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MARK MOORE FINE ART presents “Pattern Harvest,” an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of eighteen new paintings by ALEX BLAU.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/4jsz2hP

Blau’s geometric works draw on disposable consumer goods, computer-generated architecture, and mandala-like forms to explore abstraction’s role in mass culture. Influences run from Ellsworth Kelly and Jeff Koons to the glossy colors of snack packaging.

Made by layering clear acrylic over airbrushed patterns, these small, soft-edged, shaped paintings have surfaces with real depth—cracks and imperfections are sealed into the work, leaving visible “scars” that reveal their handmade origins. Blau’s focus on materiality and sculptural presence aligns her with artists like Kelly and Frank Stella.

A devoted fan of snack-packaging aesthetics, Blau covers one studio wall with chip and snack wrappers sent from around the world. Their saturated colors and bold graphics often jumpstart her fully abstract compositions, placing high art references and everyday design on equal footing—a fitting visual democracy for the Internet age.

Blau holds an MFA from RISD and has presented solo exhibitions at the Frist Center, Firecat Projects (Chicago), Gallery Seomi (Seoul), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica), Kevin Bruk Gallery (Miami), Barbara Davis Gallery (Houston), and the New Britain Museum of American Art. She currently teaches at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University.

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Amy Elkins, Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt. Sacramento, California. August 1 (detail), 2025, Cyanotype on Cotton. Image courtesy the artist.

Amy Elkins: Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV presents Mourning Songs of Salt and Silt, an exhibition of memorial cyanotypes by artist Amy Elkins.

Using one of photography’s oldest processes, Elkins creates large, camera-free cyanotypes by exposing treated fabric to sunlight. For this intimate series, she incorporates her father’s ashes, surrounding viewers with constellations of ghostly, speckled blue.

Working with ash, salt, sand, and silt, and rinsing each piece in natural bodies of water, Elkins symbolically and materially reunites her father with the landscapes he loved—from the Pacific Ocean, recalling his years in a California marine biology lab, to freshwater creeks that echo his youth spent swimming with friends. The exhibition also includes artifacts from his life.

These works bring light, water, minerals, and memory together into portraits that speak to the uniqueness of a life, the transience of existence, and the ongoing act of letting go. As Elkins writes:

“Exposed in the sun as a means of holding on. Rinsed in bodies of water as a means of letting go. An action that both safekeeps his ashes and releases them into the natural world.”

On view in the Center Gallery of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from February 20–June 13, 2026.

Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Closed on state and federal holidays. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
702-895-3381
barrick.museum@unlv.edu

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Rebekah Andrade / Greens and Blues, 2025 / Acrylic and Pastel on Paper / 51 × 40 in / 129.5 × 101.6 cm / COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON

Mark Moore Fine Art is honored to share that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has acquired two works by REBEKAH ANDRADE for its permanent collection: “Greens and Blues” (2025) and “Study #9” (2021).

Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is the largest cultural institution in the region, with an encyclopedic collection especially renowned for pre-Columbian and African gold; Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture; 19th- and 20th-century art; photography; and Latin American art.

We are thrilled to see ANDRADE’s work join this world-class collection.

More on these works: https://bit.ly/4rePoNS

Learn more about MFAH: https://www.mfah.org/

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MARK MOORE FINE ART presents “Pattern Harvest,” an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of eighteen new paintings by ALEX BLAU.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/4jsz2hP

Blau’s geometric works draw on disposable consumer goods, computer-generated architecture, and mandala-like forms to explore abstraction’s role in mass culture. Influences run from Ellsworth Kelly and Jeff Koons to the glossy colors of snack packaging.

Made by layering clear acrylic over airbrushed patterns, these small, soft-edged, shaped paintings have surfaces with real depth—cracks and imperfections are sealed into the work, leaving visible “scars” that reveal their handmade origins. Blau’s focus on materiality and sculptural presence aligns her with artists like Kelly and Frank Stella.

A devoted fan of snack-packaging aesthetics, Blau covers one studio wall with chip and snack wrappers sent from around the world. Their saturated colors and bold graphics often jumpstart her fully abstract compositions, placing high art references and everyday design on equal footing—a fitting visual democracy for the Internet age.

Blau holds an MFA from RISD and has presented solo exhibitions at the Frist Center, Firecat Projects (Chicago), Gallery Seomi (Seoul), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica), Kevin Bruk Gallery (Miami), Barbara Davis Gallery (Houston), and the New Britain Museum of American Art. She currently teaches at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University.

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MARK MOORE FINE ART presents “Pattern Harvest,” an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of eighteen new paintings by ALEX BLAU.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/4jsz2hP

Blau’s geometric works draw on disposable consumer goods, computer-generated architecture, and mandala-like forms to explore abstraction’s role in mass culture. Influences run from Ellsworth Kelly and Jeff Koons to the glossy colors of snack packaging.

Made by layering clear acrylic over airbrushed patterns, these small, soft-edged, shaped paintings have surfaces with real depth—cracks and imperfections are sealed into the work, leaving visible “scars” that reveal their handmade origins. Blau’s focus on materiality and sculptural presence aligns her with artists like Kelly and Frank Stella.

A devoted fan of snack-packaging aesthetics, Blau covers one studio wall with chip and snack wrappers sent from around the world. Their saturated colors and bold graphics often jumpstart her fully abstract compositions, placing high art references and everyday design on equal footing—a fitting visual democracy for the Internet age.

