On view now until March 30, 2013, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York presents Control, a solo exhibition featuring new work by MMG’s Jason Salavon. For more information on the exhibition and to read the press release, please visit the gallery’s exhibition page.
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Mark Moore Gallery is thrilled to announce its participation in New York’s Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair – a fair exclusively dedicated to the presentation of single-channel videos, single-channel projections, video sculptures, and other larger video installations from international commercial galleries and non-profit institutions. Taking place during Armory Week (March 7-10, 2013) in the Waterfront Tunnel event space (between 27th and 28th Streets with an entrance on 11th Avenue in Chelsea), Moving Image is free and open to the public, including the opening reception on Thursday, March 7, 6–8 PM.
Mark Moore Gallery will present “Up Against” (2012), a single-channel video by new program artist, Cheryl Pope. This work illustrates an individual psychology at battle with the self/self and the self/other. Focusing on cognition, the figure attempts to break down the forms in order to open headspace. The struggle and duration speaks to the multiplicity that consumes the mental interior. The water inside the forms references other interior cavities of the body, such as a stomach upset with nervousness or irritation, or the mind shifting from quiet calm to disruptive agitation. Originally staged as a two-hour performance at Mandragoras Art Space in 2010, the subsequent video re-stages Pope’s visceral staging and engagement with feminist performance practices. Working in the mediums of sculpture, video, installation, assemblage, drawing, and performance, Cheryl Pope addresses issues of connectivity and identity that inform the way in which we live our lives today. The artist lives and works in New York, where she is the studio manager for artist Nick Cave.
For more information about the fair, please visit the Moving Image website, or email the gallery at info@markmooregallery.com.
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Opening to the public on January 27th at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is PAINT THINGS: beyond the stretcher, featuring works by Claire Ashley, Katie Bell, Sarah Braman, Sarah Cain, Alex Da Corte, Cheryl Donegan, Franklin Evans, Kate Gilmore, Alex Hubbard, James Hyde, Sean Kennedy, Wilson Lawrence, Steve Locke, Analia Saban, Jessica Stockholder, Mika Tajima, Summer Wheat, and MMG’s Allison Schulnik.
A survey of works that push the boundaries of the traditional painting practice, PAINT THINGS will have an opening reception from 7-9pm at the museum, and remain on view through April 21, 2013. For more information on the exhibition or participating artists, please visit the exhibition page.
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As noted in yesterday’s Huffington Post, art collector SEAN “DIDDY” COMBS acquired two works by Mark Moore Gallery artist ANDREW SCHOULTZ at the Miami Art Fairs on opening day. Schoultz’s first Los Angeles show opens at the gallery January 12. 2013.
Here are a few highlights–
First, a nod to something we mentioned yesterday: Sean “Diddy” Combs’ purchase of two Andrew Schoultz gold flag paintings at Marx & Zavatero Gallery.
Andrew Schoultz
Gold Dripping Flag (exposed)
acrylic & 23-karat gold leaf on stretched and dyed American flag over panel, 2012
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Daniel Weinberg Gallery and ACME. will include a work by MMG artist, Allison Schulnik, in About Face, a group exhibition of small works on paper and paintings by over thirty-five artists curated by Daniel Weinberg. Approximately fifty pieces will be shown throughout ACME.’s three gallery spaces.
The exhibition showcases eccentric, small-scale portraiture that distort classic presentations of the human face and/or figure. As a group show with roots in Surrealism and German Expressionism, the exhibition reflects the influences of individual artists such as Lucas Samaras’ Polaroids and Alice Neel’s portraits. The effects of the current Digital Age are also expressed in several works.
Artists include Richard Artschwager, Lutz Braun, Cris Brodahl, Kristin Calabrese, Brian Calvin, Anh Duong, Andre Ethier, Asad Faulwell, Llyn Foulkes, Steve Gianakos, Alexander Gorlizki, Scott Grodesky, Mary Addison Hackett, EJ Hauser, Kati Heck, Jonathan Herder, Becky Kolsrud, Robert Lostutter, Ashley Macomber, Josh Mannis, Eddie Martinez, David McGee, Damien Meade, John Mills, Malcolm Morley, Ryan Mrozowski, Loren Munk, Jim Nutt, Robyn O’Neil, Ed Paschke, Joshua Petker, Jerry Phillips, Stephanie Pryor, Helen Rae, Tom Sanford, Amy Sarkisian, Allison Schulnik, James Siena, Neal Tait, Michael Tetherow, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, John Wesley, Karl Wirsum, and Tad Lauritzen Wright.
