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Curated by June Sarpong | Brussels
, Gallery | Brussels, 25.10.2023 - 13.01.2024Filling in the Pieces in Black

Curated by June Sarpong | Brussels: Filling in the Pieces in Black

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Mario Moore, Commodities, 2023

Mario Moore

Commodities, 2023
oil on linen
182.9 x 121.9 cm
72 x 48 in
Mario Moore (Detroit, Michigan) received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI in 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art, New Haven,...
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Mario Moore (Detroit, Michigan) received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI in 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2013. Moore’s paintings focus on the personal, social and political implications of our segregated society. Presenting stories of his own life and those of friends and family, Moore weaves in multiple references to history, art, politics and literature to complete his narrative. He is a recent Kresge Arts Fellow (2023) awarded through the Kresge Foundation and a recipient of the prestigious Princeton Hodder Fellowship (2018-2019) through Princeton University. He also has been awarded residencies at Duke University, Josef and Annie Albers Foundation, Fountainhead, and Knox College. Moore’s work is in the permanent collections of but not limited to 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 work has been widely exhibited, including at The 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 is currently in the Smithsonian Sites Exhibition (traveling), Men of Change. His most recent major exhibitions Mario Moore / Enshrined: Presence & Preservation, 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, also his first solo exhibition on the West Coast. Moore’s next museum exhibition Revolutionary Times will open in January 2024 at the Flint Institute of Arts.

The works from this series are based on a series that investigates the origin of French Detroit and the fur trade of the 18th and 19th century that was part of the western expansion of the US. Black Detroiters specifically embrace a certain style that uses the fur as a trademark. These works show that sense of contemporary style but also look at the history of slavery in Canada and Michigan to expand the West. Black slaves were used to transport furs as part of the lucrative fur trade for the French and English in Detroit.
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Filling in the Pieces in Black, Curated by June Sarpong, MARUANI MERCIER Gallery, October 2023 - January 2024, Brussels, Belgium
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