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Image: Allison Schulnik, “Misfits (Porcelain)”, 2007, oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches

Check out the works by Mark Moore Fine Art artists Allison Schulnik and Christian Clayton in “Figurative Futures” on view now through August 26th at 101/EXHIBIT in Los Angeles.

Figurative Futures, a group exhibition curated by Mark Murphy featuring 24 contemporary artists. This occasion marks Murphy’s first curated show with the 101/EXHIBIT – located at 668 North La Peer Drive, Los Angeles, located on the southeast corner of the Santa Monica Blvd and N La Peer Drive intersection.

Image: Mark Bennett, Home of Norman Bates (Psycho) / original drawing

Artist Mark Bennett has been celebrating the fictional world of TV sitcoms for decades, with painstakingly hand-drawn fantasy plans of the homes from Leave it to Beaver, The Brady Bunch and more. Check out the artist discussing his work in a recent interview on National Public Radio by clicking on the following link:

http://blogs.kcrw.com/dna/artist-mark-bennett-explores-the-architecture-of-pop-culture

Artist Mark Bennett has always had a fascination with fictional homes.

Often, when he watches a movie, he counts the number of steps a character takes inside a certain room, then approximates the room’s square footage. Afterwards, he puts it to paper, meticulously drawing fantasy architectural plans of the structure.

After seeing Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” he drafted a seemingly real plan of the Bates Motel’s twelve cabins.

“It includes the swamp behind, and up in the left corner on the hillside is the original Norman Bates’ and his mother’s mansion, which is a Victorian, gothic two-story with a basement,” Bennett says.

“Home of Mr. Norman Bates” will be one of the many drawings on display at the Mark Moore Gallery as part of “Dream Houses – The Blueprint Drawings 1992-2017,” Bennett’s upcoming solo exhibition on ARTSY.

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Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. – Francisco Goya

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of award-winning sculptor Meghan Smythe titled “Flesh For Fantasy”, on view through August 20, 2017.

This presentation on recent work can be view now at the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-meghan-smythe-flesh-for-fantasy

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Jean Shin is currently featured in the Mark Moore Fine Art exclusive online exhibition on ARTSY titled “One Place After Another: A Survey of Public Art Today” featuring artists: Tim Bavington, Mark DiSuvero, Penelope Umbrico, Jason Salavon, Andrew Schoultz, Marton Varo, Art Collborative Okay Mountain, Daniel Canogar, Yoram Wolberger, and Jean Shin.

Public art is art in any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. Public art is significant within the art world, amongst curators, commissioning bodies and practitioners of public art, to whom it signifies a working practice of site specificity, community involvement and collaboration. Public art may include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings, but often it is not that simple. Rather, the relationship between the content and audience, what the art is saying and to whom, is just as important if not more important than its physical location.

MARK MOORE FINE ART looks at a few of the best examples of what the genre of Public Art today in this online ARTSY Survey. You can view this presentation now at the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-one-place-after-another-a-survey-of-public-art-today

Andrew Schoultz is currently featured in the Mark Moore Fine Art exclusive online exhibition on ARTSY titled “One Place After Another: A Survey of Public Art Today” featuring artists: Tim Bavington, Mark Di Suvero, Penelope Umbrico, Jason Salavon, Andrew Schoultz, Marton Varo, Art Collborative Okay Mountain, Daniel Canogar, Yoram Wolberger, and Jean Shin.

Public art is art in any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. Public art is significant within the art world, amongst curators, commissioning bodies and practitioners of public art, to whom it signifies a working practice of site specificity, community involvement and collaboration. Public art may include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings, but often it is not that simple. Rather, the relationship between the content and audience, what the art is saying and to whom, is just as important if not more important than its physical location.

MARK MOORE FINE ART looks at a few of the best examples of what the genre of Public Art today in this online ARTSY Survey. You can view this presentation now at the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-one-place-after-another-a-survey-of-public-art-today

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One Place After Another: A Survey of Public Art Today

A number of the artists working with Mark Moore Fine Art are actively engaged in the making and realization of Public Art – and number of them have won International recognition for their works. Artists like Tim Bavington, Vernon Fisher, Zemer Peled, Jason Salavon, Andrew Schoultz, Jean Shin, Penelope Umbrico, The Okay Mountain Collaborative, and Yoram Wolberger have all received critical and public acclaim for their Public Art works. In this survey of recent works created specifically for Public Spaces we hope to showcase some of these amazing works.

MARK MOORE FINE ART looks at a few of the best examples of what the genre of Public Art today in this exclusive online ARTSY Survey.

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-one-place-after-another-a-survey-of-public-art-today

Tim Bavington sculpture installation at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts.

By definition, Public Art is art in any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. Public art is significant within the art world, amongst curators and major art consultants, commissioning bodies and practitioners of public art, to whom it signifies a working practice of site specificity, community involvement and collaboration.

Public art may include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings, but often it is not that simple. Rather, the relationship between the content and audience, what the art is saying and to whom, is just as important if not more important than its physical location.

These types of public art projects don’t sit on pedestals: they are seamlessly integrated into the surrounding environment. When you bring one of our gallery artists into a project early in the design process, the work of art can be built into construction documents, which can save time and money from a separate art installation. In many cases, the general contractor can perform some of the fabrication or installation, with the artist or fabrication specialist needed only for specific components.