About Face will be presented at ACME., 6150 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048. 17
The exhibition will remain on view November 17th through December 22, 2012.
Opening reception: Saturday, December 1, 6 – 8 pm
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Mark Moore Gallery is thrilled to announce that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently confirmed its acquisition of both Over the Edge, 2009 by British artist Kim Rugg, and Up in the Air, 2006-2011 by American artist Andrew Schoultz. Both artists are represented by the gallery, and have been globally exhibited in contemporary art institutions.
With surgical blades and a steady hand, Kim Rugg (b. 1963, Canada) dissects and reassembles newspapers, stamps, comic books, cereal boxes and postage stamps in order to render them conventionally illegible. The front page of the LA Times becomes neatly alphabetized jargon, debunking the illusion of its producers’ authority as much as the message itself. Through her re-appropriation of medium and meaning, she effectively highlights the innately slanted nature of the distribution of information as well as its messengers. Rugg has also created hand-drawn works alongside wallpaper installations, both of which toy with authenticity and falsehood through subtle trompe l’oeil.
Sourcing inspiration from 15th Century German map making and Indian miniature paintings, Andrew Schoultz’s (b. 1975, WI) frenetic imagery depicts an ephemeral history bound to repeat itself. In his mixed-media works, notions of war, spirituality and sociopolitical imperialism are reoccurring themes, which shrewdly parallel an equally repetitive contemporary pursuit of accumulation and power. Intricate line work, painting, metal leaf and collage twist and undulate under Schoultz’s meticulous hand, ranging from intimately sized wall works to staggering murals and installations. While his illustrated world seems one of chaos and frenzy, Schoultz also implies a sense of alluring fantasy and whimsy – a crossroads vaguely familiar to the modern world.
Andrew Schoultz’s upcoming solo show, “Fall Out” will open January 12, 2013, while Kim Rugg’s “New Work” will be on view starting October 12, 2013. We sincerely congratulate both artists on this milestone, and thank LACMA for their incredible ongoing support of the gallery program.
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Gallery artists Chad Person and Yoram Wolberger will soon be featured in an upcoming group exhibition at Brigham Young University Museum of Art. Other artists featured included in the exhibition will include Takashi Murakami, Ron English, Michael Scoggins, Takeshi Murata, Cory Arcangel, and Maruzio Cattelan.
We Could Be Heroes: The Mythology of Monsters and Heroes in Contemporary Art will run December 7, 2012 through April 6, 2013. Delving into our fascination with super heroes and monsters in contemporary pop culture, We Could Be Heroes will examine the relationship between today’s super heroes and the ancient quests of mythological and religious heroes against villainous monsters in recorded history and folklore. An overabundance of super hero movies has been produced around the world of late, from Hollywood to Chinese cinema to Bollywood, and is becoming a poignant part of our shared cultural subconscious. Through contemporary artworks, the exhibition will explore the complexity of the myth of the hero, the hero’s relationship to the monster, how a monster or hero is often defined by perception, and why, for many, comic-book mythologies are becoming the new morality of the 21st century.
For more information on this exhibition, and museum hours, please visit the BYU Museum website.
The hyper-realistic paintings by Mark Moore Gallery’s Flemish artist, Cindy Wright, will be presented as part a double exhibition this autumn at Galerie Ron Mandos along side stunning video works by the Israeli video-artist and photographer Dana Levy.
Alhambra, 2012, Cindy Wright, Oil on Linen, 100 x 150 cm. / The Wake, 2011, Dana Levy, HD video, 05.03 min.
