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Exciting news! Mark Moore Fine Art is thrilled to share that the Crocker Art Museum has acquired two works by Joseph Rossano for its permanent collection.

Joseph Rossano’s art captivates viewers with striking visuals that reveal profound truths about our relationship with nature. By transforming unexpected materials—like fighter aircraft aluminum into butterflies, or using ancient tree wood—Rossano brings attention to environmental issues hidden in plain sight. His collaborations with leading scientists help bridge art and science, inviting us all to think deeper about our impact on the world.

Rossano’s journey has taken him from solo, intimate pieces to large-scale installations, created alongside other artists and organizations, all united for a cause. His work challenges us to care—for the planet, its creatures, and each other.

Congratulations to Joseph Rossano and the Crocker Art Museum! #JosephRossano ##MarkMooreFineArt #ArtAcquisition #ContemporaryArt #CrockerArtMuseum

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 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.

Explore the full exhibition on Artsy: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4rV4Wqq

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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

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #markmoorefineart #amyelkins

“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

#CaliforniaArt #WeismanArtFoundation #CoastlineCollegeArtGallery #NewportBeachArt #LightAndSpace #AbstractArt #SurfArt #ContemporaryArt #ModernArt #GoldenStateArt #ArtExhibition #EdRuscha #BillyAlBengston #MaryCorse #DavidHockney #SamFrancis #EdMoses #MarkMooreFineArt #RobertStandish #ToddHebert #ZemerPeled #FeodorVoronov #SoCalArt #ArtInOC #GalleryExhibition

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/

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #markmoorefineart #rebeakahandrade

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

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #markmoorefineart #amyelkins

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/

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #markmoorefineart #jennifergunlock