Yearly Archives: 2017

A number of benchmark 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 continuing through March 21st on the ARTSY site at the following link.

Image: Clayton Brothers,  Joy Jelly Jump Junk, 2009 Mixed media on canvas 84 × 192 in (213.4 × 487.7 cm)

Image: Clayton Brothers Decided, 2004 / Mixed media on wood panel / 20 × 20 in

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

Image: Clayton Brothers, Sometimes to Cure, 2008 . Mixed media on canvas / 90 × 78 in

Rob (b. 1963, OH) and Christian (b. 1967, CO) Clayton both received their B.F.A.s from Art Center College of Design (CA). They have had solo exhibitions at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (CA), and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (WI) in addition to shows in Houston, New York, Beijing, Los Angeles, and Miami. Their work has also been included in shows at the Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Santa Monica Museum of Art (CA), Laguna Art Museum (CA), Kistler Beach Museum of Art (KS), Corcoran Museum of Art (DC), and the Dallas Museum of Art (TX), among others. They have also participated in more than twenty visiting artist lectures around the world, and their work appears in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Norton Museum of Art (FL), Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside (CA), and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art (CA). The artists both live and work in Los Angeles, CA.

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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I am pleased to announce that Ryan Wallace 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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The Okay Mountain online exhibition “The 7×7 Project” was recently highlighted in Wall Street International. Please find the link to this feature in WSI Magazine here.

Image: Okay Mountain “The 7×7 Project” Installation from “Ultrasonic” at Mark Moore Gallery

Mark Moore Fine Art  is very pleased to bring you Okay Mountain’s ongoing “7×7 Project” – which began in 2006 and is still ongoing – resembles a process more than a finished work, and as a result has yielded hundreds of drawings. Related, but distinct from other drawing games, such as “exquisite corpse“, 7×7s visually embody the unique spirit of the group’s shared views. While the drawings are collaborative, they also provide ample room for individual decisions and styles. In fact, often times it is the combination of two distinct approaches to drawing and drawing materials that gives the works their visual intrigue. A short video interview with Okay Mountain can be viewed at the following link by clicking HERE.

The Exclusive Online Exhibition of “The 7×7 Project (2006-2017)” by art collective OKAY MOUNTAIN ends tomorrow on ARTSY. You can preview this show now at the following link by clicking HERE.

For more information on Okay Mountain and the works MMFA has available, please contact us at: mark@markmoorefineart.com

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Mark Moore Fine Art artist DANIEL CANOGAR presented at ARCO an amazing new artwork last week titled XYLEM: a new media abstraction using market prices of 383 global index funds, updated every 10 seconds. The work was a fantastic success and the edition of 7 was sold out the first day of the fair – here is a link to this work for your reference.

Image: Daniel Canogar XYLEM / 80 inch 4K screen display, generative animation, computer. 106 x 181 cm

The work was also featured in THE ISSUE MAGAZINE – you can read the article here.

Xylem features a generative animation created with real-time data from 383 global financial indexes. The incessant flow of financial information is a true vital energy that moves the world’s economy. The vertical movement of the animation faithfully reflects rising or dropping prices of daily trading quotes updated every 10 seconds.

The palette of colors in the artwork has been taken from the hues of the main currencies in the world, including the verdant color of the green-back, the pink tone of the 500 euro bill, and other international notes including the British Pound and the Chinese Yuan. Also included are colors of traded commodities including gold, silver, copper and platinum.

The artwork evokes cascading fluid motions as those found in rain or waterfalls, as well as biological processes of animal and vegetable circulatory systems. As markets open and close across the globe, financial data is incessantly circulating through the arteries of our global digital web. As a generative artwork that never repeats itself, Xylem attempts to capture the ceaseless ebb and flow of financial data that touches us in more ways than we can imagine.

Xylem definition: the vascular tissue in plants which conducts water and dissolved nutrients upwards from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.

For more information on the work of Daniel Canogar, please contact: mark@markmoorefineart.com

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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana–On March 11, the LSU Museum of Art will present the exhibition, “When the Water Rises: Recent Paintings by Julie Heffernan”

Julie Heffernan Camp Bedlam, 2016 / Oil on canvas / 68 x 104 inches

Julie Heffernan‘s recent paintings create alternative habitats in response to environmental disaster and planetary excess. With rising waters, she imagines worlds in trees or on rafts in which undulating mattresses, tree boughs, and road signs guide the journey. Construction cones interrupt the landscape signaling places to stop, enter tiny interior worlds, and reflect on the human condition–its feckless activity, violence, failure, and redemption. Heffernan tends these alternative environments to safeguard bounties we cannot live without. In other moments, she names names and points fingers to those people and activities implicated in recent calamities of both the physical and socio-political environment. Intricately wrought, Heffernan’s paintings evoke the fantastical allegory of Hieronymus Bosch and the sublime of Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt.

