Mark Moore Fine Art Blog

The UCI Institute and Museum for California Art (UCI IMCA) is a global magnet for the exhibition of, and research into, California art and its social and cultural framework. UCI IMCA offers the public, artists, art scholars, and the campus community a focal point for the exploration of California art, as a vital engine in the creative evolution of society and aesthetics in the United States and worldwide.

First Glimpse: Introducing The Buck Collection
September 29, 2018 – January 5, 2019

UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University Art Gallery and Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

200 Mesa Arts Building, Irvine, CA 92697

For more than twenty years, Newport Beach developer Gerald Buck engaged in an unexpected pastime: building an unparalleled collection of artworks in a wide variety of genres and media.

Initially collecting for pleasure, eventually Mr. Buck realized that he had in fact built something unique: more than thirty-two hundred works, most of which were bought, boxed, and stored away. Many of the works in the collection have not been seen since they were purchased and stored, though Mr. Buck lent works to exhibitions across Southern California. As an autodidact regarding artwork, Mr. Buck focused his attention on his own personal study of the works, the artists, the genres, and their cultural significance. Among his chief desires was that the works be studied and appreciated for their many values.

In order to fulfill that commitment, at his death in 2013 Gerald Buck passed the collection to UCI. We are indeed delighted that we have received this great opportunity. UCI will construct a fitting home for the Buck Collection (and others, centrally The Irvine Museum Collection, gifted to UCI in 2016). Over the next several years, UCI will build the UCI Institute and Museum for California Art, the focus for the exhibition of, and research on, California Art. But we are eager to introduce this great collection to the public. Toward this goal, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts will host the first public exhibition of selected works from the Buck Collection. An accompanying exhibition catalogue with essays by the exhibition curators, Cécile Whiting, Kevin Appel, and Stephen Barker, will be available late in the fall.

The exhibition, sponsored by the UCI Office of the Provost and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, will be a unique opportunity to see some of the finest art produced in California.

Stephen Barker
Executive Director, UCI IMCA
https://imca.uci.edu

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For media inquiries, please contact Jaime DeJong, Communications Director for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at: https://directory.uci.edu/?jaime+dejong

#uci #ucisofa #buckcollection #uciimca #UCIInstituteandMuseumforCaliforniaArt

Image: Benjamin Charles Weiner, ​​Abstract (Gold), 2018

Painter Ben Charles Weiner is featured in a very interesting article in W Magazine featuring artists who work with unconventional materials. Weiner is in good company, alongside Jenny Holzer, Sterling Ruby and others. Click here on this link to read the full article.

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to present a selection of sixteen new paintings on paper and limited edition prints by New York Artist BEN CHARLES WEINER. This ARTSY Online Exclusive Exhibition is on view through September 30th. You can view these works now at the following link: 

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-ben-charles-weiner-recent-works-on-paper

Image: Benjamin Charles Weiner, Mirage Pearls, 2018

We are also very 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. I 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 by clicking HERE.

Image: Benjamin Charles Weiner, ​Untilted, 2018

The short film collection at MMFA Video Channel now features four new videos that have been just posted that include a looks inside the studios of artists: ALLISON SCHULNIK, ANDREW SCHOULTZ, VERNON FISHER, and JOHN BAUER. In total we have nearly fifty new or recent videos posted there for you to view – and that list grows weekly. Other artists featured on the MMFA Channel are: Jason Salavon, Kris Kuksi, Stephanie Washburn, Julie Oppermann, Tim Bavington, Joshua Dildine, and Julie Heffernan – just to name a few.

A brief artist interview can be viewed from this collection below with BENJAMIN CHARLES WEINER:

For additional information on this artist and their work, please go to our website at http://www.markmoorefineart.com or check out their artist page on ARTSY at the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/mark-moore-gallery

#markmooregallery #BENJAMINCHARLESWEINER #benweiner

DANIEL CANOGAR “DRAFT 2“, 2017, Liquid crystal display, metal structure, computer

In this work by Daniel Canogar, a monitor has been altered by separating its LCD panel from the LED surface that back-lights it. The result is a sculptural screen that evokes the form of an open book. Visible on the semi-transparent LCD surface is a generative animation created with extracts from foundational texts of the democratic system, including the Magna Carta, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the US Constitution.

