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Charles McGee with one of his students at the BBAC
Few artists ever make it as far as Charles McGee... in age, vitality...or achievement.
In his honor, a portrait of the octogenarian metaphorically will be painted when a traveling retrospective, curated by Julia Myers, art history professor at Eastern Michigan University professor, opens Nov. 9, 2009, at the Ford and University galleries at EMU.
"Exhibition Energy: Charles McGee at Eighty-Five," a major exhibition and art education outreach program, is being supported in part by the Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
After opening with a gallery talk by McGee at 5 p.m., on Nov. 9, the exhibition closes Dec. 19, and travels to the Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association in Birmingham where his and a selection of his students' work will occupy all of the gallery spaces. McGee's pieces then will head to the College for Creative Studies in Detroit where the show will conclude in February 2010, according to the Council.
Less than a year ago, McGee was cited by the Kresge Foundation in Troy which bestowed its first Eminent Artist Award, a $50,000 prize for his longstanding artistic contributions to Detroit. The foundation said he qualified on every front, from his paintings, sculptures and assemblages to permanent installations at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Charles H. Wright Museum, the Broadway People Mover station and several hospitals.
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