Timothy Bavington, Associate Professor of Art, College of Fine Arts
April 7, 2017
(Josh Hawkins/UNLV Creative Services)
Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce our new video channel on Youtube and the addition of several new short video interviews that have just been added to this site for your reference.
We would invite you to check out the MARK MOORE FINE ART VIDEO CHANNEL and encourage you to subscribe to future videos at the following link: https://bit.ly/3bKCPVg
In total we have nearly fifty new or recent videos featuring nearly 100 artists posted there for you to view – and that list grows weekly. In these interviews, the artist each discuss their backgrounds, the development of their work, the concepts and ideas behind it, and we look at some of the artist’s most acclaimed and recent pieces.
For additional information on our artist program and available work, please go to our website at http://www.markmoorefineart.com or check out their artist page on ARTSY at the following link:
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present Mundillos, a solo show of new paintings by New York-based artist Ben Weiner. Weiner’s recent paintings reference his family’s mulitethnic fiber craft traditions, including his grandmother’s Puerto Rican Mundillo lace weavings and his mother’s patchwork quilts. In geometric abstractions made up of richly painted, hyperreal textures, Weiner builds upon these traditions, blending them with his own painterly lexicon. The word “Mundillos” translates to “little worlds” in Spanish, a term that bears kinship to Weiner’s practice of painting domestic subjects to explore a connection to something larger than ourselves.
Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to announce an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of new work by artist DIRK STASCHKE. His current body of work explores the space between sculpture and painting and often uses meticulous representation as foil for examining skill and craft.
Staschke’s work often pushes artistic orthodoxy to the verge of absurdity. His Still Life works have become metaobjects that make abstract forms from sculptures of paintings of objects. He is interested in creating systems of change that start in earnest representation and move toward abstraction and accident. Simply put, Staschke create sculptures of paintings in ceramics that beget randomness from the recognizable.
Dutch still life paintings, sometimes called Vanitas, are concerned with the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death. Religious in nature, the paintings also confer the belief that this world is somehow less real than the one that awaits. It is this modulation between the real and illusionistic that most interests me and ultimately makes my work about perception.
In the latest show “Wall Flowers”, the work is a hybrid between these two ways of working. Sculptural forms have pressed themselves back into the two dimensional format of a painting.
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He received his BFA from the University of Montevallo followed by an MFA from Alfred University and has maintained an ongoing studio practice and extensive exhibition record for the last twenty years. During this time, he has taught at many notable universities, including Alfred University and New York University. His work has been shown internationally and resides in the permanent collections of several museums including the Smithsonian Museum in Washington (DC), Icheon Museum, World Ceramic Center (Gwango-dong) South Korea, Portland Art Museum (OR). He has received various artist’s grants including grants from The Virginia Groot Foundation and the Canada Council on the Arts.
He Currently resides in Portland Oregon where he is a full time studio artist.
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present Mundillos, a solo show of new paintings by New York-based artist Ben Weiner. Weiner’s recent paintings reference his family’s mulitethnic fiber craft traditions, including his grandmother’s Puerto Rican Mundillo lace weavings and his mother’s patchwork quilts. In geometric abstractions made up of richly painted, hyperreal textures, Weiner builds upon these traditions, blending them with his own painterly lexicon. The word “Mundillos” translates to “little worlds” in Spanish, a term that bears kinship to Weiner’s practice of painting domestic subjects to explore a connection to something larger than ourselves.
Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to announce an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of new work by artist DIRK STASCHKE. His current body of work explores the space between sculpture and painting and often uses meticulous representation as foil for examining skill and craft.
Staschke’s work often pushes artistic orthodoxy to the verge of absurdity. His Still Life works have become metaobjects that make abstract forms from sculptures of paintings of objects. He is interested in creating systems of change that start in earnest representation and move toward abstraction and accident. Simply put, Staschke create sculptures of paintings in ceramics that beget randomness from the recognizable.