The extracts become progressively distorted, the result in real time of the direction and intensity of the wind in the cities from which these texts emerged: Runnymede, Paris and Philadelphia. The Draft series explores the erosion of constitutional law, individual rights and the rule of law due to profound political and social upheavals we are witnessing in the present. The works also examine how technology is a catalyst for these changes.

Runnymede, Paris and Philadelphia. The Draft series explores the erosion of constitutional law, individual rights and the rule of law due to profound political and social upheavals we are witnessing in the present. The works also examine how technology is a catalyst for these changes.

Daniel Canogar (Madrid, 1964) received an M.A. from NYU and the International Center for Photography in 1990. His work as a visual artist focuses on photograpy, video, and installation art.

Daniel Canogar has created numerous public art pieces, including Waves, a permanent sculptural LED screen for the atrium of 2 Houston Center, Houston; Travesías, a sculptural LED screen commissioned for the atrium of the European Union Council in Brussels during the Spanish Presidency of the European Union in 2010; Constelaciones, the largest photo-mosaic in Europe created for two pedestrian bridges over the Manzanares River, in MRío Park, Madrid; Helix, a permanent LED sculptural screen made for Quantum of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship andClandestinos, a video-projection presented on various emblematic monuments including the Arcos de Lapa in Rio de Janeiro, the Puerta de Alcalá in Madrid and the church of San Pietro in Montorio in Rome.

Canogar’s recent work includes Storming Times Square, screened on 47 of the LED billboards in Times Square, New York; “Small Data”, a solo exhibition at bitforms, New York, and Max Estrella Gallery in Madrid; “Quadratura”, a solo exhibition at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Lima; “Vórtices”, an exhibition exploring issues of water and sustainability at the Fundación Canal Isabel II in Madrid;Synaptic Passage, an installation commissioned for the exhibition “Brain: The Inside Story” at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and two installations at the Sundance Film Festival 2011 in Park City, Utah.

He has exhibited in the Reina Sofia Contemporary Art Museum, Madrid; the Palacio Velázquez, Madrid; Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid; bitforms Gallery, New York; Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon; Guy Bärtschi Gallery, Geneva; Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milano; the Santa Mónica Art Center, Barcelona; the Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; the Offenes Kulturhaus Center for Contemporary Art, Linz; the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfallen, Düsseldorf; Hamburger Banhof Museum, Berlin; Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul; the American Museum of Natural History, New York; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh and the Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh.

For more information on Daniel Canogar go to the following link on the Mark Moore Fine Art website HERE or contact: mark@markmoorefineart.com

Viewing are available by appointment.

#markmoorefineart #danielcanogar

New Territory: Landscape Photography Today is a survey of contemporary landscape photography from around the world. The exhibition of more than 100 photographs will explore how artists stretch the boundaries of traditional landscape photography to reflect the environmental attitudes, perceptions, and values of our time.

DAVID MAISEL / The Lake Project 15, 2001 / Type C-print Print / 48”x48”, mounted to 60”x60”, framed in maple / Collection of the Denver Art Museum (Purchased with funds from Mark and Hilarie Moore)

The works revive historic photographic processes as well as use innovative techniques and unconventional equipment and chemistry to depict landscapes in surprising ways. Taken individually and as a whole, the photographs will show how about 40 artists have manipulated materials and processes for expressive purposes, blurring the distinction between “observed” and “constructed” imagery. The exhibition challenges us to see photography differently, and contemplate our complex relationship with the landscape.

#NewTerritoryatDAM  #markmoorefineart #penelopeumbrico #davidmaisel

Image: Benjamin Charles Weiner, Paint, 2018

Painter Ben Charles Weiner is featured in a very interesting article in W Magazine featuring artists who work with unconventional materials. Weiner is in good company, alongside Jenny Holzer, Sterling Ruby and others. Click here on this link to read the full article.

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to present a selection of sixteen new paintings on paper and limited edition prints by New York Artist BEN CHARLES WEINER. This ARTSY Online Exclusive Exhibition is on view through September 30th. You can view these works now at the following link: 

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-ben-charles-weiner-recent-works-on-paper

Image: Benjamin Charles Weiner, Untitled, 2018

We are also very 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. I 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 by clicking HERE.

