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

Posted on January 1, 2025 | 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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ARTSY Featured Exhibition – THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Inside The Studio Of Dennis Ekstedt

Posted on December 31, 2024 | Leave a comment

ARTSY Featured Exhibition – THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Inside The Studio Of Dennis Ekstedt

Experience the art world like never before with “The Creative Process” series, revealing new works straight from the studio of DENNIS EKSTEDT. 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/4bUQy9e

Dennis Ekstedt (Canadian, Born 1961) is a painter based in Vancouver, Canada. He received his Diploma in Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C in 1986, and his M.F.A from Concordia University in Montreal in 1993. In 2002, Ekstedt was awarded the Eastern Canada prize in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, and his work can be found in numerous public, corporate, and private collections. Over the years, he has held many exhibitions and received multiple artist grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec. Ekstedt’s work has also been featured in publications such as Carte Blanche Vol 2-Painting (2008) and The RBC Painting Competition: 10 years (2008). He has collaborated with art consultants, including Soho Art Consulting, Kalisher, Art and Objects, and Tatar Art Projects. Currently, Ekstedt is represented by Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary, Alberta, Mark Moore Fine Arts in Los Angeles, and Nancy Toomey Fine Art in San Francisco.

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

Posted on December 28, 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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“Captured Earth” featuring PENELOPE UMBRICO on view now at The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP)

Posted on December 27, 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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Five Mark Moore Fine Art Artists Featured In The Current Art Exhibition at Laguna Art Museum

Posted on December 25, 2024 | Leave a comment

IMAGE: Robert Standish
Transcendental Terrain, 2023
36 x 24 inches
Acrylic on canvas
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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ARTSY Featured Exhibition – THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Inside The Studio Of Dennis Ekstedt

Posted on December 24, 2024 | Leave a comment

ARTSY Featured Exhibition – THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Inside The Studio Of Dennis Ekstedt

Experience the art world like never before with “The Creative Process” series, revealing new works straight from the studio of DENNIS EKSTEDT. 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/4bUQy9e

Dennis Ekstedt (Canadian, Born 1961) is a painter based in Vancouver, Canada. He received his Diploma in Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C in 1986, and his M.F.A from Concordia University in Montreal in 1993. In 2002, Ekstedt was awarded the Eastern Canada prize in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, and his work can be found in numerous public, corporate, and private collections. Over the years, he has held many exhibitions and received multiple artist grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec. Ekstedt’s work has also been featured in publications such as Carte Blanche Vol 2-Painting (2008) and The RBC Painting Competition: 10 years (2008). He has collaborated with art consultants, including Soho Art Consulting, Kalisher, Art and Objects, and Tatar Art Projects. Currently, Ekstedt is represented by Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary, Alberta, Mark Moore Fine Arts in Los Angeles, and Nancy Toomey Fine Art in San Francisco.

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

Posted on December 20, 2024 | Leave a comment

IMAGE: 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

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

Posted on December 18, 2024 | Leave a comment

IMAGE: Mark Bennett, The Pritchett Family Plans (Modern Family), 2017
Archival pigment print on Hot Press Cotton Rag
29 × 40 in / 73.7 × 101.6 cm / Edition of 10 + 2AP
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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ARTSY Featured Exhibition – THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Inside The Studio Of Dennis Ekstedt

Posted on December 17, 2024 | Leave a comment

ARTSY Featured Exhibition – THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Inside The Studio Of Dennis Ekstedt

Experience the art world like never before with “The Creative Process” series, revealing new works straight from the studio of DENNIS EKSTEDT. 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/4bUQy9e

Dennis Ekstedt (Canadian, Born 1961) is a painter based in Vancouver, Canada. He received his Diploma in Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C in 1986, and his M.F.A from Concordia University in Montreal in 1993. In 2002, Ekstedt was awarded the Eastern Canada prize in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, and his work can be found in numerous public, corporate, and private collections. Over the years, he has held many exhibitions and received multiple artist grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec. Ekstedt’s work has also been featured in publications such as Carte Blanche Vol 2-Painting (2008) and The RBC Painting Competition: 10 years (2008). He has collaborated with art consultants, including Soho Art Consulting, Kalisher, Art and Objects, and Tatar Art Projects. Currently, Ekstedt is represented by Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary, Alberta, Mark Moore Fine Arts in Los Angeles, and Nancy Toomey Fine Art in San Francisco.

#InsideTheStudioOfDennisEkstedt #CreativeProcess #BehindTheArt #StudioLife #MarkMooreFineArt #ArtGallery #ContemporaryArt #ArtistFeature #ArtStudio #ArtCreation #StudioVisit #ArtExhibition #ArtShowcase #ArtInspiration #ArtInProcess

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