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Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by artist collective OKAY MOUNTAIN titled “Prototypes”

HERE IS THE LINK TO VIEW THE SHOW: bit.ly/3Xv4j8f

Modeled after the style of invention marketed on late-night television, “Prototypes” is part documentation for sculptures that no longer exist, part performative staging for the camera, and part commentary on advertisement photography’s often ignored aesthetic history. Prototypes is not strictly about the objects themselves, but how it is we encounter objects through pictures, how meaning is reliant on the style in which depiction is carried out. Each sculpture is a character in its own consumerist drama, complete with moody lighting, expressionistic gestures, and an elaborate set. All of these aspects work together through a sense of humor to question the interlocking relationships between photography, sculpture, commodification and desire.

Okay Mountain is a nine member artist collective based in Austin, Texas. The group initially came together to run the alternative gallery space Okay Mountain (2006-2012), and began making work together in their spare time. As an artist-run gallery the collective organized group and solo exhibitions featuring nationally and internationally recognized artists, hosted musical performances, readings, and other art-related events. As a creative collective, the group has exhibited their drawing, video, sound, and sculpture projects throughout the United States and in Mexico City. Okay Mountain’s immersive installations and multi-media assemblages have been widely recognized for their interest in humor, vernacular culture, and consumerist fantasy, as well as their sardonic critique of the insecurities and superficial convictions that surround such interests. 

Active Members:

Carlos Rosales-Silva, Josh Rios, Justin Goldwater, Ryan Hennessee, Nathan Green, Peat Duggins, Michael Sieben, Sterling Allen, Tim Brown

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 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).

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Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of thirteen new paintings by artist ALEX BLAU titled “If Only There Was Fruit”.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: bit.ly/41kFVaR

Alex Blau’s geometric paintings draw from a variety of sources and have unexpected associations. By variously utilizing graphic languages associated with things like disposable consumer goods, computer generated architectures and unfolding mandalas, Blau’s work both points to abstraction’s open-ended possibility and highlights its incorporation into mass culture.

The work from this series of paintings continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of pattern as means of imprinting the personal within our shared collective experience. Through a process of deconstruction and variant reconstitution, the artist both embodies and interrogates the symphonic energies that course the internal/external boundary. The exhibition includes two dozen dynamically composed abstract paintings whose imagery draws from the artist’s life and interactions.

According to Blau: “I’ve been thinking a lot more about my own energy and relating it to what is happening around me, and I imagine those energies as rings rippling out into other rings. In that cascading echo, structure emerges across the surface. Within the painting’s space, I create a web of flexible rearrangement that encompasses the contrasting nature of experience that is both shaky and resilient. I ask questions all day long, but there comes a moment when I can see a pivot from one move to the next. I am awake and not awake. In that moment of clarity is a certainty without fear.”

“The different aspects of my experience bubble together as daily experiences and distant memories combine and recombine. I am intrigued by this negotiability and its seemingly limitless possibilities. Sometimes when different sounds come together it creates a type of beauty that can be felt in the body. A song with melodies colliding together just makes your stomach drop or your heart ache a bit. I want that in my paintings, the togetherness of difference. In setting up these rhythms I focus on my breathing, and on being present to slow the bubbling from simmer to stillness so I can feel the natural connection to the next rhythm and see what emerges, the decision that becomes an image revealed. Those marks, images, or colors may stay or may be washed away. It’s a joy to work to find that moment of certainty. It is a paradox tamed and revealed and then wild again”

Alex Blau has an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and works primarily in painting. Blau has had solo shows at several venues, including Frist Center, Firecat Projects in Chicago, Gallery Seomi in Seoul, Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami, Barbara Davis Gallery in 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 is pleased to report that after more than three years in the making, “Breaking the Code”, a documentary feature film by Director Michael Flanagan about acclaimed artist Vernon Fisher, will have its premiere at 5:30pm on Saturday April 29th at the Violet Crown Cinema in Dallas as part of the Dallas International Film Festival.

There will be a second screening of the film at 1:00pm on Sun. April 30th in Denton, TX, at the Campus Theatre as part of the Thin Line Film Festival.

The DIFF screening is $15 per ticket and the Thin Line screening is free, only requiring that attendees register for the festival at their website. More information about each screening can be found at the links below. I am also including a link to an article about the film published by Glasstire. 

