will be intro duced by Laura Mott\, Chief Curator of Cranbrook Art Museum.\n\nMcGhee and Moore will discuss painting\, their cultural influences\, and the transfo rmative power of art in society now\, and in the late 1960s when McGhee em erged as a leader of the Black cultural community in Detroit. The talk wil l be followed by a listening experience curated by Allie McGhee in the gal leries.\n\nAdmission to the lecture is free. Gallery admission is always f ree every Thursday. Can't make it in person? Watch the live stream through the button above.\n\nPreview Allie McGhee's Playlist on Spotify\n\n \ ;\n\nAllie McGhee (b. 1941) lives and works in Detroit\, Michigan\, and ha s been an important pillar of the Detroit art scene for more than five dec ades. In addition to Banana Moon Horn at Cranbrook Art Museum\, his work has been the subject of recent solo presentations including Allie McGhee : The Ritual of The Mask at the Belle Isle Viewing Room\; and Cosmic Imag es 2000\, University of Michigan as well as in several major group exhibit ions including Harold Neal and Detroit African American Artists\, 1945 Th rough the Black Arts Movement\, Wayne State University and Eastern Michig an University\; and Enunciated Life at the California African American Mu seum\, among others. His work is included in numerous public collections including Detroit Instite of Arts\; Mott-Warsh Collection\, Flint\; St. Lo uis Museum of Art\; Studio Museum in Harlem\; and Toyota City Hall\, Toyot a\, JP. McGhee is represented by Harper’s gallery in New York and has r eceived a lifetime achievement award by the Festival African American Art and Culture by the Detroit City Council.  \n\nMario Moore (b. 1987) lives and works in Detroit\, Michigan. He received a BFA in Illustration from t he College for Creative Studies (2009) and an MFA in Painting from the Yal e School of Art (2013). His work is in several public and private collecti ons which include the Detroit Institute of Art\, The Studio Museum in Harl em and Princeton University Art Museum. Moore’s work has been featured i n numerous exhibitions including The Smart Museum\, Chicago\; the Smithson ian Museum traveling Sites Exhibition\; Xavier University Art Gallery\, Ne w Orleans\; the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art\, Grand Rapids\; David Klein Gallery\, Detroit\; and the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery\, New York. His solo survey exhibition Enshrined: Presence + Preservation was held at th e Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in 2021 and is on v iew through October 2\, 2022 at the California African American Museum.   ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/wp-content/upload s/2022/02/AllieMcGheeMarioMoore-Updated.png CATEGORIES:Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn,Lectures + Talks LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum\, 39221 Woodward Ave\, Box 801\, Bloomfield H ills\, MI\, 48303\, United States GEO:42.5727665;-83.25051710000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=39221 Woodward Ave\, Box 80 1\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48303\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TIT LE=Cranbrook Art Museum:geo:42.5727665,-83.25051710000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR