Mark Moore Fine Art artists Robert Standish, Todd Hebert, Zemer Peled, and Feodor Voronov featured in “California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation” on view at Coastline College Art Gallery

Posted on February 16, 2026 | Leave a comment

“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

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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

Posted on February 13, 2026 | Leave a comment

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.

More on these works: https://bit.ly/4r88ODV

Learn more about MFAH: https://www.mfah.org/

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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist JOSH AZZARELLA by The Crocker Art Museum

Posted on February 10, 2026 | Leave a comment
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

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The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV presents Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt, an exhibition of memorial cyanotypes by artist Amy Elkins

Posted on February 9, 2026 | Leave a comment

Amy Elkins, Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt. Sacramento, California. August 1 (detail), 2025, Cyanotype on Cotton. Image courtesy the artist.

Amy Elkins: Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV presents Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt, an exhibition of memorial cyanotypes by artist Amy Elkins.

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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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist JEFFRY MITCHELL by The Crocker Art Museum

Posted on February 6, 2026 | Leave a comment
 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

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Mark Moore Fine Art is honored to share that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired two works by JENNIFER GUNLOCK for its permanent collection

Posted on February 5, 2026 | Leave a comment

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.

More on these works: https://bit.ly/4r88ODV

Learn more about MFAH: https://www.mfah.org/

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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist MARK BENNETT by the Santa Barbara Art Museum

Posted on February 4, 2026 | Leave a comment
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.

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The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV presents Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt, an exhibition of memorial cyanotypes by artist Amy Elkins

Posted on February 3, 2026 | Leave a comment

Amy Elkins, Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt. Sacramento, California. August 1 (detail), 2025, Cyanotype on Cotton. Image courtesy the artist.

Amy Elkins: Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV presents Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt, an exhibition of memorial cyanotypes by artist Amy Elkins.

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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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist DAVID KLAMEN by the Santa Barbara Art Museum

Posted on January 30, 2026 | Leave a comment
DAVID KLAMEN
“Joy” 1998
Ink and Watercolor on Paper
8.5”x 11” (image size) Approx 15.5” x 18” (framed)
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 DAVID KLAMEN by Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

David Klamen (American, b.1961) is a contemporary painter whose work grows in conjunction with his interest in philosophy and scholarship, centralized around the questions,”How do I know what I know?” and “How do I know myself?” Klamen paints figuratively and abstractly, sometimes combining the two by incorporating geometric lines or patterns atop his high finished landscapes. Says Paul Gray of Richard Gray Gallery, “His current paintings test epistemological strategies as diverse as OP Art (and its implication that knowledge may be a purely retinal experience), empiricism (the idea that the sole source of knowledge is direct quantifiable experience), introspection, and others. In this investigation, Klamen plays with the history of art, utilizing modern and pre-modern conventions as metaphors for our communal search for meaning.”
 
In contrast to the tradition of artists creating works informed by a consistent visual language, David Klamen’ watercolors (like the one here) embraces an aesthetic diversity that is directed instead by an exploration of an expanding idea. In recent years, the scale of his work has shifted from tiny to larger than life, the imagery from pictorial to digital abstraction, and the tone from the silent to the aggressive, yet in each there is a common commitment. All of these works use various visual images and processes to investigate the question of how we know our culture and ourselves. His current paintings and drawings test epistemological strategies as diverse as OP Art (and its implication that knowledge may be a purely retinal experience), empiricism (the idea that the sole source of knowledge is direct quantifiable experience), introspection, memory, and others. In this investigation, Klamen plays with the history of art, utilizing modern and pre-modern conventions as metaphors for our communal search for meaning.
 
In his recent body of landscape-based work, Klamen examines the veracity of his memories, creating images based upon the distant recollections of his surrounding childhood environment. Beginning each work with paper that is saturated with an even black layer of graphite. Klamen slowly reveals the imagery by erasing the highlights, uncovering and discovering the nuances of his memory from the depths of the graphite surface. These quiet, humid, existential spaces share a familiarity that emerges from the accumulated embodied experiences of his past. Each work celebrates and solidifies a fleeting facet of his prior experience.
 
In many of these works, Klamen incorporates geometric tubes or patterns that float atop his highly refined landscapes. These contrast the sensuous memory of his embodied experience in the landscape with a present and vivid abstract element, overlapping two seemingly incompatible planes of cognition. The results are meditative and quiet, engaging the audience with deep tonal values and extreme control.  They ask the viewer to look more than once into the complexity of each work and encourage a shared comparison of our memories with the present moment.
 
Klamen’s work has been exhibited in international-level solo and group exhibitions across the US, Europe and Asia. His works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin; The Berkeley Museum of Art in California; The Illinois State Museum, Springfield; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; and the McNay Museum, San Antonio. Klamen earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, and his Masters of Fine Arts in Painting at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
 
As one of the leading art museums on the West Coast, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art serves a diverse audience of approximately 70,000 people annually. The Museum offers a wide variety of educational and interpretive programs to this broad audience. Our 75-member Docent Council provides over 800 gallery tours and slide talks annually.

The Museum’s collection of the arts of Asia, Europe, and the Americas includes paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, ceramics, glass, jades, bronzes, lacquer, and textiles. The broad areas in which SBMA holds a significant number of works of exceptional quality include international antiquities from China, India, Greece, Rome, Egypt, and the Near East and 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century art from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Particular strengths of the collection are 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary American painting, photography, and the arts of Asia, especially China.

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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

Posted on January 29, 2026 | Leave a comment

Rebekah Andrade / Study 9 , 2021 / Acrylic On Paper / 14 × 11 in / 35.6 × 27.9 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.

More on these works: https://bit.ly/4rePoNS

Learn more about MFAH: https://www.mfah.org/

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