Category Archives: Mark Moore Gallery

Billy Al Bengston Dead at 88

BILLY AL BENGSTON R.I.P.

Billy Al Bengston, a Kansas-born California painter who drew inspiration from the car and surf culture of midcentury Los Angeles, and was part of a 1960s movement, known as LA Cool School, that helped transform the city from an art-world afterthought into a hub of contemporary art, died Oct. 8 at his home in Venice, California. He was 88.

Working in both painting and sculpture, his psychedelically colorful works feature mandala-like shapes with imagery derived from symbols, chevrons, and iris flowers. Bengston has often used the industrial tools of custom car makers, particularly spray paint and lacquer applied to sheets of aluminum. Born on June 7, 1934 in Dodge City, KA, the artist studied under Richard Diebenkorn and Saburo Hasegawa at the California College of Arts and Crafts before moving to Los Angeles. There, Bengston began showing at the famed Ferus Gallery and established himself as part of a group that rejected the stereotype of the artist as a tormented individual, alongside famed Californian artists like John McCrackenRobert Irwin, and Ed Ruscha. Today, his works can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others.

The Works Gallery – my first space – showed Bengston a number of times. He was the inaugural show at my Costa Mesa gallery in 1989. He will be greatly missed.

His NY Times Obituary is at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/arts/billy-al-bengston-dead.html

SPECIAL PREVIEW: Amy Myers “Ultraviolet Underground” – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition Opening October 26th

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by artist AMY MYERS titled “Ultraviolet Underground”.

VIEW THIS SHOW AT: https://bit.ly/3EMd4Ec

Amy Myers is best known for her large-scale charcoal and pastel drawings, which depict complicated worlds reminiscent of scientific patterns. Her father was a physicist, a fact often noted as an influence on the aesthetics and structure of her work.

Myers’ compositions, always balanced but never exactly symmetrical, seamlessly integrate layers of matter radiating from a central, often labial core. Some elements are comprised of soft, biomorphic forms, at times fleshy and pulsating, at other times wispy and iridescent. Other structures appear as webs of severe, geometric forms slicing through the multi-layered composition, reminiscent of cyborgian hybrids, industrial machinery, and the bio-mechanical art of H. R. Giger. Many elements of Myers’ works are reminiscent of human organs, particularly the vulva, a symbol of creation that relates to the cyclical recreation and renewal inherent to the mechanics of the universe. Myers’ art has clear ties to Feminist art, with notable visual similarities to Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of flowers, buildings, and landscapes, and Judy Chicago’s series of vulvic plates for “The Dinner Party.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Amy Myers (b. 1965, Austin, TX) is a New York-based artist whose large-scale abstract drawings and paintings simultaneously reference particle physics, biology, philosophy, the human mind, and the mechanics of the universe.

Myers has received numerous grants and fellowships, including The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; Ellen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Studio Residency and Award at MANA Contemporary; and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant. Past residencies include Yaddo Artist Residency (Saratoga Springs, NY); Dora Maar House (Menerbes, France); and The American Academy in Rome.

Previous solo exhibitions include Mike Weiss Gallery (New York, NY); Mary Boone Gallery (New York, NY); Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (Los Angeles, CA); Danese Gallery (New York, NY); Rhona Hoffman Gallery (Chicago, IL); and Dunn and Brown Contemporary (Dallas, TX).

Past museum exhibitions include The Sweeney Art Museum at California State University (Riverside, CA); Pomona College, Montgomery Art Center (Claremont, CA); and University Art Museum, California State University (Long Beach, CA).

Myers has artworks in the permanent collections of the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY); Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, FL); California State University Art Museum (Long Beach, CA); Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Fort Wayne, IN); Greenville County Museum of Art (Greenville, SC); Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (Peekskill, NY); Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA); Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS); and the American Express Corporate Collection.

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OPENING TODAY: BETH LIPMAN Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by artist BETH LIPMAN featuring selections available for the first time from her recent exhibition at the Wichita Art Museum, “All in Time”, a mid-career retrospective of the artist featuring her work from the mid-2000s through today.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3UY3VOG

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. ReGift, a site-specific installation investigating Florence Scott Libbey, will be on view at the Toledo Museum of Art in the summer of 2023.

The work generates from the “Still Life” genre, symbolizing the splendor and excess of the Anthropocene and the stratigraphic layer humanity will leave on earth. Assemblages of inanimate objects and domestic interiors, inspired by private spaces and public collections, propose portraits of individuals, institutions, and societies. The collision of sacred and profane artifacts with aspects of the natural world focuses attention on the evolving set of beliefs stemming from the narrative power of objects. Referencing both tangible and digital archives further unravel socially constructed hierarchies as the installations invite the viewers to step into uncanny webs of association.

