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Mark Moore Fine Art artists Jeffry Mitchell, Zemer Peled, and Meghan Smythe are all included in a major ceramics  survey exhibition curated by Peter Held at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York opening this Saturday.

“From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics” surveys the rich continuing history of California, Oregon, and Washington artists working in a wide variety of aesthetics, scale, and conceptual styles. The exhibition provides a survey of iconic works from the Museum’s collection beginning in the 1950s, to work created in today’s dynamic cultural and artistic landscape, capturing the spirit and innovations synonymous with West Coast art over the last six decades.

From Funk to Punk: West Coast Ceramics Artist List:
Laura Andreson, Robert Arneson, Ralph Bacerra, Carlton Ball, Tanya Batura, Billy Al Bengston, Sascha Brastoff, Annette Corcoran, Patsy Cox, Rupert Deese, Stephen De Staebler, Viola Frey, David Gilhooly, Vivika & Otto Heino, David Hicks, Ben Jackel, Doug Jeck, Anabel Juárez, Jennie Jieun Lee, Howard Kottler, James Lovera, Glen Lukens, Tony Marsh, John Mason , Kate MacDowell, Harrison McIntosh, Jeffry Mitchell, Kristen Morgan, Ron Nagle, Gertrude & Otto Natzler, Ruby Neri, Richard Notkin, Zemer Peled, Ken Price, Antonio Prieto, Myrton Purkiss, Brian Rochefort, Annabeth Rosen, Jerry Rothman, Adrian Saxe, Anna Sew Hoy, Richard Shaw, Peter Shire, Adam Shiverdecker, Adam Silverman, Meghan Smythe, Paul Soldner, Robert Sperry, Akio Takamori, Henry Takemoto, Ehren Tool, Peter VandenBerge, Peter Voulkos, Patti Warashina, Marguerite Wildenhain, Beatrice Wood, and Wanxin Zhang.

The Everson is a museum of firsts. It was the first museum to dedicate itself to the collection of American art, to create a permanent collection of ceramics, to collect video art, to create a docent program and to hire the now internationally-known architect I.M. Pei to design its building, a sculptural work of art in its own right. The Everson is home to approximately 11,000 works of art: American paintings, sculpture, drawings, video, graphics and one of the largest holdings of international ceramics in the nation.

Everson Museum of Art

401 Harrison Street

Syracuse, New York 13202

Tel (315) 474 6064

everson@everson.org

For more information, go to:

https://everson.org/explore/upcoming-exhibitions/funk-punk-left-coast-ceramics

Dimitri Kozyrev, “The Lost Landscapes 1-6“, 2017, acrylic on canvas in six parts; 48 x 72 inches overall, 24 x 24 inches each

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to present a series of six new works on canvas from the ongoing LOST LANDSCAPES Series by artist Dimitri Kozyrev.

This body of work stems from observations by the artist based on the driving experience. Using freeway systems as the investigative constant, thiese paintings and drawings attempt to recreate the pure structure of urban landscape. In recreation, the original experience is replaced with the image of “lost” landscape. The environment along the freeway structures is essentially lost for the driver in the fast movement of the vehicle, because the driver’s attention is always directed forward; the landscape disappears on ether side of the driver, and only fragmented elements of it imprint in the driver’s memory. Driving these roads and byways at speed reduces the visual experience from detail to generality and we never can reproduce the whole picture of the trip, only scattered elements as if they had been caught by a strobe light.

These pictures are not meant to be a representation of the urban landscape, they are landscapes: landscapes for the speeding driver or landscapes for gallery goers. Moreover, these images have the potential to become a part of the road “language,” they may serve as information signs for a specific point of interest or they may be entertainment pictures to break the dullness of commuting.

The formal resolutions of these pictures are influenced by the ideas developed by Russian Constructivists and later by Bauhaus scholars. Only minimal elements are chosen for my pictures in order to affect the viewer in a matter of seconds; these images must have only that amount of information, which is essential for the message Kozyrev hopes to deliver.

This exclusive ARTSY online exhibition can be previewed now at:

https://www.artsy.net/show/mark-moore-fine-art-dimitri-kozyrev-the-lost-landscapes-2017

Kozyrev’s single-panel paintings organize this visual junkyard into sweeping compositions that suggest the giddy weightlessness of flight – of soaring, diving and swooping through the air without the burden of a plane or even a jetpack. Giving fleshy substance to the virtual world, the paintings by the Russia-born, Austin-based artist take viewers on flights of fancy filled with melancholic memories yet still optimistic about prospects.

