Check Out GIVE A BEAR HUG TO THE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU THER MOST – A New Documentary About Artist Heidi Schwegler

Posted on March 4, 2025 | Leave a comment

Check out the trailer to a short documentary about the artist HEIDI SCHWEGLER at: https://bit.ly/4g4UO8Y

GIVE A BEAR HUG TO THE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU THER MOST is a documentary about the artist Heidi Schwegler. Faced with a crisis in her art practice, Schwegler leaves for unfamiliar settings, and begins to see her surroundings in new ways.

Heidi Schwegler explores a wide range of materials in the service of her subject matter. Drawn to the peripheral ruin, she deftly incorporates found objects with traditional craft and sculpture media. “When [an object] is no longer contextualized by function and ownership, the discarded thing’s anonymity and ambiguity render it pervious to the imagination,” she says, approaching such things as a source of investigation. “I consider its formal qualities as raw material – but a very particular raw material that is both new and an indicator of past use, past value and past purpose.”

Schwegler’s accolades include an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, Hallie Ford Fellowship and two MacDowell Colony Fellowships in the Visual Arts. She was artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Pilchuck, VCCA, Yaddo, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Bullseye Glass Company, among others. Notable exhibitions of her work include the 2018 Bellevue Art Museum Biennial, Portland2016: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Michelle Grabner and presented by Disjecta Contemporary Art Center; her 10-year retrospective, Botched Execution, at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, OR and the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, NE. Schwegler holds a BFA from the University of Kansas and MFA from the University of Oregon. She lives and works in Yucca Valley, CA where is the founding director of Yucca Valley Material Lab. where is the founding director of Yucca Valley Material Lab.

Her sculptural work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Schneider Museum of Art, Crocker Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, and the Hallie Ford Museum.

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PENELOPE UMBRICO Featured At UCR Arts Museum, Los Angeles, CA / 2024 California Museum of Photography and Culver Center of the Arts

Posted on March 3, 2025 | Leave a comment
Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-based Image World, for PST 2024,  UCR Arts Museum, Los Angeles, CA, “Pirouetter for CRT”, 2012

Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World is an ambitious exhibition spanning six decades (1962–2020s) that investigates the history and creative uses of digital imaging technology, from the genesis of digital imaging in Southern California research laboratories during the Cold War and space race of the 1960s to the ubiquity of digital media in our contemporary world. The exhibition and accompanying publication narrate the ideological shifts that occurred as digital technologies were adopted for artistic ends. Conceptually organized into themes exploring issues of agency, representation, culpability, and connection, Digital Capture features more than 40 artists working across several technological, computing, and imaging media.

Participating artists: Rebecca Allen, Refik Anadol, Natalie Bookchin, micha cárdenas, Liliana Conlisk Gallegos, Nonny de la Peña, John Divola, Dynasty Handbag, EPOCH, Elisa Giardina Papa, Goldin+Senneby, Valerie Green, Lucia Grossberger Morales, Maggie Hazen, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Huntrezz Janos, Eugene Lally, Brandon Lattu, Ahree Lee, David Maisel, Frank Malina, Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall, Lynne Marsh, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Mobile Image (Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz), Lee Mullican, A. Michael Noll, Mendi + Keith Obadike, Charles O’Rear, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Sheila Pinkel, Sonya Rapoport, Marton Robinson, Dean Sameshima, Julia Scher, Ilene Segalove, Sonia Landy Sheridan, Barbara T. Smith, Christine Tamblyn, Penelope Umbrico, Stan VanDerBeek, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Gerardo Velazquez, Andrew Norman Wilson, and Amir Zaki. Penelope Umbrico offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. Umbrico works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.”

Umbrico finds these moments in the pages of consumer product mail-order catalogs, travel and leisure brochures; and websites like Craigslist, EBay, and Flickr. Identifying image typologies—candy-colored horizons and sunsets, books used as props—brings the farcical, surreal nature of consumerism to new light.

Penelope Umbrico (born in Philadelphia, 1957) graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has participated extensively in solo and group exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Umbrico is core faculty in the School of Visual Arts MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Program. Selected public collections include the Guggenheim Museum (NY), International Center of Photography (NY), McNay Museum of Art (TX), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Museum of Contemporary Photography (IL), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Museum of Modern Art (NY), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), among others. She lives in New York City.

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ON VIEW NOW: “Little Wonders: A Display of Small-Scale Artistry” featuring Sebastian Bremmer, Daniel Duford, Jennifer Gunlock, Todd Hebert, Beth Lipman, Jeffry Mitchell, Okay Mountain, Zemer Peled, Kim Rugg, Heidi Schwegler, Robert Therrien, Andy Warhol, and Yoram Wolberger

Posted on March 2, 2025 | Leave a comment

Get ready for a one-of-a-kind exhibition at Mark Moore Fine Art!

