Category Archives: Mark Moore Gallery

Just in time for SXSW, The Austin Art Museum is staging a playful take on the game of contemporary art. An outdoor installation project at the Laguna Gloria Grounds, “Art on the Green” consists of ten interactive miniature golf course holes fashioned by Austin-based artists, architects, and landscape architects. For a mere $8, you too can putt your way through the most distinctive course ever made.

MMG artist collaborative Okay Mountain contributed their vision to the project with “School Night” (2012). In the artists’ words:

“With School Night, Okay Mountain stages a scene where a clandestine late-night gathering has taken place. The discarded trash and petty vandalism left behind suggest the transitional state between adolescence and adulthood, inhabited by teenagers who are too old for playgrounds but too young for bars.”

“Art on the Green” opens March 9th, and remains on view through May 20th, 2012. Please refer to the project website for hours of operation.

Like every good tech/art/sociopolitical enthusiast, MMG artist Kiel Johnson is savvy to the popular TED Talks series. Delving into topics ranging from saving sharks to the happy secret to corporate workstyle, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Development) is a conference series dedicated to Ideas Worth Spreading. Since Johnson has been heralded as quite the “idea factory” in the contemporary arts realm, TED has invited the artist to partake in next week’s Palm Springs conference.

Should you find yourself heading to the desert for five days of intellectual gluttony, make sure to stop by Kiel’s interactive and ongoing “‘Studies on an Airship Ride, City 2.0” project with the public. One part exhibit, one part workshop, Johnson’s tiny cardboard metropolis with transform and develop depending on its visitors. Says the artist:

“I will start the week with maybe 35% of the buildings on the table so folks feel like they can get involved in the early stages.   I built a ‘salad bar’ of all the parts and pieces that you need to build in this particular scale. Participants of the conference are able to sit down and work with me anytime during the day.  We will be adding to the city all week. ”

In between talks, chats, discussions, and debates – you too can build this city.

To say that Andrew Schoultz likes a sizable challenge is a vast understatement. Just when murals and wall-sized paintings seem staggering, Schoultz surprises us with a Lockheed VC 140 Jetstar spy plane as his newest canvas. Completed for the Pima Air & Space Museum‘s (AZ) “Round Trip: Art From the Boneyard Project,” Andrew’s plane is among several curated artist planes selected by Med Sobio (independent curator) and Lesley Oliver (Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art). The oversize exhibition opens January 28th, and runs through May, 2012. For more information, check out the feature article from Juxtapoz Magazine and the preview from Arrested Motion.

Additionally, Schoultz will be debuting a new large-scale wall collage and painting at the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair in Jerome Zodo Contemporary’s booth tonight – January 19th – which will remain on view through January 22, 2012. Schoultz is also producing new work for his upcoming two-person exhibition with Richard Colman at VI Gallery (Copenhagen), which opens March 16th, 2012. Should you find yourself near any of these venues in the next few months – make it a point to see these ambitious projects!

Julie Heffernan will soon be heading to Oklahoma to unveil her first career-to-date museum retrospective show at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, opening to the public on February 16th, from 6:30 – 8pm.

Julie Heffernan: Infinite Work in Progress, will be the 5th installment of the “New Frontiers” Series for Contemporary Art, and will feature twenty incredibly beautiful and complex paintings by the painter through May 13, 2012. Complete with an artist lecture and catalogue, Infinite Work in Progress will showcase a combination of foundational early works on loan from private collections, and brand new works from the studio that will preview her upcoming solo show with Mark Moore Gallery October 17 – December 15, 2012.

Thanksgiving is upon us and that means we are off to Miami again! This year’s booth features recent additions to the MMG program, such as Stephanie Washburn, Feodor Voronov, Okay Mountain, and Andrew Schoultz. Also making for some ambitious strides are brand new works from Tim Bavington, Kenichi Yokono, Yigal Ozeri, David Rathman, Ben Weiner, and  Allison Schulnik.

The gallery will also be producing a number of special projects and events this year. On Wednesday, November 30th, by invitation only, the Sagamore Hotel (in conjunction with Vogue, the Art Production Fund, Mark Moore Gallery and ZieherSmith) will screen three videos by Allison Schulnik, including Hobo Clown (2008), Forest (2009) and the recently debuted Mound (2011).

Additionally, in celebration of gallery artist Andrew Schoultz‘s recent participation in the Fountainhead Residency (through which he has created a new public mural in the Wynwood District and several new large scale works), the gallery is hosting an invitation-only cocktail reception alongside Marx & Zavattero, Morgan Lehman Gallery and Jerome Zodo Contemporary with special guest host, Moby.

Finally, the gallery will be sponsoring a public-area installation in the entryway of  PULSE: a rigorous new video project by Josh Azzarella. Untitled #125 (2011) is a work derived from the 6 minute and 30 second scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy is transported from Kansas into Oz. Using a technique based on layering and recursive frames, this moment of transformation is extended to envelop the entire time of her actual experience. Just as dreams – which realistically occur in flashes of seconds in our brains – can seem like hours or days, so Dorothy’s hours of unconsciousness take on a five day journey throughout the course of the fair.

A preview of some of the work that will be in our booth can be found on the gallery’s exhibition page.

Visit Mark Moore Gallery at PULSE in Booth B-402, December 1-4 at:

Opening in his hometown of Philadelphia, PA, MMG artist Christopher Davison will present Lump Sum at Philly’s University of the Arts. Curated by UoA Painting Professor Rebecca Sack, the exhibition will run November 14th through December 1st, in Gallery space 817. An artist talk with Davison will be held Tuesday, November 29th from 11:45AM – 1PM, and an opening reception for the exhibition will be held the same day from 6-8pm. We expect the show to reveal some of Chris’ most recent dreamscapes, in all of their inky, gouached glory – as delectable as the city’s cheese steaks, and fewer calories too!