Okay Mountain in Chattanooga: UTC Cress Gallery of Art

The Okay Mountain boys will be visiting Chattanooga, Tennessee next month for an exhibition and lecture at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Cress Gallery.

Okay Mountain at the Cress will be a departure from the collaborative’s previous exhibitions.  Rather than feature a single installation, this exhibition will feature a recent retrospective of three works in a range of media previously premiered at other locations, and a fourth work to be unveiled in the Cress.  Expect great things.

Exhibition dates: February 8 – March 20, 2012

 
Okay Mountain Artists’ lecture Wednesday February 8, 5:30 – 6:30pm
followed by a public reception
 
Okay Mountain visits campus and community for activities
February 6 – 9, 2012 as a part of
The Diane Marek Visiting Artist Series.
 
Admission to all Marek events and the Cress exhibition is free
and open to all.
Gallery hours:
9:30am – 7:30pm Monday – Friday
1:00pm – 4:00pm Saturday and Sunday

Parking: Parking is free after 5:00pm weekdays and all day on weekends in any UTC lot not marked “24-hour reserved”.  Before 5:00pm on weekdays, visitors may find one-hour or metered street parking or obtain a lot pass from the Parking Office in the UTC Facilities Bldg. located at 400 Palmetto Street.

Location: The Cress Gallery of Art is located in the lobby of the UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine Street at the corner of Vine and Palmetto Streets, 37403

Press Release

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Wheel, 2011

Andrew Schoultz Paints Plane; Generally Kills It

To say that Andrew Schoultz likes a sizable challenge is a vast understatement. Just when murals and wall-sized paintings seem staggering, Schoultz surprises us with a Lockheed VC 140 Jetstar spy plane as his newest canvas. Completed for the Pima Air & Space Museum‘s (AZ) “Round Trip: Art From the Boneyard Project,” Andrew’s plane is among several curated artist planes selected by Med Sobio (independent curator) and Lesley Oliver (Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art). The oversize exhibition opens January 28th, and runs through May, 2012. For more information, check out the feature article from Juxtapoz Magazine and the preview from Arrested Motion.

Additionally, Schoultz will be debuting a new large-scale wall collage and painting at the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair in Jerome Zodo Contemporary’s booth tonight – January 19th – which will remain on view through January 22, 2012. Schoultz is also producing new work for his upcoming two-person exhibition with Richard Colman at VI Gallery (Copenhagen), which opens March 16th, 2012. Should you find yourself near any of these venues in the next few months – make it a point to see these ambitious projects!

Heffernan Takes Off for Oklahoma

Julie Heffernan will soon be heading to Oklahoma to unveil her first career-to-date museum retrospective show at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, opening to the public on February 16th, from 6:30 – 8pm.

Julie Heffernan: Infinite Work in Progress, will be the 5th installment of the “New Frontiers” Series for Contemporary Art, and will feature twenty incredibly beautiful and complex paintings by the painter through May 13, 2012. Complete with an artist lecture and catalogue, Infinite Work in Progress will showcase a combination of foundational early works on loan from private collections, and brand new works from the studio that will preview her upcoming solo show with Mark Moore Gallery October 17 – December 15, 2012.

Josh Azzarella’s California Invasion

Right on the heels of his special project for PULSE Contemporary Art Fair in Miami, two museum exhibitions featuring Josh Azzarella will open to the public by early February.

First up is “Split Moment” at the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach; curated and organized by Mary Coyne, Damaris Leal and Hillary Morimoto alongside Nizan Shaked, the show “examines the modes artists utilize to appropriate and engage performance by contextualizing issues such as viewership, mediation, and presence.” Opening on January 27, 2012, 6-8pm, “Split Moment” will remain on view through April 15th, and showcases Azzarella’s famed “Untitled #100 (Fantasia)” video – which sources Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video. Other featured artists include Trisha Brown, Jocelyn Foye, Babette Mangolte, Kelly Nipper, Yvonne Rainer, and Flora Wiegmann.

Shortly thereafter, “Render: New Construction in Video Art” opens at the California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside on February 4, 2012. The opening reception will be held on February 18, from 6-9pm, and also honor featured artists Rebecca Baron + Doug Goodwin, Jennifer West, Sean Dockray in addition to several others. “Render explores the physical and phenomenological processes of video in contemporary art,” and will highlight three seminal videos from Azzarella. Most notably, the museum will mount Azzarella’s ambitious “Untitled #125 (Hickory)” (sourced from “Wizard of Oz” footage) for its first West Coast showing.

For more information on any of these events, please visit the respective websites of the sponsoring institutions, or contact the gallery.

MMG Takes on PULSE Miami

Thanksgiving is upon us and that means we are off to Miami again! This year’s booth features recent additions to the MMG program, such as Stephanie Washburn, Feodor Voronov, Okay Mountain, and Andrew Schoultz. Also making for some ambitious strides are brand new works from Tim Bavington, Kenichi Yokono, Yigal Ozeri, David Rathman, Ben Weiner, and  Allison Schulnik.

