Monthly Archives: November 2018

Amy Elkins, From the series Wallflower, Kevin, Brooklyn, NY, 2006

Amy Elkins: Photographs of Contemporary Masculinity
September 20-December 1, 2018

Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion  
Orange Coast College

2701 Fairview Rd, Costa Mesa, CA 92626-5563

Please check out this rave review of this exhibition featured in the Los Angeles Times last weekend:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/reviews/la-et-cm-amy-elkins-orange-coast-college-20181121-story.html

In addition, a very thoughtful and positive review of Amy Elkins’ exhibition appeared in the OC Weekly this week. I’ve attached a PDF of it and a link below:

https://ocweekly.com/amy-elkins-photographs-of-contemporary-masculinity-at-occ-shows-the-new-male-gaze/

Amy Elkins’ first survey of photographs and first solo exhibition in the Western States, approaches various subjects such as male athleticism, whether as dancers or rugby players, as well as men serving life and death row sentences, as a way of exploring the many facets of male identity, masculinity, and vulnerability.

Amy Elkins (b. 1979 Venice, CA) is a photographer currently based in the Greater Los Angeles area.  She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, including at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA; Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Austria; the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; North Carolina Museum of Art; Light Work Gallery in Syracuse, Aperture Gallery and Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, De Soto Gallery in Los Angeles, the Houston Center for Photography in Houston, TX among others. Elkins has been awarded The Lightwork Artist-in-Residence in Syracuse, NY in 2011, the Villa Waldberta International Artist-in-Residence in Munich, Germany in 2012, the Aperture Prize and the Latitude Artist-in-Residence in 2014 and The Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant in 2015.

Elkins’ first book Black is the Day, Black is the Night won the 2017 Lucie Independent Book Award.  It was Shortlisted for the 2017 Mack First Book Award and the 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Prize as well as listed as one of the Best Photobooks of 2016 by TIME, Humble Arts Foundation, Photobook Store Magazine and Photo-Eye among others.

Her work stems out of an exploration of masculinity and male identity often within constructed or impermanent environments.  Elkins’ earlier work, Wallflower (2004-2008), looks into the nuances of gender identity, vulnerability and the female gaze.  She later went on to investigate aspects of male identity and athleticism through projects Elegant Violence (2010),  where she documented young Ivy League rugby players moments after a game and Danseur (2012), looking to young male ballet dancers moments after intensive training.   In 2016 Elkins returned to the Wallflower portrait.  Though unlike the original series, which aimed the lens at cisgender men almost entirely photographed within her personal space, Wallflower II explores a much broader sense of masculine identity- shot in the personal space of strangers in urban and rural Georgia upon first meeting and found through online calls / searches surrounding ideas of masculinity and gender in the American South. The work aims to confront socially constructed ideas and standards surrounding both gender and masculinity, vulnerability and beauty.

The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion presents transformative experiences through the arts by focusing on contemporary visual culture and creates dynamic programming that inspires interaction and dialogue between artists, students, scholars, and local and international communities, and offers free admission in order to make these experiences accessible for everyone.

#occ #amyelkins #doyleartspavillion #markmoorefineart

The Institute and Museum for California Art will host a talk featuring Artist Helen Pashgian on Thursday, December 6th, 2018 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm at Winifred Smith Hall on the campus of University of California Irvine.

 There will be a Private Reception to follow at 6:30pm at the Contemporary Arts Center Outreach Room.

Please RSVP by December 2, 2018 to attend

https://uci-oai.formstack.com/forms/artist_glimpse_talk_private_reception_120618

Complimentary parking available

Helen Pashgian is a pioneer and pre-eminent member of the Light and Space Movement. One of her pieces is featured in the First Glimpse: Introducing the Buck Collection exhibition.

See Helen’s artwork in person — the galleries will be open until 8 p.m. on the evening of this talk. Arrive early and explore “the best collection of California art that no one has ever seen.”