When an artist is included as a member of the design team with an architect, landscape architect, or engineer, they work together and heighten the creativity, surprise, beauty, or whimsy of a place. These types of projects work best when all members of the team are selected at the same time, they are given equal power and control over aesthetics, and each member has a clearly defined project role from the beginning.

Additional information on our past Public Art Projects and the artists in this exhibition on our website at: http://www.markmoorefineart.com/advisory

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Mark Moore Fine Art presents “Reception“, an exclusive online ARTSY exhibition closing August 06, 2017 by interdisciplinary artist Stephanie Washburn, including photographs, collages and drawings. Washburn continues her exploration of the interface of material and digital surfaces as well as the persistent relevance of human touch in the construction of pictorial space.

You can preview this presentation now at the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-stephanie-washburn-reception

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One Place After Another: A Survey of Public Art Today

A number of the artists working with Mark Moore Fine Art are actively engaged in the making and realization of Public Art – and number of them have won International recognition for their works. Artists like Tim Bavington, Vernon Fisher, Zemer Peled, Jason Salavon, Andrew Schoultz, Jean Shin, Penelope Umbrico, The Okay Mountain Collaborative (pictured above), and Yoram Wolberger have all received critical and public acclaim for their Public Art works.

MARK MOORE FINE ART looks at a few of the best examples of what the genre of Public Art today in this exclusive online ARTSY Survey.

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-one-place-after-another-a-survey-of-public-art-today

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Check out See “Ben Charles Weiner: Altered States” at Mark Moore Fine Art on @artsy on Artsy:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-ben-charles-weiner-altered-states

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Image: Ben Charles Weiner, Fade from Black # 3, 2013, 5-hour energy and ink on chromatography paper, 18 x 22 inches

Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present “Altered States,” an exhibition focusing on Ben Charles Weiner‘s mixed media drawings.

Illuminating a lesser-known aspect of the artist’s practice, “Altered States” presents new drawings, along with earlier works that serve as precedents. In these works, Weiner engages with household products at a physical and chemical level. The drawings use principles from gelatin sliver printing to record an imprint of the chemical reactions between inks and drugs (both legal and illegal), expanding upon Weiner’s practice of synthesizing process painting and photorealism.

You can preview this exhibition now in preview at:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-ben-charles-weiner-altered-states

Image: Fade from Black # 4, 2013, vodka, MDMA (Molly), and ink on chromatography paper, 18 x 22 inches

Weiner begins his drawings by coating a sheet of Chromatography paper in a single color of ink. This heavy-cotton lab paper is used in forensics and art conservation to determine the identities of chemical substances. Weiner mixes a solution of a respective drug into a pan of water, using substances such as Aspirin, Codeine, Molly, Marijuana, 5-hour Energy and Vodka. He then soaks the ink-coated paper in this solution, letting the drug break the ink down into a surprising array of prismatic patterns to create, in Weiner’s words, “a material embodiment of altered perception.” Weiner soaks and re-soaks the paper as many times as necessary to arrive at an image he finds compelling, resulting in works that meld painterly action with chemical reaction.

Weiner anchors his investigation with formal allusions to historical movements including Monochrome and Colorfield painting, and in doing so sheds new light on these movements. His drawings begin as literal Monochromes, and it could be said that once soaked in drugs, they remain Monochromes, albeit seen through the lens of their respective drug. Where Monochrome painters such as Yves Klein isolated pure color as an experience unto itself, Weiner’s drawings position perception itself as a medium, to be manipulated through drug use.

Indeed, the luminous, hazy fields of chemical color in Weiner’s drawings beg the question of whether altered experience is inherently abstract. In “The Doors of Perception,” Aldous Huxley postulates that drugs break down filters that organize, and give form to, an otherwise overwhelming flood of abstract visual information absorbed by our senses. Mark Rothko’s paintings could easily support this, given his well known appetite for anti-depressants and alcohol. 

However, Weiner draws no distinction between legal and illegal drugs in his choice of substances. Thus, he positions drug-use not an escape from reality, but as a behavior integrated into our daily routines. In this sense, the drawings reflect his conceptual interest in the relationship between consumerism and mortality within daily consumption routines, and our daily struggle to resist the entropic forces that pull at our mortal selves.

Image: Fade from Black # 1, 2013, MDMA (Molly) and ink on chromatography paper, 18 x 22 inches

Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980, Burlington, VT) received his BA from Wesleyan University (CT). He also studied under Mexican muralist José Lazcarro at Universidad de las Americas (Mexico) and has worked closely with artists Jeff Koons, Kim Sooja and Amy Yoes as an assistant. He has exhibited his work widely across the United States and in Mexico with solo shows in Los Angeles, New York and Puebla, and group exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Miami, New Haven, Ridgefield, Los Angeles and Riverside. His paintings can be found in the Sammlung/Collection (Germany), the Progressive Collection (OH), The Microsoft Collection (WA), and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection (CA). The artist lives and works in New York City.

For additional information on Ben Charles Weiner, please check out our website at:

http://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/ben-charles-weiner

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