Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present RECENT LANDSCAPES, an exclusive Artsy online exhibition of new paintings by Jennifer Nehrbass.
In this series, Nehrbass reimagines the Western landscape through a female lens, drawing inspiration from Albert Bierstadt and the legacy of the Hudson River School. Her paintings merge realism, fantasy, and ambiguity into charged, cinematic vistas that question how we see the West—past, present, and future.
Using one of photography’s oldest processes, Elkins creates large, camera-free cyanotypes by exposing treated fabric to sunlight. For this intimate series, she incorporates her father’s ashes, surrounding viewers with constellations of ghostly, speckled blue.
Working with ash, salt, sand, and silt, and rinsing each piece in natural bodies of water, Elkins symbolically and materially reunites her father with the landscapes he loved—from the Pacific Ocean, recalling his years in a California marine biology lab, to freshwater creeks that echo his youth spent swimming with friends. The exhibition also includes artifacts from his life.
These works bring light, water, minerals, and memory together into portraits that speak to the uniqueness of a life, the transience of existence, and the ongoing act of letting go. As Elkins writes:
“Exposed in the sun as a means of holding on. Rinsed in bodies of water as a means of letting go. An action that both safekeeps his ashes and releases them into the natural world.”
On view in the Center Gallery of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from February 20–June 13, 2026.
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Closed on state and federal holidays. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 702-895-3381 barrick.museum@unlv.edu
“California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation” is now on view at Coastline College Art Gallery, bringing together iconic and contemporary California voices—from Light and Space and abstract work to resin, surfboard, and surf-culture art.
See works by legends like Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Mary Corse, David Hockney, Sam Francis, Ed Moses, and more, alongside Mark Moore Fine Art artists Robert Standish, Todd Hebert, Zemer Peled, and Feodor Voronov.
Curated by Billie Milam Weisman, this exhibition highlights the groundbreaking art movements that have shaped the Golden State from the 1960s to today.
📍 Coastline College Art Gallery 1515 Monrovia Ave., Newport Beach, CA 92663 📅 February 4 – March 20, 2026 🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4kIcxGu
Rebekah Andrade / Greens and Blues, 2025 / Acrylic and Pastel on Paper / 51 × 40 in / 129.5 × 101.6 cm / COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
Mark Moore Fine Art is honored to share that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired two works by REBEKAH ANDRADE for its permanent collection: “Greens and Blues” (2025) and “Study #9” (2021).
Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is the largest cultural institution in the region, with an encyclopedic collection especially renowned for pre-Columbian and African gold; Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture; 19th- and 20th-century art; photography; and Latin American art.
We are thrilled to see ANDRADE’s work join this world-class collection.
Josh Azzarella Untitled #25 (Iwo Jima), 2006 Digital c-print 20×30 inches Edition of 7 Collection of the Crocker Art Museum
Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist JOSH AZZARELLA by The Crocker Art Museum.
Josh Azzarella (b. 1978, Ohio) creates videos and photographs that explore the power of context in the authorship of memory, oftentimes utilizing seminal moments in pop culture and news media to create accessible confrontations with historiography. By illuminating the individual encounter with communal experiences, Azzarella evaluates the perception of realness – which can ultimately be rooted in both the fantastic as much as the pragmatic.
Azzarella was the recipient of the 2006 Emerging Artist Award and related solo exhibition from The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (CT). He has previously shown at the California Museum of Photography (CA), University Art Museum, Long Beach (CA), Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada), Kavi Gupta Gallery (IL), Academie der Kunste (Berlin), Sean Kelly Gallery (NY), Catharine Clark Gallery (CA), Mississippi State University (MS), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (CA) and DCKT Gallery (NY). His work is included in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PA), the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (TX), the San Diego Museum of Modern Art (CA), the Margulies Collection (FL), Western Bridge (WA) and Morgan Chase (NY). He lives and works in Easton, PA.
The Crocker Art Museum features the world’s foremost display of California art and is renowned for its holdings of European master drawings and international ceramics. The Crocker also holds permanent collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art, ceramics, and photography. The Museum offers a diverse spectrum of exhibitions, events, and programs to augment its collections, including films, concerts, studio classes, lectures, children’s activities, and more. The Museum has also dedicated the historic building’s entire first floor as an education center, which includes four classrooms, space for student and community exhibitions, the Gerald Hansen Library, and Tot Land. Discover it all at: crockerart.org
Using one of photography’s oldest processes, Elkins creates large, camera-free cyanotypes by exposing treated fabric to sunlight. For this intimate series, she incorporates her father’s ashes, surrounding viewers with constellations of ghostly, speckled blue.
Working with ash, salt, sand, and silt, and rinsing each piece in natural bodies of water, Elkins symbolically and materially reunites her father with the landscapes he loved—from the Pacific Ocean, recalling his years in a California marine biology lab, to freshwater creeks that echo his youth spent swimming with friends. The exhibition also includes artifacts from his life.
These works bring light, water, minerals, and memory together into portraits that speak to the uniqueness of a life, the transience of existence, and the ongoing act of letting go. As Elkins writes:
“Exposed in the sun as a means of holding on. Rinsed in bodies of water as a means of letting go. An action that both safekeeps his ashes and releases them into the natural world.”
On view in the Center Gallery of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from February 20–June 13, 2026.