#uci #imca #helenpashgian #buckcollection #markmoorefineart

In addition, please find below the link to artist AMY ELKINS’ Project “Black is the Day, Black is the Night” featured in WSI Magazine currently on view as on exclusive online exhibition on ARTSY:

https://wsimag.com/art/35463-amy-elkins

In “Black is the Day, Black is the Night”, a project that spanned seven years from 2009-2016, Amy Elkins explores how the notion of passing time can affect an individual’s psychology, sense of self, and perception of reality.

Check out her Recent Exclusive Online Exhibition on ARTSY for more more images and information on this award-winning Series of works at:

https://www.artsy.net/mark-moore-gallery/shows

#markmoorefineart #amyelkins #wsimag #bitdbitn

Rebecca Manson, “Come Closer and the View Gets Wider”, 2016 / 93’’ x 93’’ x 110’’ / Porcelain, epoxy, glaze, aluminum, steel

Mark Moore Fine Art Presents An ARTSY Online Exclusive Exhibition by REBECCA MANSON

Opening November 27, 2018

Manson’s work stretches the limits of ceramics, challenging preconceived notions regarding fragility. “My work uses ceramics as a metaphor for the individual and societal body,” says Manson. “This sculpture was informed by the process of working with clay, a nature that wants to collapse. For me, ceramics is tied to personal resilience and rebuilding in the face of adversity.” Through hand building and glaze she explores the body’s connective yet testing relationship to landscape. Her work often incorporates tiny porcelain sculptures, each an intimate, bone-like shape, adhered and supported by elaborate systems made of metal and epoxy. Comprised of innumerable parts which on their own may appear insignificant, the structures celebrate the idea that small things together amount to something impactful. Her spherical works serve to memorialize collective consciousness.

Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition: https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-rebecca-manson

Rebecca Manson graduated with a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011. She received a Windgate Project Grant in 2016 and a Windgate Fellowship Award in 2011 from The Windgate Foundation and the Center for Craft Creativity and Design in Asheville, NC. She served as artist-in-residence at Zentrum Fur Keramik (Berlin, Germany) and California State University (Long Beach, CA). Manson has exhibited at galleries and institutions including Hard and Soft at ACME Gallery, Line Describing a Cone at the Katonah Museum of Art and Fun House at 520 W. 28th by Zaha Hadid Architects. Her first exhibition of public art, “Come Closer and the View Gets Wider”  is currently on display in Tribeca Park in New York City. Manson lives and works in Brooklyn. 

ARTSY Artist Page: https://www.artsy.net/mark-moore-gallery/artist/rebecca-manson

For additional information on this artist, please contact Mark Moore at: mark@markmoorefineart.com

#rebeccamanson #markmoorefineart

FEATURED ARTSY SHOW OF THE WEEK: Daniel Canogar “Mirrors” at Mark Moore Fine Art

https://www.artsy.net/galleries

You can view our exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of new work by Daniel Canogar on view now at the following link: 

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-daniel-canogar-mirrors

The exhibition will include alternate views of these works, all particulars, in addition to all pricing information.

For more information on this work and the Mark Moore Fine Art art program please check out our website: www.markmoorefineart.com

#markmoorefineart

#danielcanogar

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce our partnership with Davis Editions to release three new limited edition works on paper by artists BEN CHARLES WEINER scheduled to be released today that I currently can offer you in pre-publication as a special offer.

Ben Charles Weiner
Gel Monochrome Variation 1, 2016
18 × 18 in; 45.7 × 45.7 cm (paper size)
Archival pigment print 
Edition of 20 + 2AP

These works, published in association with Davis Editions, are wonderful examples of the artists best work. Davis Editions uses archival pigment inks and 100% cotton rag paper to create museum-quality prints that are fully archival. Each of these works is a limited edition of just twenty with two artists proofs. Once an edition is sold out, those prints are no longer available. Each print is hand-stamped and numbered on the back by Davis Editions and validated with a certificate of authenticity. The certificate includes pertinent information about the print including publication date, print number, and edition size, and is signed and dated by the publisher. 