For more information on the Dallas Screening:

https://diff2023.eventive.org/films/breaking-the-code-641c9a1902aadc06f3f2508a

For more information on the Denton Screening:

https://www.thinline.us/event-details?id=Breaking%20the%20Code

Read the Glasstire Feature on this new documentary:

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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to report that after more than three years in the making, “Breaking the Code”, a documentary feature film by Director Michael Flanagan about acclaimed artist Vernon Fisher, will have its premiere at 5:30pm on Saturday April 29th at the Violet Crown Cinema in Dallas as part of the Dallas International Film Festival.

There will be a second screening of the film at 1:00pm on Sun. April 30th in Denton, TX, at the Campus Theatre as part of the Thin Line Film Festival.

The DIFF screening is $15 per ticket and the Thin Line screening is free, only requiring that attendees register for the festival at their website. More information about each screening can be found at the links below. I am also including a link to an article about the film published by Glasstire. 

For more information on the Dallas Screening:

https://diff2023.eventive.org/films/breaking-the-code-641c9a1902aadc06f3f2508a

For more information on the Denton Screening:

https://www.thinline.us/event-details?id=Breaking%20the%20Code

Read the Glasstire Feature on this new documentary:

#markmoorefineart #vernonfisher #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart#instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #artcollector #artconsultant #abstractartist#breakingthecode

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition by artist collective OKAY MOUNTAIN titled “Prototypes”

HERE IS THE LINK TO VIEW THE SHOW: bit.ly/3Xv4j8f

Modeled after the style of invention marketed on late-night television, “Prototypes” is part documentation for sculptures that no longer exist, part performative staging for the camera, and part commentary on advertisement photography’s often ignored aesthetic history. Prototypes is not strictly about the objects themselves, but how it is we encounter objects through pictures, how meaning is reliant on the style in which depiction is carried out. Each sculpture is a character in its own consumerist drama, complete with moody lighting, expressionistic gestures, and an elaborate set. All of these aspects work together through a sense of humor to question the interlocking relationships between photography, sculpture, commodification and desire.

Okay Mountain is a nine member artist collective based in Austin, Texas. The group initially came together to run the alternative gallery space Okay Mountain (2006-2012), and began making work together in their spare time. As an artist-run gallery the collective organized group and solo exhibitions featuring nationally and internationally recognized artists, hosted musical performances, readings, and other art-related events. As a creative collective, the group has exhibited their drawing, video, sound, and sculpture projects throughout the United States and in Mexico City. Okay Mountain’s immersive installations and multi-media assemblages have been widely recognized for their interest in humor, vernacular culture, and consumerist fantasy, as well as their sardonic critique of the insecurities and superficial convictions that surround such interests. 

Active Members:

Carlos Rosales-Silva, Josh Rios, Justin Goldwater, Ryan Hennessee, Nathan Green, Peat Duggins, Michael Sieben, Sterling Allen, Tim Brown

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 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).

#markmoorefineart #okaymountain #OKM #artist#art#modernart#contemporaryart#dailyart#instaart#instagood#contemporaryartist#kunst#artcollectors#artcollector#artconsultant#abstractartist#photography

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present a debut Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition titled, “Disrupted Landscapes” of new mixed media work by JENNIFER GUNLOCK.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: bit.ly/3YYHY3r

Jennifer Gunlock’s work explores the relationships between the objects of nature and those imposed upon them by human activity. By layering photographs taken on her travels, decorative papers and drawing, she constructs tree-based forms which are awkwardly fused with architectural motifs. Each composition reflects a long passage of time in which buildings and trees stretch and crumble, each pushing against the other. The work is a commentary on humanity’s direct impact on the environment, as well as Earth’s interminable shapeshifting over the long history of its existence.

“In her mixed media collages, Gunlock explores the restless intersection of nature and the built environment. She depicts trees with rugged branches and burly roots wrangling with residential facades, windows, gates and other architectural features. Gunlock captures a fleeting moment in this struggle, one in which nature and architecture seem to co-exist in a colorful equilibrium, if only for a moment. Gunlock alludes to historical patterns of overshoot, which are marked by excessive demand for natural resources, followed by eras of human decline and the slow recovery of forests and ecosystems. But in these works, Gunlock offers a vision of a hopeful future in which the built environment is woven sustainably into the natural world.”