Image: Benjamin Charles Weiner, ​Untitled (Make Up, Perfume)​, 2018

The short film collection at MMFA Video Channel now features four new videos that have been just posted that include a looks inside the studios of artists: ALLISON SCHULNIK, ANDREW SCHOULTZ, VERNON FISHER, and JOHN BAUER. In total we have nearly fifty new or recent videos posted there for you to view – and that list grows weekly. Other artists featured on the MMFA Channel are: Jason Salavon, Kris Kuksi, Stephanie Washburn, Julie Oppermann, Tim Bavington, Joshua Dildine, and Julie Heffernan – just to name a few.

This week’s featured video interview is with BENJAMIN CHARLES WEINER which can be viewed here:

For additional information on this artist and their work, please go to our website at http://www.markmoorefineart.com or check out their artist page on ARTSY at the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/mark-moore-gallery

#markmooregallery #BENJAMINCHARLESWEINER #benweiner

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce our partnership with Davis Editions to release three new limited edition works on paper by artist JOSHUA DILDINE to be released on August 1, 2018 that I currently can offer you in pre-publication as a special offer.

Joshua Dildine, Round and Round, 2018 / 30 x 24 inches (paper size) / Archival pigment print; Edition of 20 + 2AP

These works, published in association with Davis Editions, are wonderful examples of the artists best work. Davis Editions uses archival pigment inks and 100% cotton rag paper to create museum-quality prints that are fully archival. Each of these works is a limited edition of just twenty with two artists proofs. Once an edition is sold out, those prints are no longer available. Each print is hand-stamped and numbered on the back by Davis Editions and validated with a certificate of authenticity. The certificate includes pertinent information about the print including publication date, print number, and edition size, and is signed and dated by the publisher. 

For more information, images, and the details on all six of these works, please go to the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-mark-moore-fine-arts-limited-editions-joshua-dildine-and-ben-charles-weiner

Joshua Dildine, Goofy Duck, 2018 / 30 x 24 inches (paper size) / Archival pigment print; Edition of 20 + 2AP

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.

Joshua Dildine, Suited Palm, 2018 / 30 x 24 inches (paper size) / Archival pigment print / Edition Size: 20 + 2 AP

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.

You can download a free online catalog on this artist on with a more in depth overview of their work on our website at:

http://www.markmoorefineart.com/attachment/en/581c5e0c84184e51358b4568/Press/5b48f146b9c038fa565de2c3

For additional information on these works or these artists, please contact Mark Moore at: mark@markmooregallery.com

All work is available subject to prior sale and prices are subject to change without notice. All taxes, tariffs, shipping and/or viewing expenses, if any, would be additional.

#markmoorefineart #daviseditions #joshuadildine

Image: “Untiled A” (2018) in the studio

In addition, “Meghan Smythe: Praxis” has been selcted as the Featured Exhibition of the Week by WSI Magazine. You can view the article at the following link on the Wall Street International website:

https://wsimag.com/art/41068-meghan-smythe-praxis
Using a traditional sculptural format (the monument), Meghan Smythe captures contradicting extremes within human gesture: intimacy and brutality, beauty and ugliness, or the lewd and tender. In her attempt to achieve an “elegant vulgarity,” she encapsulates moments that define our mortality in unanticipated ways; oftentimes toeing the delicate line between erotic and macabre tendencies that give way to life, and ultimately death. Glass, ceramic, and concrete are woven together in an elaborate, orgy-like web of body parts and organic artifacts, as if suddenly cast with Pompeii-like circumstances. Like excavated antiquities or fossils, Smythe’s ceramic compositions allude to the cyclical nature of civilization – a dramedy in which all of the players are subject to conquest and demise.

DETAIL Image: “Untiled A” (2018) in the studio

On last note.  You may also view these works in person now at the gallery exhibition below:

PRAXIS 

July 14-August 26

ARTexchange Long Beach 

Featuring: Julia Haft-Candell, Armando Cortes, Ben Jackel, Samuel Jernigan, Narsiso Martinez, Alexander Anderson, Anabel Juarez, Meghan Smythe, Tam Van Tran and Joakim Ojanen. Curated by Gerardo Monterrubio.

