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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Allison Schulnik: Selected Works From The Secondary Market | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now
@MarkMooreGallery is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Allison Schulnik: Selected Works From The Secondary Market as part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics. I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at this link: https://bit.ly/495XXkX
Working in paint, sculpture, and animation, Allison Schulnik (b. 1978) seamlessly transitions between mediums, imbuing her work with a distinct sensibility that melds theatricality with intense emotional vulnerability. Known for her uncanny approach to traversing the internal and immaterial terrains of nostalgia, childhood memories, and dreams, Schulnik choreographs an honest, complex and contemporary portrait of new motherhood and life seen through the red haze and black silence of the desert. Schulnik lives and works in Sky Valley, CA.
Her films have been included in internationally renowned festivals and museums including MASS MoCA, the Hammer Museum, LACMA, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb. Schulnik’s work can be found in numerous museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Museé de Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; and The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Mark Moore Fine Art is thrilled to announce the debut of “Convergence: Exploring Harmonious Frequencies“, an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition featuring the captivating works of artist REBEKAH ANDRADE. This highly-anticipated show not only marks Andrade’s first exhibition with the gallery, but also her long-awaited introduction to ARTSY’s prestigious platform.
“Convergence: Exploring Harmonious Frequencies” invites you to explore the mesmerizing elements of color, shape, and texture. Each canvas stands as a testament to the profound power of convergence, where disparate frequencies meld seamlessly into a unified whole. Rebekah’s artwork delves deep into this concept, skillfully navigating the intersections of form and color with a captivating blend of techniques and styles.
From bold colors and brushstrokes to delicate lines, Rebekah’s creations pulsate with a unique vitality, showcasing a delicate balance between chaos and order. Within each piece, discordant notes find their perfect harmony, and the beauty of coalescing frequencies reigns supreme.
Employing a meticulous process of layering, collage, and mixed media, each artwork in this body of work serves as a testament to the artist’s relentless pursuit of intriguing compositions and the captivating allure of minimalism. Every piece reflects Rebekah’s introspective journey, bearing visible traces of her evolution as an artist and inviting viewers to witness the gradual transformation unfolding within each stroke and layer.
Step into this captivating world of convergence, where Rebekah’s masterful exploration of harmonious frequencies invites you to experience the sublime beauty found within the convergence of diverse elements.
Mark Moore Fine Art is thrilled to announce the debut of “Convergence: Exploring Harmonious Frequencies“, an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition featuring the captivating works of artist REBEKAH ANDRADE. This highly-anticipated show not only marks Andrade’s first exhibition with the gallery, but also her long-awaited introduction to ARTSY’s prestigious platform.
“Convergence: Exploring Harmonious Frequencies” invites you to explore the mesmerizing elements of color, shape, and texture. Each canvas stands as a testament to the profound power of convergence, where disparate frequencies meld seamlessly into a unified whole. Rebekah’s artwork delves deep into this concept, skillfully navigating the intersections of form and color with a captivating blend of techniques and styles.
From bold colors and brushstrokes to delicate lines, Rebekah’s creations pulsate with a unique vitality, showcasing a delicate balance between chaos and order. Within each piece, discordant notes find their perfect harmony, and the beauty of coalescing frequencies reigns supreme.
Employing a meticulous process of layering, collage, and mixed media, each artwork in this body of work serves as a testament to the artist’s relentless pursuit of intriguing compositions and the captivating allure of minimalism. Every piece reflects Rebekah’s introspective journey, bearing visible traces of her evolution as an artist and inviting viewers to witness the gradual transformation unfolding within each stroke and layer.
Step into this captivating world of convergence, where Rebekah’s masterful exploration of harmonious frequencies invites you to experience the sublime beauty found within the convergence of diverse elements.
Zemer Peled’s labor-intensive process that bridges narrative and formalist elements. Peled utilizes a process of creation and destruction to make sculptures consisting of thousands of handcrafted porcelain shards resulting in works that can be read in relation to art historical tradition, outsider art, and natural phenomena.
The sculpture’s narrative impulses lean to encounters with the otherworldly—like complex topiaries marking a not-so-distant land–yet they remain distinctly tied to earth’s patterns. This conflation of the foreign and familiar creates a frenzied dislocation in the work. Inspired by migratory habits of birds, a sweep of feathers, and cycles of change, the works spiral outwardly in rhythmic patterns, interpreting not only the dynamism of nature, but also the startling strangeness of a life lived in transition.
Using white and colored porcelains, Peled transforms sharp slivers of porcelain into feathers, petals, leaves, and spines that describe objects of unknowable origins: seductive but untrustworthy. The forms are complexly ordered from the inside out, often bulging or spilling over with textures both delicate and severe. In some works, large scale-like ceramic pieces appear airy, delicate, and fluffy, as if one’s breath might break it. In others, Peled’s fragments are geometric barbs that mysteriously take on an alluring form – offering a sense of softness despite a sharp actuality. The forms are never static; the visual dance of sharp ceramic parts conveys a sense of constant movement. Like a murmuration of starlings, the sculptures appear to shift shapes as you move around them, an identity becoming and unbecoming in front of you.