She has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Recent works include Living History, a large-scale site-specific sculpture that explores the dual concepts of deep maps and deep time and Belonging(s) a sculptural response to the life of Abigail Levy Franks for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR)

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).

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Special Preview: BETH LIPMAN Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition Opening October 19th

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by artist BETH LIPMAN featuring selections available for the first time from her recent exhibition at the Wichita Art Museum, “All in Time”, a mid-career retrospective of the artist featuring her work from the mid-2000s through today.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3UY3VOG

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. ReGift, a site-specific installation investigating Florence Scott Libbey, will be on view at the Toledo Museum of Art in the summer of 2023.

The work generates from the “Still Life” genre, symbolizing the splendor and excess of the Anthropocene and the stratigraphic layer humanity will leave on earth. Assemblages of inanimate objects and domestic interiors, inspired by private spaces and public collections, propose portraits of individuals, institutions, and societies. The collision of sacred and profane artifacts with aspects of the natural world focuses attention on the evolving set of beliefs stemming from the narrative power of objects. Referencing both tangible and digital archives further unravel socially constructed hierarchies as the installations invite the viewers to step into uncanny webs of association.

She has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Recent works include Living History, a large-scale site-specific sculpture that explores the dual concepts of deep maps and deep time and Belonging(s) a sculptural response to the life of Abigail Levy Franks for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR)

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).

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Special Preview: BETH LIPMAN Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition Opening October 19th

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by artist BETH LIPMAN featuring selections available for the first time from her recent exhibition at the Wichita Art Museum, “All in Time”, a mid-career retrospective of the artist featuring her work from the mid-2000s through today.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3UY3VOG

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. ReGift, a site-specific installation investigating Florence Scott Libbey, will be on view at the Toledo Museum of Art in the summer of 2023.

The work generates from the “Still Life” genre, symbolizing the splendor and excess of the Anthropocene and the stratigraphic layer humanity will leave on earth. Assemblages of inanimate objects and domestic interiors, inspired by private spaces and public collections, propose portraits of individuals, institutions, and societies. The collision of sacred and profane artifacts with aspects of the natural world focuses attention on the evolving set of beliefs stemming from the narrative power of objects. Referencing both tangible and digital archives further unravel socially constructed hierarchies as the installations invite the viewers to step into uncanny webs of association.

She has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Recent works include Living History, a large-scale site-specific sculpture that explores the dual concepts of deep maps and deep time and Belonging(s) a sculptural response to the life of Abigail Levy Franks for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR)

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).

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

Special Preview: BETH LIPMAN Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition Opening October 19th

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by artist BETH LIPMAN featuring selections available for the first time from her recent exhibition at the Wichita Art Museum, “All in Time”, a mid-career retrospective of the artist featuring her work from the mid-2000s through today.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3UY3VOG

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. ReGift, a site-specific installation investigating Florence Scott Libbey, will be on view at the Toledo Museum of Art in the summer of 2023.

The work generates from the “Still Life” genre, symbolizing the splendor and excess of the Anthropocene and the stratigraphic layer humanity will leave on earth. Assemblages of inanimate objects and domestic interiors, inspired by private spaces and public collections, propose portraits of individuals, institutions, and societies. The collision of sacred and profane artifacts with aspects of the natural world focuses attention on the evolving set of beliefs stemming from the narrative power of objects. Referencing both tangible and digital archives further unravel socially constructed hierarchies as the installations invite the viewers to step into uncanny webs of association.

She has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Recent works include Living History, a large-scale site-specific sculpture that explores the dual concepts of deep maps and deep time and Belonging(s) a sculptural response to the life of Abigail Levy Franks for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR)

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).

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

Opening Today: DIRK STASCHKE “Recent Work” – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition

DIRK STASCHKE
Soliloquy 3, 2017
Ceramic Wood Epoxy
27 × 18 × 12 in (68.6 × 45.7 × 30.5 cm)

Dirk Staschke: Recent Work

An Exclusive Online ARTSY Exhibition In Preview Now – Opening October 12, 2022

View this show now at: https://bit.ly/3SioB1X

Dirk Staschke is best known for his exploration of Dutch Vanitas still life themes in the medium of ceramics. His current body of work explores the space in between sculpture and painting. His work often uses meticulous representation as foil for examining skill and craft.

As he recently stated:

Occasionally, Art allows for the manipulation of materials into something greater than the sum of its parts. I look to the still life as a window into the transcendent, an attempt to conjure the metaphysical from the mundane. This transformation through processes is analogous to a search for some deeper meaning or truth.

