Mark Moore Fine Art Blog

Co-curated by Mark Moore Gallery, “L.A./Tex” at Dallas’ Circuit 12 Contemporary opened last Friday to a positive audience. Featuring work by gallery program artists Tim Bavington, Dimitri Kozyrev, Julie Oppermann, and Feodor Voronov, “L.A./Tex” focuses on four abstract painters that grapple with duality. Says the gallery:

“While each painter exemplifies a kind of hybrid experience in his or her work, they differ vastly in their execution, aesthetic, and biography – creating an eclectic commentary about the nature of modern amalgamation.  As Tim Bavington fuses his love of guitar melodies with hard-edge abstraction, Feodor Voronov weds his bilingual abilities with an Ab-Ex tradition of mark making. Ali Smith escorts the viewer on a journey between the macro and micro in the same way Julie Oppermann manipulates the perception of the digital and analog, while Dimitri Kozyrev translates a lineage of Russian constructivism into globalized abstraction.”

“L.A./Tex” remains on view through November 18th, 2013. For more information, please contact Circuit 12.

We are pleased to announce the Santa Barbara Museum of Art has acquired work by program artist Penelope Umbrico. “Viral Codes / Seasonal (Catalog Jewelry Arrangements)”, nos. 1-7, (1999-2001)″  will make its public debut at SBMA in their upcoming exhibition, “Heavenly Bodies,” which will be on view February 22 – May 25, 2014. This exhibition, drawn mainly from the permanent collection, will draw upon this strength and focus on images of astronomy. Ranging from the 19th century until today, the photographs in “Heavenly Bodies” address the miraculous universe, seen through the ever-changing lens of photography.

“Viral Codes / Seasonal (Catalog Jewelry Arrangements)” are photographs are of found arrangements of jewelry from consumer mail-order catalogs. The colors and compositions are a result of the seasonal marketing strategies used to sell the objects in the catalogs – a visual invasion parallel to seasonal viruses that invade the body.

We congratulate Penelope on this major milestone.

We are pleased to announce the Orange County Museum of Art has acquired work by program artist Penelope Umbrico. “Sunset Portraits from 9,673,302 Sunset Pictures on Fickr 8/31/11” (2013) is a major site-specific  installation work of almost 10 million images, and will make its public debut at OCMA in their upcoming exhibition, “California Landscape into Abstraction.” The show will have a soft opening on December 13, 2013, and will remain on view through mid-March of 2014.

Congratulations to Penelope on this major milestone.

On October 7th at 6 p.m., Lipscomb University’s John C. Hutcheson Gallery will host an art opening and artist talk for MMG’s Joshua Dildine. The solo exhibition will be Dildine’s first presentation of work in Nashville (TN), and will include a wide selection of new paintings by the artist as well as a Visiting Artist program developed by Dildine.

Says Lipscomb faculty member and curator, Rocky Horton:

“Why should you pay attention? Because Dildine makes work that will grab you — think late-’90s Mark Romanek video stills painted over by Jose Parla or Harmony Korine — but also because Lipscomb secretly harbors one of the hippest art programs in Nashville, name-checking Daniel Johnston and Nick Cave among its recent visitors.”

If you find yourself in the Nashville area, don’t miss this stunning show – which remains on view through November 1, 2013.

Moving Image Art Fair returns to the distinctive four-story Bargehouse, behind the Oxo Tower, for its third London edition, October 17-20, 2013. Moving Image London 2013 will host an international selection of over 30 single-channel videos, video sculptures, and larger video installations, presented by galleries from Europe, North America, South America, and the Middle East. Moving Image was conceived to offer a viewing experience with the excitement and vitality of a fair, while allowing moving-image-based artworks to be understood and appreciated on their own terms.

Mark Moore Gallery artist Josh Azzarella has been selected by the curatorial committee of Moving Image to present a solo video project. Focusing on his most recent work, “Untitled #160 (Balcombe),” Azzarella will make use of the venue’s unique characteristics in order to bring the eerie, haunting qualities of his video to life through projection.

For more information on fair hours, location, or special events, please visit the fair details page on the Moving Image website.

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will screen videos by gallery artists Josh Azzarella and Okay Mountain in its upcoming members-only program, “The Screening Room.” Taking place on September 19th, the event will feature video art by six emerging artists in SBMA’s Mary Craig auditorium. Renowned artist and UCSB alum Ilene Segalove, Karen Sinsheimer (Curator of Photography), and Julie Joyce (Curator of Contemporary Art) will introduce the videos answer questions about the nature of collecting video and new-media works.

To learn more about SBMA’s programming or membership, visit the support  website.

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal will feature work by Penelope Umbrico in its upcoming exhibition, Drone: The Automated Image. Visitors will have a chance to explore 25 concurrent exhibitions, all free of charge, in 14 sites across Montreal. Umbrico’s work will be featured in the Darling Foundry site, along with seven other artists selected by British curator Paul Wombell.

The exhibition runs from September 5 to October 5, 2013. For more information, please visit the exhibition website.