Moe Brooker
trained at both the
Pennsylvania
Academy of the
Fine Arts and
Tyler School of Art and is one of Philadelphia’s most
prominent abstract artists. The Moore
College of Art and Design website
states that Brooker’s “radiant paintings
express an inner spiritual joy. Brooker
creates expressive color harmonies with
mixed media on panel and paper. His
work reveals a mastery of line, color
and composition. Brooker’s work
moves from quiet introspective mo- ments to intensely passionate crescen- dos. There is an undeniable musical
language permeating his work,
achieved through compositional struc- ture, color harmony and rhythmic im- provisation. The viewer is invited into
his complex abstract spaces which can
be felt, explored and contemplated with
both heart and mind.” Moore College
further states that “Brooker is very in- volved in the Philadelphia arts commu- nity. He is Professor Emeritus and
former Chair of the Foundation Depart- ment at Moore College of Art & Design
and is collected by major public and
private institutions including The
Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Stu- dio Museum of Harlem, The Pennsyl- vania Academy of the Fine Arts, The
African American Museum in Philadel- phia, Woodmere Art Museum, LaSalle
University Museum, The Cleveland
Museum of Art, The Kimmel Center for
the Performing Arts, Ford Motor Com- pany & AT&T Headquarters, Boston.”
The Museum of the Chateau of Mont- beliard, France; The Muse’s des beaux
arts, Canada Ottawa, Ontario; and
Spirtmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden also
exhibit his paintings. In 2008 Professor
Brooker was appointed by Mayor Nut- ter as the Chairman of the Philadelphia
Art Commission and was named the
Artist of the Year in 2010 by Governor
Edward G. Rendell of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania. He has taught
throughout the United States and
abroad. Brooker said, “As a teacher, I
think I have the best job in the world. I
am helping to shape the artists of the
21st Century.