For more information, images, and the details on all six of these works, please go to the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-mark-moore-fine-arts-limited-editions-joshua-dildine-and-ben-charles-weiner

Ben Charles Weiner
Gel Monochrome Variation 3, 2016
18 × 18 in; 45.7 × 45.7 cm (paper size)
Archival pigment print
Edition of 20 + 2AP

By photographing paint and luxurious ephemera at close range, then using the resulting image as his subject, BEN CHARLES WEINER creates works that pose a confusion of object, subject and medium. Weiner’s paintings harness the idolatrous fetishistic desire of consumer culture, the fashion industry, and the art world. Thus, his paintings self-critically describe the duality of their own identity as both transcendent creation and commercial item. Likewise, all of the themes and references in the paintings reinforce their status as consumer/art objects. Roland Bathes’ application of Freud’s concept of “the uncanny” to landscape photography is the pertinent reference.

Weiner (b. 1980, Burlington, VT) received his BA from Wesleyan University (CT). He also studied under Mexican muralist José Lazcarro at Universidad de las Americas (Mexico) and has worked closely with artists Jeff Koons, Kim Sooja and Amy Yoes as an assistant. He has exhibited his work widely across the United States and in Mexico with solo shows in Los Angeles, New York and Puebla, and group exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Miami, New Haven, Ridgefield, Los Angeles and Riverside. His paintings can be found in the Sammlung/Collection (Germany), the Progressive Collection (OH), and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection (CA). The artist lives and works in New York City.

Ben Charles Weiner
Gel Monochrome Variation 2, 2016
18 × 18 in; 45.7 × 45.7 cm (paper size)
Archival pigment print 
Edition of 20 + 2AP

You can download a free online catalog on this artist on with a more in depth overview of their work on our website at: 

For additional information on these works or these artists, please contact Mark Moore at:

mark@markmooregallery.com

All work is available subject to prior sale and prices are subject to change without notice. All taxes, tariffs, shipping and/or viewing expenses, if any, would be additional.

#markmoorefineart #benweiner #bencharlesweiner #daviseditions

Amy Elkins, The Golden State, 2018, examines California’s death row, which is the largest in the United States.

Amy Elkins: Photographs of Contemporary Masculinity

Main Gallery
Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion 
Orange Coast College
Through December 1, 2018

Amy Elkins’ first survey of photographs and first solo exhibition in the Western States, explores contemporary masculinity with photographs of male athleticism, of men serving life and death row sentences, and of cisgender and transgender masculine identifying individuals.

For additional information on Amy Elkins, go to:

http://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/amy-elkins2

#markmoorefineart #amyelkins #occ #doyleartspavillion

MMFA has just posted a new “Art Talk” video interview with Meghan Smythe on the Mark Moore Fine Art YouTube Channel for your reference. The video was shot in her studio last month and shows a number of new work and works in progress in addition to those in our current ARTSY exhibition. This short and insightful chat with the artist can be view today at the following link:

In addition, Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of award-winning sculptor Meghan Smythe titled “Recent Work”, which has been extended through this Sunday, October 21, 2018.

This exhibition can be viewed now at the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-meghan-smythe-recent-work

Using a traditional sculptural format (the monument), Meghan Smythe captures contradicting extremes within human gesture: intimacy and brutality, beauty and ugliness, or the lewd and tender. In her attempt to achieve an “elegant vulgarity,” she encapsulates moments that define our mortality in unanticipated ways; oftentimes toeing the delicate line between erotic and macabre tendencies that give way to life, and ultimately death. Glass, ceramic, and concrete are woven together in an elaborate, orgy-like web of body parts and organic artifacts, as if suddenly cast with Pompeii-like circumstances. Like excavated antiquities or fossils, Smythe’s ceramic compositions allude to the cyclical nature of civilization – a dramedy in which all of the players are subject to conquest and demise.

#markmoorefineart #megahnsmythe

Jason Salavon
Homage in Between   2018
Single-channel video, 6K resolution
243′ x 557′. 5m35s. Unique

Jason Salavon’s Homage in Between (Chicago Art, 20th Century) speaks to Chicago’s grand art and design histories as fluid streams of smaller events. This work was debuted Sept 29, 2018 to a live audience of 32,000 people.

