Mark Moore Fine Art Blog

In celebration of her grotesque, eerie, and uncannily beautiful ceramics, Artnews selected gallery artist Allison Schulnik to represent the “Fractured Fairytales” and “Life’s A Beach” trends in contemporary ceramic art. Focusing on ten major trends in this genre, the publication also highlighted the work of Lynda Benglis, Robert Chamberlain, and several other artists that exemplified the re-emergence of the glazed arts.

On May 9th, gallery artist Julie Heffernan made a radio appearance on Bloomberg Radio’s The Hays Advantage. Along side Sharon Louden, the two discussed Louden’s book, Living and Sustaining a Creative Life. The book, edited by Louden, compiles 40 essays by working artists, including Julie Heffernan, about their commitment to creativity in all aspects of life. In the interview, Heffernan describes how her life as an artist changed in some fundamental ways after having her little boy. Louden and Heffernan also discuss the challenges women face as artists in comparison to male peers. Louden and Heffernan speak with Bloomberg’s Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn. To download the program, please click here.

Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays By 40 Working Artists

Listen to the Interview Here:

Currently on view at Eric Firestone Gallery (NY) is “Dazed and Confused,” a group show featuring work by gallery artist Ryan Wallace. Also featuring Grant Barnhart, Bhakti Baxter, Kelsey Brookes, James Clar, Evie Falci, Ted Gahl, Field Kallop, Andrew Kuo, Pryce Lee, Brian Porray, Jaime Scholnick, and Jen Stark, the show explores “that ineffable ‘aesthetic emotion,’ when the viewer is moved completely by the formal qualities of art.”

The exhibition remains on view through June 15th.

The gallery is proud to announce Julie Oppermann‘s nomination for the 2014 Berlin Art Prize! Says the jury:

From over 1200 in Berlin resident applicants, the jury has chosen the following 29 artists for candidacy for the Berlin Art Prize in 2014: Malte Bartsch, Jean-Baptiste Bouvet, Ulu Braun, Dennis Buck, Jenny Brosinnski, Paolo Chiasera, Des Ptohograhpies, Sophia Domagala, Louise Gibson, Daniel Grüttner, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Kaoru Hirano, Daniel Hoflund, Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Nico Ihlein, Bernd Imminger, Anne Lass, Dafna Maimon, Julie Oppermann, Oliver Pietsch, Ethna O´Regan, Jonathan Rescigno, Hoji Tsuchiya, Katarina Unger, Benjamin de Burca und Barbara Wagner, Elmar Vestner, Oliver Walker, Kai Zimme.

The jury, which did not learn the names of the participants before their selection include: Cosima von Bonin (artist), Kimberly Bradley (journalist and critic, including for Frieze, The New York Times, and Süddeutsche Zeitung), Nicolaus Schafhausen (curator, Director of the Kunsthalle Wien), Judith Hopf (artist and professor at the Städel School in Frankfurt), and Egill Sæbjörnsson (artists and musicians).

From the group of nominated artists, the jury determined three winners of the Berlin Art Prize 2014 in the categories of “Best Concept,” “Most Beautiful Composition,” and the “Jury Prize.” The winners will be announced on June 14th, 2014. Coinciding with the ceremony is also the opening reception for the group exhibition in which the work of all nominees will be presented. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive program of music, readings and performances.

We congratulate Julie on this exciting nomination, and wish her the best of luck!

Allison Schulnik will have a video included in tonight’s (June 5, 2014) short film screening for “Veils,” an exhibition that also includes works by Marnie Weber, Jim Shaw, Jaimie Warren, Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe, Lucile Littot, Nickolaus Typaldos, and Jeffrey Vallance. Taking place at The Underground Museum, the screening doors will open at 8pm, and films begin right after dusk, under the moon and stars. The venue has specified that while seating will be provided, you can bring extra blankets and pillows for floor seating if you wish! This event is free to attend and a cash bar will be present.  

See you there!

Gallery artist Kiel Johnson will have work included in the Torrance Art Museum‘s upcoming group exhibition, “WATCHMEN – Surveillance and The Flaneur.” Curated by Max Presneill, Lisa DeSmidt and Chris Reynolds, the exhibition “examines the relationship between the notion of the Flaneur and the City derive under the pressure of being watched via CCTV cameras and monitoring. How does one engage with the disinterested observations of the wandering eye when self-consciousness about being both the observer and the observed interfere with the experience?”

Additional artists in the exhibition include: Shagha Ariannia, Lindsay Bottos, Sergio Bromberg, Tyler Calkin, Sophie Calle, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Zavier Ellis, Darren Hostetter, Susan Logoreci, Alexis Milne, MAP: Mobile Arts Platform, Mark Nelson, Dane Picard and Kari Reardon, with Special Opening Screenings by Vito Acconci, Jenny Holzer and Sterling Ruby.

