Yearly Archives: 2017

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce a series of new short videos highlighting the work of sculpture MARTON VARO.

Image: Marton Varo, 18 Cubes / Carrara marble / 144 × 72 × 48 in (installed at the TCU School of Business Fort Worth, Texas)

Check out the new YOUTUBE webpage launched today that showcases the CUBE Series works of Marton Varo – which shows how these works are made by hand and is able to give you a sense of  these works in the round – can be viewed at the follwing link HERE for your reference. You will also find short videos these that show the artist working in his studio and how these remarkable works are made.

Born March 15, 1943 in Szekelyudvarhely, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania), Marton Varo studied sculpture at Ion Andreescu Institute of Arts in Cluj, Romania from 1960 to 1966. In 1970, he moved to Debrecen, Hungary, where he completed several sculptures for public places and was awarded the Munkacsy Prize in 1984.

Receiving a Fulbright scholarship in 1988, Varo became affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, studying the relationship between architecture and sculpture. In 1990, he became the Artist in Residence for a public art project in the City of Brea, California. Ever since, Varo has been working in an open-air studio at UC Irvine, California, carving his sculptures for public places throughout the US and abroad. Varo lives and works in the USA, in California and Florida, spending summers working in Carrara, Italy.

For more information on Marton Varo please contact: mark@markmoorefineart.com

Visit our Varo webpage to view all available works at this special link.

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As one of the most noted figures of Japan’s ubiquitous manga and anime culture of the so called “Cool Japan”, Kenichi Yokono has been making his unique brand of art using traditional woodblock cutting techniques to question in his very own, eccentric manner the way of life of Japanese suburbia for over Twenty Years.

Mark Moore Fine Art now focuses on this highly-acclaimed talent with an Exclusive ARTSY on-line exhibition.

“Yokono’s dazzling work merges the playful and the dire, the upbeat graphic punch of cartoons with dark Expressionist urgency. Yokono carves woodblocks as if for printing, painting the raised surfaces cherry red and the rest a crisp white. Raw, vibrant and irreverent, the works have one foot in the pop-dominated present and the other in the tradition-bound past.”

“Several of the sculptural paintings are in the shape of skateboards, and the spectacular centerpiece of the show, “Fling Mac,” takes the form of a folded screen. The trademark golden arches blast upward within this four-panel landscape, a radioactive wonderland of ebullience and postapocalyptic toxicity.”

– Art Critic Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times

For more information on this and other artists we have work with please go to our website: www.markmoorefineart.com

You can find additional available works by this artist and prices on our ARTSY website: www.artsy.net/mark-moore-gallery

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Zemer Peled is very pleased to exhibit in the group show titled Slice as part of NCECA’s 51^st Annual Conference: Future Flux opening today. Spreading across the spectrum of abstract to high realism, expressive to figurative, Slice illustrates a diverse spectrum of what is new and exceptional in our genre. Artists include: Chris Dufala, Lauren Gallaspy, Trey Hill, Ryan Matthew Mitchell, Peter Olson, Zemer Peled, Chris Riccardo, Amanda Salov, John Souter, Bobby Tso, Russell Wrankle, and Jon Zimmerman.

Image: Zemer Peled, Sky Island, 2015 / installation view
Northcutt Steele Gallery, Billings, MT

Exhibition Information:

NCECA Reception: Friday March 24, 6-9pm

Siteworks

240 SE 2^nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97214

Hours during NCECA: Mon-Sat 10am – 6pm

For more information on this artist please contact: mark@markmoorefineart.com

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A number of classic paintings by THE CLAYTON BROTHERS (who worked collectively from 1996-2016) are now included in the Mark Moore Fine Art Exclusive Online Exhibition titled “Your Most Very Special Day – A Painting Survey” opening today and closing this Monday on the ARTSY site at the following link.

The Clayton Brothers, Patient (N), 2007 / Oil on paper / 30 × 58 in (76.2 × 147.3 cm)

An essay on the work of the Clayton Brothers by Michael Criley can be downloaded from our ARTSY Website at the following link.

You can also download The Clayton Brothers free online STATEMENTS Catalog published by Mark Moore Fine Art featuring full color images of recent artworks, bio information, and a Q&A with the artist at the following link here.

An ARTSY feature on The Clayton Brothers last L.A. exhibition can be viewed here.

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Mark Moore Fine Art will be launching an online exclusive 20 Year Survey Exhibition on ARTSY on Tuesday, March 21st,  by artist KENICHI YOKONO. This Special Show can be found on our ARTSY website HERE beginning next Tuesday will feature 48 works spanning the two decades that Yokono has been one of the most noted figures in the “Cool Japan” Art Movement. A preview of this show can be found today at the following link.

Kenichi Yokono, Gas Mask, 2015 / Carved wood and enamel / 14 × 13 ins

Many of these works are featured in the online catalog on his work by Mark Moore Fine Art that you can download for free HERE.

For a full biography and curriculum vitae, please click the PDF download link HERE.

For more information on Kenichi Yokono please contact: mark@markmoorefineart.com

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Sculptor Mehgan Smythe is among the ten MMFA artists will be featured in the exhibition titled PROCESS curated by Matthew Gardocki at the Barrick Museum at the University of Nevada Las Vegas which is open now and continues through May 13, 2017.

