Maurice, Moore. “I Got Soul!", Chalk on Blackboard, 72" x 48", 2019.
Image Description
Blu, Wyt, and Pynk interesting contour lines done on dat Blackty Black Blk blackboard. De horizontal and vertical lines swirl and overlap throughout de piece covering mos areas. The line weight changes throughout de piece with de thicc-est lines concentrated right at de top right margins.
About
Dr. Maurice Moore is an Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. They hold a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Davis, and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Moore is the author of Drawing While Black Mixtape Vol. 1 (Versal Journal, 2022), winner of the Amsterdam Open Book Prize. The book, composed of visual poems, investigates queer mark-making as a site of resistance and possibility. Their writings and artworks have also appeared in Bloomsbury, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Obsidian, and the Poetry Foundation.
Since 2011, Moore’s creative work has been exhibited and performed internationally, nationally, and regionally at venues including the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) in London, UK; Calabar Gallery in New York, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC; Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in Davis, CA; Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC; Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC; and the Modern Art Museum Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, Korea.