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Art Fact Friday #15 11-3-23 Mario Moore

For the month of November I will be highlighting 4 Detroit artists who are making an impact in the contemporary art world.

I was able to ask them each 4 interview questions that pertain to their outlook and position in modern art.


Thank you @mariomooreart for sharing your insights and perspective.


William

How is your vission expressed

in your art work?


Mario

I believe my vision for what I want in my work is pretty fluent but as an artist I want to unearth hidden truths and bring to light new stories. Ultimately my work is about challenging our everyday experiences and to imagine what lays ahead.

William

What would you say is your primary motivation for creating?


Mario

Living is creating and creating is living for me. That is my motivation, it is a part of my being.

William

What advice do you have for emerging artist?


Mario

My advice is to emerging artist is to find your tribe. What I mean by that is immerse yourself in your local community and get to know other artists. Support each other and challenge each other. That leads to a support system that cannot be broken.

William

Where do you see yourself in the contemporary art market?


Mario

The art market is weird. I see myself as a part of art history but slightly outside the art market and not because that is my plan but simply because that is where I am. It’s something I try not to think about.

Mario Moore, born Detroit MI, 1987) he received a BFA in Illustration from the College for Creative Studies 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art 2013. An Artist-in-Residence at Knox College, Galesburg, IL 2015.


His work highlights personal, social and political implications of our segregated society.

Painting his own life as well as  friends and family, Moore combines history, art, politics and literature. He was named Princeton Hodder Fellow 2018-2019. The largest survey of Moore’s work to date, opened at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit in June 2021 and at the California African American Museum (CAAM) in March 2022. He received a Kresge Arts Fellowship 2023. Moore’s next museum exhibition Revolutionary Times will open in January 2024 at the Flint Institute of Arts.


Moore has calmed numerous residencies at Duke University, Josef and Annie Albers Foundation, Fountainhead, and Knox College.

His paintings are held in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Princeton University Art Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Mott-Warsh Collection, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, California African American Museum, Flint Institute of Art and The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

 

Moore’s has be exhibited in he Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, NJ; the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI; Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art and the traveling Smithsonian Sites Exhibition. Mario Moore currently works and lives in Detroit, MI.






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