Monthly Archives: May 2023

Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present “Mark Bennett: The Original Drawings” an exclusive online ARTSY exhibition focusing on the Mark Bennett original “SitCom” floorplans of the last three decades just recently released from the artist studio.

You can view this exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of the original drawings at the following link: bit.ly/3nIjyOt

Now, for the first time in many years, I am finally able to offer you some of the most seminal unique drawings that the artist has made available for this exhibition. These original drawings for the “TV Sets” Blueprint series of works from 1995-1998 would be key addition to any collection.

Mark Bennett has been included in over 3 dozen major museum and gallery group exhibitions, including a major show at the Corcoran Gallery Of Art, Washington, D.C. (titled “Mark Bennett: TV Sets and The Suburban Dream”; which travelled To Cleveland Center For Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio; and the Aldrich Museum Of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Since his induction into the gallery in 1995, Bennett has been included in over three dozen significant museum and group exhibitions, including those at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (D.C.), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (CT), Walker Art Center (MN) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA). His work has been acquired for the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA); Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.);  The Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii); Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA); The West Collection (Oaks, PA); and the Portland Art Museum (OR), among others. 

Earning reverence from both critics and collectors alike, Bennett has been coined a master of nostalgia and social evaluation, acting as “the most earnest of his generation of West Coast artists drawing on popular culture” (Grady T. Turner, Art in America).

#markmoorefineart #markmooregallery 

#artexhibition #artshow #painting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #artcollector #artcurator #artconsultant #artadvisor #abstractart #abstractpainting #markbennett

Kim Rugg

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; Heidi Schwegler; and Kim Rugg.

VIEW THIS GROUP EXHIBITION NOW AT: bit.ly/3GSnsL0

For more information on the artists or additional press materials, please visit http://www.markmooregallery.com, or contact Mark Moore at: mark@markmooregallery.com

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #markmoorefineart #timbavington #markbennett #jennifergunlock #karamaria #jeannequinn #davidrathman #kimrugg 

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present a debut Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition titled, “Disrupted Landscapes” of new mixed media work by JENNIFER GUNLOCK.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: bit.ly/3YYHY3r

Jennifer Gunlock’s work explores the relationships between the objects of nature and those imposed upon them by human activity. By layering photographs taken on her travels, decorative papers and drawing, she constructs tree-based forms which are awkwardly fused with architectural motifs. Each composition reflects a long passage of time in which buildings and trees stretch and crumble, each pushing against the other. The work is a commentary on humanity’s direct impact on the environment, as well as Earth’s interminable shapeshifting over the long history of its existence.

“In her mixed media collages, Gunlock explores the restless intersection of nature and the built environment. She depicts trees with rugged branches and burly roots wrangling with residential facades, windows, gates and other architectural features. Gunlock captures a fleeting moment in this struggle, one in which nature and architecture seem to co-exist in a colorful equilibrium, if only for a moment. Gunlock alludes to historical patterns of overshoot, which are marked by excessive demand for natural resources, followed by eras of human decline and the slow recovery of forests and ecosystems. But in these works, Gunlock offers a vision of a hopeful future in which the built environment is woven sustainably into the natural world.”

-Al Grumet of Art Works for Change

Based in Los Angeles, Gunlock has received an MFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2003. A 2022 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, she has exhibited nationally and in local venues such as Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Launch LA, and Angels Gate Cultural Center. She has been Artist in Residence at Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland; Playa in Summer Lake, Oregon; Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming; and at the Pajama Factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, among others. In 2014-15 Gunlock participated in “Fires of Change,” an NEA-funded collaboration between artists and scientists, to translate the social and ecological issues surrounding wildfire in the Southwest. Following a fire science bootcamp in the Grand Canyon, and a year to complete a project, a group exhibition opened at Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, Arizona in September 2015 and traveled to the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson and 516 Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

#jennifergunlock #markmoorefineart #markmooregallery #artexhibition #artshow #painting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #artcollector #artcurator #artconsultant #artadvisor #abstractart #abstractpainting #laartist

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”.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: bit.ly/41kFVaR

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.

#markmoorefineart #alexblau #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #artcollector #artconsultant #abstractartist 

Tim Bavington

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; Heidi Schwegler; and Kim Rugg.

