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DAVID KLAMEN: Index, Icon, Margin – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition from @MMooreGallery

VIEW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3zV2yGa

David Klamen (American, b.1961) is a contemporary painter whose work grows in conjunction with his interest in philosophy and scholarship, centralized around the questions,”How do I know what I know?” and “How do I know myself?” Klamen paints figuratively and abstractly, sometimes combining the two by incorporating geometric lines or patterns atop his high finished landscapes. His current paintings test epistemological strategies as diverse as OP Art (and its implication that knowledge may be a purely retinal experience), empiricism (the idea that the sole source of knowledge is direct quantifiable experience), introspection, and others. In this investigation, Klamen plays with the history of art, utilizing modern and pre-modern conventions as metaphors for our communal search for meaning.

“David Klamen brings us to the ambiguous edges of various systems of signs. Inspired by the ideas of Charles Saunders Peirce, he examines the way watercolor and ink can both iconically depict a landscape, tree, or merely space, and indexically record the touch of the brush and the bleeding of ink on paper. In this body of work, sets of images refer to landscapes, barcodes, and art history, particularly op-art, color-field, and nineteenth century painting. In the cross-referencing of these sets, we recognize the complex, coded language of painting, for example, the precise denotation of the barcode flirts with the highly modernist, non-objective stripes. The conventions of landscape painting, another older language, are seen as patterns too, codes for us to scan. While we contemplate these signs, we notice the sense of touch in them, their tactility, their physical presence. Perhaps this is ultimately their connective and communicative power”. – Timothy van Laar (author / art critic / historian)

Klamen earned his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana in 1983 and his Master’s of Fine Arts in Painting at the School of the Art Institute in 1985. He is currently is a Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University Northwest. Klamen is represented in the following public collections (to name but a few): Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; The Searle Collection of Contemporary Art, Chicago; University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Elmhurst Art Museum; and the Berkeley Art Museum.

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OPENING MAY 5^th: @MarkMooreGallery presents an exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of twelve recent paintings by artist DENNIS EKSTEDT. View this show now at: https://bit.ly/3ITPGCY

In Ekstedt’s latest paintings he depicts human populations as web-like networks of light particles spun over the landscape. In these paintings, clusters of undulating lights populate vast and dramatic terrains that are literally electrified by human habitation. Ekstedt is interested in depicting populations in movement that represent the uncontrolled growth of human habitation on the global landscape. In some of his paintings he depicts masses of people, represented by particles of light, that are engaged in spectacle, celebration, and ritual. Ekstedt has long been intrigued by how networks of lights can physically mark a landscape while at the same time ethereally transcending it, resembling a schematic plan that depicts a kind of celestial order. 

Dennis Ekstedt is an artist who lives and works in Montreal, Canada. He received his Diploma in Fine Arts in 1986 from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver B.C and his M.F.A in 1993 from Concordia University in Montreal. He was the Eastern Canada winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2002 and his paintings are included in many international public, corporate and private collections. He has exhibited in Canada, France, and the U.S.

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@MarkMooreGallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by artist JOSHUA DILDINE – View this ARTSY ONLINE EXCLUSIVE SHOW at: https://bit.ly/3C6q04q

Merging found autobiographical photographs with viciously gestural painting, Joshua Dildine confronts the subject of conventional recollection and familial structure. A fixation shared by society at large, the contemplation of past events and relationships ultimately shapes our psychology moving forward – as a flicker of nostalgia, shame, or glee can be activated by a single sensory cue. With a purposeful cognizance, Dildine mines these memories for the underlying traits that forge our shared humanity: the humor found in the compromising, the endearment found in the aggravating, or the conflict found in the absent. His painterly swaths are as visceral as the family photos they conceal, his vivid palette alluding to the glaring absurdity of our incessant self-analysis and contemplation of the past. 

In his most recent body of work, Dildine embellishes elements or patterns within the original image in order to create a farcical confrontation with the past – a perspective that is both critical and celebratory. Through this carefully disjointed lens, Dildine creates experiences that are at once present and bygone, and whimsically harnesses nature of our being.

“Dildine takes his autobiographical archives and turns up the flash until it takes over the image like an alien invasion. His neon AbEx paint strokes dominate everyday family moments, capturing the energy and fury with which we scrutinize the past.”

– Huffington Post

Dildine (b. 1984, CA), received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University (CA). He has been featured in group exhibitions in Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Murfreesboro, as well as the Frederick Weisman Museum of Fine Art (CA). His work is included in the public collection of the Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside (Riverside, CA), The Frederick Weisman Museum of Fine Art (CA), The Honolulu Art Museum, and The Museum of Art and History (Lancaster, CA). He was also the recipient of the 2010 Claremont Graduate University Award. The artist lives and works in Fresno, CA.

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DAVID KLAMEN: Index, Icon, Margin – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition from @MMooreGallery

VIEW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3zV2yGa

David Klamen (American, b.1961) is a contemporary painter whose work grows in conjunction with his interest in philosophy and scholarship, centralized around the questions,”How do I know what I know?” and “How do I know myself?” Klamen paints figuratively and abstractly, sometimes combining the two by incorporating geometric lines or patterns atop his high finished landscapes. His current paintings test epistemological strategies as diverse as OP Art (and its implication that knowledge may be a purely retinal experience), empiricism (the idea that the sole source of knowledge is direct quantifiable experience), introspection, and others. In this investigation, Klamen plays with the history of art, utilizing modern and pre-modern conventions as metaphors for our communal search for meaning.

