Alongside LaKela Brown, Yale School of Art alumnus Mario Moore MFA ’13 is showcased in the Detroit exhibition “Beneath Our Feet,” on view at the Library Street Collective, 1274 Library Street, Detroit, through July 30, 2025.
As K.A. Letts with New City Arts describes the exhibition: “In ‘Beneath Our Feet,’ Detroit-born artists LaKela Brown and Mario Moore engage in an ongoing dialogue between their personal history and African American heritage….The exhibition consists of six cast plaster reliefs by Brown along with five paintings by Moore. The two share an interest in the use of artifacts of Black provenance—doorknocker earrings, sweet potatoes, collard greens and watermelon—as signifiers that honor their heritage and their forebears. Two sculptures, one in bronze, and the other in plaster, round out the collection.”
You can read Letts’ full review of the exhibition here.
Photo credit: Mario Moore, “Watermelon Man,” 2025, oil on linen, 51.5 x 42 in./Photo: Library Street Collective