Our favorite art this week: A Pa.-set film for Halloween, Springsteen’s Philly concert film, and North Philly’s own Jill Scott – Inquirer.com

Our favorite art this week: A Pa.-set film for Halloween, Springsteen’s Philly concert film, and North Philly’s own Jill Scott  Inquirer.com

Plus, South Philly native, PAFA graduate artist Moe Brooker's bright and musical art at Woodmere Colors explode in a series of abstract shapes on the white walls of Woodmere’s Smith Hall’s Kuch Gallery. The popping hues on canvasses and triptychs are part of the melodious exhibition “Listen With Your Eyes: A Moe Brooker Retrospective,” featuring more than 40 pieces by Brooker, a South Philly native, PAFA graduate, respected art professor, and renowned artist. “Listen With Your Eyes” is Woodmere’s homage to Brooker, who died in 2022 at 81. The exhibition — more than 20 years in the making — is the first ever exhibition dedicated solely to Booker’s work and features his paintings, sculptures, weavings, and sketchbooks.

It covers Booker’s early realism in the 1970s and spans through the 2000s, when his pieces evolved in size and became dreamier in style. His canvases are visual renditions of the jazz and classical music he loved so much; he uses the brightest hues in the palette, some pieces even appear psychedelic. Some are down right funky. All are synesthetic. It’s clear when Booker heard music, he saw colors and he was able to manifest what he saw in his mind’s eye as a tableau of intentional strokes. The painting, also called “Listen With Your Eyes,” is my favorite of the bunch. It’s