“When the Water Rises” is a collaboration between the LSU College of Art + Design and LSU Museum of Art. Heffernan is a visiting lecturer for the School of Art. This exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by curator Courtney Taylor, art critic and writer Eleanor Heartney, and LSU Professor of Art Kelli Scott Kelley.

Julie Heffernan received her MFA in Painting from Yale and a BFA from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Heffernan has received numerous grants including an NEA, NYFA, and Fullbright Fellowship and is in the collection of major museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She is represented by P.P.O.W in New York and Catharine Clark in San Francisco. Heffernan is a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University.

The exhibition, organized by the LSU Museum of Art, will travel throughout 2018, including Scarfone/Hartley Gallery at The University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida; Palmer Museum of Art at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

“When the Water Rises” will be on view at the LSU Museum of Art through September 17, 2017.

For more information about this exhibition, or any of the accompanying programs, contact Brandi Simmons at brandisimmons@lsu.edu or call 225-389-7209.

Exhibition programming

LSU School of Art Lecture with Julie Heffernan

Wednesday, March 15, 5 p.m., LSU Design Building, Room 103

Reception and Gallery Talk with Julie Heffernan

Thursday, March 16, 2016, 6 – 8:30 p.m., LSU Museum of Art, Fifth floor

A gallery talk with Julie Heffernan begins at 6:30 p.m. on the fifth floor with light refreshments from 7 – 8:30 p.m. A cash bar will be available. Attendance is free for members, $5 for students and faculty with ID, and $10 for nonmembers.

Additional works available can be found at the Mark Moore Fine Art ARTSY site here.

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You can now download Yoram Wolberger‘s free online Trophy Toppers 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 Male Baseball Trophy #1, 2009
3-D digital Scan, CNC Sculpting, bronze and chrome / 84 x 65 x 29 in.
Collection of San Diego Public Library Foundation

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.

Image: Yoram Wolberger Male Baseball Trophy #1, 2009
3-D digital Scan, CNC Sculpting, bronze and chrome / 84 x 65 x 29 in.
Collection of San Diego Public Library Foundation

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.

Image: Yoram Wolberger Male Baseball Trophy #1, 2009
3-D digital Scan, CNC Sculpting, bronze and chrome / 84 x 65 x 29 in.
Collection of San Diego Public Library Foundation

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

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We have just received a number of classic works by artist KENICHI YOKONO that were out on exhibition loan. These works can now be view on our ARTSY website HERE. 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.

Image: Kenichi Yokono, Aggression, 2011 / carved wood and enamel / 38.39 x 26.57 inches

Kenichi Yokono uses woodblock methodologies to address the stark contrast between traditional and contemporary Japanese culture, as well as the confluence between Western and Eastern pop cultures. Influences from manga, anime, horror movies, and other stereotypical aspects of Japanese pop culture merge to present iconic images of buoyant kawaii (or “cuteness”) in contrast with “the horror of everyday life,” according to the artist. Also referencing his longtime interest in American skate and surf culture, Yokono’s carvings often depict a “punk rock” sensibility that speaks to a desire to break outside of customary Japanese sensibilities. Although functioning woodblocks, Yokono’s works are without the conventional prints that have historically served as the final art object – rather, the woodblock itself is the art object; a subtle pushback against orthodox Japanese art-making that bridges past and present cultural realities. Similarly, Yokono demonstrates an interest in the Western art historical canon, oftentimes including elements of Dutch vanitas or still life painting in order to draw a parallel between popularized and underrepresented notions of mortality. As has been explored in more predominantly historicized art movements, Yokono embellishes upon the Japanese fascination (and celebration) of the delicate line between life and death, beauty and vulgarity, or normalcy and the bizarre. His meticulous craft maintains the primacy of the handmade object – through which the artist retains a tangible presence. These multiple oppositions in Yokono’s work result in pieces that are rife with social critique and irony.

Image: Kenichi Yokono, Emblem (Yokono Art Works), 2007 / Carved wood and enamel / 31.5 x 26 inches

Born in 1972 (Kanazawa, Japan), Yokono was trained at the Kanazawa College of Art (Japan). He has had solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Vienna and Amsterdam, among numerous international group shows at venues such as the Torrance Art Museum (CA), The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo), Mori Museum (Tokyo), Suzaka Manga Museum (Nagano), Hilger Contemporary (Vienna), and Joshua Liner Gallery (NY). He has participated in residencies at the McColl Center for Visual Art (NC) and the International Studio and Curatorial Program (NY), and was the recipient of the 2005 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship award, as well as the Tom Eccles Prize (NY). His work in included in the collections of the West Collection (PA), Honolulu Museum of Art, The Pigozzi Collection (NY/SWZ), and Progressive Collection (OH) among others. In addition to Mark Moore Gallery, Yokono is also represented by Micheko Galerie, a German gallery with a focus on 21st Century Art from Japan, and Unseal Contemporary (Japan). The artist lives and works in Kanazawa, Japan.