The gallery will also be producing a number of special projects and events this year. On Wednesday, November 30th, by invitation only, the Sagamore Hotel (in conjunction with Vogue, the Art Production Fund, Mark Moore Gallery and ZieherSmith) will screen three videos by Allison Schulnik, including Hobo Clown (2008), Forest (2009) and the recently debuted Mound (2011).

Additionally, in celebration of gallery artist Andrew Schoultz‘s recent participation in the Fountainhead Residency (through which he has created a new public mural in the Wynwood District and several new large scale works), the gallery is hosting an invitation-only cocktail reception alongside Marx & Zavattero, Morgan Lehman Gallery and Jerome Zodo Contemporary with special guest host, Moby.

Finally, the gallery will be sponsoring a public-area installation in the entryway of  PULSE: a rigorous new video project by Josh Azzarella. Untitled #125 (2011) is a work derived from the 6 minute and 30 second scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy is transported from Kansas into Oz. Using a technique based on layering and recursive frames, this moment of transformation is extended to envelop the entire time of her actual experience. Just as dreams – which realistically occur in flashes of seconds in our brains – can seem like hours or days, so Dorothy’s hours of unconsciousness take on a five day journey throughout the course of the fair.

A preview of some of the work that will be in our booth can be found on the gallery’s exhibition page.

Visit Mark Moore Gallery at PULSE in Booth B-402, December 1-4 at:

The Ice Palace

1400 North Miami Ave at NW 14th Street

Miami, Florida

 

Lump Sum featuring Christopher Davison

Opening in his hometown of Philadelphia, PA, MMG artist Christopher Davison will present Lump Sum at Philly’s University of the Arts. Curated by UoA Painting Professor Rebecca Sack, the exhibition will run November 14th through December 1st, in Gallery space 817. An artist talk with Davison will be held Tuesday, November 29th from 11:45AM – 1PM, and an opening reception for the exhibition will be held the same day from 6-8pm. We expect the show to reveal some of Chris’ most recent dreamscapes, in all of their inky, gouached glory – as delectable as the city’s cheese steaks, and fewer calories too!

Cordy Ryman Heads to the Bay

Up next for MMG artist Cordy Ryman is a solo show at Eli Ridgway Gallery in San Francisco, opening this coming Saturday, November 12th. Inclusive of his characteristic abstraction and bold color, the show furthers his practice of combining ordinary substances (such as velcro, spray paint, wood, debris, and staples) into three-dimensional geometric works. Part minimalism, part constructivism, part sculpture, and part architecture, Ryman’s latest batch of pieces will grace Northern California in his first Bay area exhibition, on view through December 22nd.

For more information and a selection of preview images, visit the gallery’s website.

“Spread the Word” • An Art Auction Benefiting 826LA!

According to the stocking-stuffed aisles of Target and snow-laden Sears commercials, the holidays are just around the corner – and Mark Moore Gallery is eager to facilitate some of the heart-warming charity that is traditional of the season. For the first time, the gallery will host a silent auction of donated artworks to raise funds for a local non-profit. A one-night exhibition held on December 17th, 2011 in the gallery, “Spread the Word” will showcase works by emerging artists starting below $100 – with special emphasis on local talent – to raise funds for 826LA!

Founded by celebrated novelist, Dave Eggers, 826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 years old with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. By providing after-school tutoring, evening and weekend workshops, in-school tutoring, help for English-language learners, and assistance with student publications, 826LA is a pioneering non-profit focused on youth literacy, creativity and fostering unique voices in the arts.

In the weeks to come, the gallery will release more information on how to purchase tickets, donate work and/or “spread the word” about the inaugural art auction – which will also feature live entertainment and other goodies for attendees. Give more than a Starbucks gift card this season: support local artists, support literacy, and support charity.

Want to get involved early? Feel free to email us at info@markmooregallery.com, subject: 826!

Stay tuned for more information…

Anticipation ‘Rising’ for Jeremy Fish & Kenichi Yokono

With CoolHunting hailing Tokyo native Kenichi Yokono as “uncompromising in his attention to detail and dedication to the emotional integrity of [his work],” it seems we’re not the only ones counting down the days until his forthcoming two-person exhibition Rise of the Underground. Also featuring the “King of North Beach,” Jeremy Fish, the show opens here at Mark Moore Gallery on Saturday, October 29 from 6-8 PM. Incorporating explorations of traditional woodcutting technique, American skateboard culture, storytelling, and anime, the show features just enough mirth and malice to kick off your Halloween weekend right.

Check out CoolHunting’s article in its entirety here, and Angelinos – make sure to clear your schedule for the 29th!

“Brilliant!” Fundraiser Features MMG Artists

“Celebrating artists’ extraordinary contributions to our lives,” the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KS) will host its ninth annual event to raise funds for the institution’s ambitious program. In an effort to highlight the “brilliance” of the invited auction artists, the museum selected the color yellow as the emblem of the event, as well as the thematic commonality between featured works. The  Beyond Bounds • Brilliant! live and silent auctions will take place October 22, beginning at 7pm. MMG artists invited to participate include Kim Dorland, Cordy Ryman and Allison Schulnik - all of whom donated new works for the event.

To review all of the 150 artists that have donated work, visit the event page, where you can also buy tickets and learn about how to bid!