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The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV presents Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt, an exhibition of memorial cyanotypes by artist Amy Elkins

Posted on February 9, 2026 | Leave a comment

Amy Elkins, Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt. Sacramento, California. August 1 (detail), 2025, Cyanotype on Cotton. Image courtesy the artist.

Amy Elkins: Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV presents Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt, an exhibition of memorial cyanotypes by artist Amy Elkins.

Using one of photography’s oldest processes, Elkins creates large, camera-free cyanotypes by exposing treated fabric to sunlight. For this intimate series, she incorporates her father’s ashes, surrounding viewers with constellations of ghostly, speckled blue.

Working with ash, salt, sand, and silt, and rinsing each piece in natural bodies of water, Elkins symbolically and materially reunites her father with the landscapes he loved—from the Pacific Ocean, recalling his years in a California marine biology lab, to freshwater creeks that echo his youth spent swimming with friends. The exhibition also includes artifacts from his life.

These works bring light, water, minerals, and memory together into portraits that speak to the uniqueness of a life, the transience of existence, and the ongoing act of letting go. As Elkins writes:

“Exposed in the sun as a means of holding on. Rinsed in bodies of water as a means of letting go. An action that both safekeeps his ashes and releases them into the natural world.”

On view in the Center Gallery of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from February 20–June 13, 2026.

Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Closed on state and federal holidays. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
702-895-3381
barrick.museum@unlv.edu

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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist JEFFRY MITCHELL by The Crocker Art Museum

Posted on February 6, 2026 | Leave a comment
 Jeffry Mitchell
American, born 1958
Terrace Cotta Bucket of Safety and Reassurance, 2021
Thomas Orr red stonewareclay
17 x 14 x 13 inches
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 JEFFRY MITCHELL by The Crocker Art Museum.

Jeffry Mitchell’s primary medium is ceramic and he is well versed in its traditions around the globe (references to Early American glazes, Pennsylvania Dutch pickle jars, asymmetrical Japanese aesthetic decisions and Chinese Foo Dogs abound). Mitchell takes a very direct approach to working, often eschewing refinements that commonly accompany many ceramic processes. The resulting pieces radiate an exuberant, unbridled immediacy. He feels that this unfettered approach is essentially relatable to our shared human experience. To explain this idea Mitchell talks about a fundamental familiarity with clay that we all carry with us from our formative years. Perhaps we came to it through playing as children making mud pies or maybe it was making pinch pots in elementary school, regardless he feels that clay is a material that is universally relatable at a very basic level. The imagery that he uses is also very accessible. Bears, elefants (he prefers ‘f’ to ‘ph’), bunnies and flowers appear over and over in his work and though they can be definitely be related to his own personal story he feels that these too spring from an early and universally familiar place. Throughout the work Mitchell seeks to tap into and broadcast a sense of vitality whether it be joyful or colored with more a complex mix of emotions. This throughline can been seen in the thick, dripping glazes, the unabashed appropriation of decorative motifs and an unmistakeable suffusion of playfulness.

Mitchell’s work can be found in numerous private and public collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Philadelphia Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), Honolulu Museum of Art, Tacoma Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; and aMarjorie Barrick Museum (University of Nevada Las Vegas).

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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Mark Moore Fine Art is honored to share that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired two works by JENNIFER GUNLOCK for its permanent collection

Posted on February 5, 2026 | Leave a comment

Jennifer Gunlock
Crow’s Nest, 2016
Mixed media paper collage and drawing on 2 sheets rag paper, grommets
50 × 76 in / 127 × 193 cm
COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON

Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired two works by artist JENNIFER GUNLOCK for its permanent collection,”Crow’s Nest” (2016) and “Nesting Site #1” (2021).

Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is the largest cultural institution in the region, with an encyclopedic collection especially renowned for pre-Columbian and African gold; Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture; 19th- and 20th-century art; photography; and Latin American art.

We are thrilled to see GUNLOCK’s work join this world-class collection.

More on these works: https://bit.ly/4r88ODV

Learn more about MFAH: https://www.mfah.org/

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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist MARK BENNETT by the Santa Barbara Art Museum

Posted on February 4, 2026 | Leave a comment
MARK BENNETT
Home of Mike & Carol Brady (The Brady Bunch), 2017
Collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist MARK BENNETT by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

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). 
 
Mark Bennett is in the Public Collections of several prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, CA. His works are also part of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Portland Art Museum in Portland, OR. Additionally, he is represented in The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, and the New York Public Library in New York, NY. Other notable collections include the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA, the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis, IN, and the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. His works can also be found at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, and the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He is included in the collections of Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA, and the West Collection in Oaks, PA, as well as the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA and the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA. Further representations can be found at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. His artwork is also housed in the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles, CA, Seattle Art Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, and the McNay Museum in San Antonio, TX.

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The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV presents Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt, an exhibition of memorial cyanotypes by artist Amy Elkins

Posted on February 3, 2026 | Leave a comment

Amy Elkins, Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt. Sacramento, California. August 1 (detail), 2025, Cyanotype on Cotton. Image courtesy the artist.

Amy Elkins: Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV presents Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt, an exhibition of memorial cyanotypes by artist Amy Elkins.

Using one of photography’s oldest processes, Elkins creates large, camera-free cyanotypes by exposing treated fabric to sunlight. For this intimate series, she incorporates her father’s ashes, surrounding viewers with constellations of ghostly, speckled blue.

Working with ash, salt, sand, and silt, and rinsing each piece in natural bodies of water, Elkins symbolically and materially reunites her father with the landscapes he loved—from the Pacific Ocean, recalling his years in a California marine biology lab, to freshwater creeks that echo his youth spent swimming with friends. The exhibition also includes artifacts from his life.

These works bring light, water, minerals, and memory together into portraits that speak to the uniqueness of a life, the transience of existence, and the ongoing act of letting go. As Elkins writes:

“Exposed in the sun as a means of holding on. Rinsed in bodies of water as a means of letting go. An action that both safekeeps his ashes and releases them into the natural world.”

On view in the Center Gallery of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from February 20–June 13, 2026.

Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Closed on state and federal holidays. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
702-895-3381
barrick.museum@unlv.edu

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #markmoorefineart #amyelkins

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