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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I wanted to share the images of the following new works by artist TIM BAVINGTON just completed in the artist’s studio today. There are some wonderful   new paintings here – please take a look. The images and particulars are below:

TIM BAVINGTON Wildwood Flower, 2017 / Acrylic on canvas, two panels / 64 x 64 inches

Music is the genesis of Tim Bavington’s work. Through synthetic polymer paint, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and the visual as he transforms guitar solos, melodies and bass lines into vertical bands of color. Tracks from bands such as The Darkness, Oasis and The Rolling Stones become vibrant bands of color, and bridge compositional concepts between seemingly unlike disciplines. Although Bavington has a method that designates sound to color and composition, the paintings are not literal translations; they remain open to intuition and decision-making, allowing for a distinct artistic presence.

“[His] painting is to normal aesthetic sensibility what crack cocaine is to mint tea….not so much like neon lights as they are what neon lights dream of growing up to be.” – The New Yorker Magazine

Tim Bavington (b. 1966, England) received his BFA from the Art Center (CA) before making the permanent move to Las Vegas, where he completed his MFA at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (NV). His work is included in the public collections of Fredrick R. Weisman Collection (CA), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (NY), Creative Artists Agency (CA), Joslyn Art Museum (NE), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Portland Art Museum (OR), United Talent Agency (CA), Vivendi Universal (CA), Palm Springs Art Museum (CA), Denver Art Museum (CO) and The Museum of Modern Art (NY). He has exhibited at LeeAhn Gallery (Daegu), Jack Shainman Gallery (NY), Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard (Paris), Space Gallery (London), Museum of Fine Arts (MA), Laguna Art Museum (CA), and the Texas Fine Arts Center (TX), among others.

The best way to review available works by any given artist at the gallery is to access their PRIVATE VIEWING area on our website.

If you would like to look through our available inventory and the prices for these works, I have taken the liberty of placing all available works in the PRIVATE VIEWING area of our website for you to view there. We update these daily. To view this work, go to this special link I have set up for HERE.

Enter the following User name: artist last name

Enter the following password: artist first name

Example, for Tim Bavington:

Enter the following User name: bavington

Enter the following password: tim

Please use all lowercase letters for the username and password.

The information on the work, the price, and the piece will be there in a Private Viewing Room for you to review. Click on the arrows (“<” or “>”) to go to the next image and click on the “+” sign to enlarge.

This access information works for every artist we show. The information is current and updated daily. It may give you some ideas on what is available to you.

Hi-res images are available upon request.

“There’s little question that these paintings have a musical quality, as many abstract paintings do. What’s more, the works, and their titles, reflect a younger artist’s unapologetic aesthetic sensibility that includes pop, rock, and mod in its source material, not to mention Vegas Baroque and Marfa Minimalism, Dan Flavin, Kenneth Noland, bar codes, Bridget Riley, psychedelia, electronic, Ed Ruscha, test patterns, screen savers, Hang Ten T-shirts, Saturday Night Fever disco floors, and the communication sequences in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And like that drink that didn’t sound so good when you heard the ingredients but turned out to warrant another round, Bavington’s paintings, at their best, show that even the funky and often -maligned spirits on which his generation was weaned make for fine cocktails when properly poured.” – Art Critic Christopher Miles, ARTFORUM

Images, biography, reviews, on-line catalogs, and general information on Tim Bavington and his work can be found on our website for your reference. Please double-click on the following link to view these works HERE.

This work is all available subject to a prior sale. Shipping, customs (if applicable), and/or viewing expenses, if any, would be additional.

Please contact me for any additional information on this artists or this work at:

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You can download or browse any of the thirty-one Mark Moore Fine Art STATEMENTS catalogs – featuring full color images of recent artworks, bio information, and a Q&A with the artist – we have published over the last ten years for FREE at our ISSUU Catalog Website by clicking on this link.

Featured artists include: Josh Azzarella, Tim Bavington, Mark Bennett, Joshua Dildine, Clayton Brothers, Kim Dorland, Vernon Fisher, Julie Heffernan, Kiel Johnson, David Klamen, Dimitri Kozyrev, Okay Mountain, Yigal Ozeri, Chad Person, Cheryl Pope, David Rathman, Kim Rugg,  Jason Salavon, Andrew Schoultz, Allison Schulnik, Ali Smith, Penelope Umbrico, Feodor Voronov , Stephanie Washburn, Ben Weiner, Cindy Wright, and Kenichi Yokono.

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Julie Oppermann 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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