PRAXIS is also on view now at LBMAx, a part of the Long Beach Museum of Art. LBMAx is curated and mentored by LBMA. As part of the Museum, it is an art incubator that values innovation and promotes creativity. For more information on this brick and mortar exhibition, check out the The Art Exchange website at: http://artexchangelongbeach.org/upcoming-exhibtions/

If you have any questions on this exhibition, contact ARTex at:

Phone:+1 (562) 999-2267

Email: arthappens@artexchangelb.org

Gallery Hours:
Thursday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Friday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm (Second Saturdays 1:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
Sunday, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

For more information on Smythe and her work, go to out website at:

http://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/meghan-smythe

#meghansmythe #markmoorefineart #praxis

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce our partnership with Davis Editions to release three new limited edition works on paper by artists BEN CHARLES WEINER scheduled to be released today that I currently can offer you in pre-publication as a special offer.

Ben Charles Weiner
Gel Monochrome Variation 1, 2016
18 × 18 in; 45.7 × 45.7 cm (paper size)
Archival pigment print 
Edition of 20 + 2AP

These works, published in association with Davis Editions, are wonderful examples of the artists best work. Davis Editions uses archival pigment inks and 100% cotton rag paper to create museum-quality prints that are fully archival. Each of these works is a limited edition of just twenty with two artists proofs. Once an edition is sold out, those prints are no longer available. Each print is hand-stamped and numbered on the back by Davis Editions and validated with a certificate of authenticity. The certificate includes pertinent information about the print including publication date, print number, and edition size, and is signed and dated by the publisher. 

For more information, images, and the details on all six of these works, please go to the following link:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-mark-moore-fine-arts-limited-editions-joshua-dildine-and-ben-charles-weiner

Ben Charles Weiner
Gel Monochrome Variation 3, 2016
18 × 18 in; 45.7 × 45.7 cm (paper size)
Archival pigment print
Edition of 20 + 2AP

By photographing paint and luxurious ephemera at close range, then using the resulting image as his subject, BEN CHARLES WEINER creates works that pose a confusion of object, subject and medium. Weiner’s paintings harness the idolatrous fetishistic desire of consumer culture, the fashion industry, and the art world. Thus, his paintings self-critically describe the duality of their own identity as both transcendent creation and commercial item. Likewise, all of the themes and references in the paintings reinforce their status as consumer/art objects. Roland Bathes’ application of Freud’s concept of “the uncanny” to landscape photography is the pertinent reference.

Weiner (b. 1980, Burlington, VT) received his BA from Wesleyan University (CT). He also studied under Mexican muralist José Lazcarro at Universidad de las Americas (Mexico) and has worked closely with artists Jeff Koons, Kim Sooja and Amy Yoes as an assistant. He has exhibited his work widely across the United States and in Mexico with solo shows in Los Angeles, New York and Puebla, and group exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Miami, New Haven, Ridgefield, Los Angeles and Riverside. His paintings can be found in the Sammlung/Collection (Germany), the Progressive Collection (OH), and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection (CA). The artist lives and works in New York City.

Ben Charles Weiner
Gel Monochrome Variation 2, 2016
18 × 18 in; 45.7 × 45.7 cm (paper size)
Archival pigment print 
Edition of 20 + 2AP

You can download a free online catalog on this artist on with a more in depth overview of their work on our website at: 

For additional information on these works or these artists, please contact Mark Moore at:

mark@markmooregallery.com

All work is available subject to prior sale and prices are subject to change without notice. All taxes, tariffs, shipping and/or viewing expenses, if any, would be additional.

#markmoorefineart #benweiner #bencharlesweiner #daviseditions

Image: “Untiled A” (2018) in the studio

In addition, “Meghan Smythe: Praxis” has been selcted as the Featured Exhibition of the Week by WSI Magazine. You can view the article at the following link on the Wall Street International website:

https://wsimag.com/art/41068-meghan-smythe-praxis
Using a traditional sculptural format (the monument), Meghan Smythe captures contradicting extremes within human gesture: intimacy and brutality, beauty and ugliness, or the lewd and tender. In her attempt to achieve an “elegant vulgarity,” she encapsulates moments that define our mortality in unanticipated ways; oftentimes toeing the delicate line between erotic and macabre tendencies that give way to life, and ultimately death. Glass, ceramic, and concrete are woven together in an elaborate, orgy-like web of body parts and organic artifacts, as if suddenly cast with Pompeii-like circumstances. Like excavated antiquities or fossils, Smythe’s ceramic compositions allude to the cyclical nature of civilization – a dramedy in which all of the players are subject to conquest and demise.

