Now on view: “Ladders and Tone Poems,” a new @artsy online show from Canadian artist Michael Batty!
Batty’s vibrant paintings and collages use visual codes, sculptural elements, and color rhythms to engage and inspire. With over 35 years of innovation, his work invites you to experience abstraction like never before.
🔗 Watch a behind-the-scenes studio video: bit.ly/4ltfqdP 🖼️ See more and explore the show: bit.ly/4kV4p3Q
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
Now on view: “Ladders and Tone Poems,” a new @artsy online show from Canadian artist Michael Batty!
Batty’s vibrant paintings and collages use visual codes, sculptural elements, and color rhythms to engage and inspire. With over 35 years of innovation, his work invites you to experience abstraction like never before.
🔗 Watch a behind-the-scenes studio video: bit.ly/4ltfqdP 🖼️ See more and explore the show: bit.ly/4kV4p3Q
BREAKING THE CODE: A New Biographical Documentary Film About The Life Of Artist Vernon Fisher
Best Historical Film, Dallas International Film Festival Official Selection, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Official Selection, Thin Line Fest Official Selection, Frame of Mind (PBS)
Prolepsis Pictures is proud to announce the World Premiere of “Breaking the Code”, a feature-length biographical documentary about the life of Fort Worth-based artist Vernon Fisher. We also plan to broadcast the film Texas-wide on PBS affiliate program Frame of Mind in October.
Vernon Fisher has mounted major exhibitions at museums including the Smithsonian Institution, Guggenheim Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, among many others. He is the only Dallas-Fort Worth-born artist to receive a retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth — a space that has also hosted similar exhibitions for artists including Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso.
More important than Fisher’s accomplishments, however, is the content of his art. Not only is he such a masterfully technical painter that viewers often mistake his chalkboard-style paintings as actually being made with chalk, but he is also renowned for the emotional, psychological and philosophical depth of his work.
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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.
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