| AMY ELKINS Four Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Ocean), 2009-2016 Archival Pigment Print Collection of the Laguna Art MuseumEdition of FIFTEEN in three sizes: 20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. – Edition of 5 – $2,500 30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. – Edition of 5 – $4,000 40 x 50 / 40×60 in. – Edition of 5 – $5,500 A pen pal 26 years into his sentence in a landlocked prison, described an early childhood memory that haunted him, of walking further and further into the ocean during low tide until the sudden depth and darkness before him overcame him with fear. |
| Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that LAGUNA ART MUSEUM has acquired a major sculpture work by artist AMY ELKINS for its permanent collection. Amy Elkins (American, b. 1979) is a visual artist and educator based in Berkeley and Sacramento, CA. 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 spent the past fifteen years researching, creating and exhibiting work that explores the complexities of gender, race and identity, including how they are impacted by systems of power: prisons, the military, colonization, and hierarchies built upon social constructs. 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 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. Elkins 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. Founded in 1918, the Laguna Art Museum is located at 307 Cliff Drive in Laguna Beach, CA. It is the oldest cultural institution in Orange County. Dedicated exclusively to California art, the museum preserves the state’s history through a permanent collection of over 3,500 works spanning from 1860 to the present. The museum began as the Laguna Beach Art Association, formed by a small group of local artists (including Edgar Payne, who served as its first president in 1920). In 1929, the association opened a custom-built gallery designed by noted Los Angeles architect Myron Hunt. This original space is now preserved as the museum’s Steele Gallery. It was renamed the Laguna Beach Museum of Art in 1972 and took on its current name in 1986 following an expansion. |
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