User:Arthurnegro/Charles McGill (artist)

Trained formally as a painter Charles McGill has evolved into a multi-disciplinary artist. His current body of work which he refers to as, The Artifacts from the Former Black Militant Golf and Country Club, incorporates found object, graphic design, performance, essay, photography, appropriation, digital arts and collage into creating an array of golf and race-related objects infused with satire and social politics.

Since his first solo exhibition in 1999 at the Barbara Ann Levy Gallery in New York City, his work has been exhibited at The Bridge Art Fair in Miami, Art Viceroy Miami, The Wadsworth Museum in Hartford, CT, RRC The 2008 Westchester Biennial and various other gallery and exhibition venues including his 2010 solo exhibition “BAGGAGE” at Russell Projects in Richmond, Va. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The International Review of African-American Art and Art in America. In 2007 he was a recipient of an Art Matters Grant and in 2009 was a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Crafts.

He received an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow, a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and an AFA from Keystone Junior College in La, Plume, PA. He is also a former attendee of The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

In 2005 thirty of his drawings illustrated the book, The Six-Spoke Approach to Golf, published by Lyons Press. He is currently teaching painting and drawing at Norwalk Community College and serves as Gallery Director of The Arthur M. Berger Art Gallery at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.