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 received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Performance Studies from the University of California-Davis, and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Published by Versal Journal, and winner of their 2022 Amsterdam Open Book Prize, Maurice Moore’s newest book, Drawing While Black Mixtape Vol 1, is a text composed of visual poems that explore various types of queer mark-making. Their works have also appeared in Bloomsbury, Communication and Critical Cultural/Studies, ObsidianLit, and Poetry Foundation. From 2011 to the present, the creative has exhibited at the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) in London, United Kingdom; Calabar Gallery in New York, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina; Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in Davis, California; and the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina.