Now on view: “Ladders and Tone Poems,” a new @artsy online show from Canadian artist Michael Batty!
Batty’s vibrant paintings and collages use visual codes, sculptural elements, and color rhythms to engage and inspire. With over 35 years of innovation, his work invites you to experience abstraction like never before.
🔗 Watch a behind-the-scenes studio video: bit.ly/4ltfqdP 🖼️ See more and explore the show: bit.ly/4kV4p3Q
Mark Bennett, Phyllis Lindstrom Minneapolis, MN, 2005 / Ink and colored pencil on vellum / 11 5/8 x 26 1/8 in. / COLLECTION OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisitions of six drawings by artist MARK BENNETT from his Fantasy TV Sitcom Series were just recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Since its inception in 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has been devoted to collecting works of art that span both history and geography, in addition to representing Los Angeles’s uniquely diverse population. Today LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes over 120,000 objects dating from antiquity to the present, encompassing the geographic world and nearly the entire history of art. Among the museum’s strengths are its holdings of Asian art, Latin American art, ranging from pre-Columbian masterpieces to works by leading modern and contemporary artists; and Islamic art, of which LACMA hosts one of the most significant collections in the world. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract over a million visitors annually, in addition to serving millions through digital initiatives, such as online collections, scholarly catalogues, and interactive engagement online. Situated in Hancock Park on over 20 acres in the heart of Los Angeles, LACMA is located between the ocean and downtown.
For the past 30 years, Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bennett has made art firmly rooted in the collective American experience of television. His drawings and lithographs are “blueprints” of famous television houses from such classic sitcoms as The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch, and Perry Mason. Drawing these fictional dwellings from memory, Bennett documents the minutiae of the characters’ lives by constructing their environments with a painstaking level of detail. His floor plans narrate the American Dream, charting not only the architecture, but also the subtext of our culturally accepted models for living.
Unlike American Pop artists of the 1960s such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, who appropriated images from mass media as subjects for their work, Bennett has reconstructed spaces that were intended only to flicker on the screen. In labeling his seemingly straightforward blueprints with colorful details about the interiors, architecture, and inhabitants, he reflects on the idealized and stereotyped notions of American life as perpetuated by mass culture. He also makes us realize how often that these ideas are, in turn, mirrored in our own domestic architecture.
Mark Bennett has been included in over 3 dozen major museum and gallery group exhibitions, including a major show at the Corcoran Gallery Of Art, Washington, D.C. (titled “Mark Bennett: TV Sets and The Suburban Dream”; which travelled To Cleveland Center For Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio; and the Aldrich Museum Of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut. Since his induction into the gallery in 1995, Bennett has been included in over three dozen significant museum and group exhibitions, including those at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (D.C.), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (CT), Walker Art Center (MN) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA). His work has been acquired for the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA); Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.); The Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii); Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA); The West Collection (Oaks, PA); and the Portland Art Museum (OR), among others.
In keeping with this theme, Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Mark Bennett: The Original Drawings as part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics.
You can view this exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of the original drawings at the following link: bit.ly/3nIjyOt
BREAKING THE CODE: A New Biographical Documentary Film About The Life Of Artist Vernon Fisher
Best Historical Film, Dallas International Film Festival Official Selection, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Official Selection, Thin Line Fest Official Selection, Frame of Mind (PBS)
Prolepsis Pictures is proud to announce the World Premiere of “Breaking the Code”, a feature-length biographical documentary about the life of Fort Worth-based artist Vernon Fisher. We also plan to broadcast the film Texas-wide on PBS affiliate program Frame of Mind in October.
Vernon Fisher has mounted major exhibitions at museums including the Smithsonian Institution, Guggenheim Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, among many others. He is the only Dallas-Fort Worth-born artist to receive a retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth — a space that has also hosted similar exhibitions for artists including Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso.
More important than Fisher’s accomplishments, however, is the content of his art. Not only is he such a masterfully technical painter that viewers often mistake his chalkboard-style paintings as actually being made with chalk, but he is also renowned for the emotional, psychological and philosophical depth of his work.
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Allison Schulnik Duck #2, 2014 Gouache on paper 9 × 12 in / 22.9 × 30.5 cm COLLECTION OF THE MARJORIE BARRICK MUSEUM OF ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS
Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of an important work on paper by artist ALLISON SCHULNIK titled, “Duck #2” from 2014 by the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for the Permanent Collection.
Allison Schulnik uses painting, ceramics, and hand-made, traditional animation to choreograph her subjects in compositions that embody a spirit of the macabre, a Shakespearean comedy/tragedy of love, death, and farce. Her works were compared to “the comic-grotesque visionary James Ensor” by The New York Times.
Schulnik has been making animated films since she was 17. Her films have been included in internationally renowned festivals and museums including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, LACMA, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb. She received “Best Experimental Animation” at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and Special Jury Prize at SXSW FIlm.
