Mark Moore Fine Art Blog

Shaun Gladwell is featured in a new article on The Australian, “For Simon Mordant, art ownership is relatively virtual.” The article details experiencing Gladwell’s work “Reversed Readymade,” in virtual reality.

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Spanish new media artist, Daniel Canogar has a special project titled Cannula on display at  the University of Salamanca. 

Electronic animation of Cannula refers directly to the pictorial tradition of abstract expressionism. In this case, the palette of the artwork projected onto the facade of the historic building of the University of Salamanca (Patio de Escuelas) is not painting, but videos posted on Youtube. A keyboard placed in front of the building will allow the public to enter a search in this audiovisual portal of Internet. Then a video of the introduced subject is downloaded. Projected onto the façade, it will eventually merge with the amalgam of videos from previous searches.

The gallery is proud to announce the The Baltimore Museum of Art’s acquisition of “Flayed Figure, Male, 3277 1/2 square inches” (1998), a major work by Jason Salavon.

 The Baltimore Museum of Art is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 95,000 works of art—including the largest holding of works by Henri Matisse in the world.

Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements derived from diverse visual populations. This often unearths unexpected patterns in the relationship between the part and the whole, the individual and the group. Reflecting a natural attraction to popular culture and the day-to-day, his work regularly incorporates the use of common references and source material. Often, the final compositions are exhibited as art objects – such as photographic prints and video installations – while others exist in a real-time software context.

Yoram Wolberger has peen picked in Phoenix New Times’ article, “10 Best Artworks We Saw in Metro Phoenix During May 2016,” for his exhibition at Bentley Gallery.

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The gallery is thrilled to announce that a major work by Christopher Russell, “Explosion #10” (2014), has been acquired by the Sheldon Museum of Art.

Sheldon Museum of Art’s landmark Philip Johnson–designed building houses the collections of the Sheldon Art Association, founded in 1888, and the University of Nebraska. Together, the collections comprise more than 12,000 artworks in diverse media. The museum’s comprehensive collection of American art includes prominent holdings of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop, minimalism and contemporary art.

Dealing less with the supernatural than the psychosomatic, Christopher Russell rouses ghosts. Within his scratched photographs, fractured glass panes, and hazy metallic paints, there are haunting recollections – the kind of outlier memories that plague our psyche well after childhood. Through a purposefully repressive fog, we habitually revisit the monsters of our innermost mentality, and find ourselves the protagonist of a lifelong plight – a cinematic tale evocatively illustrated by Russell’s eerie ships and spectral trees. Like a folkloric odyssey into a cognitive web, his mixed-media works and installations traipse through places of fragility and wistfulness; evidence of the divine and unsettling encounters inherent to our complex mortality.

This Saturday, June 4th,  Torrance Art Museum will present the North American premiere of Shaun Gladwell’s most recent film, “Skaters vs Minimalism”, starring Rodney Mullen, Hillary Thompson and Jesus Esteban.

Shaun Gladwell will be unveiling his largest work yet, “Skateboarders vs Minimalism”, in its North American premiere at the Torrance Art Museum. In this latest work, one of the world’s greatest skateboarders, Rodney Mullen, skates and grinds on and over iconic American Minimalist sculptures. Well-known sculptural forms by Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Dan Flavin are launched upon and flipped off by the legendary skateboarder within a museum environment in a video scored by the music of Philip Glass. Gladwell’s work plays on a series of videos that Mullen made in the 90s entitled “Rodney Mullen vs…”

This unique video work will be screened in its entirety inside the main gallery at the Torrance Art Museum where it was filmed.

Accompanying the premiere, the Torrance Art Museum is staging a day of skateboarding demos, skate videos and music by Variflex C3s, featuring artists/skateboarders Hagop Najarian, Lance Mountain and Mark Waters.

The event is free and open to the public.

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Jean Shin is part of Game On!, a new exhibition at Children’s Museum of the Arts in New York City.

On View:  May 31, 2016 – September 4, 2016 in the Cynthia C. Wainwright Gallery

Exhibiting Artists: Louisa Armbrust, Zoe Buckman, Dario Escobar, Michelle Grabner, Norm Paris, David Rathman, Christin Rose, Jean Shin, and Hank Willis Thomas

Children’s Museum of the Arts is pleased to announce Game On!, an exhibition about our passion for sport and how it has defined our individual and collective identities. Throughout history, the world of games —with its inversions of mastery, dependence on chance and reliance on both verbal and physical play—has intrigued and inspired visual artists. Game On! presents works by contemporary artists who take a reflective, critical or inspired look at sport and how we play the game. Addressing issues of identity, power, heroism, nostalgia, popular culture and gender, Game On! highlights a variety of media that reminds us that within every ruled system, there exists potential for creativity and exploration.

The artists featured in Game On!—Louisa Armbrust, Zoe Buckman, Dario Escobar, Michelle Grabner, Norm Paris, David Rathman, Christin Rose, Jean Shin, and Hank Willis Thomas—investigate the line between freedom and authority embodied in games and sports. From the portrayal of masculinity and femininity in boxing iconography, to wistful history preserved through photographs of abandoned basketball hoops, the works in Game On! explore an array of games and their dynamic histories.

Penelope Umbrico has been featured in a new article on Widewalls titled, “These Abstract Photographers Redefine Perception of the Real,” naming Umbrico as one of “the greatest masters in the history of Abstract Photography.”

Read the article here.

Umbrico’s show, Bad Display is at the gallery through June 18th.

Christopher Russell’s  show Ersatz Infinities has been reviewed by Cooper Johnson in Artillery Magazine.

Read the review here.

Ersatz Infinities runs through June 18th at the gallery.

 Andrew Schoultz has just completed his largest mural to date: a seven story high tree overlooking one of Manila’s busiest intersections. Schoultz spent 7 days on the mural, titled “The Heard of Gods Country,” as part of ArtBGC Mural Festival.