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Moe Brooker
Present
Tense , 2021
Mixed media on paper
30 x 22 inches
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Born Philadelphia, PA
Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA |
Education |
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1972 |
MFA, Tyler School of Fine Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA |
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1970 |
BFA, Tyler School of Fine Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA |
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1968-69 |
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy |
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1959-63 |
Certificate, Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA |
Solo Exhibitions |
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2021 |
Recent Drawings,
June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2019 |
Spanek Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA |
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2018 |
Rosemont College,
Rosemont, PA |
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2016 |
Unspeakable Joy,
artist statement, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2013 |
Present Futures, Here
and Now, June Kelly Galley, New York |
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2012 |
Justified: Silent
Harmony, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Moe Brooker: The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Alumni Gallery,
Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia |
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2011 |
Intention and
Improvisation, LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
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2010 |
Shorthand for the Real,
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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2009 |
Moe Brooker:
Carelessly Exact, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS; catalogue
Moe Brooker: Senior Artists Initiative, Grossman Gallery, Lafayette
College, Easton, PA |
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2008-09 |
Moe Brooker, The
Substance of Feeling, curated by Susan Isaacs, Delaware
Center for the Contemporary Arts,
Wilmington, DE; brochure |
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2008 |
I Come to Dance My Joy, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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2007 |
Robert Roman Gallery,
Scottsdale, AZ |
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2006 |
Moments Hesitation,
June Kelly Gallery, New York, catalogue |
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2005 |
Color Infusion,
Robert Roman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ |
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2004 |
Moe Brooker: Making
Visible, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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2003 |
Moe Brooker, Moore
College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA |
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2002 |
Moe Brooker: Hymns,
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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2001 |
Seasoned Innocence,
June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2000 |
Time Came, Moments
Went, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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1998 |
Abstraction
as Metaphor, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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1997 |
New
Work, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1996 |
New
Directions, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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1995 |
Moore
College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA |
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1994 |
Paintings-Works
On Paper, Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH |
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1992 |
Moe Brooker, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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1990 |
Sanctified
Imagination, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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1989 |
Moe Brooker,
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI |
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1988 |
Sande
Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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1986 |
Moe Brooker,
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI |
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1985 |
DBR Gallery (Deborah
Bachman Ratner), Cleveland, OH |
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1984 |
Moe Brooker,
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI |
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1982 |
DBR Gallery (Deborah
Bachman Ratner), Cleveland, OH
Moe Brooker,
Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York |
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1980 |
Moe Brooker,
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Moe Brooker,
New Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Moe Brooker,
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ |
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1979 |
Makler
Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
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1977 |
Vick Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
Selected Public Collections |
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African-American Museum,
Philadelphia, PA
The American Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Hampton University Museum, VA
The Museum of the Château de Monbéliard, France
The Muse’e des beaux arts, Canada Ottawa, Ontario
Spritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Philadelphia Community College
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Cleveland Foundation, OH
Ohio Arts Foundation, Cleveland, OH
The Gund Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Karamu House, Cleveland, OH
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Cleveland Public Library, OH
ARCO Chemical, Newton Square, PA
AT&T Headquarters, Basking Ridge, New Jersey and Boston, MA
Aaron Enterprises, Plymouth Meeting, PA
Cleveland State Office Building, OH
Cleveland Clinic, OH
Continental Bank, Chicago, IL and Los Angeles, CA
Cuyahoga Saving, Cleveland, OH
Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, PA
First Pennsylvania Banking Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
First Union Bank, Philadelphia, PA
National City Bank Corporation, Cleveland, OH
PNC Bank, Cleveland, OH
Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI
General Motors Corporation, Executive Office, Detroit, MI
Corning Ware Company, Toledo, OH
Hyatt Hotel, Columbus, OH
Independence Blue Cross, Philadelphia, PA
Progressive Insurance Company, Cleveland, OH
SmithKline Beecham Laboratories, Philadelphia, PA
Sohio National Headquarters, Cleveland, OH
Xerox Corporation of Michigan, Detroit, MI
Absolut Vodka, Crillion Importers, Teaneck, NJ
BET Cable Network, Washington, DC |
Selected
Honors and Awards |
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2011 |
Honoree, 35th Anniversary
Celebration, African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA
The Penny and Bob Fox Distinguished Professorship, Moore College of Art,
Philadelphia,
PA |
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2010 |
Governor’s Awards For The
Arts In Pennsylvania, The Hazlett Memorial Award Artist of
the Year, Kimmel Center for the
Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Tuesday, November
30
Award Winner, Artists Equity Honors Moe Brooker: Making a Difference for
Visual Fine
Artists: Philadelphia, PA |
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2009 |
Medal of Merit,
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Invited to present his views on the connection between Art and Science,
Oxford
University’s Exeter College, England,
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2006 |
One of 60 scholars
worldwide who will participate in a conference on the
relationship
between Art and Science at the
invitation of University of Oxford, England
Juror for The Bermuda Gallery Biennial Exhibition |
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2004 |
Conrad Nelson Fellow,
Millersville University, PA |
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2003 |
The VanDerZee Lifetime
Achievement Award, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA |
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1989 |
Recipient, Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts |
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1988 |
“Philadelphia Art Now,”
Bus Shelter Poster Competition, Philadelphia Museum of
Art,
Philadelphia, PA |
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1987 |
Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts Fellowship for Painting, three-month travel
grant from the City of Philadelphia
to Sister City, Tianjin, People’s Republic
of China |
Commissions |
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2017-20 |
A mixed media on canvas
painting, 5 panels, 8ft. x 30ft.for the lobby of the William J. Green
Federal Building, Philadelphia, PA. Installation scheduled for April
2021. |
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2016 |
Amazing Grace,
mixed media on canvas, 12 ft. x 8 ft. for the Pennsylvania Convention
Center, Philadelphia |
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2014 |
Just Jazz, 12
vertical windows, each 10 ft tall and 7 ft wide, and each with a colorful,
abstract
pattern that Brooker created and that was fabricated in float glass at
the Mayer of Munich
Studio in Germany. This commission won in February 2014 from the
Metropolitan Transit
Authority to design windows for the North Façade of the elevator tower of
the Long Island
Railroad building in Wyandanch, New York was installed in May 2015 |
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1993 |
A 6-color lithograph
commissioned by The Friends of the Philadelphia New Brunswick, NJ |
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1992 |
Absolut Brooker Ad,
commissioned by Absolut Vodka |
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