“David Klamen brings us to the ambiguous edges of various systems of signs. Inspired by the ideas of Charles Saunders Peirce, he examines the way watercolor and ink can both iconically depict a landscape, tree, or merely space, and indexically record the touch of the brush and the bleeding of ink on paper. In this body of work, sets of images refer to landscapes, barcodes, and art history, particularly op-art, color-field, and nineteenth century painting. In the cross-referencing of these sets, we recognize the complex, coded language of painting, for example, the precise denotation of the barcode flirts with the highly modernist, non-objective stripes. The conventions of landscape painting, another older language, are seen as patterns too, codes for us to scan. While we contemplate these signs, we notice the sense of touch in them, their tactility, their physical presence. Perhaps this is ultimately their connective and communicative power”. – Timothy van Laar (author / art critic / historian)

Klamen earned his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana in 1983 and his Master’s of Fine Arts in Painting at the School of the Art Institute in 1985. He is currently is a Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University Northwest. Klamen is represented in the following public collections (to name but a few): Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; The Searle Collection of Contemporary Art, Chicago; University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Elmhurst Art Museum; and the Berkeley Art Museum.

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OPENING TODAY: @markmooregallery is pleased to introduce the work of artist Kurt Lightner in an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of New Paintings. You can view this work now at this link: https://bit.ly/3IpxK30

Lightner has been a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and The Headlands Center for the Arts Project Studio Residency in San Fransisco.  Lightner’s works are included in many private and public collections both nationally and internationally.

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OPENING MARCH 31st: @markmooregallery is pleased to introduce the work of artist Kurt Lightner in an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of New Paintings. You can view this work now at this link: https://bit.ly/3IpxK30

Lightner has been a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and The Headlands Center for the Arts Project Studio Residency in San Fransisco.  Lightner’s works are included in many private and public collections both nationally and internationally.

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OPENING MARCH 31st: @markmooregallery is pleased to introduce the work of artist Kurt Lightner in an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of New Paintings. You can view this work now at this link: https://bit.ly/3IpxK30

Lightner has been a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and The Headlands Center for the Arts Project Studio Residency in San Fransisco.  Lightner’s works are included in many private and public collections both nationally and internationally.

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KARA MARIA “UNSPECIFIED INVOLVEMENTS” – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition

Kara Maria produces paintings and work on paper that reflect on political themes such as feminism, war, and the environment. She borrows from the broad vocabulary of contemporary painting; blending geometric shapes, vivid hues, and abstract marks, with representational elements. YOU CAN VIEW THIS ENTIRE EXHIBITION NOW BY CLICKING HERE:  https://bit.ly/34EfBQU

Maria received her BA and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States at venues including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; and the Katonah Museum of Art in New York; among others.

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OPENING MARCH 31st: @markmooregallery is pleased to introduce the work of artist Kurt Lightner in an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of New Paintings. You can view this work now at this link: https://bit.ly/3IpxK30

Lightner has been a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and The Headlands Center for the Arts Project Studio Residency in San Fransisco.  Lightner’s works are included in many private and public collections both nationally and internationally.

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DAVID KLAMEN: Index, Icon, Margin – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition from @MMooreGallery

VIEW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/3zV2yGa

David Klamen (American, b.1961) is a contemporary painter whose work grows in conjunction with his interest in philosophy and scholarship, centralized around the questions,”How do I know what I know?” and “How do I know myself?” Klamen paints figuratively and abstractly, sometimes combining the two by incorporating geometric lines or patterns atop his high finished landscapes. His current paintings test epistemological strategies as diverse as OP Art (and its implication that knowledge may be a purely retinal experience), empiricism (the idea that the sole source of knowledge is direct quantifiable experience), introspection, and others. In this investigation, Klamen plays with the history of art, utilizing modern and pre-modern conventions as metaphors for our communal search for meaning.

“David Klamen brings us to the ambiguous edges of various systems of signs. Inspired by the ideas of Charles Saunders Peirce, he examines the way watercolor and ink can both iconically depict a landscape, tree, or merely space, and indexically record the touch of the brush and the bleeding of ink on paper. In this body of work, sets of images refer to landscapes, barcodes, and art history, particularly op-art, color-field, and nineteenth century painting. In the cross-referencing of these sets, we recognize the complex, coded language of painting, for example, the precise denotation of the barcode flirts with the highly modernist, non-objective stripes. The conventions of landscape painting, another older language, are seen as patterns too, codes for us to scan. While we contemplate these signs, we notice the sense of touch in them, their tactility, their physical presence. Perhaps this is ultimately their connective and communicative power”. – Timothy van Laar (author / art critic / historian)

Klamen earned his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana in 1983 and his Master’s of Fine Arts in Painting at the School of the Art Institute in 1985. He is currently is a Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University Northwest. Klamen is represented in the following public collections (to name but a few): Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; The Searle Collection of Contemporary Art, Chicago; University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Elmhurst Art Museum; and the Berkeley Art Museum.

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