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Detail of Play Patterns painting, copyright Charles McGee, Ann Arbor, MI

Charles McGee at Eighty-Five

Choosing what to see

by Katie Whitney

posted 12/10/2009

"It taught me a lot about what I didn't want to see," says Detroit artist and former EMU art professor Charles McGee of his experience as a marine in post-bomb Nagasaki. The quote comes from a video in the University and Ford galleries at EMU, where a retrospective of his work, Energy: Charles McGee at Eighty-Five, covers everything from Picasso-esque

 
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