Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist REBEKAH ANDRADE by The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Rebekah Andrade
Mind Map 7, 2022
Oil, acrylic, paper, and pastel on canvas
28 x 24 in
COLLECTION OF THE FREDERICK R. WEISMAN ART FOUNDATION (Los Angeles)

 Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist REBEKAH ANDRADE, titled “Mind Map 7” from 2022 by The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. 

Rebekah Andrade (Canadian, b. 1980) is an abstract painter based in Charlotte, North Carolina. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada, and a Graphic Design Certificate from Parsons School of Design in New York City,Rebekah Andrade’s work explores the language of painting by way of expressionism, geometric abstraction, hard-edge painting, and pattern. Her process draws from past work, personal references, familiar forms, objects, textures, and symbols. This structured methodology is transmitted through selected colors of layered paint, collage, and mixed media techniques, always leaving traces of the process visible. Her intention with the work is to investigate and work through questions surrounding the history of representation, limits of perception, aesthetics, status, and reproduction of images, thus providing her insight and clarity into our contemporary visual culture and communicational trends.

In 2019, Andrade embarked on a transformative residency at Otis College of Art in Los Angeles, further expanding her creative horizons. Her innovative work has garnered attention across international borders, with exhibitions spanning Canada, the United States, and Chile. Her work has been published in Edeltraut, The Gathered Gallery, New American Painting #144.

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is dedicated to continuing the legacy and vision of Frederick R. Weisman, an extraordinary entrepreneur, philanthropist, and art collector. He held an uncompromising belief in the cultural value of art and understood the importance of both the individual artist and the creative process. In carrying out Mr. Weisman’s intentions, the Foundation seeks to preserve, collect, and make publicly accessible his collection of modern and contemporary art as a means to strengthen and contribute to the greater artistic and intellectual life of our time. In 1982, Frederick R. Weisman purchased the Los Angeles estate to serve as a showcase for his personal collection of 20th-century art. He and his wife, Billie Milam Weisman, an art conservator and curator, worked together to create a unique environment located within the Mediterranean-style villa. More than four hundred works of art are on display at the Foundation.

The collection includes works by European Modernists, including Cezanne, Picasso, and Kandinsky, and Surrealist works by Ernst, Miro, and Magritte. The holdings in postwar art include works by Giacometti, Noguchi, Calder, Rauschenberg, and Johns; Abstract Expressionist paintings by de Kooning, Francis, Still, and Rothko; Color-Field paintings by Frankenthaler, Louis, and Noland; and Pop Art by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, and Rosenquist. Contemporary California works include those by Ruscha and Goode and Super Realist sculptures by Hanson and de Andrea. These holdings are part of a larger collection that Mr. Weisman established as the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in 1982. 

Currently, under the direction of Billie Milam Weisman, the Foundation continues to make the collection available through loans to museums worldwide, docent tours at the Los Angeles estate, exhibitions in public-art venues, and the funding of several art museums, including the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University in Malibu, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, designed by Frank O. Gehry.

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Two AMY ELKINS works acquired by Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University for their Permanent Collection

Amy Elkins
Akuuragna/Pasadena, Huntington Library Parking Lot (Fruiting Almond Tree)

We are thrilled to share that two pieces from the AMY ELKINS photography series, A Place Where We Are in The Sun have just been acquired by Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. One of these works, Akuuragna/Pasadena, Huntington Library Parking Lot (Fruiting Almond Tree) from 2021 is pictured above for your reference. 

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.   She 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. 

Most recently Elkins’ work pivots to include explorations of self as well as her family’s deeply rooted and complex history in Southern California as an 8th generation traceably born on Tongva/Gabrielino land in the greater Los Angeles area with the ancestral blood of both colonized and colonizer.  Her approach is series-based, steeped in research and oscillates between formal, conceptual and documentary. 

A Place Where We Are In The Sun uses family archives, historical documents and early Alta California maps to trace the land loss, assimilation and resilience of Indigenous, Mexican and multiracial ancestors in Southern California from the perspective of an 8th generation Angeleno. Taken by trekking into land between what is now known as Lompoc and the Greater Los Angeles area, these physically manipulated and rephotographed archives work to unearth historical conditions permeating the soil my ancestors lived on: the enclosure of land under European notions of private property and the resulting displacement of indigenous/BIPOC communities from such spaces. 

The Cantor Arts Center plays a leading role in the cultural life of the Stanford campus and greater community, welcoming some 200,000 visitors a year to its 24 galleries. The Cantor Arts Center’s collection houses over 38,000 items, including African Art, American Art, Ancient Art, the Andy Warhol Photography Archive, Art of Asia and Oceania, Art of the Indigenous Americas, Auguste Rodin, Eadweard Muybridge, European Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, Photographs, Prints and Drawings, Richard Diebenkorn Sketchbooks, Sculptures on Campus, and collections and memorabilia of the Stanford Family. Penelope Umbrico is proud to be a part of their permanant collection.

