Mark Moore Fine Art Blog

Mark Moore Gallery is thrilled to announce that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) recently confirmed its acquisition of gallery artist Allison Schulnik’s award-winning work titled Mound, (2011). Featuring an array of hand-sculpted and sewn puppets, the labor-intensive piece took over eight months, at times requiring 2 hours to create a single frame. The musical accompaniment to the film is “It’s Raining Today,” graciously lent by legendary singer-songwriter Scott Walker. Originally released in 1969, the moody melodramatic song perfectly reflects the simultaneous solidarity and isolation in her world of “rejects, misfits and their landscapes.”

Congratulations, Allison!

Allison Schulnik / Film Still from Mound, 2011 / Video / total running time 4:24 minutes

Starting on September 1, 2013, you can see Cheryl Pope‘s “Up Against” (2010) video at the University of Texas, Austin, campus. Curated as part of the university’s Landmarks Public Art Program, the video will be on view through the end of the month, and will receive between 2,000-3,000 visitors per day. Additionally, the program curators will also write an essay about Cheryl’s work and publish part of the video on their website and mobile app.  This original content draws about 4,500 unique visitors per week, and will be a uniquely digital way to experience Cheryl’s work online.

Says the program curator:

“Landmarks Video introduces students and the general public to the most highly regarded and influential works of video art from the past five decades. The program aims to familiarize the university community with important titles, stimulate conversation and research, and situate the genre of video art alongside the presentation of more traditional works.”

Other invited artists to the Landmarks video program have included Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, and Bruce Nauman, among many others.

To view Cheryl’s video, please visit the ART building located on the corner of East 23rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard. Adjacent to art history classrooms and the Visual Arts Center galleries, the media station is in an open atrium that provides stadium seating for viewing from 8 am to 9 pm daily. Headsets to optimize sound may be checked out from the Visual Arts Center reception desk during operating hours.

Mark Moore Gallery is thrilled to announce that the Hammer Museum recently confirmed its acquisition of Untitled (Budget Decadence), (2008 )by gallery artist Christopher Russell. The piece was acquired specifically for the Grunwald Center Collection, which is comprised of more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books dating from the Renaissance to the present.

Congratulations, Christopher!

Christopher Russell, Untitled (Budget Decadence), 2008. Ultrachrome print scratched with a razor, 24 x 36 inches, Grunewald Center Collection, Hammer Museum.

The Sweeney Art Gallery’s newest exhibition, “ESSENTIAL: Selections from the Permanent Collection Celebrates UCR Sweeney Art gallery’s 50th Anniversary” will feature three gallery artists – Christopher Russell, Stephanie Washburn, and Yoram Wolberger –  that are included in the institution’s collection.

Featuring more than 25 artists and representing five decades of collecting, this expansive group show of museum acquisitions highlights a variety of media ranging from video installations, drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, books, postcards, posters, and prints. The exhibition, curated by Tyler Stallings, Director, will open June 29th and will run through September 28th, 2013.

Yoram Wolberger, Petting Zoo, 2004, cast plastic, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Permanent Collection.

Opening this Saturday, June 22, from 4-7pm,  is “Just Yell,” a solo exhibition by MMG artist, Cheryl Pope. Taking place at moniquemeloche gallery, “Just Yell” is the culmination of a year long collaboration between the artist and over 300 Chicago Youth responding to the current gun violence plaguing the city. In addition to her own studio work, Pope has also orchestrated a number of performances, interventions and public events (or “yells”) that aim “to make the invisible visible in a less temporal space and format than the morning news. These yells ask each of us to confront a reality that is both present and absent simultaneously.”

Says the gallery:

“On opening night Saturday, June 22nd,  Phoenix Military Academy will perform along with a selection of young poets performing their spoken word to viewers as they ride in classic muscle cars, through Wicker Park and Humboldt Park, in a piece titled ‘Drive by in 5 Acts.’  A series of public events will continue each Saturday during the run of the exhibition starting with the Teen Creative Agency (TCA) from the Museum of Contemporary Art, who will be installing their ‘Living Room’ program at the gallery on Saturday, June 29th; additional events to be announced.”

This exhibition is not to be missed. For more information, please visit moniquemeloche gallery’s website.

Opening July 12th at the Monterey Museum of Art is MMG’s Andrew Schoultz’s solo exhibition entitled, In Process: Andrew Schoultz. For the exhibition Schoultz will create a site-specific installation and mural on the walls of the Jane and Justin Dart Gallery at the Museum’s La Mirada location (in progress already, as seen below), based upon the local histories of Monterey. The artist will also present his wildly gilded Fallout installation in the McCone Gallery, as previously exhibited at Mark Moore Gallery.

The exhibition opens Saturday, July 12th from 6-8pm, and runs through November 17, 2013.

Andrew Schoultz’s mural in progress for his Monterey Art Museum solo exhibition.

Congratulations to gallery artist, Jason Salavon, for being included in Art + Auction‘s current issue, “50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectible Artists.” Alongside peers like Cory Arcangel, Matthew Brandt, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and Laura Owens, Salavon made the curated shortlist of emerging to mid-career contemporary artists to watch closely. Says writer Eric Bryant:

Salavon’s works illuminate how new technology infiltrates our culture and consciousness. But it’s his talent for conceptual clarity, matched by an affinity for formal beauty, that earned him such a broad-based following. When L.A.’s Mark Moore Gallery brought several ethereal images Salavon constructed by layering portraits by several Old Masters to the 2010 PULSE art fair in Miami, they sold out in just a few hours.”

To read the full copy, please visit Jason’s artist page on the gallery website, or pick up a hard copy of the magazine!

After nearly seven years of design, fabrication, and selection committees, Tim Bavington’s new work,”Louie Louie”(2013) will debut at the Edith Green/Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland (OR) this Thursday, May 30th. Marking the second three-dimensional work Bavington has ever created, “Louie Louie” is made entirely of water jet cut cast acrylic; transforming his traditionally two-dimensional painting practice into translucent sculptural form.

Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the modernization of the 35-year old building is designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for its use of cutting-edge sustainable design and technology. As part of its re-design and modernization, the building’s art committee felt Bavington’s work would perfectly compliment the contemporary aesthetic and concept behind the venue’s interest in technology. We congratulate Tim on this major project, and the upcoming dedication ceremony this week.