Solo exhibitions include the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles; ZieherSmith, New York, NY; and Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid. Schulnik’s work is in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Santa Barbara Art Museum; Museé de Beaux Arts (Montreal); Laguna Art Museum; The Crocker Art Museum; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; and The Albright-Knox Gallery – to name but a few. She lives and works in Sky Valley, CA.
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is located on the campus of one of the most racially diverse universities in the United States, we strive to create a nourishing environment for those who continue to be neglected by contemporary art museums, including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ groups. As the only art museum in the city of Las Vegas, we commit ourselves to leveling barriers that limit access to the arts, especially for first-time visitors. To facilitate access for low-income guests we provide free entry to all our exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and community activities. Our collection of artworks offers an opportunity for researchers and scholars to develop a more extensive knowledge of contemporary art in Southern Nevada. The Barrick Museum is part of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV).
Now on view: “Ladders and Tone Poems,” a new @artsy online show from Canadian artist Michael Batty!
Batty’s vibrant paintings and collages use visual codes, sculptural elements, and color rhythms to engage and inspire. With over 35 years of innovation, his work invites you to experience abstraction like never before.
🔗 Watch a behind-the-scenes studio video: bit.ly/4ltfqdP 🖼️ See more and explore the show: bit.ly/4kV4p3Q
Check out the trailer to a short documentary about the artist HEIDI SCHWEGLER at: https://bit.ly/4g4UO8Y
GIVE A BEAR HUG TO THE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU THER MOST is a documentary about the artist Heidi Schwegler. Faced with a crisis in her art practice, Schwegler leaves for unfamiliar settings, and begins to see her surroundings in new ways.
Heidi Schwegler explores a wide range of materials in the service of her subject matter. Drawn to the peripheral ruin, she deftly incorporates found objects with traditional craft and sculpture media. “When [an object] is no longer contextualized by function and ownership, the discarded thing’s anonymity and ambiguity render it pervious to the imagination,” she says, approaching such things as a source of investigation. “I consider its formal qualities as raw material – but a very particular raw material that is both new and an indicator of past use, past value and past purpose.”
Schwegler’s accolades include an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, Hallie Ford Fellowship and two MacDowell Colony Fellowships in the Visual Arts. She was artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Pilchuck, VCCA, Yaddo, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Bullseye Glass Company, among others. Notable exhibitions of her work include the 2018 Bellevue Art Museum Biennial, Portland2016: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Michelle Grabner and presented by Disjecta Contemporary Art Center; her 10-year retrospective, Botched Execution, at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, OR and the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, NE. Schwegler holds a BFA from the University of Kansas and MFA from the University of Oregon. She lives and works in Yucca Valley, CA where is the founding director of Yucca Valley Material Lab. where is the founding director of Yucca Valley Material Lab.
Her sculptural work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Schneider Museum of Art, Crocker Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, and the Hallie Ford Museum.
Now on view: “Ladders and Tone Poems,” a new @artsy online show from Canadian artist Michael Batty!
Batty’s vibrant paintings and collages use visual codes, sculptural elements, and color rhythms to engage and inspire. With over 35 years of innovation, his work invites you to experience abstraction like never before.
🔗 Watch a behind-the-scenes studio video: bit.ly/4ltfqdP 🖼️ See more and explore the show: bit.ly/4kV4p3Q
Exciting news!@markmooregallery artist Zemer Peled’s innovative work is showcased in the February 2025 issue of CERAMICS MONTHLY with an article titled “Zemer Peled: Dancing with Porcelain.”
Peled’s stunning sculptures beautifully explore the duality of nature—where beauty meets brutality. Peled transforms fragile porcelain into thousands of handcrafted shards, creating mesmerizing pieces that challenge traditional notions of elegance and refinement. 🌿✨
Born in Israel and now based in the U.S. and Israel both, her work has garnered international acclaim, exhibited at renowned venues such as Mark Moore Fine Art, Sotheby’s, and the Saatchi Gallery, and featured in top publications like Vogue and Elle.
Want to dive deeper into her artistic journey? Check out the full article here: https://bit.ly/3QyNqHy
Now on view: “Ladders and Tone Poems,” a new @artsy online show from Canadian artist Michael Batty!
Batty’s vibrant paintings and collages use visual codes, sculptural elements, and color rhythms to engage and inspire. With over 35 years of innovation, his work invites you to experience abstraction like never before.
🔗 Watch a behind-the-scenes studio video: bit.ly/4ltfqdP 🖼️ See more and explore the show: bit.ly/4kV4p3Q
Now on view: “Ladders and Tone Poems,” a new @artsy online show from Canadian artist Michael Batty!
Batty’s vibrant paintings and collages use visual codes, sculptural elements, and color rhythms to engage and inspire. With over 35 years of innovation, his work invites you to experience abstraction like never before.
🔗 Watch a behind-the-scenes studio video: bit.ly/4ltfqdP 🖼️ See more and explore the show: bit.ly/4kV4p3Q
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