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McGhee was born in West Virginia and moved to Detroit, Michigan at the age of eleven. He studied commercial art at Ferris State College in Big Rapids, MI, and continued his studies at Eastern Michigan University.  McGhee began his artistic career creating figurative, semi-abstract works, but he soon developed an abstract painting style, focusing more on the energy of a painting than its obvious content. He explains his transition between his artistic styles: “it’s a long, developmental period, just as when you grow older, you see things differently in life. I paint things differently than I did when I was a child. You would draw a tree as something brown and cylindrical with a big glob of green at the top. But, as you grow older, you see that a tree is much more than that; you examine it from all possible perspectives: scientifically, philosophically, spiritually.”