Allie McGhee (born in 1941, in Charleston, West Virginia) is a Detroit-based African American painter and pillar of the Detroit art community since the 1960s.
[1] Allie McGhee attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, MI, and completed his undergraduate work at Eastern Michigan University in 1965.
McGhee’s art practice features painting and sculpture, consisting of collage, drape, and still compositions that enclose the spellbinding visuals of colors merging in a fusion of stains, dashes, and waves.
McGhee's study of the universal plane began as an inclination to document the micro and macro expressions of nature, through recurring symbols such as the line and curve.
Under-recognized throughout much of his career, McGhee’s work was the subject of a major retrospective, Banana Moon Horn, which opened October 2021 at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.