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Closing Today: “IVORY.125” by artist Joseph Rossano at The Pilchuck Gallery (Seattle)

Posted on September 6, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Mark Moore Fine Art in partnership with Traver Gallery is proud to present an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition titled “IVORY.125” by artist Joseph Rossano which is on view now at The Pilchuck Gallery in Seattle through the Summer.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3jKZ00R

ABOUT IVORY.125

Using an artistic rendering of the fossil record, past, present, and future, the exhibition reveals how our legacy as a species is inexorably tied to a value system designed to insure familial survival. Towards the transmission of this reality, Ivory exposes viewers to the global trade in illegal animal parts, it’s flawed connection to power, and its devastating effects.

THE PILCHUCK GALLERY

240 Second Avenue South, Suite 100,

Seattle WA, 98104

https://www.pilchuck.org/exhibitions

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TRAVER GALLERY

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Joseph Rossano, born to clinicians and research scientists, graduated from Louisiana State University as an artist. His path joined him, via mentorship, collaboration, and exhibition, with renowned artists and institutions including Dale Chihuly, Judy Pfaff, The Pilchuck Glass School, Waterford Crystal, Museum of Glass, the South Australia Museum, and Google. Integrating cutting edge technology and science with his art, Rossano engages and challenges the viewer to reflect upon mankind’s impact on our planet and its varied ecosystems. Much of Rossano’s youth was spent in New York’s Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains, formative years that evolved a life focused on creating environmental awareness through Art. Rossano now lives and works 65 miles north of Seattle, his home and studio nestled in the temperate rain forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Learn more at rossanostudio.com

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Previewed: Michael Batty: Traces – Opening September 10, 2020

Posted on September 5, 2020 | 1 comment

Michael Batty: Traces – Opening September 10, 2020

Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present the first ARTSY online exclusive exhibition of work by Canadian-painter MICHAEL BATTY.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3jprqfX

Michael Batty is a painter and a printmaker that operates with a formal language arising from a microcosm of the particle world. The minimalist pieces speak with geometry and line, and explores the balance between order and chaos by introducing random elements to the tightly rendered surfaces.

The artists builds up a webbed network of intersecting lines by cutting into the surface of the painting with a knife; creating thin ridges and minute grooves. The incised lines catch and divert the paint, creating a random ground of pigment with a shifting depth of color to create quantum imagery.

In these works, the artistic creation is an open-ended play of traces in which the work gives up to a new kind of beauty, one that is mobile and elusive. Each image with its cicatrix seems to deal with the physical world, but give no easy name to their places. In a poststructuralist mode, using a non-traditional tool of a knife rather than a brush, Batty explores a tension, juxtaposing the hard edge of the knife with the soft flow of the paint, evoking a sense of infinity.

Also detectable in the work is a similar sensibility to the work of the Futurists, in their attempt to capture movement depicting it so as to convey a sense of dynamism of the contemporary world. These works allow the artist to remain open to the effects of chance, thereby facing his void – activating it with incisions that now mark him, as much as the work he produces. This discovery process is ongoing and non-linear. One edits only to find that the trace of what has been erased has reappeared, indeed, given rise to the eternal return.

Michael Batty graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver in 1989 with a major in painting. He attended the renowned artist workshops in Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, and studied printmaking at The Art Institute at Capilano College in Vancouver. Batty’s paintings can be found in collections around the world, including the Waldorf Astoria in Beijing, China, W Guangzhou, China, Four Seasons, Dubai, UAE, and Bank of Montreal in Calgary and Toronto.

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