Moore alumni are invited to join a docent-led tour at Woodmere Art Museum of Listen with Your Eyes, the inaugural retrospective dedicated to the work of Moe Brooker (1940–2022) — one of Philadelphia's most beloved and visionary artists, and a longtime member of Moore's faculty.
The exhibition traces the full arc of Brooker's career, from his academic realist paintings of the 1960s to his incandescent abstract works, marked by rainbow patchwork fields animated by sweeping calligraphic marks. His work drew on an exceptionally rich array of influences — the structure and tonalities of jazz, the bright lights and graffiti of the Philadelphia cityscape, African and African-American weavings and quilts and art-historical touchstones from Giotto to Kandinsky and Hans Hofmann. The exhibition also features a selection of Brooker's sculptures, weavings, sketchbooks and personal ephemera, offering an intimate window into his mind and practice.
Space is limited — please register in advance.
Image: Moe Brooker, I Come to Dance My Joy (detail), 2008, Mixed media on panel, 15 x 15 in. (Courtesy of Musa Brooker and Misha Brooker)
