Monthly Archives: February 2024

EXCLUSIVE ONLINE EXHIBITION NOTICE: Ben Weiner: Mood Drawings | Artsy

@MarkMooreGallery is pleased to present Ben Weiner: Mood Drawings, an exhibition focused on the artist’s ongoing series of “Diary” drawings. 

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/486huRp

In these alchemical works, New York artist Ben Weiner soaks ink-coated chromatography paper in solutions of drugs, resulting in hazy, prismatic abstractions. Inspired by the “drug diaries” patients keep during clinical trials, Weiner made the drawings using substances left from his own daily consumption, so that they constitute a record of his mental states over time. The drugs range from the psychedelic to the addictive, to the mundane, including Marijuana, Paxlovid, MDMA, Vicodin, Kombucha, Advil, Caffeine, and Mezcal. By couching painterly expressionism within an honest record of his substance usage, Weiner self-critically engages with issues surrounding wellness and mental health.

Ben Weiner studied painting under muralist José Lazcarro Toquero at La Universidad de las Americas (Mexico), before completing his BA at Wesleyan University (CT). His work has been exhibited widely within the US and internationally, at institutions including The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Tarble Art Center, The Carnegie Art Museum, ArtSpace, La Gruta (CDMX), and The Boca Raton Museum of Art. Weiner has been included in recent gallery exhibitions at 56 Henry, Ochi Gallery, Below Grand, Grey Area, Hunted Projects, and Mark Moore Gallery. His work is represented in various public collections, including Microsoft, Sammlung, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection. He has been featured in publications including Artforum, Artnews, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, Artsy, and Vogue. Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York. Early in his career Weiner worked closely with the artist Jeff Koons as an assistant. 

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Allison Schulnik: Selected Works From The Secondary Market | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now

Allison Schulnik: Selected Works From The Secondary Market | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now

@MarkMooreGallery is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Allison Schulnik: Selected Works From The Secondary Market as part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics. I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at this link: https://bit.ly/495XXkX

Working in paint, sculpture, and animation, Allison Schulnik (b. 1978) seamlessly transitions between mediums, imbuing her work with a distinct sensibility that melds theatricality with intense emotional vulnerability. Known for her uncanny approach to traversing the internal and immaterial terrains of nostalgia, childhood memories, and dreams, Schulnik choreographs an honest, complex and contemporary portrait of new motherhood and life seen through the red haze and black silence of the desert. Schulnik lives and works in Sky Valley, CA. 

Her films have been included in internationally renowned festivals and museums including MASS MoCA, the Hammer Museum, LACMA, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb. Schulnik’s work can be found in numerous museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Museé de Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; and The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

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Penelope Umbrico: The Suns from Sunsets from Flickr Works | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now

Penelope Umbrico: The Suns from Sunsets from Flickr Works | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Penelope Umbrico: The Suns from Sunsets from Flickr Worksas part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics. I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at: https://bit.ly/42gTOIx

PENELOPE UMBRICO offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. Umbrico works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.”

Penelope Umbrico (born in Philadelphia, 1957) graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has participated extensively in solo and group exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Umbrico is core faculty in the School of Visual Arts MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Program. Selected public collections include the Guggenheim Museum (NY), International Center of Photography (NY), McNay Museum of Art (TX), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Museum of Contemporary Photography (IL), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Museum of Modern Art (NY), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), among others. She lives in New York City.

For more information, go to: 

http://bit.ly/2Lm1TGt

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ARTSY LEGACY EXHIBITION ON VIEW NOW: Mark Bennett: Dream Houses – Thirty Years of Fantasy Blueprints

ARTSY LEGACY EXHIBITION ON VIEW NOW: Mark Bennett: Dream Houses – Thirty Years of Fantasy Blueprints

@MarkMooreGallery is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Mark Bennett: Dream Houses – Thirty Years of Fantasy Blueprints as part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics.

I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at this link: bit.ly/2TEosfV

Since his induction into the gallery in 1995, Mark 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), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), West Collection (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).

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ARTSY LEGACY EXHIBITION ON VIEW NOW: Mark Bennett: Dream Houses – Thirty Years of Fantasy Blueprints

ARTSY LEGACY EXHIBITION ON VIEW NOW: Mark Bennett: Dream Houses – Thirty Years of Fantasy Blueprints

@MarkMooreGallery is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Mark Bennett: Dream Houses – Thirty Years of Fantasy Blueprints as part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics.

I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at this link: bit.ly/2TEosfV

Since his induction into the gallery in 1995, Mark 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), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), West Collection (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).

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Penelope Umbrico: “Mountains, Moving: Light Leaks, and Chemical Burns” | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now

Penelope Umbrico: “Mountains, Moving: Light Leaks, and Chemical Burns” | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Penelope Umbrico: Mountains, Moving: Light Leaks, and Chemical Burns as part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics.

I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at: bit.ly/3w7SHPz

PENELOPE UMBRICO offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. Umbrico works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.”

Penelope Umbrico (born in Philadelphia, 1957) graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has participated extensively in solo and group exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Umbrico is core faculty in the School of Visual Arts MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Program. Selected public collections include the Guggenheim Museum (NY), International Center of Photography (NY), McNay Museum of Art (TX), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Museum of Contemporary Photography (IL), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Museum of Modern Art (NY), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), among others. She lives in New York City.