Dutch still life paintings, sometimes called Vanitas, are concerned with the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death. Religious in nature, the paintings also confer the belief that this world is somehow less real than the one that awaits. It is this modulation between the real and illusionistic that most interests me and ultimately makes my work about our perceptions.

I endeavor to explore the space in between sculpture and painting that neither medium can occupy alone. Look behind a painting and the illusion of space is lost. My work seeks to give that space a tangible form. Like a movie set, the knowable gives way to a backdrop of structures that exist in support and in reaction to its creation. Representation becomes a departure point and a foil for examining skill and craft.

My work is viewpoint dependent, at times making complete sense to the viewer as an organized painting yet completely discordant from other angles. Notions of front and back become subjective. The act of how something was formed imbues meaning. The relation of what is fully formed to what is left unfinished expresses that meaning. It contrasts perceptions of taste, ability, and worth.

He received his BFA from the University of Montevallo followed by an MFA from Alfred University and has maintained an ongoing studio practice and extensive exhibition record for the last twenty years. During this time, he has taught at many notable universities, including Alfred University and New York University. His work has been shown internationally and resides in the permanent collections of several museums including the Smithsonian Museum in Washington (DC), Icheon Museum, World Ceramic Center (Gwango-dong) South Korea, Portland Art Museum (OR). He has received various artist’s grants including grants from The Virginia Groot Foundation and the Canada Council on the Arts.

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Special Preview: DIRK STASCHKE “Recent Work” – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition

Dirk Staschke: Recent Work

An Exclusive Online ARTSY Exhibition In Preview Now – Opening October 12, 2022

View this show now at: https://bit.ly/3SioB1X

Dirk Staschke is best known for his exploration of Dutch Vanitas still life themes in the medium of ceramics. His current body of work explores the space in between sculpture and painting. His work often uses meticulous representation as foil for examining skill and craft.

As he recently stated:

Occasionally, Art allows for the manipulation of materials into something greater than the sum of its parts. I look to the still life as a window into the transcendent, an attempt to conjure the metaphysical from the mundane. This transformation through processes is analogous to a search for some deeper meaning or truth.

Dutch still life paintings, sometimes called Vanitas, are concerned with the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death. Religious in nature, the paintings also confer the belief that this world is somehow less real than the one that awaits. It is this modulation between the real and illusionistic that most interests me and ultimately makes my work about our perceptions.

I endeavor to explore the space in between sculpture and painting that neither medium can occupy alone. Look behind a painting and the illusion of space is lost. My work seeks to give that space a tangible form. Like a movie set, the knowable gives way to a backdrop of structures that exist in support and in reaction to its creation. Representation becomes a departure point and a foil for examining skill and craft.

My work is viewpoint dependent, at times making complete sense to the viewer as an organized painting yet completely discordant from other angles. Notions of front and back become subjective. The act of how something was formed imbues meaning. The relation of what is fully formed to what is left unfinished expresses that meaning. It contrasts perceptions of taste, ability, and worth.

He received his BFA from the University of Montevallo followed by an MFA from Alfred University and has maintained an ongoing studio practice and extensive exhibition record for the last twenty years. During this time, he has taught at many notable universities, including Alfred University and New York University. His work has been shown internationally and resides in the permanent collections of several museums including the Smithsonian Museum in Washington (DC), Icheon Museum, World Ceramic Center (Gwango-dong) South Korea, Portland Art Museum (OR). He has received various artist’s grants including grants from The Virginia Groot Foundation and the Canada Council on the Arts.

#markmoorefineart #markmooregallery #dirkstaschke #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractart #abstractpainting #artcurator #studioisolation #artstudio #studioview #painting #painter #artist

Must See! STERLING ALLEN: Damage Control – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition

Sterling Allen, “Untitled”, 2020, Ceramic, wire, epoxy

Many may know Sterling Allen from his work over the last decade as one of the foiunders of the OKAY MOUNTAIN Art Collective. I am pleased now to introduce you to the work of Sterling Allen created outside of that collaboration in an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition titled, “Damage Control” – which you can view here now: https://bit.ly/3Cq2rWs

Sterling Allen holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. He is a co-founder of Okay Mountain, a collective and former gallery based in Austin, Texas. He has exhibited, organized, and completed projects at venues throughout the United States and received several residencies including the Artpace International Artist-In-Residence Program in San Antonio, TX and a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE.