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Closed on state and federal holidays. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 702-895-3381 barrick.museum@unlv.edu
Jeffry Mitchell American, born 1958 Terrace Cotta Bucket of Safety and Reassurance, 2021 Thomas Orr red stonewareclay 17 x 14 x 13 inches Collection of the Crocker Art Museum
Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist JEFFRY MITCHELL by The Crocker Art Museum.
Jeffry Mitchell’s primary medium is ceramic and he is well versed in its traditions around the globe (references to Early American glazes, Pennsylvania Dutch pickle jars, asymmetrical Japanese aesthetic decisions and Chinese Foo Dogs abound). Mitchell takes a very direct approach to working, often eschewing refinements that commonly accompany many ceramic processes. The resulting pieces radiate an exuberant, unbridled immediacy. He feels that this unfettered approach is essentially relatable to our shared human experience. To explain this idea Mitchell talks about a fundamental familiarity with clay that we all carry with us from our formative years. Perhaps we came to it through playing as children making mud pies or maybe it was making pinch pots in elementary school, regardless he feels that clay is a material that is universally relatable at a very basic level. The imagery that he uses is also very accessible. Bears, elefants (he prefers ‘f’ to ‘ph’), bunnies and flowers appear over and over in his work and though they can be definitely be related to his own personal story he feels that these too spring from an early and universally familiar place. Throughout the work Mitchell seeks to tap into and broadcast a sense of vitality whether it be joyful or colored with more a complex mix of emotions. This throughline can been seen in the thick, dripping glazes, the unabashed appropriation of decorative motifs and an unmistakeable suffusion of playfulness.
Mitchell’s work can be found in numerous private and public collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Philadelphia Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), Honolulu Museum of Art, Tacoma Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; and aMarjorie Barrick Museum (University of Nevada Las Vegas).
The Crocker Art Museum features the world’s foremost display of California art and is renowned for its holdings of European master drawings and international ceramics. The Crocker also holds permanent collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art, ceramics, and photography. The Museum offers a diverse spectrum of exhibitions, events, and programs to augment its collections, including films, concerts, studio classes, lectures, children’s activities, and more. The Museum has also dedicated the historic building’s entire first floor as an education center, which includes four classrooms, space for student and community exhibitions, the Gerald Hansen Library, and Tot Land. Discover it all at: crockerart.org
Jennifer Gunlock Crow’s Nest, 2016 Mixed media paper collage and drawing on 2 sheets rag paper, grommets 50 × 76 in / 127 × 193 cm COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired two works by artist JENNIFER GUNLOCK for its permanent collection,”Crow’s Nest” (2016) and “Nesting Site #1” (2021).
Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is the largest cultural institution in the region, with an encyclopedic collection especially renowned for pre-Columbian and African gold; Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture; 19th- and 20th-century art; photography; and Latin American art.
We are thrilled to see GUNLOCK’s work join this world-class collection.
MARK BENNETT Home of Mike & Carol Brady (The Brady Bunch), 2017 Collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist MARK BENNETT by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Mark Bennett‘s (b. 1956, Tennessee) whimsical works engage with pop culture and celebrity to an extreme degree. His blueprint lithographs of Baby Boom era sitcoms and popular television series depict the ultimate pairing of flight of fancy and stoical logic; the purely imaginary floor plans grounded by the dry format of an architect’s design. His works are both pleasingly nostalgic and vaguely disconcerting in their premonition of a society obsessed by television and celebrity culture.
Earning reverence from both critics and collectors alike, Bennett has been coined a master of nostalgia and social evaluation, acting as “the most earnest of his generation of West Coast artists drawing on popular culture” (Grady T. Turner, Art in America).
Since his induction into the gallery in 1995, Bennett has been included in over three dozen significant museum and group exhibitions, including those at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (D.C.), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (CT), Walker Art Center (MN) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA).
Mark Bennett is in the Public Collections of several prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, CA. His works are also part of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Portland Art Museum in Portland, OR. Additionally, he is represented in The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, and the New York Public Library in New York, NY. Other notable collections include the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA, the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis, IN, and the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. His works can also be found at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, and the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He is included in the collections of Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA, and the West Collection in Oaks, PA, as well as the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA and the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA. Further representations can be found at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. His artwork is also housed in the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles, CA, Seattle Art Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, and the McNay Museum in San Antonio, TX.
Using one of photography’s oldest processes, Elkins creates large, camera-free cyanotypes by exposing treated fabric to sunlight. For this intimate series, she incorporates her father’s ashes, surrounding viewers with constellations of ghostly, speckled blue.
Working with ash, salt, sand, and silt, and rinsing each piece in natural bodies of water, Elkins symbolically and materially reunites her father with the landscapes he loved—from the Pacific Ocean, recalling his years in a California marine biology lab, to freshwater creeks that echo his youth spent swimming with friends. The exhibition also includes artifacts from his life.
These works bring light, water, minerals, and memory together into portraits that speak to the uniqueness of a life, the transience of existence, and the ongoing act of letting go. As Elkins writes:
“Exposed in the sun as a means of holding on. Rinsed in bodies of water as a means of letting go. An action that both safekeeps his ashes and releases them into the natural world.”
On view in the Center Gallery of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from February 20–June 13, 2026.
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Closed on state and federal holidays. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 702-895-3381 barrick.museum@unlv.edu
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