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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”

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

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/

#AllisonSchulnik #MarkMooreFineArt #ARTSY #CareerSurvey #OnlineExhibition #InnovativeArt #MixedMedia #Inspiration #Love #Death #Chaos #Fantasy #Theater #Ballet #Dance #EpicScenes #Creatures #HumanCondition #RawBeauty #MustSee #Preview #AbstractArt #ContemporaryArt 

Five Mark Moore Fine Art Artists Featured In The Current Art Exhibition at Laguna Art Museum

IMAGE: Mark Bennett, The Pritchett Family Plans (Modern Family), 2017
Archival pigment print on Hot Press Cotton Rag
29 × 40 in / 73.7 × 101.6 cm / Edition of 10 + 2AP
COLLECTION OF THE LAGUNA ART MUSEUM

Five Mark Moore Fine Art Artists Featured In The Current Art Exhibition at Laguna Art Museum

The Laguna Art MuseumLATEST AND GREATEST” is showcasing its newest acquisitions featuring the works of Mark Bennett, Jennifer Gunlock, Jimi Gleason, Heidi Schwegler, and Robert Standish. This exhibition includes almost 50 pieces that have been added to the museum’s permanent collection, highlighting influential California artists, the connection between art and nature, and a diverse range of California-based artists. The collection also aims to increase representation of women and contemporary themes with a focus on artwork created after 2000.

Visit the Laguna Art Museum before March 30, 2025 to view these “latest and greatest” additions. For more information, visit https://lagunaartmuseum.org/exhibitions. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the best of new California art! #markmoorefineart #lagunaartmuseum #markbennett #jennifergunlock #heidischwegler #jimigleason #robertstandish

Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist BETH LIPMAN by The Crocker Art Museum

Beth Lipman
Gazing Ball with Lemon and Fly, 2014
c-print mounted to aluminum with gloss laminate
36 x 23 in
COLLECTION OF THE CROCKER ART MUSEUM

Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist BETH LIPMAN, titled “Mind Map 7” from 2022 by The Crocker Art Museum.

Beth Lipman is an American artist whose sculptural practice explores aspects of material culture and deep time through still lives, site-specific installations, and photographs. Ephemeral and intricate, the work addresses mortality, materiality, and temporality. Lipman is also known for site responsive installations that activate the specific history of objects, individuals, and institutions.

Lipman has exhibited her work internationally at such institutions as the Ringling Museum of Art (FL), ICA/MECA (ME), RISD Museum (RI), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Gustavsbergs Konsthall (Sweden) and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC). Her work has been acquired by numerous museums including the North Carolina Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art (MO), Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Jewish Museum (NY), Norton Museum of Art, (FL), and the Corning Museum of Glass (NY). 

The Crocker Art Museum features the world’s foremost display of California art and is renowned for its holdings of European master drawings and international ceramics. The Crocker also holds permanent collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art, ceramics, and photography. The Museum offers a diverse spectrum of exhibitions, events, and programs to augment its collections, including films, concerts, studio classes, lectures, children’s activities, and more. The Museum has also dedicated the historic building’s entire first floor as an education center, which includes four classrooms, space for student and community exhibitions, the Gerald Hansen Library, and Tot Land. Discover it all at: crockerart.org

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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist JENNIFER GUNLOCK by the Laguna Art Museum

Jennifer Gunlock
Bird’s Nest, 2016
Mixed media paper collage and drawing on 2 sheets rag paper, grommets
76 × 50 in / 193 × 127 cm
COLLECTION OF THE LAGUNA ART MUSEUM

Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist JENNIFER GUNLOCK, titled “Bird’s Nest” from 2016 by the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA.

This work will be included in the museum Permanent Collection and will be included in the upcoming New Acquisitions exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum spanning the breadth of LAM’s collection from the 19th century. The artworks, spanning over a century of creation, encompass a diverse array of mediums including sculpture, mixed media, film, painting, and large-format color photography.

