Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to report that after more than three years in the making, “Breaking the Code”, a documentary feature film by Director Michael Flanagan about acclaimed artist Vernon Fisher, will have its premiere at 5:30pm on Saturday April 29th at the Violet Crown Cinema in Dallas as part of the Dallas International Film Festival.
There will be a second screening of the film at 1:00pm on Sun. April 30th in Denton, TX, at the Campus Theatre as part of the Thin Line Film Festival.
The DIFF screening is $15 per ticket and the Thin Line screening is free, only requiring that attendees register for the festival at their website. More information about each screening can be found at the links below. I am also including a link to an article about the film published by Glasstire.
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of five new works from The Rhythmic Series works by Los Angeles painter ROBERT STANDISH titled “Transcendental Tourist“.
For twenty years, Los Angeles painter Robert Standish had been abstracting reality by altering his own powerful and moving photorealistic paintings of daily life. Seven years ago, Standish shifted away from constructing lifelike replicas of the world, and into an investigation of the unconscious unknown through abstraction. His move into an Abstract Expressionist “wet-on-wet” technique developed in tandem with his interests in cosmology and topography, in addition to psychological theory – namely, Dr. Carl Jung’s notion and analysis of the human psyche.
In his newest work, Standish revisits the essential element of his early style of photorealistic painting, namely, a photo reference, but through his more recent lens of abstraction. Fed up with biased news reporting, Standish sources his imagery from top U.S. and world news stories; often selecting photos from the Internet and various social media platforms associated with polarizing content. By unifying his disparate techniques, he gradually manipulates the palette and texture of the original image to change the representation of its featured subject – and subsequently, the viewer’s interpretation of it. Transcendence being a consistent theme of his practice, Standish’s newest work is true to his rejection of the finite, and his proclivity for the universal.
Robert Standish is an American painter living and working in Los Angeles whose organic process reveals the emotive effects of color, shape, and texture. Inspired by the color-field painters and Abstract Expressionism, Standish’s free-flowing use of paint is his way of exploring abstraction and transcendence. Standish’s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, JP MORGAN CHASE, The Weisman Foundation, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Louis K. Meisel, Larry and Marilyn Fields, Patricia Arquette, Norwest Venture Partners, and BRYANT/ STIBEL, along with numerous other acclaimed collections. Standish’s paintings have been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, including group shows at the Carnegie Art Museum, Frederick R Weisman Museum of Art, a duo show with Sam Francis at Martin Lawrence Gallery, and a solo show at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster.
Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to report that after more than three years in the making, “Breaking the Code”, a documentary feature film by Director Michael Flanagan about acclaimed artist Vernon Fisher, will have its premiere at 5:30pm on Saturday April 29th at the Violet Crown Cinema in Dallas as part of the Dallas International Film Festival.
There will be a second screening of the film at 1:00pm on Sun. April 30th in Denton, TX, at the Campus Theatre as part of the Thin Line Film Festival.
The DIFF screening is $15 per ticket and the Thin Line screening is free, only requiring that attendees register for the festival at their website. More information about each screening can be found at the links below. I am also including a link to an article about the film published by Glasstire.
Special Preview: ULTRASONIC VI – A Survey Of New Contemporary Art Exclusively on ARTSY
For its sixth installment of the ULTRASONIC series, Mark Moore Fine Art presents a survey of new work diverse in medium and technique by seven acclaimed mid-career artists: Tim Bavington; Mark Bennett; Jennifer Gunlock; Kara Maria; Jeanne Quinn; David Rathman; and Kim Rugg.
Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of thirteen new paintings by artist ALEX BLAU titled “If Only There Was Fruit”.
Alex Blau’s geometric paintings draw from a variety of sources and have unexpected associations. By variously utilizing graphic languages associated with things like disposable consumer goods, computer generated architectures and unfolding mandalas, Blau’s work both points to abstraction’s open-ended possibility and highlights its incorporation into mass culture.
The work from this series of paintings continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of pattern as means of imprinting the personal within our shared collective experience. Through a process of deconstruction and variant reconstitution, the artist both embodies and interrogates the symphonic energies that course the internal/external boundary. The exhibition includes two dozen dynamically composed abstract paintings whose imagery draws from the artist’s life and interactions.