SILENCE OF THE NIGHT: The work of Cindy Wright plays with the tradition of still life painting and themes of ‘Vanitas’. Wright creates her own subject matter, which she photographs with a digital camera. These images are what she uses in the painting process. The paintings illustrate a reality painted from a photographic reality. Her choice of subject matter (fish in a bowl, withered flowers, general waste) assign a contemporary air to traditional still life painting.
THE FOUNTAIN/ THE WAKE: Dana Levy explores in her work the relationship between the natural and the unnatural. For her video The Wake she filmed in the Carnegie Natural History Museum in Pittsburg, USA. Between the drawers of stuffed butterflies, accurately preserved in authentic wooden cabinets, the viewer sees one-hundred living butterflies. Their interaction creates a special tension in this video. Also on show will be her video The Fountain.
The exhibition will be introduced by art historian Stef van Bellingen (at 17:30 on the opening). Van Bellingen teaches contemporary art at various art institutions in Belgium and the Netherlands. As a curator, he is active in the Netherlands and abroad, where he works with both upcoming talent and established artists.
AMSTERDAM 27.10.12 – 24.11.12
OPENING: SATURDAY 27.10.2012 17:00 -19:00
With an introduction by art historian Stef van Bellingen at 17:30.
Galerie Ron Mandos Prinsengracht 282 1016 HJ Amsterdam +31 (0)20-320 70 36 info@ronmandos.nl www.ronmandos.nl Open: Wed to Sat 12 – 6 pm
Cindy Wright – ‘Silence of the Night’, The Moon was too Bright, 2010, 95 x 140 cm, Oil on linnen
Ben Weiner’s first solo exhibition at the Benrimon Contemporary, on view until December 15, includes paintings, a multi-channel video installation, and sculptural objects.
Ben Weiner
Shrine, 2012
Oil on canvas, 52 x 78 inches
Engaging in a variety of media, ranging from Weiner’s signature large-scale paintings and time-lapse videos to a series of sculptural objects, SMUSH explores a process-based narrative, adapting medium specificity for the reality television era. The exhibition explores the structure of paint at a microscopic level, unveiling the organic origins of a man-made material.
Weiner bases his paintings on highly magnified views of the paint on his palette. Viewed at a perspective alien to the naked eye, blobs of paint appear as organic terrains and hyperpigmented, trompe l’oeil landscapes. These paintings chart the evolving topography of his palette, with the process creation of one painting generating source imagery for the next.
In addition to the paintings, the exhibit will present new videos and sculptural objects. Weiner’s time-lapse video projections magnify the process by which pigment, linseed oil, varnish, and turpentine are mixed together to make paint, distilling days of footage into several minutes. The resulting videos bring the viewer into a fantastical molten universe, where landscape and material is ever in flux.
For the first time in his career, Weiner will exhibit sculptural objects, crystalline forms grown from the minerals in paint pigment. By dissolving these minerals into solutions and letting them evaporate in molds, Weiner channels the natural processes by which crystals form. The objects meld glamour with the organic, while reassessing the cycle of nature and artificiality.
Ben Weiner was born in 1980 and lives and works in New York City. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Carnegie Art Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, and The Riverside Art Museum. Weiner has had two solo exhibitions with Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, and his works are in the permanent collections of the Sammlung Mondstudio (Germany), Progressive Insurance (Ohio), and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (California). In 2010 Weiner was awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
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Mark Moore Gallery artist Stephanie Washburn will featured in “This Was Funny Yesterday” at UC Santa Barbara (September 27 — October 19) – and exhibition that explores the use of humor in classic conceptual art, and extends to a broad array of more recent practice. Including Vito Acconci, Brian Bress, John Divola, Martin Kersels, Allison Miller, Camilo Ontiveros, Stephanie Washburn, and the collective D3, this exhibition showcases a kind of humor found nestled at the unlikely intersection of the physical world and abstract thought.
“This Was Funny Yesterday” can be seen in Building 494, in the CCS Gallery, 1-5pm Tuesday through Friday. Additionally, an opening reception will be held on Thursday, October 4 from 6:30 – 7:30pm, following a 1C Colloquium presentation with Jane Mulfinger and Stephanie Washburn, from 5 – 6:30 PM, at Embarcadero Hall.
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