For more information, go to:  http://bit.ly/2Lm1TGt

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ON VIEW NOW: Daniel Duford’s “Wild Man With Still Life” – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition

@MarkMooreGallery is proud to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by artist Daniel Duford of his acclaimed “STILL LIFE WITH WILD MAN” Series.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3RXY8Jg

For 20 years, Daniel Duford has woven visual narratives — stories that flow through large paintings, graphic novels, installations, and figurative sculpture. His work is born from the mythic and political history of North America. He is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2010 Hallie Ford Fellow and a 2012 Art Matters Grant recipient.

His work has been exhibited nationally including MASS MOCA, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Orange County Museum of Art, and the Boise Art Museum. His writing has appeared in Artweek, ART news, High Desert Journal and Parabola among others. In 2011 he published Wellspring: Poems 1996-2006.  His current writing can be found on The Whole Live Animal at: danielduford.substack.com

His curatorial projects include the 2012 exhibition Fighting Men: Leon Golub, Jack Kirby, Peter Voulkos (2012) at the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis and Clark College and An Earth Song, A Body Song: Figures with Landscapes. Works from the Permanent Collection (2020) at Orange County Museum of Art. He is Visiting Professor of Art at Reed College. He is Creative Director of Building Five in Portland, Oregon.

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Allison Schulnik: Selected Works From The Secondary Market | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now

Allison Schulnik: Selected Works From The Secondary Market | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now

@MarkMooreGallery is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Allison Schulnik: Selected Works From The Secondary Market as part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics. I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at this link: https://bit.ly/495XXkX

Working in paint, sculpture, and animation, Allison Schulnik (b. 1978) seamlessly transitions between mediums, imbuing her work with a distinct sensibility that melds theatricality with intense emotional vulnerability. Known for her uncanny approach to traversing the internal and immaterial terrains of nostalgia, childhood memories, and dreams, Schulnik choreographs an honest, complex and contemporary portrait of new motherhood and life seen through the red haze and black silence of the desert. Schulnik lives and works in Sky Valley, CA. 

Her films have been included in internationally renowned festivals and museums including MASS MoCA, the Hammer Museum, LACMA, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb. Schulnik’s work can be found in numerous museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Museé de Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; and The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

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ZEMER PELED: EFFLORESCENCE – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition On View Now

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by artist ZEMER PELED.

VIEW THIS SHOW HERE: https://bit.ly/3Radn0i

Zemer Peled’s labor-intensive process that bridges narrative and formalist elements. Peled utilizes a process of creation and destruction to make sculptures consisting of thousands of handcrafted porcelain shards resulting in works that can be read in relation to art historical tradition, outsider art, and natural phenomena.

The sculpture’s narrative impulses lean to encounters with the otherworldly—like complex topiaries marking a not-so-distant land–yet they remain distinctly tied to earth’s patterns. This conflation of the foreign and familiar creates a frenzied dislocation in the work. Inspired by migratory habits of birds, a sweep of feathers, and cycles of change, the works spiral outwardly in rhythmic patterns, interpreting not only the dynamism of nature, but also the startling strangeness of a life lived in transition.

Using white and colored porcelains, Peled transforms sharp slivers of porcelain into feathers, petals, leaves, and spines that describe objects of unknowable origins: seductive but untrustworthy. The forms are complexly ordered from the inside out, often bulging or spilling over with textures both delicate and severe. In some works, large scale-like ceramic pieces appear airy, delicate, and fluffy, as if one’s breath might break it. In others, Peled’s fragments are geometric barbs that mysteriously take on an alluring form – offering a sense of softness despite a sharp actuality. The forms are never static; the visual dance of sharp ceramic parts conveys a sense of constant movement. Like a murmuration of starlings, the sculptures appear to shift shapes as you move around them, an identity becoming and unbecoming in front of you.

The act of making for Peled is a feat of endurance, improvisation, and adaptation with the aim to embody a fleeting but fundamental feeling of mystery. The construction of her sculpture parallels negotiations any outsider makes in encountering a new world as they delicately construct a self that is both adaptable and resilient.

Peled’s work examines the beauty and brutality of the natural world. Her sculptural language is formed by her surrounding landscapes and nature, and engages with themes of memories, identity, and place. Her sculptures and installations consist of thousands of hand-crafted porcelain shards; a technique that yields a texture both delicate and severe. In some works, large scale-like ceramic pieces appear airy, delicate, and fluffy, as if one’s breath might break it. In others, Peled’s fragments are geometric barbs that mysteriously take on an alluring form – offering a sense of softness despite a sharp actuality. 

Zemer Peled (b. 1983) was born and raised in a Kibbutz in the northern part of Israel. After completing her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jerusalem), she earned her MA at the Royal College of Art (UK). In recent years, her work has been exhibited internationally, including such venues as Sotheby’s and Saatchi Gallery (London), Eretz Israel Museum (Tel Aviv), the Henry Moore Gallery at the Royal College of Art (London), and the Orangerie du Senate (Paris), among others. The artist currently lives and works at the Archie Bray Foundation Residency (Helena, MT). 

Additional information on this incredible artist can be found on our website at: www.markmoorefineart.com

Film of the artist at work:

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Rare Earth: A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now

Rare Earth: A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now

@MarkMooreGallery is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Rare Earth: A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics as part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics. I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at this link: https://bit.ly/49jMiQ4

Mark Moore Fine Art presents a group exhibition of artists at the cutting-edge of the Contemporary Ceramics movement at this time, which includes major works by Jeffry Mitchell, Zemer Peled, Meghan Smythe, and Dirk Staschke.

For more information on these artists or additional press materials, please visit http://www.markmoorefineart.com, or contact us at: info@markmoorefineart.com

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