Art Critic Colin Garner writes of the work:

“At first glance, Dimitri Kozyrev’s work is grounded in a combination of traditional landscape painting and the analytic cubism of early Modernism. However, on closer examination we discover that Kozyrev expresses a specifically California-based sense of time and space: clear-cut Euclidian geometries are subverted in favor of a more hyperbolic, ‘autopian’ topography, as if the world were viewed from a speeding automobile or airplane or through the splintered, kaleidoscopic fragments of shattered glass. In other words, Kozyrev employs a fluidly dynamic painterly vocabulary in order to deny the spectator the comforts of a sustaining visual ground. Occasionally, we focus on a specific detail but more often than not Kozyrev deterritorializes our perception, as our mind gets caught up in the overall experience of anticipating what is yet to come, grasping the immediate moment in our peripheral vision, or recalling what we have just witnessed in our virtual memory.”

“Kozyrev attempts to express this middle ground between objective specificity and subjective incommensurability by representing the gaps in our attention rather than the concrete object or landscape per se. Thus details are sketched in – a line of trees, a rough horizon line, the receding lines of street lamps, a curved section of freeway – so that topography is reduced to a series of minimalistic signifiers. Instead of a picturesque or panoramic spectacle, we are made more aware of vast expanses of cool, billboard-like colors which “invade” the scene so that it is often difficult to discern the dividing line between nature and simulacrum, sky and earth, foreground and background, aerial view and ground-level perspective. This constantly shifting spatial dynamic undermines the cone-of-vision, single point perspective of the traditional landscape so that we are caught in a cubistic spatial limbo, unsure whether we are in virtual or actual space. The result is a collapse of linear or chronological time into overlapping shards of active memory, in which past, present and future collapse into pure becoming.”

“Drawing upon the Cubo-futurist, Constructivist and Suprematist design principles of his native Russia as well as the utilitarian pragmatism of the German Bauhaus, Kozyrev juxtaposes these modernist tropes with a Vermeer-like Dutch interior or the depiction of a ruined bunker in Finland, exploding the images’ contextual logic into a postmodern pastiche of historical culture. Every picture becomes grist for the painter’s cubistic mill, acting as building blocks in a new constructivist aesthetic, in which anything can be juxtaposed against anything else, and in which genealogical history dies in order to be reborn as pure production, as pure painting.”

Dimitri Kozyrev (born 1967, St. Petersburg, Russia) received his MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara (CA), and has since had solo exhibitions in New York, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and Chicago. His work has been featured at the Krasnoyarsk VIII Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia), the Tuscon Museum of Art (AZ), Museum of Contemporary Art (AZ), Gulf Coast Museum of Art (FL), Santa Monica Museum of Art (CA), the Armory Show (NY), and Torrance Art Museum (CA). His work has been acquired by the Berkus Family Collection (CA), Wellington Collection (MA) and UCSB Art Museum (CA). He is also the recipient of the Abrams Prize (CA) and Art Omi Residency (NY). Kozyrev lives and works in Austin, TX.

Dimitri Kozyrev: The Lost Landscapes 2017

November 7, 2017 – December 31, 2017

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We are 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.

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 ALLISON SCHULNIK 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

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MARK BENNETT
Home of The Addams Family, 2017
Lithograph on Rives BFK paper
24 1/4 × 36 1/4 in (61.6 × 92.1 cm)
Edition of 10
$4000.

Mark Bennett has released a new edition of lithographs in an edition of just ten today –  The Home of The Addams Family (pictured above).

The Addams Family is a fictional household created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. The Addams Family characters have traditionally included Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children Wednesday and Pugsley, close family members Uncle Fester and Grandmama, their butler Lurch, the disembodied hand Thing, and Gomez’s Cousin Itt. In 1964, a live-action television series that ran until 1966, starring John Astin and Carolyn Jones, premiered on ABC and subsequently inspired a 1977 television film and cameos from the cast in other shows. Influenced by its growing cult following, an unrelated animated series aired in 1973. The franchise was revived in the 1990s with a feature film series consisting of The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993).

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Born in 1956 in Chattanooga, Mark Bennett was a self-described “television addict” as a youth, watching and re-watching episodes until he had memorized the details of more than 45 situation comedies. The instant familiarity inspired in viewers who see these imagined spaces — “homes” where many Americans of the television generation, in effect, “grew up” — reflects the penetrating influence of this medium into our own private houses from the 1950s onward

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.

I have taken the liberty of placing all the available original drawings and limited edition prints remaining by Mark Bennett on his artist page of our ARTSY website for your reference. To view these works, go to the following special link I have set up for you here:

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

Images, biography, reviews, and general information on MARK BENNETT and his work can be found on our website for your reference here:

http://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/mark-bennett

Check out the post of ARTSY titled “Mark Moore Fine Art – A Brief History” that highlights some of the notable moments of our last 34 years at:

https://www.artsy.net/mark-moore-gallery/article/mark-moore-fine-art-mark-moore-fine-art-history

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Tim Bavington

The formidable folk artist and recent Las Vegas resident, Jewel, who splits her time between Nashville and Las Vegas, is joining the lineup for the “Vegas Cares” tribute show at the Venetian Theatre this Sunday. She plans to perform “Mercy,” from her 2015 album “Picking Up the Pieces,” a song that is serving as inspiration for the purpose of the event.