The exhibition, titled Latest and Greatest: New Work at Laguna Art Museum will feature works by: Mark Bennett, Charles Percy Austin, Sergei Bongart, Carole Caroompas, Jedediah Caesar, Rosson Crow, Woods Davy, Fannie Eliza Duvall, John Frost, Jennifer Gunlock, Grace Carpenter Hudson, John Humble, Roger Kuntz, Jimi Gleason, Tom Lamb, Robert Landry, Malorie Marder, Carter Mull, Evan Nesbit, Deborah Oropallo, Phil Paradise, Astrid Preston, Rozeal, Richard Roth, Heidi Schwegler, Millard Owen Sheets, Robert Standish, Craig Stecyk, Jay McCafferty, Patrick Wilson, and Jennifer West. 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS EXIBITION ON THE MUSEUM WEBSITE

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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”

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/

#AllisonSchulnik #MarkMooreFineArt #ARTSY #CareerSurvey #OnlineExhibition #InnovativeArt #MixedMedia #Inspiration #Love #Death #Chaos #Fantasy #Theater #Ballet #Dance #EpicScenes #Creatures #HumanCondition #RawBeauty #MustSee #Preview #AbstractArt #ContemporaryArt 

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

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 is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist CLAY JOHNSON by The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Clay Johnson
The Last Turn, 2023
Acrylic on panel
24 × 24 in | 61 × 61 cm
COLLECTION OF THE FREDERICK R. WEISMAN ART FOUNDATION (Los Angeles)

 Mark Moore Fine Art and the artist are pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist CLAY JOHNSON by The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. 

Clay Johnson (American, b. 1963) was born in Durham, North Carolina, where he studied art and art history at Duke University, receiving a B.A. degree in 1985. He then worked for several years as assistant to the painter Robert Natkin in Connecticut and New York City. He began showing paintings from his first series of mature work in 1998, and has since exhibited in galleries across the United States and in Europe. His work is represented in collections around the world. Clay began work on his Strata Series shortly after relocating to Wyoming, and, while non-objective in nature, the paintings convey a sense of the wide open landscape of the American west. The Atomic Series continues his exploration of formal concerns—light, color, texture—while introducing a more narrative element inspired by the interactions of subatomic particles. Clay currently lives and works in Laramie, Wyoming.

Johnson’s “Strata Series” is a stunning collection of abstract paintings and works on paper that capture the essence of memory and the human experience. Moving to Wyoming, known for its vast open spaces and breathtaking landscapes, served as a major inspiration for his work. While the paintings may not have overt references to the natural world, they convey a powerful sense of the wide-open space and the ever-changing formations of the land.

Johnson views his paintings as collections of moments and experiences that have been collaged together. This mirrors the way our minds construct memories, with layers of different moments and experiences blending to create a representation of a person, place, or idea. In a similar way, Johnson layers many sections over one another in his paintings, keeping the parts he likes and painting over or modifying the less memorable elements. This process of editing and layering reflects the way our brains forget certain experiences and focus on others, creating a distorted but meaningful representation of our memories.

Upon first glance, the “Strata Series” paintings may appear chaotic and busy, but upon closer inspection, the layers reveal a carefully crafted composition. The many layers are distinct and yet seamlessly blend together to create a cohesive whole. This perfectly captures the complexity of human memory, where seemingly unrelated moments and experiences come together to form a unique and meaningful representation of our lives. By incorporating this concept of memory within his paintings, Johnson invites viewers to contemplate their own memories and the ways in which they construct their own realities.

 The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is dedicated to continuing the legacy and vision of Frederick R. Weisman, an extraordinary entrepreneur, philanthropist, and art collector. He held an uncompromising belief in the cultural value of art and understood the importance of both the individual artist and the creative process. In carrying out Mr. Weisman’s intentions, the Foundation seeks to preserve, collect, and make publicly accessible his collection of modern and contemporary art as a means to strengthen and contribute to the greater artistic and intellectual life of our time. In 1982, Frederick R. Weisman purchased the Los Angeles estate to serve as a showcase for his personal collection of 20th-century art. He and his wife, Billie Milam Weisman, an art conservator and curator, worked together to create a unique environment located within the Mediterranean-style villa. More than four hundred works of art are on display at the Foundation. The collection includes works by European Modernists, including Cezanne, Picasso, and Kandinsky, and Surrealist works by Ernst, Miro, and Magritte. The holdings in postwar art include works by Giacometti, Noguchi, Calder, Rauschenberg, and Johns; Abstract Expressionist paintings by de Kooning, Francis, Still, and Rothko; Color-Field paintings by Frankenthaler, Louis, and Noland; and Pop Art by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, and Rosenquist. Contemporary California works include those by Ruscha and Goode and Super Realist sculptures by Hanson and de Andrea. These holdings are part of a larger collection that Mr. Weisman established as the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in 1982. Currently, under the direction of Billie Milam Weisman, the Foundation continues to make the collection available through loans to museums worldwide, docent tours at the Los Angeles estate, exhibitions in public-art venues, and the funding of several art museums, including the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University in Malibu, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, designed by Frank O. Gehry.

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