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

Posted on December 9, 2024 | 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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ON VIEW: Christopher Russell: Recent Work – An ARTSY Exclusive Online Exhibition

Posted on December 9, 2024 | Leave a comment

🎉 EXCITING NEWS 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the exclusive ARTSY online exhibition of CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL: RECENT WORK. This highly anticipated exhibition marks Russell’s return to Mark Moore Fine Art, featuring a selection of his “Mountains” series and pieces from his newer series, “The Explorers.” Each unique piece combines color photography and drawing for a one-of-a-kind experience.

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

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Russell’s work draws inspiration from pioneer photographer, Carleton Watkins. But with a contemporary twist! His purposely hazy and abstract images challenge the traditional role of photography in capturing evidence, instead inviting reflection on our understanding of nature and the landscape. His work also incorporates historical plant patterns from the Arts and Crafts era, symbolizing the infinite within nature.

Russell’s art knows no boundaries, blurring the lines between photography, drawing, painting, and bas-relief. But it still maintains a sense of romanticism that will leave you in awe. Don’t miss your chance to view his work at this exclusive online exhibition on ARTSY. 😍 

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“Captured Earth” featuring PENELOPE UMBRICO on view now at The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP)

Posted on December 6, 2024 | Leave a comment

“Captured Earth,” now on view at The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP), features artists who use natural elements in photography and installation to explore place, ecology, and the mystical qualities of the land. The exhibition includes works by renowned artist PENELOPE UMBRICO, among others.

From site-specific performances to experimental process-based pieces, the depictions in “Captured Earth” showcase the various ways artists connect with and express the significance of the natural world. For example, Tarrah Krajnak documents her nature-centered rituals using rocks and plant materials, while Alan Cohen shares his meditative walks through landscapes. Jeremy Bolen develops photographs from film submerged in a polluted river, and Barbara Crane captures the bark of trees at her Michigan cabin retreat. Penelope Umbrico’s “8,146,774 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 9/10/10” (above) assembles thousands of photos of sunsets found on a photo sharing website, highlighting humanity’s universal fascination with the sun.

The exhibition also includes works by Karl Blossfeldt, Antonia Contro with sound design by Lou Mallozzi, Whit Forrester, Bertha E. Jaques, Dakota Mace, Robert Mapplethorpe, Byung-Hun Min, Liza Nguyen, Martha Madigan, John Opera, Eliot Porter, Meghann Riepenhoff, Rachel Sussman, and Kristin Taylor. According to Taylor, the curator, the majority of these works are from the MoCP permanent collection and highlight the experimental, camera-less abilities of photography to encourage a deeper connection with nature.

In a podcast related to the exhibition, curator Kristin Taylor speaks with artists Meghann Riepenhoff and Penelope Umbrico about their backgrounds and the importance of pushing the boundaries of documentary photography. They also discuss the work of Alison Rossiter and Joanne Leonard. You can listen to the podcast at the link below: https://bit.ly/4fCEzzx

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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

Posted on December 5, 2024 | Leave a comment
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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Two AMY ELKINS works acquired by Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University for their Permanent Collection

Posted on December 5, 2024 | Leave a comment
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 pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work by artist MARK BENNETT by The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Posted on December 5, 2024 | Leave a comment
Mark Bennett
Mary Tyler Moore of the Dick Van Dyke Show, 2005
Ink on color xerox
22 × 17 in / 55.9 × 43.2 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 MARK BENNETT by The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. 

Mark Bennett’s (b. 1956, Tennessee) whimsical works engage with pop culture and celebrity to an extreme degree. His blueprint lithographs of Baby Boom era sitcoms and popular television series depict the ultimate pairing of flight of fancy and stoical logic; the purely imaginary floor plans grounded by the dry format of an architect’s design. His works are both pleasingly nostalgic and vaguely disconcerting in their premonition of a society obsessed by television and celebrity culture.

Earning reverence from both critics and collectors alike, Bennett has been coined a master of nostalgia and social evaluation, acting as “the most earnest of his generation of West Coast artists drawing on popular culture” (Grady T. Turner, Art in America).

Since his induction into the gallery in 1995, Bennett has been included in over three dozen significant museum and group exhibitions, including those at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (D.C.), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (CT), Walker Art Center (MN) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA). His work has been acquired for the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Laguna Art Museum (CA), Crocker Art Museum (CA), Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada Las Vegas (NV), Museum of Fine Art Houston (TX), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), West Collection (PA), McNay Art Museum (TX), and the Portland Art Museum (OR), among others.

 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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ARTSY Featured Exhibition – THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Inside The Studio Of Jennifer Gunlock

Posted on December 5, 2024 | Leave a comment

ARTSY Featured Exhibition – THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Inside The Studio Of Jennifer Gunlock

Experience the art world like never before with “The Creative Process” series, revealing new works straight from the studio of JENNIFER GUNLOCK Gain a personal look at the artist’s studio practice and discover exciting new art in this exclusive series of ARTSY online exhibitions.

VIEW NOW AT: https://bit.ly/4ghGFFT

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.

The exhibition will take you on a captivating journey through Jennifer’s unique perspective on landscapes, showcasing the way she disrupts traditional notions of nature and reimagines them in mesmerizing ways. It’s exhibitions like these that remind us of the power of art to challenge our perceptions and inspire us to see the world through a new lens. 

Gunlock is a 2022 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. 

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

Posted on December 4, 2024 | Leave a comment

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Heidi Schwegler
100% Chthonic, 2023
Tamarisk tree trunk, rubber, wood, bronze
52 x 21.5 x 12 inches
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 Museum “LATEST 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

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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 December 4, 2024 | 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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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 December 3, 2024 | 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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