According to Blau: “I’ve been thinking a lot more about my own energy and relating it to what is happening around me, and I imagine those energies as rings rippling out into other rings. In that cascading echo, structure emerges across the surface. Within the painting’s space, I create a web of flexible rearrangement that encompasses the contrasting nature of experience that is both shaky and resilient. I ask questions all day long, but there comes a moment when I can see a pivot from one move to the next. I am awake and not awake. In that moment of clarity is a certainty without fear.”
“The different aspects of my experience bubble together as daily experiences and distant memories combine and recombine. I am intrigued by this negotiability and its seemingly limitless possibilities. Sometimes when different sounds come together it creates a type of beauty that can be felt in the body. A song with melodies colliding together just makes your stomach drop or your heart ache a bit. I want that in my paintings, the togetherness of difference. In setting up these rhythms I focus on my breathing, and on being present to slow the bubbling from simmer to stillness so I can feel the natural connection to the next rhythm and see what emerges, the decision that becomes an image revealed. Those marks, images, or colors may stay or may be washed away. It’s a joy to work to find that moment of certainty. It is a paradox tamed and revealed and then wild again”
Alex Blau has an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and works primarily in painting. Blau has had solo shows at several venues, including Frist Center, Firecat Projects in Chicago, Gallery Seomi in Seoul, Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami, Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston and the New Britain Museum of American Art. She currently teaches at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University.
Special Preview: ULTRASONIC VI – A Survey Of New Contemporary Art Exclusively on ARTSY
For its sixth installment of the ULTRASONIC series, Mark Moore Fine Art presents a survey of new work diverse in medium and technique by seven acclaimed mid-career artists: Tim Bavington; Mark Bennett; Jennifer Gunlock; Kara Maria; Jeanne Quinn; David Rathman; and Kim Rugg.
We are deeply saddened to announce Vernon Fisher, our dear friend and brilliant artist, passed away at his home in Fort Worth, Texas due to complications from an earlier illness.
Vernon was a legendary artist, educator, and mentor who taught us to challenge ourselves and our minds through his paintings, writings, and installations. As a visionary with a keen intellect and a fierce sense of humor, his importance and influence will remain with us all for years to come. Our thirty year relationship with him is among our most treasured experiences. Our heartfelt sympathy goes to his loving wife and partner Julie Bozzi at this time.
“My work is an allegory of our interactions with the stuff we call the world, it is a metaphor for our finding our way. I see myself more as an observer than anything else, I just see all this stuff and point to it. I am like a comedian who simply walks on stage and reads a newspaper. You don’t have to make it funny or absurd: it already is.”
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of five new works from The Rhythmic Series works by Los Angeles painter ROBERT STANDISH titled “Transcendental Tourist“.
For twenty years, Los Angeles painter Robert Standish had been abstracting reality by altering his own powerful and moving photorealistic paintings of daily life. Seven years ago, Standish shifted away from constructing lifelike replicas of the world, and into an investigation of the unconscious unknown through abstraction. His move into an Abstract Expressionist “wet-on-wet” technique developed in tandem with his interests in cosmology and topography, in addition to psychological theory – namely, Dr. Carl Jung’s notion and analysis of the human psyche.
In his newest work, Standish revisits the essential element of his early style of photorealistic painting, namely, a photo reference, but through his more recent lens of abstraction. Fed up with biased news reporting, Standish sources his imagery from top U.S. and world news stories; often selecting photos from the Internet and various social media platforms associated with polarizing content. By unifying his disparate techniques, he gradually manipulates the palette and texture of the original image to change the representation of its featured subject – and subsequently, the viewer’s interpretation of it. Transcendence being a consistent theme of his practice, Standish’s newest work is true to his rejection of the finite, and his proclivity for the universal.
Robert Standish is an American painter living and working in Los Angeles whose organic process reveals the emotive effects of color, shape, and texture. Inspired by the color-field painters and Abstract Expressionism, Standish’s free-flowing use of paint is his way of exploring abstraction and transcendence. Standish’s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, JP MORGAN CHASE, The Weisman Foundation, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Louis K. Meisel, Larry and Marilyn Fields, Patricia Arquette, Norwest Venture Partners, and BRYANT/ STIBEL, along with numerous other acclaimed collections. Standish’s paintings have been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, including group shows at the Carnegie Art Museum, Frederick R Weisman Museum of Art, a duo show with Sam Francis at Martin Lawrence Gallery, and a solo show at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster.
