Excited to announce: Joshua Dildine’s first ARTSY online exclusive in 5 years! 🎨 “Wooly Bugger” features 8 new works by this California-based painter, from vibrant canvases to mixed-media pieces on photographs.
In this series, Dildine blends found autobiographical photos with dynamic, gestural painting to explore memory, family, and the quirks of nostalgia. Using images from fly fishing trips, he layers brushwork, saturated color, and digital (even AI) manipulations to disrupt and reinvent the original photos—blurring the boundaries between photography, painting, and abstraction.
Dive into the turbulence, clarity, and visual flux in these pieces that capture the ever-changing experience of wading through water and memory.
About the artist: Dildine earned his MFA from Claremont Graduate University and has exhibited across California and beyond. His work is held in multiple museum collections.
Mark Moore Fine Art is excited to present an exclusive online exhibition of Amy Elkins’ powerful series WALLFLOWER—on view through Nov 9, 2025.
Elkins’ striking portraits dive deep into masculinity, gender identity, and vulnerability, challenging stereotypes and rewriting the male gaze. From intimate Brooklyn-based portraits to raw, honest images of masculine-identified individuals across Georgia, WALLFLOWER & WALLFLOWER II offer a new perspective on identity and beauty.
Amy Elkins is internationally acclaimed, recently recognized with the Fleishhacker Eureka Fellowship + Kala Media Arts Fellowship.
Mark Bennett Mary Tyler Moore of the Dick Van Dyke Show, 2005 Ink on color xerox 22 × 17 in / 55.9 × 43.2 cm COLLECTION OF THE FREDERICK R. WEISMAN ART FOUNDATION (Los Angeles)
Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist MARK BENNETT by The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation.
Mark Bennett’s (b. 1956, Tennessee) whimsical works engage with pop culture and celebrity to an extreme degree. His blueprint lithographs of Baby Boom era sitcoms and popular television series depict the ultimate pairing of flight of fancy and stoical logic; the purely imaginary floor plans grounded by the dry format of an architect’s design. His works are both pleasingly nostalgic and vaguely disconcerting in their premonition of a society obsessed by television and celebrity culture.
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).
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 of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Laguna Art Museum (CA), Crocker Art Museum (CA), Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada Las Vegas (NV), Museum of Fine Art Houston (TX), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), West Collection (PA), McNay Art Museum (TX), and the Portland Art Museum (OR), among others.
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is dedicated to continuing the legacy and vision of Frederick R. Weisman, an extraordinary entrepreneur, philanthropist, and art collector. He held an uncompromising belief in the cultural value of art and understood the importance of both the individual artist and the creative process. In carrying out Mr. Weisman’s intentions, the Foundation seeks to preserve, collect, and make publicly accessible his collection of modern and contemporary art as a means to strengthen and contribute to the greater artistic and intellectual life of our time. In 1982, Frederick R. Weisman purchased the Los Angeles estate to serve as a showcase for his personal collection of 20th-century art. He and his wife, Billie Milam Weisman, an art conservator and curator, worked together to create a unique environment located within the Mediterranean-style villa. More than four hundred works of art are on display at the Foundation. The collection includes works by European Modernists, including Cezanne, Picasso, and Kandinsky, and Surrealist works by Ernst, Miro, and Magritte. The holdings in postwar art include works by Giacometti, Noguchi, Calder, Rauschenberg, and Johns; Abstract Expressionist paintings by de Kooning, Francis, Still, and Rothko; Color-Field paintings by Frankenthaler, Louis, and Noland; and Pop Art by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, and Rosenquist. Contemporary California works include those by Ruscha and Goode and Super Realist sculptures by Hanson and de Andrea. These holdings are part of a larger collection that Mr. Weisman established as the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in 1982. Currently, under the direction of Billie Milam Weisman, the Foundation continues to make the collection available through loans to museums worldwide, docent tours at the Los Angeles estate, exhibitions in public-art venues, and the funding of several art museums, including the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University in Malibu, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, designed by Frank O. Gehry.
Excited to announce: Joshua Dildine’s first ARTSY online exclusive in 5 years! 🎨 “Wooly Bugger” features 8 new works by this California-based painter, from vibrant canvases to mixed-media pieces on photographs.
In this series, Dildine blends found autobiographical photos with dynamic, gestural painting to explore memory, family, and the quirks of nostalgia. Using images from fly fishing trips, he layers brushwork, saturated color, and digital (even AI) manipulations to disrupt and reinvent the original photos—blurring the boundaries between photography, painting, and abstraction.
Dive into the turbulence, clarity, and visual flux in these pieces that capture the ever-changing experience of wading through water and memory.
About the artist: Dildine earned his MFA from Claremont Graduate University and has exhibited across California and beyond. His work is held in multiple museum collections.
Mark Moore Fine Art presents “Between Quiet and Bold,” an exclusive online exhibition by Rebekah Andrade. Dive into Andrade’s latest body of work—a vibrant exploration of presence and balance through layered abstraction.
Experience buoyant fields of green, blue, and pink, interwoven with expressive marks that create moments of tension and release. With acrylic and pastel on paper, Rebekah masterfully layers color and gesture, inviting you to slow down and discover both the details and atmosphere within each piece.
This collection is all about finding clarity, resonance, and quiet joy in the balance between structure and surrender.
Jennifer Gunlock Bird’s Nest, 2016 Mixed media paper collage and drawing on 2 sheets rag paper, grommets 76 × 50 in / 193 × 127 cm COLLECTION OF THE LAGUNA ART MUSEUM
Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist JENNIFER GUNLOCK, titled “Bird’s Nest” from 2016 by the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA.
