Special Preview: ULTRASONIC VI – A Survey Of New Contemporary Art Exclusively on ARTSY
For its sixth installment of the ULTRASONIC series, Mark Moore Fine Art presents a survey of new work diverse in medium and technique by seven acclaimed mid-career artists: Tim Bavington; Mark Bennett; Jennifer Gunlock; Kara Maria; Jeanne Quinn; David Rathman; and Kim Rugg.
Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of thirteen new paintings by artist ALEX BLAU titled “If Only There Was Fruit”.
Alex Blau’s geometric paintings draw from a variety of sources and have unexpected associations. By variously utilizing graphic languages associated with things like disposable consumer goods, computer generated architectures and unfolding mandalas, Blau’s work both points to abstraction’s open-ended possibility and highlights its incorporation into mass culture.
The work from this series of paintings continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of pattern as means of imprinting the personal within our shared collective experience. Through a process of deconstruction and variant reconstitution, the artist both embodies and interrogates the symphonic energies that course the internal/external boundary. The exhibition includes two dozen dynamically composed abstract paintings whose imagery draws from the artist’s life and interactions.
According to Blau: “I’ve been thinking a lot more about my own energy and relating it to what is happening around me, and I imagine those energies as rings rippling out into other rings. In that cascading echo, structure emerges across the surface. Within the painting’s space, I create a web of flexible rearrangement that encompasses the contrasting nature of experience that is both shaky and resilient. I ask questions all day long, but there comes a moment when I can see a pivot from one move to the next. I am awake and not awake. In that moment of clarity is a certainty without fear.”
“The different aspects of my experience bubble together as daily experiences and distant memories combine and recombine. I am intrigued by this negotiability and its seemingly limitless possibilities. Sometimes when different sounds come together it creates a type of beauty that can be felt in the body. A song with melodies colliding together just makes your stomach drop or your heart ache a bit. I want that in my paintings, the togetherness of difference. In setting up these rhythms I focus on my breathing, and on being present to slow the bubbling from simmer to stillness so I can feel the natural connection to the next rhythm and see what emerges, the decision that becomes an image revealed. Those marks, images, or colors may stay or may be washed away. It’s a joy to work to find that moment of certainty. It is a paradox tamed and revealed and then wild again”
Alex Blau has an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and works primarily in painting. Blau has had solo shows at several venues, including Frist Center, Firecat Projects in Chicago, Gallery Seomi in Seoul, Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami, Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston and the New Britain Museum of American Art. She currently teaches at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University.
Special Preview: ULTRASONIC VI – A Survey Of New Contemporary Art Exclusively on ARTSY
For its sixth installment of the ULTRASONIC series, Mark Moore Fine Art presents a survey of new work diverse in medium and technique by seven acclaimed mid-career artists: Tim Bavington; Mark Bennett; Jennifer Gunlock; Kara Maria; Jeanne Quinn; David Rathman; and Kim Rugg.
Special Preview: ULTRASONIC VI – A Survey Of New Contemporary Art Exclusively on ARTSY
For its sixth installment of the ULTRASONIC series, Mark Moore Fine Art presents a survey of new work diverse in medium and technique by seven acclaimed mid-career artists: Tim Bavington; Mark Bennett; Jennifer Gunlock; Kara Maria; Jeanne Quinn; David Rathman; and Kim Rugg.
Special Preview: ULTRASONIC VI – A Survey Of New Contemporary Art Exclusively on ARTSY
For its sixth installment of the ULTRASONIC series, Mark Moore Fine Art presents a survey of new work diverse in medium and technique by seven acclaimed mid-career artists: Tim Bavington; Mark Bennett; Jennifer Gunlock; Kara Maria; Jeanne Quinn; David Rathman; and Kim Rugg.
Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to report that after more than three years in the making, “Breaking the Code”, a documentary feature film by Director Michael Flanagan about acclaimed artist Vernon Fisher, will have its premiere at 5:30pm on Saturday April 29th at the Violet Crown Cinema in Dallas as part of the Dallas International Film Festival.
There will be a second screening of the film at 1:00pm on Sun. April 30th in Denton, TX, at the Campus Theatre as part of the Thin Line Film Festival.
The DIFF screening is $15 per ticket and the Thin Line screening is free, only requiring that attendees register for the festival at their website. More information about each screening can be found at the links below. I am also including a link to an article about the film published by Glasstire.
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to present an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of five new works from The Rhythmic Series works by Los Angeles painter ROBERT STANDISH titled “Transcendental Tourist“.
