Mark Moore Fine Art proudly presents “Refractions: L.A. Art in the Eighties and Nineties,” showcasing influential early works by Los Angeles legends Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Eric Orr, and Helen Pashgian.
By the ’80s and ’90s, L.A. became an experimental hub—where light, surface, and perception intertwined in bold new ways. Bell explored glass and reflection; Alexander created resin forms inspired by color and city haze; Bengston infused painting with California’s vibrant energy; Pashgian crafted luminous sculptures; and Orr’s works, infused with elements of alchemy and spirituality, played with presence and infinity.
Experience a moment in L.A. art history defined by experimentation, reflection, and the evolving nature of perception itself.
Mark Moore Gallery presents “Patterns of Landscape,” an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition by celebrated British artist Kim Rugg.
Known for her meticulous craft, Rugg deconstructs and reconstructs items like newspapers, magazines, and maps, challenging how we receive and trust information. In this show, she reimagines borders and regions with precise hand-drawn cartography, highlighting how we perceive power and territory. Rugg’s playful yet thought-provoking work with newsprint and maps exposes the manipulative tactics found in everyday media.
Experience Kim Rugg’s art—equal parts wit and critique—online now! View the show: https://bit.ly/47dVB5o
Kim Rugg’s work appears in major museum collections worldwide. Based in London, she continues to redefine how we see the world.
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.
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.
BREAKING THE CODE: A New Biographical Documentary Film About The Life Of Artist Vernon Fisher
Best Historical Film, Dallas International Film Festival Official Selection, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Official Selection, Thin Line Fest Official Selection, Frame of Mind (PBS)
Prolepsis Pictures is proud to announce the World Premiere of “Breaking the Code”, a feature-length biographical documentary about the life of Fort Worth-based artist Vernon Fisher. We also plan to broadcast the film Texas-wide on PBS affiliate program Frame of Mind in October.
Vernon Fisher has mounted major exhibitions at museums including the Smithsonian Institution, Guggenheim Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, among many others. He is the only Dallas-Fort Worth-born artist to receive a retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth — a space that has also hosted similar exhibitions for artists including Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso.
More important than Fisher’s accomplishments, however, is the content of his art. Not only is he such a masterfully technical painter that viewers often mistake his chalkboard-style paintings as actually being made with chalk, but he is also renowned for the emotional, psychological and philosophical depth of his work.
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Mark Moore Gallery presents “Patterns of Landscape,” an exclusive ARTSY online exhibition by celebrated British artist Kim Rugg.
Known for her meticulous craft, Rugg deconstructs and reconstructs items like newspapers, magazines, and maps, challenging how we receive and trust information. In this show, she reimagines borders and regions with precise hand-drawn cartography, highlighting how we perceive power and territory. Rugg’s playful yet thought-provoking work with newsprint and maps exposes the manipulative tactics found in everyday media.
Experience Kim Rugg’s art—equal parts wit and critique—online now! View the show: https://bit.ly/47dVB5o
Kim Rugg’s work appears in major museum collections worldwide. Based in London, she continues to redefine how we see the world.
Mark Moore Fine Art presents “Between Quiet and Bold,” an exclusive online exhibition by Rebekah Andrade. Dive into Andrade’s latest body of work—a vibrant exploration of presence and balance through layered abstraction.
Experience buoyant fields of green, blue, and pink, interwoven with expressive marks that create moments of tension and release. With acrylic and pastel on paper, Rebekah masterfully layers color and gesture, inviting you to slow down and discover both the details and atmosphere within each piece.
This collection is all about finding clarity, resonance, and quiet joy in the balance between structure and surrender.
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
Mark Moore Fine Art proudly presents “Refractions: L.A. Art in the Eighties and Nineties,” showcasing influential early works by Los Angeles legends Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Eric Orr, and Helen Pashgian.
By the ’80s and ’90s, L.A. became an experimental hub—where light, surface, and perception intertwined in bold new ways. Bell explored glass and reflection; Alexander created resin forms inspired by color and city haze; Bengston infused painting with California’s vibrant energy; Pashgian crafted luminous sculptures; and Orr’s works, infused with elements of alchemy and spirituality, played with presence and infinity.
Experience a moment in L.A. art history defined by experimentation, reflection, and the evolving nature of perception itself.
Heidi Schwegler Familiar (Teeth), 2025 43.5 x 33.5 x 33.5 inches Unique digital print, stucco, glass
✨ 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.
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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