“Little Wonders: A Display of Small-Scale Artistry” celebrates the beauty and value of art in a smaller scale. On view now exclusively on ARTSY, this exhibition features a diverse group of artists who embrace the power and mystery of small-scale art.️ 

Viewing is available now at: https://bit.ly/40u7jnY 

LITTLE WONDERS showcases a diverse group of artists who embrace the power and mystery of small-scale art. Among the featured artists are Sebastian Bremmer, Daniel Duford, Jennifer Gunlock, Todd Hebert, Beth Lipman, Jeffry Mitchell, Okay Mountain, Zemer Peled, Kim Rugg, Heidi Schwegler, Robert Therrien, Andy Warhol, and Yoram Wolberger. 

In a time where the value of size is shifting, this exhibition challenges the notion that a work of art’s worth is defined by its size. Look beyond size and explore the intricate and meaningful details in each piece. Join us in appreciating the wonders of small-scale art!

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Mark Moore Fine Art is excited to unveil its latest ARTSY online exhibition, “Allison Schulnik: Rejects, Misfits and their Landscapes – A Career Survey”

Posted on March 1, 2025 | Leave a comment

Mark Moore Fine Art is excited to unveil its latest online exhibition, “Allison Schulnik: Rejects, Misfits and their Landscapes – A Career Survey“. This exclusive ARTSY event showcases a curated collection of significant pieces spanning the past two decades of Schulnik’s career.

Allison Schulnik draws on historical images, outsider art traditions and holiday snapshots to construct paintings in which diverse subjects like naval battles, skulls, dying flowers, volcanoes, waterfalls and herds of wild horses become the subject for fantasy and imagination. 

View this exhibition now at: https://bit.ly/3Cfqdqt

Schulnik is the daughter of an architect from the Bronx and a plein air painter from British Columbia, both of whom studied at Pratt Institute in the 1960’s. After studying and performing many forms of dance, including a long period of modern dance with Isaac’s, McCaleb & Dancers, she left San Diego for California Institute of the Arts. Combining the movement of dance with painting, Allison chose to study Experimental Animation and received her BFA in 2000. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally at venues including Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, Bellwether Gallery, New York, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, The Armory Show, New York, Rokeby Gallery, London, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She has completed two award-winning experimental animated 16mm films that played at many film festivals internationally. Schulnik was just selcted as one of the ONES TO WATCH by ART REVIEW, March 2008 (Issue 20) and was featured in the LA TIMES article that appeared December 2, 2007 on the “45 Painters Under 45 You Should Know” that included both Ali Smith and Allison Schulnik from the Mark Moore Gallery – both artists are featured on the cover of the CALENDAR Section – in which critic Christopher Knight selected both of the artists as part of the impressive and acclaimed core of young artists that “Help Make the L.A. Art Scene”. Allison Schulnik lives and works in Los Angeles.

Schulnik says, “The bulk of my paintings are about love, death and “end of the world” chaos. I see my canvases as a theater stage where a ballet or dance is performed — sometimes choreographed, sometimes free form and spontaneous. The compositions often depict epic scenes — high seas disasters, stampeding horses, fiery eruptions, fantastical dramas and wondrous landscapes, while still attempting to reflect simple, expressive moments amongst creatures, which directly relate to human-like conditions. More recently I have allowed my imagination to revel in its own world — where thickly-sculpted oils, historical fact and blatant fiction collide to form images of tragedy, farce, and raw beauty.”

Images and information on Allison Schulnik and her recent paintings can be previewed on our website at:

http://www.markmooregallery.com/artists/allison-schulnik/

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🌟 Zemer Peled Featured in CERAMICS MONTHLY 🌟

Posted on February 28, 2025 | Leave a comment

🌟 **Zemer Peled Featured in CERAMICS MONTHLY** 🌟

Exciting news! @markmooregallery artist Zemer Peled’s innovative work is showcased in the February 2025 issue of CERAMICS MONTHLY with an article titled “Zemer Peled: Dancing with Porcelain.” 

Peled’s stunning sculptures beautifully explore the duality of nature—where beauty meets brutality. Peled transforms fragile porcelain into thousands of handcrafted shards, creating mesmerizing pieces that challenge traditional notions of elegance and refinement. 🌿✨

Born in Israel and now based in the U.S. and Israel both, her work has garnered international acclaim, exhibited at renowned venues such as Mark Moore Fine Art, Sotheby’s, and the Saatchi Gallery, and featured in top publications like Vogue and Elle.

