Category Archives: Mark Moore Gallery

According to the stocking-stuffed aisles of Target and snow-laden Sears commercials, the holidays are just around the corner – and Mark Moore Gallery is eager to facilitate some of the heart-warming charity that is traditional of the season. For the first time, the gallery will host a silent auction of donated artworks to raise funds for a local non-profit. A one-night exhibition held on December 17th, 2011 in the gallery, “Spread the Word” will showcase works by emerging artists starting below $100 – with special emphasis on local talent – to raise funds for 826LA!

Founded by celebrated novelist, Dave Eggers, 826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 years old with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. By providing after-school tutoring, evening and weekend workshops, in-school tutoring, help for English-language learners, and assistance with student publications, 826LA is a pioneering non-profit focused on youth literacy, creativity and fostering unique voices in the arts.

In the weeks to come, the gallery will release more information on how to purchase tickets, donate work and/or “spread the word” about the inaugural art auction – which will also feature live entertainment and other goodies for attendees. Give more than a Starbucks gift card this season: support local artists, support literacy, and support charity.

Want to get involved early? Feel free to email us at info@markmooregallery.com, subject: 826!

Stay tuned for more information…

With CoolHunting hailing Tokyo native Kenichi Yokono as “uncompromising in his attention to detail and dedication to the emotional integrity of [his work],” it seems we’re not the only ones counting down the days until his forthcoming two-person exhibition Rise of the Underground. Also featuring the “King of North Beach,” Jeremy Fish, the show opens here at Mark Moore Gallery on Saturday, October 29 from 6-8 PM. Incorporating explorations of traditional woodcutting technique, American skateboard culture, storytelling, and anime, the show features just enough mirth and malice to kick off your Halloween weekend right.

Check out CoolHunting’s article in its entirety here, and Angelinos – make sure to clear your schedule for the 29th!

“Celebrating artists’ extraordinary contributions to our lives,” the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KS) will host its ninth annual event to raise funds for the institution’s ambitious program. In an effort to highlight the “brilliance” of the invited auction artists, the museum selected the color yellow as the emblem of the event, as well as the thematic commonality between featured works. The  Beyond Bounds • Brilliant! live and silent auctions will take place October 22, beginning at 7pm. MMG artists invited to participate include Kim Dorland, Cordy Ryman and Allison Schulnik – all of whom donated new works for the event.

To review all of the 150 artists that have donated work, visit the event page, where you can also buy tickets and learn about how to bid!

Fall in New York is always pleasant, but now you have even more reason to visit the Big Apple this October. MMG artist Allison Schulnik is exhibiting on two NYC fronts: first up is her inclusion in “Go Figure” at Dodge Gallery, curated by artist Eddie Martinez. A survey of fourteen contemporary figurative painters, “Go Figure” asserts that the practice is very much alive, despite popular declarations of its death. Opening on October 6th, “Go Figure” remains on view through November 13th.

Additionally, Schulnik will be unveiling an entirely new body of work – and her long-awaited sixth clay-animated video – in a solo exhibition at ZieherSmith Inc. opening October 22nd. With some ambitious new paintings waiting in the wings, Schulnik is eager to unleash a whole new congregation of her trademark hobos, clowns, cats and wilting flowers. Don’t miss the opening reception on the 22nd, from 6 – 8pm.

New gallery artist Stephanie Washburn talks about the interface of material and digital experience and the influence of painting on her latest series of photographs. Check out the full interview here.

Serving as a follow-up exhibition to her 2010 show Boy, O Boy at P.P.O.W. Gallery, Boy O Boy II debuted new works by MMG artist Julie Heffernan Saturday, September 3 at Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. Placing emphasis on the male figure for the second time in her career, the show continues to examine an affectionate masculinity within a fragile world, along with ideas of honor, death, and progression through the stages of life. Set in her characteristic environments of lush foliage, hidden treasures, rococo-esque opulence, and delicate figures, Heffernan’s latest examination of self-portraiture, allegory, and narrative is not to be missed!

There will be an opening reception Saturday, September 10 from 4-7 PM, and the exhibition will run through October 29. Further details can be found at the gallery’s website.

With work in the provocatively titled “softcore / HARD EDGE,” Tim Bavington will show alongside Billy Al Bengston, Alexander Caldwell, Karl Benjamin, Monique Prieto and thirteen other established contemporary artists selected by Los Angeles Times’ art critic, David Pagel, and The Art Gallery of Calgary’s Senior Art Curator, Marianne Elder.

Traveling from Elder’s institution, the exhibition will open at Claremont Graduate University’s East and Peggy Phelps Galleries  on August 30, 6-9pm, and evaluate similarities of tone, palette, and brushstroke in contemporary painting between Los Angeles and Calgary. “softcore / HARD EDGE” will ultimately bring together sixty artworks that question similarities of contemporary art practice created in these two very different cities, not to mention some of the most distinctive voices of modern abstraction.

The show will remain on view through September 23, 2011.

After its opening reception on Thursday, June 23, Kim Dorland‘s For Lori (at Mike Weiss Gallery in NYC) has received rave reviews from critics and bloggers alike. In addition to making the “10 Must-See Painting Shows in the US” list for Summer 2011 (as named by the Huffington Post), the show has also been featured by the AOL Artists blog, NY Arts Magazine, and Art Daily – which praises the show for its “raw and unapologetic” edge.

The exhibition’s gritty textures and experimental color palette will be on view for one more month, closing August 27. More information can be found at the gallery’s website.

Opening August 13 at the SFMOMA is Artists in Dialogue: Andrew Schoultz and Paul Klee, curated by John Zarobell. For the exhibition, Schoultz worked with Zarobell to choose 19 pieces from the MOMA’s 200-something large Klee collection, then produced ten of his own drawings in response.

Says Andrew, “The result, theoretically, is that the works I created would be in dialogue with the works of Klee and perhaps viewing the works side-by-side would create some kind of a new entry point and conversation for a viewer about both of our works. Ideally, it would be awesome for someone to see my work differently next to his, and his work differently next to mine.”

The exhibition will be on view through February 26, 2012.