DETAIL Image: “Untiled A” (2018) in the studio

On last note.  You may also view these works in person now at the gallery exhibition below:

PRAXIS 

July 14-August 26

ARTexchange Long Beach 

Featuring: Julia Haft-Candell, Armando Cortes, Ben Jackel, Samuel Jernigan, Narsiso Martinez, Alexander Anderson, Anabel Juarez, Meghan Smythe, Tam Van Tran and Joakim Ojanen. Curated by Gerardo Monterrubio.

If you have any questions on this exhibition, contact ARTex at:

Phone:+1 (562) 999-2267

Email: arthappens@artexchangelb.org

Gallery Hours:
Thursday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Friday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm (Second Saturdays 1:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
Sunday, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

For more information on Smythe and her work, go to out website at:

http://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/meghan-smythe

#meghansmythe #markmoorefineart #praxis

Image: AMY ELKINS (American, born 1979), from the “The Golden State” Project

Carnegie Art Museum’s Studio Gallery
June 7th to July 29th, 2018

http://www.carnegieam.org/cam-studio-gallery

The Golden State examines California’s death row, the largest death row population in the United States (currently at 746).  The body of work was created using state provided information and mugshots for the entire 746 predominantly male death row inmates, organized and compiled by last names with each layer treated identically over a golden colored canvas.  The more densely populated, the less of the original golden color remains.   The resulting composite portraits confront the undeniable racial makeup of California’s death row (where 66.75% are minorities*) as well as the inevitable loss of identity created by mass incarceration.  This is a small selection of the twenty-six pieces that were created.
What the Critics are saying about Amy Elkins:

“As viewers, we are invited to puzzle over an assortment of clues, including reenactments, exhibits submitted for our considerations, partial evidence, and statements both leading and misleading. The work is elegiac and provocative, asking the viewer to engage above and beyond a simple, cursory viewing of these images.” – Leslie A. Martin, Aperture Foundation

“The degree of isolation her subjects experience is extreme. Of the prisoners that she has written to over the past several years, most have spent over a decade in a solitary 6 x 9 cell. Letters speak of a life where the memories of loss are equaled only by the seemingly endless time before them, unless their sentence is carried out. Elkins lost one of her pen pals in 2009 and another in 2012, whose final appeal was denied by the Supreme Court mere months before his execution. Much like the author Truman Capote’s complex experience in losing the primary source of his artwork when Perry Smith was executed while writing In Cold Blood, Elkins likely cannot help but be affected by the unique dynamic of these relationships to her subjects. Her work seems to reflect her own loss in the mix of theirs.” – Bill Sullivan, American photographer and painter

“Photographer Amy Elkins offers an unflinching contemplation of capital punishment and identity in a culture of mass incarceration.” – Mass Appeal

“Elkins ponders the psychological impact incarceration has on inmates, using blurry and pixelated photos to imagine how life on the inside shapes and distorts an inmates’ perception of reality and awareness.” – WIRED Magazine

“Rather than a documentary angle, Elkins has chosen artifacts and scenes that reveal both the preponderance of time on death row (enough time to become a poet, learn calligraphy, read voraciously) and it’s corrosive qualities as it ineffably moves these prisoners toward the end. It’s a tough project, but one that reveals Elkins’ profound sensitivity to the shades of gray in this potentially black-and-white issue.” – Arts and Culture, TX

“Elkins’ imagery of the darkness in the lives and deaths of these men may be morose, but optimism is intrinsic to her determination to see the world from their perspective.” – Artillery Magazine

Check out her Exclusive Online Exhibition on ARTSY for more more images and information on this award-winning Series of works at:

https://www.artsy.net/mark-moore-gallery/shows

#markmoorefineart #amyelkins #blackisthedayblackisthenight #bitdbitn