The show opens this Saturday, June 7th, from 6-8pm, and will remain on view through July 26th, 2014.

The gallery is looking to hire a part time, remote employee for the position of “Remote Registrar.” This position requires that the employee be present in the gallery on Saturdays only, and work on select projects from home on his/her own timetable – as guided by the Director. A full job description is below:

Remote Registrar
Position Overview (Part Time)

Must be physically present in gallery Saturday, 11am-6pm (or possibly 8pm, as required by opening receptions every 4-6 weeks) positioned in Director’s office side desk. Log hours from home into shared GoogleDoc as required by projects from remote location or home during the week.

Remote Tasks:
• Produce Statements catalogues with interviews, and correspond with artists to procure images, information, and text related to book.
• Write selected press releases for upcoming exhibitions.
Onsite Tasks (Saturdays Only):
• Update LinkedIn and new contacts as required by supervising staff
• Occasionally write blog posts as asked by supervising staff
• Update, replace, and re-format artist bios on server and website as needed
• Format new press articles and links, place on server and website
• Update artist pages on website accordingly with new press, collections acquisitions, or exhibitions/images
• Maintain and update Artsy, Artnet inventory online
Required Skills:
• Excellent verbal and written communications
• Graphic Design experience: preferably Photoshop and InDesign
• Ability to self-manage deadlines, routine inventory checks, etc.
Beneficial Skills:
• Familiarity with ArtBase, Artsy inventory systems, and WordPress

 
Compensation follows the guidelines for part time employees, and is managed/logged by the employee under the supervision of the Director. No benefits shall apply to this position.

Interested candidates may send resumes to:

INFO@MARKMOOREGALLERY.COM

Subject: “Remote Registrar Position.”

No phone calls, please.

Congratulations to Mark Moore Gallery artist, Penelope Umbrico, whose work “TVs from Craigslist” (2008-2011) was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA) for its permanent collection.

PENELOPE UMBRICO / Detail from TVs from Craigslist, 2008-2011 / digital c-prints on metallic Kodak paper mounted on aluminum / Thirty-five unique elements; 11″ x 17″ each / Dimensions Variable / Permenant Collection of LACMA

Congratulations to Mark Moore Gallery artist, Tim Bavington, whose painting “She is Love” (2011) was recently acquired by the McNay Art Museum (TX) for its permanent collection.

Tim Bavington, She is Love, 2011 / Synthetic polymer on canvas / 72 x 72 inches / Collection of the McNay Art Museum

The gallery is pleased to share Annabel Osberg‘s review of David Klamen‘s current solo exhibition at the gallery! The full article discusses the works at length, here are a few key excerpts:

“Klamen works from the inside out: in copying an artwork with his own hand, he positions himself between his viewer and the depicted painting. In Struth’s photos, each painting is mediated by the camera and by the depicted viewers standing between the painting and the camera lens. Klamen’s paintings are more spatiotemporally disorienting because they present the viewer directly with a picture in the same medium as the depicted artwork: the viewer has the rather uncomfortable feeling of being a participant in the painterly recontextualization, not just a bystander…”

“When paintings become canonized in museums and art history books, they are effectively placed on a linear timeline subclassified by categories of movement and style. Klamen pulls paintings off the continuum and flattens them all onto the same plane into a new curatorial state, promoting new associations between them. Taken as a whole, Klamen’s entire show operates in much the same way as this single work…”

“In Klamen’s hands, art history is a pliable tool, an inexhaustible resource for creating new meanings. Few artists possess his ability to appropriate others’ work with such deadpan conspicuity and arrive at such inspiring results.”

The author also makes mention of the accompanying solo exhibition of paintings and collages by Joseph Hart:

“In the room adjacent to Klamen’s show is a concurrent exhibition by Joseph Hart, a New York-based artist engaged with art history in interesting contrast to Klamen. Hart’s paintings and collages vibrate with expressive lines and colorful snippets of paper in compositions reminiscent of Twombly, Kandinsky, and even Miro. The title of his show, “KISS IDIOMS,” bespeaks Hart’s autobiographical painterly language. In his collages, he juxtaposes idiosyncratic marks with bits and pieces of cut paper, paint chips, and fabric. Many of these collaged scraps are of personal significance to him: they are pieces of his work pants, his daughter’s stickers, studio detritus, scraps of deconstructed drawings. The result is engagingly diaristic and lyrical.”

David Klamen, Meta-Paintings 2, 2013. Oil on multiple canvases, 90 x 135 inches.

Joseph Hart,Untitled (K.I.04), 2014. Collaged paper, work pants, acrylic, oil crayon and graphite on paper, 50 x 38 inches.

See both exhibitions before they close on Saturday, June 21!