The works in this show were created for an exhibition in Austin, Texas with Partial Shade and Co-Lab Projects titled “A Pit Fire”. The first weekend consisted of a pit fire, followed by an exhibition of the resulting fired ceramic objects. The contents of the fire dictate the surface color and texture of the objects. The methods for creating different surfaces reframe domestic materiality as a series of chemical actions/reactions, compounds, and sensitivities. Vapors from burning sawdust, copper, newsprint, compost etc. enter the open pores of the objects, resulting in a pattern shaped by context and environment— residual evidence of contact.  

The works were then presented in Sterling Allen’s project “Our New Room” – a series of temporary site-specific installations in unsanctioned spaces that address some of the issues inherent in thinking about objects, site, sculpture, and photography. This body of work is presented as a full-color publication, alongside a feature essay by art historian Sarah Hamill, a sequence of poems by Christopher Rey Pérez, a short essay by Emily Lee, and an interview conducted by fellow artist Ian Pedigo. Book design in collaboration with French & Michigan and M. Wright. (http://www.frenchandmichigan.com/store/sterling-allen).

Allen has exhibited at numerous venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and VOLTA NY. He has been twice nominated for an Art Matters Grant and was recently awarded a Rauschenberg Foundation Residency. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art. Sterling lives and works in Austin, TX and is currently an Associate Professor at Texas State University.

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Closing Tomorrow: AMY ELKINS “Wallflower II” – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition

Mark Moore Fine Art presents an exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of nine benchmark works by artist AMY ELKINS from her acclaimed Wallflower Series. 

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3zOuA83

In a continuing exploration into the many nuances of gender identity and masculinity the new exhibition by artist Amy Elkins, titled Wallflower II, turns the camera to masculine identifying individuals from a spectrum of backgrounds.  Much like Wallflower (shot between 2006-2008), the portraits stem from an ongoing intrigue regarding masculine identity when stripped of personal context – sitting bare within a constructed, impermanent environment.  Unlike Wallflower, which aimed the lens at cisgender men almost entirely photographed in my personal space, Wallflower II explores a much broader sense of masculine identity- shot in the personal space of strangers in urban and rural Georgia upon first meeting and found through online calls surrounding ideas of masculinity and gender in the American South.

Amy Elkins (b. 1979 Venice, CA) is a visual artist based in the Bay Area.  She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University.   She has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, including at The High Museum of Art; South Bend Museum of Art; MSU Broad Museum; Kunsthalle Wien; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; North Carolina Museum of Art and more.  Her photographs have been published in American Photo, Conveyor, Dear Dave, EyeMazing, Financial Times, Harpers, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, NY Arts, New York Times, New Yorker, PDN, Real Simple, Stella and Vice among many others.  Elkins is a recipient of The Lightwork Artist-in-Residence, the Villa Waldberta International Artist-in-Residence, the Aperture Prize, the Latitude Artist-in-Residence, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant among others.

Elkins has spent the past fifteen+ years researching, creating, and exhibiting work that explores the multifaceted nature of masculine identity as well as the psychological and sociological impacts of incarceration.  Her approach is series-based, steeped in research and oscillates between formal, conceptual and documentary with projects ranging from her earlier work, Wallflower (2004-2008), that looked into the nuances of gender identity, vulnerability and the female gaze to Elegant Violence (2010), which investigated aspects of male identity and athleticism through portraiture of young Ivy League rugby players moments after a game or Danseur (2012), that looked to young male ballet dancers moments after intensive training.  Starting in 2016 Elkins returned to the Wallflower portrait for a body of work that is ongoing.  The work aims to confront socially constructed ideas and standards surrounding gender, masculinity, vulnerability, and beauty in the American South. 

Throughout the making of these formal portrait projects, Elkins has simultaneously worked on several award-winning bodies of work confronting social justice issues like mass incarceration and capital punishment in America.  Her project Black is the Day, Black is the Night, exhibited through Mark Moore in 2018, spanned eight years and was made directly through correspondence with men serving life and death row sentences throughout the U.S.  It has been exhibited at Aperture Gallery, Houston Center for Photography, the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, The High Museum among many others.  Black is the Day, Black is the Night was published as Elkins’ first monograph in 2016.  It won the 2017 Lucie Independent Book Award.  It was Shortlisted for the 2017 Mack First Book Award and the 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Prize as well as listed as one of the Best Photobooks of 2016 by TIME, Humble Arts Foundation, Photobook Store Magazine, and Photo-Eye among others.  

Her second book Anxious Pleasures was released in July 2022 and is now available through Kris Graves Projects.  Additional book publications include The Portrait. Photography as a Stage from Robert Mapplethorpe to Nan Goldin; The Sports Show: Athletics as Image and Spectacle; Photographs Not Taken; By the Glow of the Jukebox: The Americans List; Keeper of the Hearth; Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography; and The Photographer’s Playbook among others.

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