Image archives will be used to create poetic complexes of flowing visual history. Dense, organic matrices of images will flow over the surface of theMART. Reproductions of paintings, illustrations, photographs and other visual ephemera will serve as source particulate in an evocative visual symphony of forms.

This experimental projection-mapped video was commissioned by the Terra Foundation for the inauguration of Art on theMART.

The piece presents 5m35s of neural network-driven video exploring image_categories-as-continuous_spaces.  It begins sampling from Chicago art & design history (O’keeffe, Paschke, Marshall, etc) and ends with internet vernacular (cats, cheeseburgers, celebrity faces). The hope is to synthesize incredible work coming out of AI research into an independent, standalone artwork requiring little explanation.

See a short video on this work can be viewed below:

#jasonsalavon #markmoorefineart

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce our partnership with Davis Editions to release three new limited edition works on paper by artist JOSHUA DILDINE to be released on August 1, 2018 that I currently can offer you in pre-publication as a special offer.

Joshua Dildine, Round and Round, 2018 / 30 x 24 inches (paper size) / Archival pigment print; Edition of 20 + 2AP

These works, published in association with Davis Editions, are wonderful examples of the artists best work. Davis Editions uses archival pigment inks and 100% cotton rag paper to create museum-quality prints that are fully archival. Each of these works is a limited edition of just twenty with two artists proofs. Once an edition is sold out, those prints are no longer available. Each print is hand-stamped and numbered on the back by Davis Editions and validated with a certificate of authenticity. The certificate includes pertinent information about the print including publication date, print number, and edition size, and is signed and dated by the publisher. 

For more information, images, and the details on all six of these works, please go to the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-mark-moore-fine-arts-limited-editions-joshua-dildine-and-ben-charles-weiner

Joshua Dildine, Goofy Duck, 2018 / 30 x 24 inches (paper size) / Archival pigment print; Edition of 20 + 2AP

Merging found autobiographical photographs with viciously gestural painting, JOSHUA DILDINE confronts the subject of conventional recollection and familial structure. A fixation shared by society at large, the contemplation of past events and relationships ultimately shapes our psychology moving forward – as a flicker of nostalgia, shame, or glee can be activated by a single sensory cue. With a purposeful cognizance, Dildine mines these memories for the underlying traits that forge our shared humanity: the humor found in the compromising, the endearment found in the aggravating, or the conflict found in the absent. His painterly swaths are as visceral as the family photos they conceal, his vivid palette alluding to the glaring absurdity of our incessant self-analysis and contemplation of the past. In his most recent body of work, Dildine embellishes elements or patterns within the original image in order to create a farcical confrontation with the past – a perspective that is both critical and celebratory. Through this carefully disjointed lens, Dildine creates experiences that are at once present and bygone, and whimsically harnesses nature of our being.

Joshua Dildine, Suited Palm, 2018 / 30 x 24 inches (paper size) / Archival pigment print / Edition Size: 20 + 2 AP

Dildine (b. 1984, CA), received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University (CA). He has been featured in group exhibitions in Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Murfreesboro, as well as the Frederick Weisman Museum of Fine Art (CA). His work is included in the public collection of the Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside (Riverside, CA), The Frederick Weisman Museum of Fine Art (CA), The Honolulu Art Museum, and The Museum of Art and History (Lancaster, CA). He was also the recipient of the 2010 Claremont Graduate University Award. The artist lives and works in Fresno, CA.

You can download a free online catalog on this artist on with a more in depth overview of their work on our website at:

http://www.markmoorefineart.com/attachment/en/581c5e0c84184e51358b4568/Press/5b48f146b9c038fa565de2c3

For additional information on these works or these artists, please contact Mark Moore at: mark@markmooregallery.com

All work is available subject to prior sale and prices are subject to change without notice. All taxes, tariffs, shipping and/or viewing expenses, if any, would be additional.

#markmoorefineart #daviseditions #joshuadildine