The act of making for Peled is a feat of endurance, improvisation, and adaptation with the aim to embody a fleeting but fundamental feeling of mystery. The construction of her sculpture parallels negotiations any outsider makes in encountering a new world as they delicately construct a self that is both adaptable and resilient.
Peled’s work examines the beauty and brutality of the natural world. Her sculptural language is formed by her surrounding landscapes and nature, and engages with themes of memories, identity, and place. Her sculptures and installations consist of thousands of hand-crafted porcelain shards; a technique that yields a texture both delicate and severe. In some works, large scale-like ceramic pieces appear airy, delicate, and fluffy, as if one’s breath might break it. In others, Peled’s fragments are geometric barbs that mysteriously take on an alluring form – offering a sense of softness despite a sharp actuality.
Zemer Peled (b. 1983) was born and raised in a Kibbutz in the northern part of Israel. After completing her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jerusalem), she earned her MA at the Royal College of Art (UK). In recent years, her work has been exhibited internationally, including such venues as Sotheby’s and Saatchi Gallery (London), Eretz Israel Museum (Tel Aviv), the Henry Moore Gallery at the Royal College of Art (London), and the Orangerie du Senate (Paris), among others. The artist currently lives and works at the Archie Bray Foundation Residency (Helena, MT).
Additional information on this incredible artist can be found on our website at: www.markmoorefineart.com
Tim Bavington sculpture installation at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, Las Vegas, NV (commissioned through Mark Moore Fine Art) Pipe Dream (Fanfare for the Common Man), 2012 / Enamel paint on steel, stainless steel, (128 pipes) / 27′- 5″ x 86′ – 8″ x 17′- 1″
Founded in 1984, Mark Moore Fine Art is the evolution of the Mark Moore Gallery – a family owned and operated contemporary art gallery in Southern California based in Orange. Although its emphasis is on fine art advisory and consulting Mark Moore Fine Art also continues to be active in the management and representation of emerging and mid-career artists. Mark Moore Fine Art is highly active in the secondary market, and provides tailored both collection management and consultation. Additionally, Mark Moore Fine Art works closely with commercial and government agencies to develop and execute various public art projects – some of which include major works in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Dallas, New York City, and Las Vegas – to name but a few.
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@MarkMooreGallery is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Vernon Fisher: Treasures From The Vault as part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics. I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at this link: https://bit.ly/3S3sMjk
The art of Vernon Fisher is included in the collections of more than 40 museums across the globe, such as the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Phoenix Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The most important museum installation is in the collection of the famous Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In these alchemical works, New York artist Ben Weiner soaks ink-coated chromatography paper in solutions of drugs, resulting in hazy, prismatic abstractions. Inspired by the “drug diaries” patients keep during clinical trials, Weiner made the drawings using substances left from his own daily consumption, so that they constitute a record of his mental states over time. The drugs range from the psychedelic to the addictive, to the mundane, including Marijuana, Paxlovid, MDMA, Vicodin, Kombucha, Advil, Caffeine, and Mezcal. By couching painterly expressionism within an honest record of his substance usage, Weiner self-critically engages with issues surrounding wellness and mental health.
Ben Weiner studied painting under muralist José Lazcarro Toquero at La Universidad de las Americas (Mexico), before completing his BA at Wesleyan University (CT). His work has been exhibited widely within the US and internationally, at institutions including The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Tarble Art Center, The Carnegie Art Museum, ArtSpace, La Gruta (CDMX), and The Boca Raton Museum of Art. Weiner has been included in recent gallery exhibitions at 56 Henry, Ochi Gallery, Below Grand, Grey Area, Hunted Projects, and Mark Moore Gallery. His work is represented in various public collections, including Microsoft, Sammlung, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection. He has been featured in publications including Artforum, Artnews, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, Artsy, and Vogue. Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York. Early in his career Weiner worked closely with the artist Jeff Koons as an assistant.
Allison Schulnik: Selected Works From The Secondary Market | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now
@MarkMooreGallery is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Allison Schulnik: Selected Works From The Secondary Market as part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics. I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at this link: https://bit.ly/495XXkX
Working in paint, sculpture, and animation, Allison Schulnik (b. 1978) seamlessly transitions between mediums, imbuing her work with a distinct sensibility that melds theatricality with intense emotional vulnerability. Known for her uncanny approach to traversing the internal and immaterial terrains of nostalgia, childhood memories, and dreams, Schulnik choreographs an honest, complex and contemporary portrait of new motherhood and life seen through the red haze and black silence of the desert. Schulnik lives and works in Sky Valley, CA.
Her films have been included in internationally renowned festivals and museums including MASS MoCA, the Hammer Museum, LACMA, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb. Schulnik’s work can be found in numerous museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Museé de Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; and The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Penelope Umbrico: The Suns from Sunsets from Flickr Works | An ARTSY Legacy Exhibition On View Now
Mark Moore Fine Art is very pleased to present an Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition of Penelope Umbrico: The Suns from Sunsets from Flickr Worksas part of our new ARTSY LEGACY SERIES of exhibitions. These are the artists and shows over the last 15 years on ARTSY that have been the most acclaimed and the most viewed by their patrons and art critics. I urge you to visit the site now and view this truly wonderful body of work at: https://bit.ly/42gTOIx
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.”
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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