The gallery has been highlighted in a new posting by the Forecast Editor in Public Art Review titled, “Elevating Artists: Why one gallery owner has a formal public art program.” The article focuses on Mark Moore’s long history of making public art an integral part of gallery programming.

The article begins:

“The distinction between “gallery art” and public art usually goes more or less unquestioned, but one veteran gallery owner is blurring the line between the two by running an active public art program out of his art space in Culver City, California.

Mark Moore moved his Mark Moore Gallery to the western Los Angeles community in 2011, after 17 years in Santa Monica and, before that, 10 years running the Works Gallery in Long Beach. “I got involved with artists doing work with light and space back then,” he says, “and I learned that public art was a tricky thing. My artists lost money on it.”

The experience suggested to him that he could help public artists get a better deal while at the same time promoting work that promotes his gallery. In Culver City, he helps any of the artists he represents who express an interest in doing public work.”

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YORAM WOLBERGER, CA Mission, 2011 / Reinforced Fiberglass, Steel, Urethane Paint, H18 ft x L 14ft x 6 in
“Millennium Tower”” Public Art Commission (San Francisco, CA)

Gallery artist Andrew Schoultz has a new interview out in The Hundreds about his current show, Cyclical Nature. In the interview Schoultz discusses his evolving process, his recurring themes, and his plans for the future. When asked for his best piece of advice, this is what he had to say:

“I do not really know 100% for sure what my best piece of advice would be. As an artist, I would definitely say stay true to your own voice and vision and follow through with it. Sometimes you will not know if something works until you complete it, and many times you learn a lot more from failure than you do from success. As a human, I would say to remember to slow down and enjoy the moment you are in and the people you are around. You never know, they could be gone tomorrow. As an artist living to some degree in this thing called the “Art World,” it is very easy to get caught up in all the social ladder-climbing games and “cool guy” shit. It can be very distracting and depressing if you let it. It can consume you and you can really lose perspective on what is really important in life. I have had tastes of this in the past and then realized later how far my head was up my ass. I would also say it is always good to stay humble in all of this. As an artist whose goal is longevity in this, you quickly realize the ebbs and flows of a long-lasting career. There have been extreme highs and lows, and it is good for the soul to accept that and realize that anything that comes fast also leaves fast. Patience is a virtue.”

Click here to read the whole interview.

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

A new essay about gallery artist Penelope Umbrico is out now in Circulation| Exchange and Medium. The piece, written by Kate Palmer Albers, details and contextualizes Umbrico’s project “A Proposal and Two Trades.”

In the essay Albers writes:

“A Proposal and Two Trades” is as elegantly simple as its title suggests yet the project reveals the complexity of how we read, make, exchange, consume, and circulate photographic images today, both as everyday practice and into artworld circles. It is a complexity that largely goes unnoticed as our habits slowly shift to accommodate the vast changes in casual image making over the last decade. But by breaking it down into collaborative components that appear over time in a variety of viewing venues, “A Proposal and Two Trades” neatly embodies the particular nuances of our contemporary image-scape. Its various iterations evoke the movement of images today through physical and digital spaces, the newly possible connections among strangers that our culture’s technologies allow and suggest, and the uncomfortable edges of the art world market and the less-commodifiable exchanges these deeply corporate devices and platforms enable.

Click here to read the essay in its’ entirety.

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

Gallery artist Jean Shin will be doing a TedX talk titled, Truths Be Told Through Art, this Sunday in Cape May (NJ).

From the article, “TedxCapeMay Returns for “Truth Be Told“:

Jean Shin offers insight into the art making process and engages the audience in the collective truths we experience as a society. The presentation will share behind-the-scene stories of individuals the artist has met in various communities while making art in the public realm. 

Jean is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community. Her work has been widely exhibited in major national and international museums, including in solo exhibitions at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona (2010), Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC (2009), the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (2006), and Projects at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (2004).

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

A new article on Andrew Schoultz‘s exhibition, Cyclical Nature, is online now at CRAVE. Written by Nicole Borgenicht, the article delves deep into the political nature of the exhibition and the concepts behind  Schoultz’s work.

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Cyclical Nature is currently on view at Mark Moore Gallery through October 31st. For more information about the artist or available work, please email info@markmooregallery.com

Gallery artist Zemer Peled was featured in Financial Times, UK over the weekend, in a new article titled, “Shards Apart.” The article reflects on Peled’s time at Royal College of Art in London, and her unique approach to working with porcelain.

Click here for a PDF version of the article.

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

Andrew Schoultz has spent the last two weeks painting a mural on the side of the gallery.  Here are some shots of the work in progress:

Andrew’s show, Cyclical Nature runs at the gallery through October 31st.
For more information about the artist or available work, please email info@markmooregallery.com

Gallery artist Allison Schulnik is part of a new show, “Better Far Pursue a Frivolous Trade by Serious Means, than a Sublime Art Frivolously” at CSULA Fine Art Gallery. The show is curated by Lia Halloran and Rebecca Campbell and runs October 5-October 29.

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

Gallery artist Kiel Johnson is part of “Artists on Edge”, a group show at Cypress College Art Gallery curated by Mat Gleason.

From the press release:

The exhibit centers on the work and influence of the late Chris Burden who passed away earlier this year at the age of 69. Gleason posits that Burden’s penchant for finding the edge of every medium he touched was where his greatest influence occurred. Assembled here are historic works by Burden and nine contemporary artists, each with a debt to Burden and yet also finding a unique way to push their specific visual art mediums to the edge of what is possible.

Instead of tying these artists together, the exhibit seeks to show that the schools of thought embraced by Chris Burden were, like Burden’s art, unruly tentacles that stretch and threaten. The intensity of what one contemporary master created is shown to live on and grow into new forms of art.

The Creative Lives has published a new documentary on gallery artist Andrew Schoultz.

The Creative Lives aim is “to capture the nature of an artist; the struggles they have, the doubts that arise, and the victory of creating something you’re proud to sign. ”

What they have to say about Andrew Schoultz:

A seasoned muralist, Andrew Schoultz practiced his craft illegally on walls throughout San Francisco before successfully pitching his skills to Aaron Noble and the influential Clarion Alley Project. In years since he has refined his work to a state of mastery and continues, both in and out of the studio, to produce an ever changing and deeply profound body of work. In his show “Compound Eyes On The World” at Marx and Zavattero Gallery in San Francisco, Andrew presented work exploring the blur of mob perspective in the modern world.

Andrew has work right now in two incredible exhibitions. He has an installation and a gigantic painting at the Long Beach Museum of Art for their show Vitality and Verve which is up until Oct 25th. He also has a solo show entitled Cyclical Nature at Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles up until October 31st. You must see this work in person the detail is incredible, please give yourself the gift of art and visit these works while you can.

Click here to watch the documentary.