For twenty years, Los Angeles painter Robert Standish had been abstracting reality by altering his own powerful and moving photorealistic paintings of daily life. Seven years ago, Standish shifted away from constructing lifelike replicas of the world, and into an investigation of the unconscious unknown through abstraction. His move into an Abstract Expressionist “wet-on-wet” technique developed in tandem with his interests in cosmology and topography, in addition to psychological theory – namely, Dr. Carl Jung’s notion and analysis of the human psyche.
In his newest work, Standish revisits the essential element of his early style of photorealistic painting, namely, a photo reference, but through his more recent lens of abstraction. Fed up with biased news reporting, Standish sources his imagery from top U.S. and world news stories; often selecting photos from the Internet and various social media platforms associated with polarizing content. By unifying his disparate techniques, he gradually manipulates the palette and texture of the original image to change the representation of its featured subject – and subsequently, the viewer’s interpretation of it. Transcendence being a consistent theme of his practice, Standish’s newest work is true to his rejection of the finite, and his proclivity for the universal.
Robert Standish is an American painter living and working in Los Angeles whose organic process reveals the emotive effects of color, shape, and texture. Inspired by the color-field painters and Abstract Expressionism, Standish’s free-flowing use of paint is his way of exploring abstraction and transcendence. Standish’s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, JP MORGAN CHASE, The Weisman Foundation, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Louis K. Meisel, Larry and Marilyn Fields, Patricia Arquette, Norwest Venture Partners, and BRYANT/ STIBEL, along with numerous other acclaimed collections. Standish’s paintings have been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, including group shows at the Carnegie Art Museum, Frederick R Weisman Museum of Art, a duo show with Sam Francis at Martin Lawrence Gallery, and a solo show at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster.
Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to report that after more than three years in the making, “Breaking the Code”, a documentary feature film by Director Michael Flanagan about acclaimed artist Vernon Fisher, will have its premiere at 5:30pm on Saturday April 29th at the Violet Crown Cinema in Dallas as part of the Dallas International Film Festival.
There will be a second screening of the film at 1:00pm on Sun. April 30th in Denton, TX, at the Campus Theatre as part of the Thin Line Film Festival.
The DIFF screening is $15 per ticket and the Thin Line screening is free, only requiring that attendees register for the festival at their website. More information about each screening can be found at the links below. I am also including a link to an article about the film published by Glasstire.
Special Preview: ULTRASONIC VI – A Survey Of New Contemporary Art Exclusively on ARTSY
For its sixth installment of the ULTRASONIC series, Mark Moore Fine Art presents a survey of new work diverse in medium and technique by seven acclaimed mid-career artists: Tim Bavington; Mark Bennett; Jennifer Gunlock; Kara Maria; Jeanne Quinn; David Rathman; and Kim Rugg.
Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of thirteen new paintings by artist ALEX BLAU titled “If Only There Was Fruit”.
Alex Blau’s geometric paintings draw from a variety of sources and have unexpected associations. By variously utilizing graphic languages associated with things like disposable consumer goods, computer generated architectures and unfolding mandalas, Blau’s work both points to abstraction’s open-ended possibility and highlights its incorporation into mass culture.
The work from this series of paintings continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of pattern as means of imprinting the personal within our shared collective experience. Through a process of deconstruction and variant reconstitution, the artist both embodies and interrogates the symphonic energies that course the internal/external boundary. The exhibition includes two dozen dynamically composed abstract paintings whose imagery draws from the artist’s life and interactions.
According to Blau: “I’ve been thinking a lot more about my own energy and relating it to what is happening around me, and I imagine those energies as rings rippling out into other rings. In that cascading echo, structure emerges across the surface. Within the painting’s space, I create a web of flexible rearrangement that encompasses the contrasting nature of experience that is both shaky and resilient. I ask questions all day long, but there comes a moment when I can see a pivot from one move to the next. I am awake and not awake. In that moment of clarity is a certainty without fear.”
“The different aspects of my experience bubble together as daily experiences and distant memories combine and recombine. I am intrigued by this negotiability and its seemingly limitless possibilities. Sometimes when different sounds come together it creates a type of beauty that can be felt in the body. A song with melodies colliding together just makes your stomach drop or your heart ache a bit. I want that in my paintings, the togetherness of difference. In setting up these rhythms I focus on my breathing, and on being present to slow the bubbling from simmer to stillness so I can feel the natural connection to the next rhythm and see what emerges, the decision that becomes an image revealed. Those marks, images, or colors may stay or may be washed away. It’s a joy to work to find that moment of certainty. It is a paradox tamed and revealed and then wild again”
Alex Blau has an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and works primarily in painting. Blau has had solo shows at several venues, including Frist Center, Firecat Projects in Chicago, Gallery Seomi in Seoul, Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami, Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston and the New Britain Museum of American Art. She currently teaches at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University.
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