Mark Moore Fine Art Blog

Following her recent screening at LACMA‘s “Female Surrealist Cinema: Animation” program, and preceding her upcoming solo exhibition, Salty Air at Mark Moore Gallery, Allison Schulnik will have new work on view at Dodge Gallery (NY) starting Saturday, May 19th.

Curated with Janet Phelps, “Twisted Sisters is an exhibition of works that are made by women artists and depict women as the subjects. Inspired by 1960’s performance works wherein women turned to the body as the site of creation and content, the exhibition casts the body as protagonist.” Also featuring works by Marlene Dumas, Julie Heffernan, Kim McCarty, Dana Schutz, and twenty four others,Twisted Sisters is sure to delight through its fantasy and nuance.

The opening reception for this exhibition takes place Saturday, May 19th, 6-8pm; it will remain on view through June 24th, 2012.

Opening tonight at Larissa Goldston Gallery‘s new ground-level space in New York City, “Let’s See What Stirs” – a fifth solo show by David Rathman – puts us on the edge of our seat with the danger and vulnerability of the human experience. Hazy watercolor race cars, hockey players, and cowboys epitomize the nostalgia and want for strength and risk in popular masculine culture, and Rathman gives them new vitality through his judicious use of color.

Says the gallery, “For this exhibition, Rathman eschews traditionally recognizable art-historical influences and turns to contemporary culture for source material, appropriating images of events replete with intensity. ‘Let’s See What Stirs’ includes eight watercolors and a 9 -minute film.”

The exhibition remains on view through May 12, 2011. For more information, please visit the exhibition page.

If you’re heading to the Big Apple for the upcoming art fairs, be sure to check out an incredible selection of work from artists Chad Person, Feodor Voronov, Kenichi Yokono, and Yoram Wolberger – all under one roof at Joshua Liner Gallery, and curated by yours truly! As the inaugural bi-coastal exchange between JLG and MMG, Go East explores an array of sociopolitical issues through the varying methods and perspectives of these four emerging artists. Hailing from Los Angeles, Tokyo, San Francisco, and Albuquerque, the artists in Go East address cultural notions of  identity, pop culture, mark-making, and power. Ranging from woodcut, collaged currency, spiraling neon canvases, and life-sized toy sculptures, the studio practice of each artist is as diverse as his concept.

An opening reception for the show will be held April 19th from 6-8pm, and a secondary special event will also coincide with the 2012 Frieze and PULSE art fairs, hosted May 5th, from 7-9pm. Fore more information, visit the exhibition’s website – and be sure to keep an eye out for the second installment, Go West – featuring David Ellis and Kris Kuksi, coming to MMG in July!

Feodor Voronov, Kinetic, 2012 / Acrylic, spray paint, marker, and ball-point pen on canvas / 30.5 x 32 inches

Just in time for SXSW, The Austin Art Museum is staging a playful take on the game of contemporary art. An outdoor installation project at the Laguna Gloria Grounds, “Art on the Green” consists of ten interactive miniature golf course holes fashioned by Austin-based artists, architects, and landscape architects. For a mere $8, you too can putt your way through the most distinctive course ever made.

MMG artist collaborative Okay Mountain contributed their vision to the project with “School Night” (2012). In the artists’ words:

“With School Night, Okay Mountain stages a scene where a clandestine late-night gathering has taken place. The discarded trash and petty vandalism left behind suggest the transitional state between adolescence and adulthood, inhabited by teenagers who are too old for playgrounds but too young for bars.”

“Art on the Green” opens March 9th, and remains on view through May 20th, 2012. Please refer to the project website for hours of operation.

Like every good tech/art/sociopolitical enthusiast, MMG artist Kiel Johnson is savvy to the popular TED Talks series. Delving into topics ranging from saving sharks to the happy secret to corporate workstyle, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Development) is a conference series dedicated to Ideas Worth Spreading. Since Johnson has been heralded as quite the “idea factory” in the contemporary arts realm, TED has invited the artist to partake in next week’s Palm Springs conference.

Should you find yourself heading to the desert for five days of intellectual gluttony, make sure to stop by Kiel’s interactive and ongoing “‘Studies on an Airship Ride, City 2.0” project with the public. One part exhibit, one part workshop, Johnson’s tiny cardboard metropolis with transform and develop depending on its visitors. Says the artist:

“I will start the week with maybe 35% of the buildings on the table so folks feel like they can get involved in the early stages.   I built a ‘salad bar’ of all the parts and pieces that you need to build in this particular scale. Participants of the conference are able to sit down and work with me anytime during the day.  We will be adding to the city all week. ”

In between talks, chats, discussions, and debates – you too can build this city.

To say that Andrew Schoultz likes a sizable challenge is a vast understatement. Just when murals and wall-sized paintings seem staggering, Schoultz surprises us with a Lockheed VC 140 Jetstar spy plane as his newest canvas. Completed for the Pima Air & Space Museum‘s (AZ) “Round Trip: Art From the Boneyard Project,” Andrew’s plane is among several curated artist planes selected by Med Sobio (independent curator) and Lesley Oliver (Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art). The oversize exhibition opens January 28th, and runs through May, 2012. For more information, check out the feature article from Juxtapoz Magazine and the preview from Arrested Motion.

Additionally, Schoultz will be debuting a new large-scale wall collage and painting at the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair in Jerome Zodo Contemporary’s booth tonight – January 19th – which will remain on view through January 22, 2012. Schoultz is also producing new work for his upcoming two-person exhibition with Richard Colman at VI Gallery (Copenhagen), which opens March 16th, 2012. Should you find yourself near any of these venues in the next few months – make it a point to see these ambitious projects!

Julie Heffernan will soon be heading to Oklahoma to unveil her first career-to-date museum retrospective show at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, opening to the public on February 16th, from 6:30 – 8pm.

Julie Heffernan: Infinite Work in Progress, will be the 5th installment of the “New Frontiers” Series for Contemporary Art, and will feature twenty incredibly beautiful and complex paintings by the painter through May 13, 2012. Complete with an artist lecture and catalogue, Infinite Work in Progress will showcase a combination of foundational early works on loan from private collections, and brand new works from the studio that will preview her upcoming solo show with Mark Moore Gallery October 17 – December 15, 2012.