-Al Grumet of Art Works for Change

Based in Los Angeles, Gunlock has received an MFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2003. A 2022 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, she has exhibited nationally and in local venues such as Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Launch LA, and Angels Gate Cultural Center. She has been Artist in Residence at Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland; Playa in Summer Lake, Oregon; Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming; and at the Pajama Factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, among others. In 2014-15 Gunlock participated in “Fires of Change,” an NEA-funded collaboration between artists and scientists, to translate the social and ecological issues surrounding wildfire in the Southwest. Following a fire science bootcamp in the Grand Canyon, and a year to complete a project, a group exhibition opened at Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, Arizona in September 2015 and traveled to the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson and 516 Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

#jennifergunlock #markmoorefineart #markmooregallery #artexhibition #artshow #painting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #artcollector #artcurator #artconsultant #artadvisor #abstractart #abstractpainting #laartist

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of thirteen new paintings by artist ALEX BLAU titled “If Only There Was Fruit”.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: bit.ly/41kFVaR

Alex Blau’s geometric paintings draw from a variety of sources and have unexpected associations. By variously utilizing graphic languages associated with things like disposable consumer goods, computer generated architectures and unfolding mandalas, Blau’s work both points to abstraction’s open-ended possibility and highlights its incorporation into mass culture.

The work from this series of paintings continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of pattern as means of imprinting the personal within our shared collective experience. Through a process of deconstruction and variant reconstitution, the artist both embodies and interrogates the symphonic energies that course the internal/external boundary. The exhibition includes two dozen dynamically composed abstract paintings whose imagery draws from the artist’s life and interactions.

According to Blau: “I’ve been thinking a lot more about my own energy and relating it to what is happening around me, and I imagine those energies as rings rippling out into other rings. In that cascading echo, structure emerges across the surface. Within the painting’s space, I create a web of flexible rearrangement that encompasses the contrasting nature of experience that is both shaky and resilient. I ask questions all day long, but there comes a moment when I can see a pivot from one move to the next. I am awake and not awake. In that moment of clarity is a certainty without fear.”

“The different aspects of my experience bubble together as daily experiences and distant memories combine and recombine. I am intrigued by this negotiability and its seemingly limitless possibilities. Sometimes when different sounds come together it creates a type of beauty that can be felt in the body. A song with melodies colliding together just makes your stomach drop or your heart ache a bit. I want that in my paintings, the togetherness of difference. In setting up these rhythms I focus on my breathing, and on being present to slow the bubbling from simmer to stillness so I can feel the natural connection to the next rhythm and see what emerges, the decision that becomes an image revealed. Those marks, images, or colors may stay or may be washed away. It’s a joy to work to find that moment of certainty. It is a paradox tamed and revealed and then wild again”

Alex Blau has an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and works primarily in painting. Blau has had solo shows at several venues, including Frist Center, Firecat Projects in Chicago, Gallery Seomi in Seoul, Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami, Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston and the New Britain Museum of American Art. She currently teaches at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University.

#markmoorefineart #alexblau #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #artcollector #artconsultant #abstractartist 

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present a debut Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition titled, “Disrupted Landscapes” of new mixed media work by JENNIFER GUNLOCK.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: bit.ly/3YYHY3r

Jennifer Gunlock’s work explores the relationships between the objects of nature and those imposed upon them by human activity. By layering photographs taken on her travels, decorative papers and drawing, she constructs tree-based forms which are awkwardly fused with architectural motifs. Each composition reflects a long passage of time in which buildings and trees stretch and crumble, each pushing against the other. The work is a commentary on humanity’s direct impact on the environment, as well as Earth’s interminable shapeshifting over the long history of its existence.

“In her mixed media collages, Gunlock explores the restless intersection of nature and the built environment. She depicts trees with rugged branches and burly roots wrangling with residential facades, windows, gates and other architectural features. Gunlock captures a fleeting moment in this struggle, one in which nature and architecture seem to co-exist in a colorful equilibrium, if only for a moment. Gunlock alludes to historical patterns of overshoot, which are marked by excessive demand for natural resources, followed by eras of human decline and the slow recovery of forests and ecosystems. But in these works, Gunlock offers a vision of a hopeful future in which the built environment is woven sustainably into the natural world.”

-Al Grumet of Art Works for Change

Based in Los Angeles, Gunlock has received an MFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2003. A 2022 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, she has exhibited nationally and in local venues such as Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Launch LA, and Angels Gate Cultural Center. She has been Artist in Residence at Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland; Playa in Summer Lake, Oregon; Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming; and at the Pajama Factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, among others. In 2014-15 Gunlock participated in “Fires of Change,” an NEA-funded collaboration between artists and scientists, to translate the social and ecological issues surrounding wildfire in the Southwest. Following a fire science bootcamp in the Grand Canyon, and a year to complete a project, a group exhibition opened at Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, Arizona in September 2015 and traveled to the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson and 516 Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

#jennifergunlock #markmoorefineart #markmooregallery #artexhibition #artshow #painting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #artcollector #artcurator #artconsultant #artadvisor #abstractart #abstractpainting #laartist

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of thirteen new paintings by artist ALEX BLAU titled “If Only There Was Fruit”.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: bit.ly/41kFVaR

Alex Blau’s geometric paintings draw from a variety of sources and have unexpected associations. By variously utilizing graphic languages associated with things like disposable consumer goods, computer generated architectures and unfolding mandalas, Blau’s work both points to abstraction’s open-ended possibility and highlights its incorporation into mass culture.