This exhibition will also include works by: Julie Oppermann; Christopher Duncan; John Bauer; Kara Joslyn; Kim Rugg; Ryan Wallace; Heidi Schwegler; Meghan Smythe; Christopher Russell, along with Lester Monzon.

You can download a complete PDF list of available works in PROCESS at UNLV by clicking here.

For more information on this work please contact: mark@markmooregallery.com

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Last month MMFA Artist Zemer Peled showed her work as part of Art Palm Springs, where her sculpture titled Dusk, 2016 was chosen as one of the 2017 SELECTS. The SELECTS are works chosen for special recognition among those works shown at the art fair by a committee of noted curators, designers, and critics to be highlighted by Art Palm Springs as must-see works. The committee included: Palm Springs Art Museum Chief Curator Katherine Hough, collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, architect Lance O’Donnell and designers Christopher Kennedy and Dann Foley, among others. Here’s what they had to say about Dusk.

“This sculpture has such a beautiful integrity to it. I find it mesmerizing, an object I’d walk around over and over again to study its many intricacies. Art is all about engagement, and this work captures my curiosity. I was even more impressed to learn that the artist is a mere 32 years old. She has one bright future ahead of her!” – Veronica M. Fernandez, Fine Art Advising Services

“Zemer Peled’s, Dusk, sculpture has a visual texture that reminds us of a Nick Cave sound suit that we featured on our blog in 2016. The immense tactility tempts the viewer to touch it and the reduced black and white palette is settling considering how active the surface is. It has unexpected details seen in ceramics that provide a unique and fascinating mix between contemporary sculpture with a tribal or primitive motif.” – Julian Lombardi,
 Contemporary Art Digest

For more information on Zemer Peled and her work contact: mark@markmooregallery.com

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Portland-based Heidi Schwegler is among the ten MMFA artists will be featured in the exhibition titled PROCESS curated by Matthew Gardocki at the Barrick Museum at the University of Nevada Las Vegas which is open now and continues through May 13, 2017.

This exhibition will also include works by: Julie Oppermann; Christopher Duncan; John Bauer; Kara Joslyn; Kim Rugg; Ryan Wallace; Heidi Schwegler; Meghan Smythe; Christopher Russell, along with Lester Monzon.

You can download a complete PDF list of available works in PROCESS at UNLV by clicking here.

For more information on this work please contact: mark@markmooregallery.com

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Winston Wächter Fine Art (Seattle) is presenting Form Over Function, featuring ceramicists who push beyond traditional ceramic form and function to create innovative sculptures. Quite often when we hear the term “ceramics,” we think of a vase, a cup, a bowl. Today’s ceramicists are pushing far beyond the traditions of the medium and creating innovative forms, which happen to be made from clay. Selections by artists Andrew Casto, Steve Young Lee, Jeffry Mitchell, Zemer Peled, Kim Simonsson and Dirk Staschke demonstrate how diverse these sculptures can be.

Image: Zemer Peled, New Year’s Best Dream, 2015 / H18 X W15 X L13 inches / Porcelain shards, fired clay

Zemer Peled‘s work examines the beauty and brutality of the natural world. Her sculptural language is formed by her surrounding landscapes and nature, and engages with themes of memories, identity, and place. Her sculptures and installations consist of thousands of hand-crafted porcelain shards; a technique that yields a texture both delicate and severe. In some works, large scale-like ceramic pieces appear airy, delicate, and fluffy, as if one’s breath might break it. In others, Peled’s fragments are geometric barbs that mysteriously take on an alluring form – offering a sense of softness despite a sharp actuality.

Peled (b. 1983) was born and raised in a Kibbutz in the northern part of Israel. After completing her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jerusalem), she earned her MA at the Royal College of Art (UK). In recent years, her work has been exhibited internationally, including such venues as Sotheby’s and Saatchi Gallery (London), Eretz Israel Museum (Tel Aviv), and the Orangerie du Senate (Paris), among others. The artist currently lives and works at the Archie Bray Foundation Residency (Helena, MT).

For more information on Zemer Peled and her work, please contact: mark@markmoorefineart.com

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You can now download Yoram Wolberger‘s free online Cowboys & Indians Project Catalog published by Mark Moore Fine Art featuring full color images of sculpture works from that series, bio information, and a Q&A with the artist at the following link HERE.

Image: Yoram Wolberger Red Indian #4 (Spearman), 2007 
reinforced cast fiberglass composite and pigment resin / 78 x 60 x 24 inches 
Collection of The Brooklyn Art Museum

Yoram Wolberger uses childhood toys and everyday domestic items to create his large scale sculptures, foregrounding the latent symbolism and cultural paradigms of these objects that so subtly inform Western culture. By enlarging this ephemera to life size, Wolberger emphasizes the distortions of their original manufacture disallowing any real illusion and conceptually forcing the viewer to reconsider their meanings. When enlarged beyond any possibility of dismissal, we see that toy soldiers create lines between Us and Them, plastic cowboys and Indians marginalize and stereotype the Other, even wedding cake bride and groom figurines dictate our expected gender roles.

Wolberger (b. 1963, Tel Aviv, Israel) earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute’s (CA) New Genres Department. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been featured in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), deCordova Sculpture Park (MA), the Aldrich Contemporary Museum (CT), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL) and the Israeli Museum of Modern Art (Israel) among others. His works have been acquired for the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside (CA) and the McNay Art Museum (TX). The artist lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

For more information on Yoram Wolberger please contact: mark@markmoorefineart.com

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