Want to dive deeper into her artistic journey? Check out the full article here: https://bit.ly/3QyNqHy

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Mark Moore Fine Art presents “FOCUS: PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY” – On view now exclusively on ARTSY

Posted on February 28, 2025 | Leave a comment

Exciting news from Mark Moore Fine Art! Our exclusive online exhibition “FOCUS: PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY” is now live on ARTSY! 📸✨

This carefully curated showcase features the stunning work of renowned photographers: Josh Azzarella, Amy Elkins, Beth Lipman, Joseph Rossano, Christopher Russell, Jason Salavon, Lisa Stefanelli, and Penelope Umbrico.

Don’t miss this incredible collection celebrating the artistry of both emerging and established talents. Explore the power of contemporary photography as these artists delve into themes of memory, identity, masculinity, mortality, material culture, and more.

Click the link HERE to view: https://bit.ly/3P8e6yp

🗓 Exhibition Dates: On View Through April 6, 2025

🌐 On view exclusively on ARTSY

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Mark Moore Fine Art presents “Kim Rugg: News of the World” – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition

Posted on February 28, 2025 | Leave a comment

✨ Kim Rugg: News of the World ✨Mark Moore Fine Art is thrilled to unveil our latest online exhibition featuring the incredible work of Kim Rugg!  🌎

VIEW THIS SHOW HERE NOW: https://bit.ly/4jsvrjp

This ARTSY showcase presents a curated collection of significant pieces spanning two decades of Rugg’s distinguished career.  Rugg’s meticulous process involves meticulously deconstructing and reconstructing objects – from newspapers and comic books to wallpaper and furniture – challenging our perceptions of the familiar.  🤯

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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist AMY ELKINS by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for their Permanent Collection

Posted on February 28, 2025 | Leave a comment
Amy Elkins
Parting Words, 2009-2024
Carlos De Luna, Execution #33, Age 27. 1989
David Spence, Execution #111, Age 40. 1997
Gary Graham, Execution #222, Age 39. 2000
Claude Howard Jones, Execution #239, Age 60. 2000
Cameron Willingham, Execution #320, Age 36. 2004
Electrostatic Print on Acid-Free, Lignin-Free 100lb Paper
9.82 x 8.5 inches each (set of five) / Edition of 5 + 2AP
COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON

Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of “Parting Words”, 2023 by artist AMY ELKINS by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the Permanent Collection. 

Amy Elkins (American, b. 1979) is a visual artist and educator based in Northern California. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University.  She works primarily in photography and installation and has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, including at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA; South Bend Museum of Art in South Bend IN; MSU Broad Museum in Lansing, MI; Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna; the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; North Carolina Museum of Art and more.  Her photographs have been published in American Photo, Conveyor, Dear Dave, EyeMazing, Financial Times, Harpers, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, NY Arts, New York Times, New Yorker, PDN, Real Simple, Stella and Vice among many others.  

Elkins was recently awarded a Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and Kala Media Arts Fellowship.  Past awards include the Aperture Portfolio Prize, Peter S. Reed Foundation grant, Cadogan Award and more.  Her work is in permanent collections at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Newcomb Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Light Work, Syracuse, NY; Aperture Foundation, New York, NY; Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, VA; RISD Museum, Providence, RI and more.

With its encyclopedic collection and an exciting schedule of international loan exhibitions and award-winning programs, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is one of the premier destinations in the United States for art lovers. Established in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s collection numbers nearly 70,000 works and embraces the art of antiquity to the present.The collecting department of modern and contemporary art has grown to more than 1,400 objects spanning six continents. Major figures in the evolution Modern and Contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on the progress of abstraction, are represented across the 20th century and into the 21st and include works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian. The Surrealist era is introduced with works by Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, and Yves Tanguy. Postwar European artists in the collection range from Pierre Alechinsky, Anthony Caro, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and Jean Tinguely to Rebecca Horn, Anselm Kiefer, Giuseppe Penone, and Gerhard Richter. Collecting in the new millennium has opened up new avenues of exploration, from the light-based works of James Turrell, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Bill Viola to artists who challenge accepted art-historical narratives, including Nan Goldin, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Do Ho Suh, and Fred Wilson.

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Mark Moore Fine Art presents “Ken Craft: A Never Finished Light” – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition Opening March 6th

Posted on February 27, 2025 | Leave a comment

🌟✨ Mark Moore Fine Art proudly presents **“A Never Finished Light”** featuring the captivating works of Texas-based artist **Ken Craft**. This exhibit draws inspiration from a chapter in Richard Dawkins’ *The Greatest Show on Earth* and reflects influences from legendary artists such as Courbet, Richter, Herriman, and Guston.