Acclaimed abstract artist Tim Bavington, who moved to Las Vegas in 1993, has picked that song as the focus of a permanent monument honoring first responders and those affected by the tragedy. Funds raised will furnish the materials for this project, which is still in its infancy.

Bavington is donating his time, and Jewel her voice, to the effort.

Read about this event now in the Las Vegas Review-Journal here:

https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/entertainment-columns/kats/jewel-helps-las-vegas-pick-up-the-pieces/

#timbavington #jewel

Allison Schulnik’s exhibition “Nest” is on view now in Madrid, Spain closing on November 3, 2017.

This exhibition includes new paintings, drawings and sculpture inspired by her recent travels to Scotland. For more information, go to:

http://javierlopezferfrances.com/exhibitions/2017-09-21_allison-schulnik/

We are 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.

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 YORAM WOLBERGER 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

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Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to announce the release of three new sculpture works by gallery artist YORAM WOLBERGER. The artist has just released a new edition of his trademark oversized fiberglass sculptures. Much like the (now sold-out) “Cowboy and Indian” series and the “Trophy” series of sculpture works, Wolberger’s new “Toy Soldiers” strike a chord for nostalgic Americana and pop culture.

YORAM WOLBERGER
Toy Soldier #4, (Offhand Position), 2016
3D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, Reinforced Fiberglass Composite, Urethane
Approximate dimensions: 72 x 60 x 24 inches (182.9 × 152.4 × 61 cm)
Edition: 3 + 2 A/Ps
Price Upon Request

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.”

YORAM WOLBERGER

Soldier Portrait #2, 2016

From the series Toy Soldier Series
Cast Resin
20 × 10 × 10 in (50.8 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm)
Edition 5/5 + 2AP

Price Upon Request
Yoram 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.

Frontal View: YORAM WOLBERGER, Soldier Portrait #2, 2016

From the series Toy Soldier Series

ABOUT THE ARTIST – BY ART CRITIC MARK MIAN:

“Wolberger’s body of work encompasses a variety of everyday objects; toys, models, appliances, furniture. His method is the painstaking manipulation of these iconic artifacts. Grossly enlarging, dissecting or reconstructing them, he overthrows their utilitarian context to expose associations normally concealed by their continuity with the environment. His pieces are at times ironic and personal, even tender, while at others they are highly critical.”

“Transformed beyond their expected appearance, construction or functioning, Wolberger’s arrestingly mutated objects stimulate renewed contemplation of their ideological origins and significance. Typically, his sculptural interventions employ three principal approaches for evicting viewers from their comfort zone of habituated perception.”

“By slicing and collapsing familiar household objects, Wolberger demolishes reassuring symbols of domestic comfort and stability. Still standing, a refrigerator cut into layers provokes the uneasy feelings of instability and displacement that arise when trusted relationships are cut. Turning things inside out, deconstructing and reconstructing objects into newly functioning configurations, he exposes the intimate personal space housed within and around them. Through such manipulation he explores the construction of meaning at the junction of our physical, social and personal worlds.”

“Through his process of enlargement, he meticulously magnifies toy figurines and models to expose the flawed faces of our cultural ideals. Gun-slinging cowboys and brutish Indians, the iconic American “good guys and bad guys”, idolize society’s original villains and heroes. His toy soldiers and chromed sports trophy figurines aggrandize our essential ideals of heroism, patriotism, physical prowess and beauty that drive our economy. A life size wedding cake bride-and-groom garishly mass-markets marital love as pure saccharine sweetness. Now, he is enlarging unassembled toy models of war machines to confront us with our society’s industrialized vision of peace through rigidly uniform order.”

“Each of Wolberger’s sculptures is a perfectly rendered tribute to the pantheon of imperfect stereotypes upon which our society’s continuing order is dependent. Seeking a unified view beyond the contradictions of cultural concept and physical form, his art transcends the realms of the trivial and the traumatic.”

YORAM WOLBERGER
Soldier Portrait #1, 2015
Resin cast
20 × 10 × 10 in (50.8 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm)
Edition 3/3 + 1AP

YORAM WOLBERGER is featured in a recent issue of  Beautiful Decay Magazine article “Toy Art: Artists Incorporate The Objects Of Our Youth” along with Jeff Koons, Urs Fischer, Hans Hemmert, Joe Black, Maurizio Cattelan, Jud Bergeron, and Hiroshi Fuji.

Check it out online at the following link.

YORAM WOLBERGER, Soldier Portrait #1, 2015 (detail image)

You can find additional available works by this artist and prices on our ARTSY website at: https://www.artsy.net/mark-moore-gallery

For more information on this artist and the Mark Moore Fine Art program please check out our website: www.markmoorefineart.com

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