VIEW THIS GROUP EXHIBITION NOW AT: bit.ly/3GSnsL0

For more information on the artists or additional press materials, please visit http://www.markmooregallery.com, or contact Mark Moore at: mark@markmooregallery.com

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #markmoorefineart #timbavington #markbennett #jennifergunlock #karamaria #jeannequinn #davidrathman #kimrugg 

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present a debut Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition titled, “Disrupted Landscapes” of new mixed media work by JENNIFER GUNLOCK.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: bit.ly/3YYHY3r

Jennifer Gunlock’s work explores the relationships between the objects of nature and those imposed upon them by human activity. By layering photographs taken on her travels, decorative papers and drawing, she constructs tree-based forms which are awkwardly fused with architectural motifs. Each composition reflects a long passage of time in which buildings and trees stretch and crumble, each pushing against the other. The work is a commentary on humanity’s direct impact on the environment, as well as Earth’s interminable shapeshifting over the long history of its existence.

“In her mixed media collages, Gunlock explores the restless intersection of nature and the built environment. She depicts trees with rugged branches and burly roots wrangling with residential facades, windows, gates and other architectural features. Gunlock captures a fleeting moment in this struggle, one in which nature and architecture seem to co-exist in a colorful equilibrium, if only for a moment. Gunlock alludes to historical patterns of overshoot, which are marked by excessive demand for natural resources, followed by eras of human decline and the slow recovery of forests and ecosystems. But in these works, Gunlock offers a vision of a hopeful future in which the built environment is woven sustainably into the natural world.”

-Al Grumet of Art Works for Change

Based in Los Angeles, Gunlock has received an MFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2003. A 2022 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, she has exhibited nationally and in local venues such as Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Launch LA, and Angels Gate Cultural Center. She has been Artist in Residence at Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland; Playa in Summer Lake, Oregon; Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming; and at the Pajama Factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, among others. In 2014-15 Gunlock participated in “Fires of Change,” an NEA-funded collaboration between artists and scientists, to translate the social and ecological issues surrounding wildfire in the Southwest. Following a fire science bootcamp in the Grand Canyon, and a year to complete a project, a group exhibition opened at Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, Arizona in September 2015 and traveled to the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson and 516 Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

#jennifergunlock #markmoorefineart #markmooregallery #artexhibition #artshow #painting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #artcollector #artcurator #artconsultant #artadvisor #abstractart #abstractpainting #laartist

Kim Rugg

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; Heidi Schwegler; and Kim Rugg.

VIEW THIS GROUP EXHIBITION NOW AT: bit.ly/3GSnsL0

For more information on the artists or additional press materials, please visit http://www.markmooregallery.com, or contact Mark Moore at: mark@markmooregallery.com

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #markmoorefineart #timbavington #markbennett #jennifergunlock #karamaria #jeannequinn #davidrathman #kimrugg 

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”.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: bit.ly/41kFVaR

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.

#markmoorefineart #alexblau #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #artcollector #artconsultant #abstractartist 

Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present “Mark Bennett: The Original Drawings” an exclusive online ARTSY exhibition focusing on the Mark Bennett original “SitCom” floorplans of the last three decades just recently released from the artist studio.

You can view this exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of the original drawings at the following link: bit.ly/3nIjyOt

Now, for the first time in many years, I am finally able to offer you some of the most seminal unique drawings that the artist has made available for this exhibition. These original drawings for the “TV Sets” Blueprint series of works from 1995-1998 would be key addition to any collection.

Mark Bennett has been included in over 3 dozen major museum and gallery group exhibitions, including a major show at the Corcoran Gallery Of Art, Washington, D.C. (titled “Mark Bennett: TV Sets and The Suburban Dream”; which travelled To Cleveland Center For Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio; and the Aldrich Museum Of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Since his induction into the gallery in 1995, Bennett has been included in over three dozen significant museum and group exhibitions, including those at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (D.C.), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (CT), Walker Art Center (MN) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA). His work has been acquired for the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA); Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.);  The Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii); Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA); The West Collection (Oaks, PA); and the Portland Art Museum (OR), among others. 

Earning reverence from both critics and collectors alike, Bennett has been coined a master of nostalgia and social evaluation, acting as “the most earnest of his generation of West Coast artists drawing on popular culture” (Grady T. Turner, Art in America).

#markmoorefineart #markmooregallery 

#artexhibition #artshow #painting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #artcollector #artcurator #artconsultant #artadvisor #abstractart #abstractpainting #markbennett

David Rathman

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.

VIEW THIS GROUP EXHIBITION NOW AT: bit.ly/3GSnsL0

For more information on the artists or additional press materials, please visit http://www.markmooregallery.com, or contact Mark Moore at: mark@markmooregallery.com

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #markmoorefineart #timbavington #markbennett #jennifergunlock #karamaria #jeannequinn #davidrathman #kimrugg