Monthly Archives: June 2013

Mark Moore Gallery is thrilled to announce that the Hammer Museum recently confirmed its acquisition of Untitled (Budget Decadence), (2008 )by gallery artist Christopher Russell. The piece was acquired specifically for the Grunwald Center Collection, which is comprised of more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books dating from the Renaissance to the present.

Congratulations, Christopher!

Christopher Russell, Untitled (Budget Decadence), 2008. Ultrachrome print scratched with a razor, 24 x 36 inches, Grunewald Center Collection, Hammer Museum.

The Sweeney Art Gallery’s newest exhibition, “ESSENTIAL: Selections from the Permanent Collection Celebrates UCR Sweeney Art gallery’s 50th Anniversary” will feature three gallery artists – Christopher Russell, Stephanie Washburn, and Yoram Wolberger –  that are included in the institution’s collection.

Featuring more than 25 artists and representing five decades of collecting, this expansive group show of museum acquisitions highlights a variety of media ranging from video installations, drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, books, postcards, posters, and prints. The exhibition, curated by Tyler Stallings, Director, will open June 29th and will run through September 28th, 2013.

Yoram Wolberger, Petting Zoo, 2004, cast plastic, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Permanent Collection.

Opening this Saturday, June 22, from 4-7pm,  is “Just Yell,” a solo exhibition by MMG artist, Cheryl Pope. Taking place at moniquemeloche gallery, “Just Yell” is the culmination of a year long collaboration between the artist and over 300 Chicago Youth responding to the current gun violence plaguing the city. In addition to her own studio work, Pope has also orchestrated a number of performances, interventions and public events (or “yells”) that aim “to make the invisible visible in a less temporal space and format than the morning news. These yells ask each of us to confront a reality that is both present and absent simultaneously.”

Says the gallery:

“On opening night Saturday, June 22nd,  Phoenix Military Academy will perform along with a selection of young poets performing their spoken word to viewers as they ride in classic muscle cars, through Wicker Park and Humboldt Park, in a piece titled ‘Drive by in 5 Acts.’  A series of public events will continue each Saturday during the run of the exhibition starting with the Teen Creative Agency (TCA) from the Museum of Contemporary Art, who will be installing their ‘Living Room’ program at the gallery on Saturday, June 29th; additional events to be announced.”

This exhibition is not to be missed. For more information, please visit moniquemeloche gallery’s website.

Opening July 12th at the Monterey Museum of Art is MMG’s Andrew Schoultz’s solo exhibition entitled, In Process: Andrew Schoultz. For the exhibition Schoultz will create a site-specific installation and mural on the walls of the Jane and Justin Dart Gallery at the Museum’s La Mirada location (in progress already, as seen below), based upon the local histories of Monterey. The artist will also present his wildly gilded Fallout installation in the McCone Gallery, as previously exhibited at Mark Moore Gallery.

The exhibition opens Saturday, July 12th from 6-8pm, and runs through November 17, 2013.

Andrew Schoultz’s mural in progress for his Monterey Art Museum solo exhibition.

Congratulations to gallery artist, Jason Salavon, for being included in Art + Auction‘s current issue, “50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectible Artists.” Alongside peers like Cory Arcangel, Matthew Brandt, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and Laura Owens, Salavon made the curated shortlist of emerging to mid-career contemporary artists to watch closely. Says writer Eric Bryant:

Salavon’s works illuminate how new technology infiltrates our culture and consciousness. But it’s his talent for conceptual clarity, matched by an affinity for formal beauty, that earned him such a broad-based following. When L.A.’s Mark Moore Gallery brought several ethereal images Salavon constructed by layering portraits by several Old Masters to the 2010 PULSE art fair in Miami, they sold out in just a few hours.”

To read the full copy, please visit Jason’s artist page on the gallery website, or pick up a hard copy of the magazine!