Mark Moore Fine Art Blog

The gallery congratulates program artist TIM BAVINGTON on his induction into the UNLV Entertainer/Artist Hall of Fame last night!

Says the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

“[The new inductees are] Tim Bavington, a visual artist whose body of work includes the striking transformation of music into color; Sue Kim, a singer and musician who, with her sisters, left South Korea and became international singing stars; and, of course, the late Joe Williams, one of the most acclaimed jazz vocalists ever.

All three artists and entertainers — along with UNLV arts supporter June Brennan and UNLV alumnus Ronnie Vannucci of the band The Killers — will be honored Thursday evening during the 11th annual Nevada Entertainer/Artist Hall of Fame induction ceremony and dinner at UNLV.

Bavington, Kim and Williams, the three Hall of Fame honorees, will receive the Sidney award, named for award-winning movie director and producer George Sidney, who worked with such stars as Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable, Ann-Margret, Lana Turner and Howard Keel. (Fans of Las Vegas cinema know that Sidney also directed Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret in 1964’s ‘Viva Las Vegas.’ “

We are very proud of Tim, and congratulate him on this career milestone.

Congratulations to Mark Moore Gallery artist CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL who appears in the new copy of “The Photobook: A History Volume III” authored by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. The third and final volume in Phaidon’s acclaimed Photobook series, hailed as ‘the most important contribution to the field since modern histories of photography began to appear in the early 20th century’ (photo-eye).

The Photobook: A History Volume III

The gallery is proud to announce Penelope Umbrico‘s inclusion in the 2014 Dallas Biennial! On view through May 31, 2014, the exhibition takes place throughout the city in dozens of different venues – and will coincide with the upcoming Dallas Art Fair (in which the gallery is participating April 10-13). Curated by Michael Mazurek and Jesse Morgan Barnett, the Dallas Biennial features Umbrico’s a site-specific piece from her “Sunset Portraits from Flickr Sunsets” series, as well as her video, “Neverending Sunset (Second Life).”

Should you find yourself in the Dallas area, please visit her work on view at Oliver Francis Gallery.

Gallery artist Jeremy Fish has just put the finishing touches on his latest limited edition print (pictured below), “Bumble Beer Belly” (2014). The print’s full release will coincide with his upcoming solo exhibition’s opening reception on April 5, 2014, but for the first time, the gallery is making pre-order requests available to collectors and fans of Fish’s work. The work’s full details are:

Jeremy Fish, “Bumble Beer Belly” (2014)
screen print, signed and numbered on Mohawk Superfine Smooth Ultrawhite 100 stock
Printed by Bloom Press, Oakland, CA
14 x 11 inches
$80 + $5 shipping and processing fee
(9.5% sales tax to CA recipients will also apply)

To pre-order this print, please email the gallery at info@markmooregallery.com with your request, and you will be contacted by one of our sales associates for processing. Please note that this is a small edition of 50 prints, which are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Please also join us for the opening reception on April 5th, from 6-8pm, for Jeremy’s solo show, “Hunting Trophies.” A full preview of works included in the exhibition will be available starting April 1, 2014.

Mark Moore Gallery will participate in the upcoming Dallas Art Fair (April 11-13, 2014), as well as artMRKT San Francisco (May 15-18, 2014). For both fair presentations, the gallery will feature new works by program artists – which will be available for preview the week before each fair opens.

Located at the Fashion Industry Gallery – adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the revitalized downtown Arts District – the 2014 Dallas Art Fair will feature over 90 prominent national and international art dealers and galleries exhibiting painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, and installation by modern and contemporary artists.

Similarly, artMRKT San Francisco is the Bay Area’s premier contemporary and modern art fair. Featuring scores of galleries from around the globe, the fair brings some of the world’s most intriguing artists and galleries to the Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center. In showcasing historically important work alongside relevant contemporary pieces and projects, artMRKT creates an ideal context for the discovery, exploration and acquisition of art.

For more information about special events, featured artists, or tickets, please contact the gallery.

The gallery is proud to announce “New Work,” a solo exhibition by gallery artist Tim Bavington, at Bentley Gallery (AZ). Opening on Thursday, March 6 (6-8pm), the exhibition will act as a survey of the artist’s most celebrated techniques.

As featured on Artsy this week, the show will debut new, dynamic paintings:

“Tim Bavington’s intense fields of psychedelically colored stripes, on view in his upcoming show at Bentley Gallery, might not appear at first glance to relate to music, but underpinning these paintings is the artist’s experience of popular music by the likes of the Rolling Stones, Oasis, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, and Neil Young, among other rock icons. Cultivating his own sort of synesthesia, Bavington assigns musical notes to tones of color and compositional elements, so that his paintings seem to pulsate and reverberate with rhythmic bands of synthetic polymer paint. Some of his more swirling, curvilinear compositions might recall digital visualizations of music. His work has been compared to the intoxicatingly atmospheric qualities of a Mark Rothko and Dan Flavin’s neon bars of light, and Bavington’s paintings, a bit like Rothko’s, appear to alter slightly when viewed from different vantage points, the clean stripes blurring when seen up-close, to mesmerizing effect.”

For more information about available works, or opening reception details, please contact Bentley Gallery.

Opening this Thursday, February 27th (from 6-8pm) is “Palinopsia,” an inaugural New York solo exhibition by MMG artist, Julie Oppermann. Presented by Joshua Liner Gallery, the exhibition will feature several large-scale paintings and works on paper by the Berlin-based artist.

Says the gallery:

“The title of the exhibition refers to a visual phenomenon, which occurs when the image of an object seems to linger in the eyes even after the original object is absent—much like when looking directly into a light source and then looking away. However, Palinopsia is a much stronger visual occurrence – as the afterimage is more intense and lasts much longer. The artist’s background in neuroscience and study of color theory both support and stimulate the nature of the work she creates.”

The exhibition will remain on view through March 29, 2014. For additional information, please direct inquiries to Joshua Liner Gallery.

For the past five years, the Hawaiian city of Kakaako has hosted “Pow! Wow! Hawaii,” an annual art festival that brings together artists from around the world to create colorful murals on the buildings’ “boring beige walls.” According to the festival’s founder, Jasper Wong, the festival is about “beautifying a neighborhood, changing a neighborhood through art.”

This year, gallery artist Andrew Schoultz was invited to participate in the mural project along with 100 other artists in Honolulu for one week  – an all-encompassing project that included painting, art openings, and talks. This year, Pow! Wow! also produced the first curated show at the Honolulu Museum of Art School, titled Pow! Wow! Exploring the New Contemporary Art Movement, which closed on February 15th.

We congratulate Andrew on the completion of his latest mural, and for being included in this exciting project.