The work from this series of paintings continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of pattern as means of imprinting the personal within our shared collective experience. Through a process of deconstruction and variant reconstitution, the artist both embodies and interrogates the symphonic energies that course the internal/external boundary. The exhibition includes two dozen dynamically composed abstract paintings whose imagery draws from the artist’s life and interactions.

According to Blau: “I’ve been thinking a lot more about my own energy and relating it to what is happening around me, and I imagine those energies as rings rippling out into other rings. In that cascading echo, structure emerges across the surface. Within the painting’s space, I create a web of flexible rearrangement that encompasses the contrasting nature of experience that is both shaky and resilient. I ask questions all day long, but there comes a moment when I can see a pivot from one move to the next. I am awake and not awake. In that moment of clarity is a certainty without fear.”

“The different aspects of my experience bubble together as daily experiences and distant memories combine and recombine. I am intrigued by this negotiability and its seemingly limitless possibilities. Sometimes when different sounds come together it creates a type of beauty that can be felt in the body. A song with melodies colliding together just makes your stomach drop or your heart ache a bit. I want that in my paintings, the togetherness of difference. In setting up these rhythms I focus on my breathing, and on being present to slow the bubbling from simmer to stillness so I can feel the natural connection to the next rhythm and see what emerges, the decision that becomes an image revealed. Those marks, images, or colors may stay or may be washed away. It’s a joy to work to find that moment of certainty. It is a paradox tamed and revealed and then wild again”

Alex Blau has an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and works primarily in painting. Blau has had solo shows at several venues, including Frist Center, Firecat Projects in Chicago, Gallery Seomi in Seoul, Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami, Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston and the New Britain Museum of American Art. She currently teaches at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University.

#markmoorefineart #alexblau #artist #art #modernart #contemporaryart #dailyart #instaart #instagood #contemporaryartist #kunst #artcollectors #artcollector #artconsultant #abstractartist 

Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present a debut Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition titled, “Disrupted Landscapes” of new mixed media work by JENNIFER GUNLOCK.

VIEW THIS SHOW NOW AT: bit.ly/3YYHY3r

Jennifer Gunlock’s work explores the relationships between the objects of nature and those imposed upon them by human activity. By layering photographs taken on her travels, decorative papers and drawing, she constructs tree-based forms which are awkwardly fused with architectural motifs. Each composition reflects a long passage of time in which buildings and trees stretch and crumble, each pushing against the other. The work is a commentary on humanity’s direct impact on the environment, as well as Earth’s interminable shapeshifting over the long history of its existence.

“In her mixed media collages, Gunlock explores the restless intersection of nature and the built environment. She depicts trees with rugged branches and burly roots wrangling with residential facades, windows, gates and other architectural features. Gunlock captures a fleeting moment in this struggle, one in which nature and architecture seem to co-exist in a colorful equilibrium, if only for a moment. Gunlock alludes to historical patterns of overshoot, which are marked by excessive demand for natural resources, followed by eras of human decline and the slow recovery of forests and ecosystems. But in these works, Gunlock offers a vision of a hopeful future in which the built environment is woven sustainably into the natural world.”

-Al Grumet of Art Works for Change

Based in Los Angeles, Gunlock has received an MFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2003. A 2022 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, she has exhibited nationally and in local venues such as Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Launch LA, and Angels Gate Cultural Center. She has been Artist in Residence at Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland; Playa in Summer Lake, Oregon; Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming; and at the Pajama Factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, among others. In 2014-15 Gunlock participated in “Fires of Change,” an NEA-funded collaboration between artists and scientists, to translate the social and ecological issues surrounding wildfire in the Southwest. Following a fire science bootcamp in the Grand Canyon, and a year to complete a project, a group exhibition opened at Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, Arizona in September 2015 and traveled to the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson and 516 Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

#jennifergunlock #markmoorefineart #markmooregallery #artexhibition #artshow #painting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #artcollector #artcurator #artconsultant #artadvisor #abstractart #abstractpainting #laartist