Mark Moore Fine Art Blog

Penelope Umbrico / 18,297,350 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr 04/16/14, 2014 / c-prints assembled with archival tape / 49.75 x 96.5 inches framed / Collection of the Denver Art Museum (Purchased with funds from Mark and Hilarie Moore)

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.

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.

Denver Art Museum

100 W 14th Avenue Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204

#NewTerritoryatDAM #markmoorefineart #penelopeumbrico

Please find above the invitation for upcoming group exhibition at The Art Exchange titled PRAXIS that MMFA artist MEGHAN SMYTHE is featured in and link to their announcement on their website: http://artexchangelongbeach.org/upcoming-exhibtions/

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

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.

The opening for PRAXIS is tomorrow with a VIP Opening from 5-7pm for you and all guests you may wish to bring and invite if you think you might be in the area. The Opening for the public is from 7-9pm.

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

I wanted to remind you that JOSEPH ROSSANO‘s exclusive featured ARTSY Online Exhibition “EDNA” closes July 14th. I would urge you to take a look at this beautiful and compelling exhibition.

Joseph Rossano’s exhibition “EDNA” conveys a deep admiration for nature, science and history. While the interdisciplinary systems of the natural world are highlighted through his works, Rossano’s show serves as a sampling of different organisms and their connections to one another.

VIEW THE ONLINE EXHIBITION HERE

Joseph Rossano’s exhibition “EDNA” conveys a deep admiration for nature, science and history. While the interdisciplinary systems of the natural world are highlighted through his works, Rossano’s show serves as a sampling of different organisms and their connections to one another.

VIEW THE ONLINE EXHIBITION HERE

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

#markmoorefineart #josephrossano #edna

MEGHAN SMYTHE
Naked, 2015
Ceramic, glaze
24 × 36 × 24 in (61 × 91.4 × 61 cm)
COLLECTION OF THE CROCKER ART MUSEUM

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of major sculpture work by gallery artist MEGHAN SMYTHE by The Crocker Museum.

The first public art museum founded in the Western United States, the Crocker Art Museum was established in 1885 and is now one of the leading art museums in California. The Crocker serves as the primary regional resource for the study and appreciation of fine art. The Museum offers a diverse spectrum of special exhibitions and programs to complement its collections of Californian art, works on paper, European art, international ceramics, photography, Asian art, and African and Oceanic art. The Crocker Art Museum is the only museum in the Sacramento region accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), a recognition given to less than 800 of the nation’s 17,500 museums. AAM accreditation certifies that a museum operates according to standards set forth by the museum profession, manages its collections responsibly, and provides quality service to the public.

Out of each our 5790projects group shows that focuses solely on debuting and showcasing young emerging talent from Los Angeles each year, a selection committee nominates one featured artist to be considered for the annually-awarded Moore Family Trust Grant. This prize consists of a cash prize and a gallery exhibition. After much deliberation, the committee has elected to award the 5790projects Award prize to sculpture artist, MEGHAN SMYTHE.

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.

Mehgan Smythe (b. 1984, Kingston, ON) received her MFA from the Alfred University School of Art and Design (NY). Her work has been shown at the Arizona State University Art Museum (AZ) and the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (ON). She was the Visiting Artist in Residence at California State University, Long Beach (CA) from 2012-2014, where she continues to teach Ceramic Arts. The artist lives and works in Long Beach, CA.

Available works by Meghan Smythe can be found on the Mark Moore Fine Art ARTSY Website at:

https://www.artsy.net/mark-moore-gallery/artist/meghan-smythe

Additional information, current biography, reviews, press, images of past works, videos, and interviews on this incredible artist can be found on our WEBSITE.

#meghansmythe #crockerartmuseum #markmoorefineart

Image: Penelope Umbrico, Bad Display (eBay) (2018)

YORAM WOLBERGER
Soldier Portrait #1, 2015
resin cast; Edition of 5 (+ 2 A/Ps)
20 x 10 x 10 in
COLLECTION OF THE CROCKER ART MUSEUM

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of major sculpture work by gallery artist YORAM WOLBERGER by The Crocker Museum. Much like his acclaimed “Cowboy and Indian” series and the “Trophy” series of sculpture works, Wolberger’s “Toy Soldiers” strike a chord for nostalgic Americana and pop culture.