This work will be included in the museum Permanent Collection and will be included in the upcoming New Acquisitions exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum spanning the breadth of LAM’s collection from the 19th century. The artworks, spanning over a century of creation, encompass a diverse array of mediums including sculpture, mixed media, film, painting, and large-format color photography.
The exhibition, titled Latest and Greatest: New Workat Laguna Art Museum will feature works by: Mark Bennett, Charles Percy Austin, Sergei Bongart, Carole Caroompas, Jedediah Caesar, Rosson Crow, Woods Davy, Fannie Eliza Duvall, John Frost, Jennifer Gunlock, Grace Carpenter Hudson, John Humble, Roger Kuntz, Jimi Gleason, Tom Lamb, Robert Landry, Malorie Marder, Carter Mull, Evan Nesbit, Deborah Oropallo, Phil Paradise, Astrid Preston, Rozeal, Richard Roth, Heidi Schwegler, Millard Owen Sheets, Robert Standish, Craig Stecyk, Jay McCafferty, Patrick Wilson, and Jennifer West.
Mark Moore Fine Art is excited to present an exclusive online exhibition of Amy Elkins’ powerful series WALLFLOWER—on view through Nov 9, 2025.
Elkins’ striking portraits dive deep into masculinity, gender identity, and vulnerability, challenging stereotypes and rewriting the male gaze. From intimate Brooklyn-based portraits to raw, honest images of masculine-identified individuals across Georgia, WALLFLOWER & WALLFLOWER II offer a new perspective on identity and beauty.
Amy Elkins is internationally acclaimed, recently recognized with the Fleishhacker Eureka Fellowship + Kala Media Arts Fellowship.
Check out the trailer to a short documentary about the artist HEIDI SCHWEGLER at: https://bit.ly/4g4UO8Y
GIVE A BEAR HUG TO THE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU THER MOST is a documentary about the artist Heidi Schwegler. Faced with a crisis in her art practice, Schwegler leaves for unfamiliar settings, and begins to see her surroundings in new ways.
Heidi Schwegler explores a wide range of materials in the service of her subject matter. Drawn to the peripheral ruin, she deftly incorporates found objects with traditional craft and sculpture media. “When [an object] is no longer contextualized by function and ownership, the discarded thing’s anonymity and ambiguity render it pervious to the imagination,” she says, approaching such things as a source of investigation. “I consider its formal qualities as raw material – but a very particular raw material that is both new and an indicator of past use, past value and past purpose.”
Schwegler’s accolades include an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, Hallie Ford Fellowship and two MacDowell Colony Fellowships in the Visual Arts. She was artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Pilchuck, VCCA, Yaddo, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Bullseye Glass Company, among others. Notable exhibitions of her work include the 2018 Bellevue Art Museum Biennial, Portland2016: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Michelle Grabner and presented by Disjecta Contemporary Art Center; her 10-year retrospective, Botched Execution, at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, OR and the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, NE. Schwegler holds a BFA from the University of Kansas and MFA from the University of Oregon. She lives and works in Yucca Valley, CA where is the founding director of Yucca Valley Material Lab. where is the founding director of Yucca Valley Material Lab.
Her sculptural work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Schneider Museum of Art, Crocker Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, and the Hallie Ford Museum.
Mark Moore Fine Art proudly presents “Refractions: L.A. Art in the Eighties and Nineties,” showcasing influential early works by Los Angeles legends Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Eric Orr, and Helen Pashgian.
By the ’80s and ’90s, L.A. became an experimental hub—where light, surface, and perception intertwined in bold new ways. Bell explored glass and reflection; Alexander created resin forms inspired by color and city haze; Bengston infused painting with California’s vibrant energy; Pashgian crafted luminous sculptures; and Orr’s works, infused with elements of alchemy and spirituality, played with presence and infinity.
Experience a moment in L.A. art history defined by experimentation, reflection, and the evolving nature of perception itself.
Beth Lipman Gazing Ball with Lemon and Fly, 2014 c-print mounted to aluminum with gloss laminate 36 x 23 in COLLECTION OF THE CROCKER ART MUSEUM
Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist BETH LIPMAN, titled “Mind Map 7” from 2022 by The Crocker Art Museum.
Beth Lipman is an American artist whose sculptural practice explores aspects of material culture and deep time through still lives, site-specific installations, and photographs. Ephemeral and intricate, the work addresses mortality, materiality, and temporality. Lipman is also known for site responsive installations that activate the specific history of objects, individuals, and institutions.
Lipman has exhibited her work internationally at such institutions as the Ringling Museum of Art (FL), ICA/MECA (ME), RISD Museum (RI), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Gustavsbergs Konsthall (Sweden) and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC). Her work has been acquired by numerous museums including the North Carolina Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art (MO), Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Jewish Museum (NY), Norton Museum of Art, (FL), and the Corning Museum of Glass (NY).
The Crocker Art Museum features the world’s foremost display of California art and is renowned for its holdings of European master drawings and international ceramics. The Crocker also holds permanent collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art, ceramics, and photography. The Museum offers a diverse spectrum of exhibitions, events, and programs to augment its collections, including films, concerts, studio classes, lectures, children’s activities, and more. The Museum has also dedicated the historic building’s entire first floor as an education center, which includes four classrooms, space for student and community exhibitions, the Gerald Hansen Library, and Tot Land. Discover it all at: crockerart.org
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