Modeled after the style of invention marketed on late-night television, “Prototypes” is part documentation for sculptures that no longer exist, part performative staging for the camera, and part commentary on advertisement photography’s often ignored aesthetic history. Prototypes is not strictly about the objects themselves, but how it is we encounter objects through pictures, how meaning is reliant on the style in which depiction is carried out. Each sculpture is a character in its own consumerist drama, complete with moody lighting, expressionistic gestures, and an elaborate set. All of these aspects work together through a sense of humor to question the interlocking relationships between photography, sculpture, commodification and desire.
Okay Mountain is a nine member artist collective based in Austin, Texas. The group initially came together to run the alternative gallery space Okay Mountain (2006-2012), and began making work together in their spare time. As an artist-run gallery the collective organized group and solo exhibitions featuring nationally and internationally recognized artists, hosted musical performances, readings, and other art-related events. As a creative collective, the group has exhibited their drawing, video, sound, and sculpture projects throughout the United States and in Mexico City. Okay Mountain’s immersive installations and multi-media assemblages have been widely recognized for their interest in humor, vernacular culture, and consumerist fantasy, as well as their sardonic critique of the insecurities and superficial convictions that surround such interests.
Active Members:
Carlos Rosales-Silva, Josh Rios, Justin Goldwater, Ryan Hennessee, Nathan Green, Peat Duggins, Michael Sieben, Sterling Allen, Tim Brown
While most artists are alumni of the University of Texas at Austin (TX), others are graduates of University of California Los Angeles (CA), Rhode Island School of Design (RI), and the University of Kansas (KS). Institutional exhibitions have included those at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston (TX), Austin Museum of Art (TX), McNay Art Museum (TX), Arthouse (TX), University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (TN), and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (MA). Their work is included in the permanent collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (CT), McNay Museum of Art (TX), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (CA), Santa Barabara Museum of Art (CA), and Vanderbilt University (TN).
Modeled after the style of invention marketed on late-night television, “Prototypes” is part documentation for sculptures that no longer exist, part performative staging for the camera, and part commentary on advertisement photography’s often ignored aesthetic history. Prototypes is not strictly about the objects themselves, but how it is we encounter objects through pictures, how meaning is reliant on the style in which depiction is carried out. Each sculpture is a character in its own consumerist drama, complete with moody lighting, expressionistic gestures, and an elaborate set. All of these aspects work together through a sense of humor to question the interlocking relationships between photography, sculpture, commodification and desire.
Okay Mountain is a nine member artist collective based in Austin, Texas. The group initially came together to run the alternative gallery space Okay Mountain (2006-2012), and began making work together in their spare time. As an artist-run gallery the collective organized group and solo exhibitions featuring nationally and internationally recognized artists, hosted musical performances, readings, and other art-related events. As a creative collective, the group has exhibited their drawing, video, sound, and sculpture projects throughout the United States and in Mexico City. Okay Mountain’s immersive installations and multi-media assemblages have been widely recognized for their interest in humor, vernacular culture, and consumerist fantasy, as well as their sardonic critique of the insecurities and superficial convictions that surround such interests.
Active Members:
Carlos Rosales-Silva, Josh Rios, Justin Goldwater, Ryan Hennessee, Nathan Green, Peat Duggins, Michael Sieben, Sterling Allen, Tim Brown
While most artists are alumni of the University of Texas at Austin (TX), others are graduates of University of California Los Angeles (CA), Rhode Island School of Design (RI), and the University of Kansas (KS). Institutional exhibitions have included those at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston (TX), Austin Museum of Art (TX), McNay Art Museum (TX), Arthouse (TX), University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (TN), and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (MA). Their work is included in the permanent collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (CT), McNay Museum of Art (TX), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (CA), Santa Barabara Museum of Art (CA), and Vanderbilt University (TN).
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