Dutch still life paintings, sometimes called Vanitas, are concerned with the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death. Religious in nature, the paintings also confer the belief that this world is somehow less real than the one that awaits. It is this modulation between the real and illusionistic that most interests me and ultimately makes my work about perception.
In the latest show “Wall Flowers”, the work is a hybrid between these two ways of working. Sculptural forms have pressed themselves back into the two dimensional format of a painting.
Detail Image
He received his BFA from the University of Montevallo followed by an MFA from Alfred University and has maintained an ongoing studio practice and extensive exhibition record for the last twenty years. During this time, he has taught at many notable universities, including Alfred University and New York University. His work has been shown internationally and resides in the permanent collections of several museums including the Smithsonian Museum in Washington (DC), Icheon Museum, World Ceramic Center (Gwango-dong) South Korea, Portland Art Museum (OR). He has received various artist’s grants including grants from The Virginia Groot Foundation and the Canada Council on the Arts.
He Currently resides in Portland Oregon where he is a full time studio artist.
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present Mundillos, a solo show of new paintings by New York-based artist Ben Weiner. Weiner’s recent paintings reference his family’s mulitethnic fiber craft traditions, including his grandmother’s Puerto Rican Mundillo lace weavings and his mother’s patchwork quilts. In geometric abstractions made up of richly painted, hyperreal textures, Weiner builds upon these traditions, blending them with his own painterly lexicon. The word “Mundillos” translates to “little worlds” in Spanish, a term that bears kinship to Weiner’s practice of painting domestic subjects to explore a connection to something larger than ourselves.
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present Mundillos, a solo show of new paintings by New York-based artist Ben Weiner. Weiner’s recent paintings reference his family’s mulitethnic fiber craft traditions, including his grandmother’s Puerto Rican Mundillo lace weavings and his mother’s patchwork quilts. In geometric abstractions made up of richly painted, hyperreal textures, Weiner builds upon these traditions, blending them with his own painterly lexicon. The word “Mundillos” translates to “little worlds” in Spanish, a term that bears kinship to Weiner’s practice of painting domestic subjects to explore a connection to something larger than ourselves.
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present Mundillos, a solo show of new paintings by New York-based artist Ben Weiner. Weiner’s recent paintings reference his family’s mulitethnic fiber craft traditions, including his grandmother’s Puerto Rican Mundillo lace weavings and his mother’s patchwork quilts. In geometric abstractions made up of richly painted, hyperreal textures, Weiner builds upon these traditions, blending them with his own painterly lexicon. The word “Mundillos” translates to “little worlds” in Spanish, a term that bears kinship to Weiner’s practice of painting domestic subjects to explore a connection to something larger than ourselves.
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present Mundillos, a solo show of new paintings by New York-based artist Ben Weiner. Weiner’s recent paintings reference his family’s mulitethnic fiber craft traditions, including his grandmother’s Puerto Rican Mundillo lace weavings and his mother’s patchwork quilts. In geometric abstractions made up of richly painted, hyperreal textures, Weiner builds upon these traditions, blending them with his own painterly lexicon. The word “Mundillos” translates to “little worlds” in Spanish, a term that bears kinship to Weiner’s practice of painting domestic subjects to explore a connection to something larger than ourselves.
Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce our new video channel on Youtube and the addition of several new short video interviews that have just been added to this site for your reference.
We would invite you to check out the MARK MOORE FINE ART VIDEO CHANNEL and encourage you to subscribe to future videos at the following link: http://bit.ly/3rT31np
In total we have nearly fifty new or recent videos featuring nearly 100 artists posted there for you to view – and that list grows weekly. In these interviews, the artist each discuss their backgrounds, the development of their work, the concepts and ideas behind it, and we look at some of the artist’s most acclaimed and recent pieces.
For additional information on our artist program and available work, please go to our website at http://www.markmoorefineart.com or check out their artist page on ARTSY at the following link:
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