Blau holds an MFA from RISD and has presented solo exhibitions at the Frist Center, Firecat Projects (Chicago), Gallery Seomi (Seoul), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica), Kevin Bruk Gallery (Miami), Barbara Davis Gallery (Houston), and the New Britain Museum of American Art. She currently teaches at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University.

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #alexblau #markmoorefineart 

MARK MOORE FINE ART presents “Pattern Harvest,” an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of eighteen new paintings by ALEX BLAU.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/4jsz2hP

Blau’s geometric works draw on disposable consumer goods, computer-generated architecture, and mandala-like forms to explore abstraction’s role in mass culture. Influences run from Ellsworth Kelly and Jeff Koons to the glossy colors of snack packaging.

Made by layering clear acrylic over airbrushed patterns, these small, soft-edged, shaped paintings have surfaces with real depth—cracks and imperfections are sealed into the work, leaving visible “scars” that reveal their handmade origins. Blau’s focus on materiality and sculptural presence aligns her with artists like Kelly and Frank Stella.

A devoted fan of snack-packaging aesthetics, Blau covers one studio wall with chip and snack wrappers sent from around the world. Their saturated colors and bold graphics often jumpstart her fully abstract compositions, placing high art references and everyday design on equal footing—a fitting visual democracy for the Internet age.

Blau holds an MFA from RISD and has presented solo exhibitions at the Frist Center, Firecat Projects (Chicago), Gallery Seomi (Seoul), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica), Kevin Bruk Gallery (Miami), Barbara Davis Gallery (Houston), and the New Britain Museum of American Art. She currently teaches at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University.

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #alexblau #markmoorefineart 

MARK MOORE FINE ART presents “Pattern Harvest,” an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of eighteen new paintings by ALEX BLAU.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/4jsz2hP

Blau’s geometric works draw on disposable consumer goods, computer-generated architecture, and mandala-like forms to explore abstraction’s role in mass culture. Influences run from Ellsworth Kelly and Jeff Koons to the glossy colors of snack packaging.

Made by layering clear acrylic over airbrushed patterns, these small, soft-edged, shaped paintings have surfaces with real depth—cracks and imperfections are sealed into the work, leaving visible “scars” that reveal their handmade origins. Blau’s focus on materiality and sculptural presence aligns her with artists like Kelly and Frank Stella.

A devoted fan of snack-packaging aesthetics, Blau covers one studio wall with chip and snack wrappers sent from around the world. Their saturated colors and bold graphics often jumpstart her fully abstract compositions, placing high art references and everyday design on equal footing—a fitting visual democracy for the Internet age.

Blau holds an MFA from RISD and has presented solo exhibitions at the Frist Center, Firecat Projects (Chicago), Gallery Seomi (Seoul), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica), Kevin Bruk Gallery (Miami), Barbara Davis Gallery (Houston), and the New Britain Museum of American Art. She currently teaches at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University.

#contemporaryart #abstractart #artcurator #artstudio #studioview #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #alexblau #markmoorefineart 

✨ Mark Moore Fine Art presents “Familiar”—an exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by Heidi Schwegler! ✨

Blending found objects with traditional sculpture, Heidi draws inspiration from her own story of resilience—growing up with severe lazy eye and learning the power of transformation. In this new work, she sculpts her “familiar”: a personal alter ego born from the spirits of the desert—coyote, mountain lion, and roadrunner—woven together with cholla and Mojave relics. Each piece is a tribute to survival, adaptation, and the wild beauty of the desert.

About Heidi: She transforms urban and desert fragments into striking works using glass, gold, and silver. Founder of Yucca Valley Material Lab, her art is part of collections at Portland Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Schneider Museum, Crocker Museum, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation.

Don’t miss this captivating online show at this link attached: https://bit.ly/47Gnlii

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Free MMFA Artist Catalogs Available Now

You can download free PDF versions of all the recent Mark Moore Fine Art exhibition catalogs at: 

http://issuu.com/markmooregallery

Artist catalogs available are: Penelope Umbrico; The Clayton Brothers; Cheryl Pope; David Klamen; Christopher Russell; Ben Weiner; Joshua Dildine; Kim Rugg; Feodor Voronov; Stephanie Washburn; John Azzarella; David Rathman; Vernon Fisher; Dimitri Kozyrev; Allison Schulnik; Ali Smith; Jeremy Fish; Kiel Johnson; Cindy Wright; Yigal Ozeri; Chad Person; Kim Dorland; and Tim Bavington.

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Excited to announce: Joshua Dildine’s first ARTSY online exclusive in 5 years! 🎨 “Wooly Bugger” features 8 new works by this California-based painter, from vibrant canvases to mixed-media pieces on photographs.

In this series, Dildine blends found autobiographical photos with dynamic, gestural painting to explore memory, family, and the quirks of nostalgia. Using images from fly fishing trips, he layers brushwork, saturated color, and digital (even AI) manipulations to disrupt and reinvent the original photos—blurring the boundaries between photography, painting, and abstraction.

Dive into the turbulence, clarity, and visual flux in these pieces that capture the ever-changing experience of wading through water and memory.

Now live on ARTSY—view the exhibition: https://bit.ly/4nZ9SZ6

About the artist: Dildine earned his MFA from Claremont Graduate University and has exhibited across California and beyond. His work is held in multiple museum collections.

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