Mark Moore Fine Art Blog

In a new editorial by Artsy, Allison Schulnik discusses the creative process behind the works in Hoof, her solo show currently on view at Mark Moore Gallery. Rachel Will interviews her about her evolving relationships with painting and animation, the artistic blood that runs in her family, and her latest work.

Read the article here.

For more information about the artist or available work, please email info@markmooregallery.com.

Julie Heffernan‘s solo show at Mark Moore Gallery last year has been named one of the top ten shows of 2015 by art critic Shana Nys Dambrot, in Art ltd. Magazine.

Dambrot sums up the show by stating, “Luscious, alarming self-portraits and symbolist landscapes; trees in captivity, humans in the wild, climate change in art history. ”

See the entire list here.

Mark & Hilarie Moore have donated a major work by acclaimed California Minimalist painter Eric Orr to Albright-Knox Museum (Buffalo, NY) on behalf and in memory  of arts patron Henry Segerstrom, who passed away this year.

Founded officially in December 1862, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy—the governing body of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery—is among the country’s oldest public arts institutions in the United States. Since its inception as The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, the museum has been dedicated to acquiring, exhibiting, and preserving modern and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on the collection, presentation, and interpretation of the artistic expressions of our times. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s 150-year tradition of collecting, conserving, and exhibiting the art of its time has given rise to one of the world’s most extraordinary art collections. Thomas Hoving, art historian and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, said that “the Albright-Knox Art Gallery should be on everyone’s list to see, for it’s an overwhelming art experience. Small, intimate, and seductive, the museum has one of the most thumping modern and contemporary collections in the world.”

Red Ecliptic  | oil on canvas on gold leaf wrapped wood | 1987

Mark Moore Gallery is proud to present “Hoof,” the gallery’s fourth solo show from Los Angeles based artist Allison Schulnik. Consisting of several new paintings and sculptures, “Hoof” will be her first showing of new work with the gallery in nearly four years.

The opening reception is 6-8pm. There will be a Kogi taco truck in front of the gallery.

Mark Moore Gallery, 5790 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232

Go to http://www.markmooregallery.com/exhibitions/2016-01-09_allison-schulnik/ for more information on the show.

Gallery artist Allison Schulnik, along with 11 other artists,  was interviewed by i-D on which art shows first stimulated her creativity.

“It’s hard to remember the first exhibition that moved me, since there must have been many. I do have a clear memory of seeing a German Expressionist painting show at the San Diego Museum of Art sometime in high school (maybe 1995?). I remember, in particular, standing in front of Woman Knitting by Chaim Soutine and feeling a swell of something heavy. I’m not sure I could explain exactly what I felt or how it impacted me. I just knew it was a perfect painting. It solidified something inside of me.”

Read the entire interview here.

Schulnik’s solo show, Hoof opens tomorrow at Mark Moore Gallery.

Mark & Hilarie Moore and arts Patron Cecilia Dan have jointly donated a major 136 inch square work by acclaimed minimalist painter Mary Corse to The Ace Museum (Los Angeles) on behalf of and memory of arts patron Henry Segerstrom who passed away this year.

Ace Museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating through the exhibition of contemporary art. Ace Museum researches and executes unique exhibitions addressing a full range of artistic media, as well as exhibiting high caliber traveling exhibitions that may not otherwise be shown in Los Angeles. Ace Museum is committed to providing Los Angeles with an alternative exhibition experience and dynamic programs focused on increasing the audience’s capacity to engage with significant and challenging works, while fostering relationships with partner institutions to expand local, national, and international contemporary art and culture.

Mary Corse, Untitled (Black Light Arch), 1986, Glass Microspheres In Acrylic On Canvas, 138 x 136 inches

The gallery is thrilled to announce the Honolulu Museum of Art‘s acquisition of Jeffry Mitchell‘s  works, “In the Garden”(2014), for it’s permanent collection.

Founded in 1927, the Honolulu Museum of Art is Hawai‘i’s largest private presenter of visual arts programs, with an internationally recognized collection of more than 50,000 works spanning 5,000 years. In addition to the visual arts, film and concert programs, lectures, art classes and workshops make the museum the state’s cultural hub.

Jeffry Mitchell was born in Seattle in 1958. He received his MFA in printmaking at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. For more than twenty-five years Mitchell has produced idiosyncratic sculptures, drawings, and prints. His oeuvre seamlessly combines high and low references that span religion, sex, nature, fine art, and folk and decorative arts traditions. Mitchell has been nominated for numerous national awards and was a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant in 2009. Mitchell’s work can be found in numerous private and public collections including the Seattle Art Museum, Philadelphia Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), and the Portland Art Museum.

For more information about the artist or available work, please email info@markmooregallery.com.

Gallery artist Penelope Umbrico has a solo show opening at Bruce Silverstein Gallery on Thursday, January 7th.

For Silvery Light, Umbrico creates an installation of new photographic and video works related to her continued practice of utilizing the limitless archive of photographic images online. This new work investigates projective and reflective light in relation to the history of photography, digital imaging technologies, and the screen as light source.

Click here to learn more about the exhibition.

For more information about the artist or available works, please email info@markmooregallery.com.

In advance of her upcoming show at the gallery, Broadly talked to Allison Schulnik about being a loner, the craft worker mentality, and the mess of having a body.

Read the interview here.

Schulnik’s show Hoof opens this Saturday at Mark Moore Gallery.

The gallery is thrilled to announce Cress Gallery of Art of University of Tennessee Chattonooga‘s acquisition of a body of work by Okay Mountain for their permanent collecion. The works, Meditations 1-9, (2015)  were part of Staycation, Okay Mountain’s recent exhibition at Mark Moore Gallery.

Established in the early 1950’s and now near 700+ individual works in number, the Permanent Collection of Art at Cress Gallery is comprised of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional work in all media. Included in the collection are a large body of original prints and works on paper by 20th century Modern European and American artists such as Robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers, Dieter Roth, John Piper, Tom Phillips, Patrick Caldwell, Piero Dorazio, etc. (gift of the Ackermann Foundation, 1980); a large body of photographs from the 1970’s and 80’s by famed photographer and former Chattanooga resident Rosalind Solomon (on extended loan from the artist); works by distinguished alumni such as Barry Moser, Robin Hood, and Jack Denton (gifts of the artists), artists with local and regional ties such as Lillian B. Feinstein, Leonard Baskin, Frank Baselitz, Lamar Dodd, and Edward Shorter (various sources); and art faculty past and present such as E. Alan White and George Cress (University Purchases).

Okay Mountain is a nine member artist collective based in Austin, Texas. Formed in 2006 as an artist-run alternative gallery space, the group has exhibited their drawing, video, sound, and performance projects throughout the United States and in Mexico City, and has been widely recognized for its “inventive construction, loving attention to detail and keen-eyed connoisseurship.” Okay Mountain repackages, reconstitutes, and rekindles our consumerist desires with a sardonic edge. Their installations and multi-media assemblage works mimic the stock vernacular of our communal materialism, yet tweak them just enough to reveal our superficial insecurities and convictions.

For more information about the artist or available works, please email info@markmooregallery.com.