Monthly Archives: May 2014

The gallery is looking to hire a part time, remote employee for the position of “Remote Registrar.” This position requires that the employee be present in the gallery on Saturdays only, and work on select projects from home on his/her own timetable – as guided by the Director. A full job description is below:

Remote Registrar
Position Overview (Part Time)

Must be physically present in gallery Saturday, 11am-6pm (or possibly 8pm, as required by opening receptions every 4-6 weeks) positioned in Director’s office side desk. Log hours from home into shared GoogleDoc as required by projects from remote location or home during the week.

Remote Tasks:
• Produce Statements catalogues with interviews, and correspond with artists to procure images, information, and text related to book.
• Write selected press releases for upcoming exhibitions.
Onsite Tasks (Saturdays Only):
• Update LinkedIn and new contacts as required by supervising staff
• Occasionally write blog posts as asked by supervising staff
• Update, replace, and re-format artist bios on server and website as needed
• Format new press articles and links, place on server and website
• Update artist pages on website accordingly with new press, collections acquisitions, or exhibitions/images
• Maintain and update Artsy, Artnet inventory online
Required Skills:
• Excellent verbal and written communications
• Graphic Design experience: preferably Photoshop and InDesign
• Ability to self-manage deadlines, routine inventory checks, etc.
Beneficial Skills:
• Familiarity with ArtBase, Artsy inventory systems, and WordPress

 
Compensation follows the guidelines for part time employees, and is managed/logged by the employee under the supervision of the Director. No benefits shall apply to this position.

Interested candidates may send resumes to:

INFO@MARKMOOREGALLERY.COM

Subject: “Remote Registrar Position.”

No phone calls, please.

Congratulations to Mark Moore Gallery artist, Penelope Umbrico, whose work “TVs from Craigslist” (2008-2011) was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA) for its permanent collection.

PENELOPE UMBRICO / Detail from TVs from Craigslist, 2008-2011 / digital c-prints on metallic Kodak paper mounted on aluminum / Thirty-five unique elements; 11″ x 17″ each / Dimensions Variable / Permenant Collection of LACMA

Congratulations to Mark Moore Gallery artist, Tim Bavington, whose painting “She is Love” (2011) was recently acquired by the McNay Art Museum (TX) for its permanent collection.

Tim Bavington, She is Love, 2011 / Synthetic polymer on canvas / 72 x 72 inches / Collection of the McNay Art Museum

The gallery is pleased to share Annabel Osberg‘s review of David Klamen‘s current solo exhibition at the gallery! The full article discusses the works at length, here are a few key excerpts:

“Klamen works from the inside out: in copying an artwork with his own hand, he positions himself between his viewer and the depicted painting. In Struth’s photos, each painting is mediated by the camera and by the depicted viewers standing between the painting and the camera lens. Klamen’s paintings are more spatiotemporally disorienting because they present the viewer directly with a picture in the same medium as the depicted artwork: the viewer has the rather uncomfortable feeling of being a participant in the painterly recontextualization, not just a bystander…”

“When paintings become canonized in museums and art history books, they are effectively placed on a linear timeline subclassified by categories of movement and style. Klamen pulls paintings off the continuum and flattens them all onto the same plane into a new curatorial state, promoting new associations between them. Taken as a whole, Klamen’s entire show operates in much the same way as this single work…”

“In Klamen’s hands, art history is a pliable tool, an inexhaustible resource for creating new meanings. Few artists possess his ability to appropriate others’ work with such deadpan conspicuity and arrive at such inspiring results.”

The author also makes mention of the accompanying solo exhibition of paintings and collages by Joseph Hart:

“In the room adjacent to Klamen’s show is a concurrent exhibition by Joseph Hart, a New York-based artist engaged with art history in interesting contrast to Klamen. Hart’s paintings and collages vibrate with expressive lines and colorful snippets of paper in compositions reminiscent of Twombly, Kandinsky, and even Miro. The title of his show, “KISS IDIOMS,” bespeaks Hart’s autobiographical painterly language. In his collages, he juxtaposes idiosyncratic marks with bits and pieces of cut paper, paint chips, and fabric. Many of these collaged scraps are of personal significance to him: they are pieces of his work pants, his daughter’s stickers, studio detritus, scraps of deconstructed drawings. The result is engagingly diaristic and lyrical.”

David Klamen, Meta-Paintings 2, 2013. Oil on multiple canvases, 90 x 135 inches.

Joseph Hart,Untitled (K.I.04), 2014. Collaged paper, work pants, acrylic, oil crayon and graphite on paper, 50 x 38 inches.

See both exhibitions before they close on Saturday, June 21!

Mark Moore Gallery artist Christopher Russell is now in the Permanent Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) who recently acquired his two work on paper, “Fingerprint #3, 2013” and “Explosion #1, 2013”. Russell is also now in the Permenant Collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) who acquired his piece, “Aftermath #15, 2013.”

Christopher Russell, Fingerprint #3, 2013, unique HDR print scratched with a razor, 26 x 38 inches, Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Christopher Russell, Explosion #1, 2013, Ultrachrome print scratched with a razor, 22 x 34 inches, Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Christopher Russell, Aftermath #15, 2013, Pigment print scratched with a razor, 54 x 36 inches, Collection of the Santa Barbara Art Museum

Mark Moore Gallery artist Kim Rugg is now in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (TX) who recently acquired her work on paper, “America, 2013”. 

Gallery artist Josh Azzarella will have work featured in Leila Heller Gallery‘s major group exhibition, “Look at Me.” In celebration of the gallerist’s new uptown 16,000-square-foot, six-floor space in Midtown Manhattan (which she will operate in addition to her existing Chelsea location),  the show will open on Tuesday, May 6th, and remain on view through August. Curated by Paul Morris, the founding director of the Armory Show, and collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, the show will include more than 170 artists – all with a focus on portraiture. From Matisse and Man Ray, to Cindy Sherman and Marilyn Minter – “Look at Me” will be an art historical powerhouse “From Manet to the Present.”

As previewed by the Wall Street Journal, the exhibition is surely not to be missed. For more information, please visit the gallery website. We congratulate Josh on his inclusion in this incredible show.

Congratulations to Mark Moore Gallery artist, Jason Salavon,  whose two works “One Week Skin (ESPN-Vs)” (2012) and “Portrait (van Dyke)” (2010) were recently acquired by the Norton Museum of Art (FL) for its permanent collection.

About the artist: Born in 1970 in Indianapolis, Salavon obtained his MFA from Art Institute Chicago (IL). He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Columbus, Washington D.C. Houston, Seattle, Cologne, Seoul, London, Geneva, Basel and Paris, among others, and been featured in exhibitions at venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Smithsonian Institution (D.C.), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA). Salavon’s work has been acquired for the public collections of the International Center of Photography (NY), Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Fine Arts (TX), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Columbus Museum of Art (OH), Cleveland Museum of Art (OH) and more. In 2013, he was named one of the “50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectible Artists” by Art + Auction Magazine. Salavon lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements derived from diverse visual populations. This often unearths unexpected patterns in the relationship between the part and the whole, the individual and the group. Reflecting a natural attraction to popular culture and the day-to-day, his work regularly incorporates the use of common references and source material. Often, the final compositions are exhibited as art objects – such as photographic prints and video installations – while others exist in a real-time software context.