The first public art museum founded in the Western United States, the Crocker Art Museum was established in 1885 and is now one of the leading art museums in California. The Crocker serves as the primary regional resource for the study and appreciation of fine art. The Museum offers a diverse spectrum of special exhibitions and programs to complement its collections of Californian art, works on paper, European art, international ceramics, photography, Asian art, and African and Oceanic art. The Crocker Art Museum is the only museum in the Sacramento region accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), a recognition given to less than 800 of the nation’s 17,500 museums. AAM accreditation certifies that a museum operates according to standards set forth by the museum profession, manages its collections responsibly, and provides quality service to the public.

Detail Image: YORAM WOLBERGER, Soldier Portrait #1, 2015 / resin cast; Edition of 5 (+ 2 A/Ps) / 20 x 10 x 10 in

Yoram Wolberger uses childhood toys and everyday domestic items to create his large scale sculptures, foregrounding the latent symbolism and cultural paradigms of these objects that so subtly inform Western culture. By enlarging this ephemera to life size, Wolberger emphasizes the distortions of their original manufacture disallowing any real illusion and conceptually forcing the viewer to reconsider their meanings. When enlarged beyond any possibility of dismissal, we see that toy soldiers create lines between Us and Them, plastic cowboys and Indians marginalize and stereotype the Other, even wedding cake bride and groom figurines dictate our expected gender roles.

As the HUFFINGTON POST put it: “Wolberger’s Cowboys & Indians is based on the widely familiar toy figurines with which Wolberger played during his youth, and invites viewers to consider the manufacturing of common cultural stereotypes. Faithfully reproducing the seemingly innocent figurines at life size proportions with all their original design “flaws” intact, the artist compels us to reexamine the cultural attitudes implied by such distorted portrayals.”

Wolberger (b. 1963, Tel Aviv, Israel) earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute’s (CA) New Genres Department. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been featured in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), deCordova Sculpture Park (MA), the Aldrich Contemporary Museum (CT), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL) and the Israeli Museum of Modern Art (Israel) among others. His works have been acquired for the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside (CA) and the McNay Art Museum (TX). The artist lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

#yoramwolberger #crockerartmuseum #markmoorefineart

Please find below a very insightful interview between MMFA Artist DIRK STASCHKE and Stefano Catalani the former head curator of the Bellevue Arts Museum.

Dirk Staschke is best known for his exploration of Dutch Vanitas still life themes in the medium of ceramics. His current body of work explores the space in between sculpture and painting. His work often uses meticulous representation as foil for examining skill and craft. It is a real pleasure to introduce you to this work at this time.

Mark Moore Fine Art recently presented an exclusive ARTSY online Exhibition of the work of Dirk Staschke, which can be viewed now at: 

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-dirk-staschke

“I make sculptures based on paintings in what is traditionally considered a craft medium. In this translation, the sculptural representation of still life painting creates abstract forms. The results are beautifully made objects that simultaneously expose the crude structures of their creation.The pieces are both a simple exploration of residual forms derived from representation and a question regarding the merits of an Art object.” – Dirk Staschke

Staschke 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); Birmingham Museum of Art;  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;. 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.

For additional information please go to: 

http://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/dirk-staschke

#markmoorefineart #dirkstaschke

I just came from Meghan Smythe’s studio today and I was just amazed by the new work she is doing. There is truly some fantastic new works in her studio!

Meghan is preparing for a show in Long Beach and some of these works may be included. There are more pieces in progress right now that have yet to be completed. Please find attached an invitation for upcoming group exhibition at The Art Exchange titled PRAXIS she is featured in and link to their announcement on their website: http://artexchangelongbeach.org/upcoming-exhibtions/

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

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.

The opening for PRAXIS is July 14th, VIP Opening is 5-7pm for you and all guests you may wish to bring and invite if you think you might be in the area. The Opening for the public is from 7-9pm.

Image: “Untiled A” (2018) – detail

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

#meghansmythe #markmoorefineart

VERNON FISHER WORKS ON PAPER
Through 30 JUNE 2018

HIRAM BUTLER GALLERY
4520 Blossom Street
Houston TX 77007-5502
(713) 863-7097‬

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday
10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Please find a link below to the exhibition catalog for this show:

http://hirambutler.com/exhibitions/view/vernon-fisher-works-on-paper#

#vernonfisher #markmoorefineart #hirambutlergallery

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
Sign up for updates to receive a reminder about the exhibition and updates about special events here:
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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