Category Archives: Mark Moore Gallery

Opening August 4th, 2011, MMG artist Chad Person explores the concepts of heroism, manifest destiny and apathy in A Hero Never Fails at Freight + Volume Gallery (NY). Using his signature repertoire techniques of inflatable sculpture, currency collage, and video Person’s objects ask the viewer: what is heroism and why do we care?

This is Person’s first solo show in New York. The centerpiece of the exhibit, is a defeated caricature of the 50’s cartoon character U…nderdog titled Hero. The goofball “hero who never fails” has resigned to abject apathy. Hero is rendered as a gigantic inflatable (a la used car dealership gorilla). Strung out on the “super vitamin pills” that provide his super powers, he sits slumped forward, meditating on his iPhone.

Person describes the work as three parts culture, one part self portrait. “In a political state dominated by an agenda of ‘distract the public and rob what’s left,’ with two endless wars draining the last of my great grand-children’s hope for prosperity, why be anything but apathetic to injustice? Hero is a metaphor for my own vocational and economic struggle, my country’s role on the global stage and whatever is left of my American dream. Has the time come for heroism? Or should we just give up, sit back and have a good laugh?”

A Hero Never Fails is on view through September 10th, 2011.

Currently on view at Joshua Liner Gallery in New York is Jeremy Fish‘s latest batch of bold, mythical creations, Listen and Learn. Known for his renderings of folkloric and narrative creatures, this grouping of thirty new works takes storytelling to a very literal level. Each piece has been based upon tales from prominent rappers, artists, skateboarders and athletes, such as Snoop Dogg, DJ Big Wiz and Courtney Taylor of the Dandy Warhols. Their original accounts can be heard through accompanying headphones and MP3 players paired with each piece in the exhibition. Says Jeremy Fish, “In this era of email, texting and blogging, we are losing a grasp on the concept of sitting around the campfire and exchanging life experience through the telling of tall tales. I want to remind people of the importance of storytelling.”

The exhibition also debuts Fish’s animation work and includes a large site-specific installation. More information can be found at the gallery’s website, and in the exhibition’s preview video. The show will run through July 16.

Kim Dorland‘s latest exhibition, For Lori, opens Thursday at Mike Weiss Gallery in New York, presenting eleven pieces depicting the artist’s wife and muse, Lori. Illustrating what has become a recurring oeuvre for the Canadian painter, the series explores his expressionist manner of representing the interpersonal love and intimacy that has served as both artistic inspiration and subject matter throughout his career. Dorland also demonstrates ideas of the muse or the stand-in through his distinct, energy-infused impasto. Spanning the time period from 2008 to 2011, the show reveals the artist’s progression from initial discovery of the portrait, raw and de Kooning-esque in form, to his more recent and painterly portrayals. More information can be found on the gallery’s website. The exhibition will run through August 27.

With nearly twenty new harlequin oil canvases, Ali Smith is heading back to New York for her second solo exhibition at Freight + Volume. Known for her frenetic, geometric and architectural abstractions, Smith has taken her mercurial forms to another level in “Merge,” which opens May 12, 2011, from 6-8pm.

On view through June 18th, “Merge” succinctly encapsulates the tension between Smith’s freely organic compositions, and calculated painterly technique. For more information, or to preview the works slated for this exhibition, you may visit the gallery’s exhibition page.

Even though Allison Schulnik has been diligently working on exciting new projects in her studio all spring, she still managed to find the time to churn out a knockout body of new oil paintings for her upcoming solo exhibition at Division Gallery (Montreal, Canada).

With more than ten new darkly whimsical paintings on view, “Performance” opens to the public on May 14th from 3-6pm in Division Gallery’s brand new space. Featuring a selection of Schulnik’s infamous wilting flowers, forlorn hobos and melancholy forests, “Performance” will showcase her adept mastery of beauty in unlikely places….not to mention all that gloriously thick paint…

Opening this coming Friday at Mike Weiss Gallery in NYC is Garden of the Gods, a solo exhibition featuring the photorealistic paintings of Yigal Ozeri in an all new exploration of nature, femininity and timelessness. With over a dozen works on display, Ozeri’s oil portraits introduce a new group of ethereal, coquettish goddesses, encapsulating their youthful spirits, vibrant energies, and overwhelming  sensuality into permanent works of art. Devoid of urban elements and even the passage of time, these works display an affectionate symbiosis between woman and environment, while also narrating the distinction of human experience – elegant garments seem to frolic throughout the landscape without fully coalescing, while nature itself maintains a somewhat masculine, rugged quality. Ranging in size from a miniature nine inches to a grandiose eight feet, Ozeri’s new series expands his experimentation with presentation, and our ability to access and enter his intoxicating scenes.

The exhibition’s Opening Reception takes place Friday, May 6 from 6-8 PM, and will be on view through June 11.