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

🎨 Ken Craft (b. 1967, New Mexico) is a Dallas-based painter who primarily works with oil and watercolor. His art marries representation with conceptual themes, exploring personal and natural history, evolution, and the universal struggles of life. Craft often infuses his pieces with comic book characters and narrative elements, inviting viewers into a rich storytelling experience.

💬 Ken shares, “These works are loosely inspired by a snippet from Dawkins’ book, illustrating the evolution of species through generations—such as female rabbits. Each generation bears resemblance to its predecessors, yet if you trace back far enough, the lineage diverges dramatically.”

✨ “Within my paintings, you’ll find echoes of rabbits amidst clouds, rock formations, and the night sky. They serve as reminders of our interconnectedness over deep time. Each fleeting image prompts us to contemplate our place in the natural world. As we navigate these challenging times, I find solace in exploring natural history and reinforcing our bond with all living beings.”

🌿 Ken Craft’s impressive portfolio includes numerous exhibitions across the country and accolades such as the Top Choice prize at Artspace 111 and a residency at MASS MoCA. He was also featured in New American Painting’s #138, highlighting the Western United States.

📅 **Check out this thought-provoking exhibition that intertwines art, science, and the beauty of existence.**

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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major video work by artist collective OKAY MOUNTAIN by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for their Permanent Collection

Posted on February 27, 2025 | Leave a comment
Okay Mountain
Water, Water, Everywhere So Let’s All Have a Drink, 2010
Single channel video, 28min
COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON

Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major video work by artist collective OKAY MOUNTAIN by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the Permanent Collection. 

Okay Mountain is a nine member artist collective based in Austin, Texas. Formed in 2006 as an artist-run alternative gallery space, the group has exhibited their drawing, video, sound, and performance projects throughout the United States and in Mexico City, and has been widely recognized for its “inventive construction, loving attention to detail and keen-eyed connoisseurship.” Okay Mountain repackages, reconstitutes, and rekindles our consumerist desires with a sardonic edge. Their installations and multi-media assemblage works mimic the stock vernacular of our communal materialism, yet tweak them just enough to reveal our superficial insecurities and convictions. While most artists are alumni of the University of Texas at Austin (TX), others are graduates of University of California Los Angeles (CA), Rhode Island School of Design (RI), and the University of Kansas (KS). Institutional exhibitions have included those at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston (TX), Austin Museum of Art (TX), McNay Art Museum (TX), Arthouse (TX), University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (TN), and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (MA). Their work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Art Houston (TX), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (CT), McNay Museum of Art (TX), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (CA), Santa Barabara Museum of Art (CA), and Vanderbilt University (TN). 

Water, Water, Everywhere So Let’s All Have a Drink takes the visual language of late-night television as its basic formal premise. The video, a quick succession of clips meant to invoke the activity of channel surfing, recreates the aesthetic and embodied experience of mindlessly scanning TV. First exhibited at the Austin Museum of Art, the work was projected onto a larger-than-life sculpture of a television set. Since then it has been screened at Prospect 1.5 in New Orleans, the Heuser Art Center, and the Dallas Biennale. Some of the tropes that Water, Water lampoons and celebrates, include, low-budget infomercials, how-to programs, home-shopping networks, sitcoms, and local news programming. The resulting visual assemblage attempts to make sense out of the overwhelming disconnection brought about by contemporary media’s image factory.

 WATCH THIS VIDEO HERE 

With its encyclopedic collection and an exciting schedule of international loan exhibitions and award-winning programs, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is one of the premier destinations in the United States for art lovers. Established in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s collection numbers nearly 70,000 works and embraces the art of antiquity to the present.

The collecting department of modern and contemporary art has grown to more than 1,400 objects spanning six continents. Major figures in the evolution Modern and Contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on the progress of abstraction, are represented across the 20th century and into the 21st and include works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian. The Surrealist era is introduced with works by Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, and Yves Tanguy. Postwar European artists in the collection range from Pierre Alechinsky, Anthony Caro, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and Jean Tinguely to Rebecca Horn, Anselm Kiefer, Giuseppe Penone, and Gerhard Richter. Collecting in the new millennium has opened up new avenues of exploration, from the light-based works of James Turrell, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Bill Viola to artists who challenge accepted art-historical narratives, including Nan Goldin, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Do Ho Suh, and Fred Wilson.

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