Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that LAGUNA ART MUSEUM has acquired a major work by artist ALLISON SCHULNIK for its permanent collection

Posted on October 13, 2026 | Leave a comment
Allison Schulnik
Centaurette 8, 2017
Cast bronze on stone base
29 × 20 × 8 in / 73.7 × 50.8 × 20.3 cm
Collection of the Laguna Art Museum

Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that LAGUNA ART MUSEUM has acquired a major sculpture work by artist ALLISON SCHULNIK for its permanent collection.
 
Allison Schulnik uses painting, ceramics, and hand-made, traditional animation to choreograph her subjects in compositions that embody a spirit of the macabre, a Shakespearean comedy/tragedy of love, death, and farce.  Her works were compared to “the comic-grotesque visionary James Ensor” by The New York Times. 

Schulnik has been making animated films since she was 17.  Her films have been included in internationally renowned festivals and museums including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, LACMA, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb.  She received “Best Experimental Animation” at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and Special Jury Prize at SXSW FIlm.

Solo exhibitions include the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles; ZieherSmith, New York, NY; and Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid.  Schulnik’s work is in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Santa Barbara Art Museum; Museé de Beaux Arts (Montreal); Laguna Art Museum; The Crocker Art Museum; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; and The Albright-Knox Gallery; Marjorie Barrick Museum (University of Nevada Las Vegas) – to name but a few.  She lives and works in Sky Valley, CA.
 
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.

For more information on this artist, go to: https://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/allison-schulnik

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Discover “Energy and Motion II: Abstraction 2026”, an exclusive online group exhibition presented by Mark Moore Fine Art on ARTSY

Posted on October 12, 2026 | Leave a comment

Discover Energy and Motion II: Abstraction 2026, an exclusive online group exhibition presented by Mark Moore Fine Art on ARTSY. Featuring 19 visionary artists, this show explores abstraction as “energy and motion made visible,” capturing vibrant movement through diverse materials and techniques.

Artists include Rebekah Andrade, Michael Batty, Tim Bavington, Larry Bell, Kara Maria, Helen Pashgian, Penelope Umbrico, and many more.

For more information and to explore the exhibition, visit Mark Moore Fine Art’s ARTSY exhibition page at: https://bit.ly/46cRbKM

Experience the dynamic interplay of form, color, and energy—on view now through November 29, 2026.

Explore the full exhibition and immerse yourself in the power of abstraction. For details, visit our website at www.markmoorefineart.com or contact info@markmoorefineart.com

#AbstractArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtExhibition #OnlineExhibition
#Artsy #MarkMooreFineArt #AbstractPainting #ModernArt #ArtCollectors #ArtLovers #ArtGallery #VisualArt #ArtInspiration #EnergyAndMotion #Art2026 #FineArt #AbstractExpressionism #ArtShow #CreativeExpression #ArtCommunity

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Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that the SEATTLE ART MUSEUM has acquired a second major work from the NEWSPAPER Series by artist KIM RUGG for its permanent collection

Posted on October 9, 2026 | Leave a comment
Kim Rugg
Fallen Angel (Los Angeles Times), 2005
Reconfigured newsprint
22 3/4 × 12 1/2 in / 57.8 × 31.8 cm
Collection of the Seattle Art Museum
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that the SEATTLE ART MUSEUM has acquired a second major work from the NEWSPAPER Series by artist KIM RUGG for its permanent collection. 

Kim Rugg is renowned for her meticulous and labor-intensive work which involves deconstructing and slicing an object into minute shards to then re-organize and reconstruct it according to arbitrary codes. The original meaning is removed to reveal new ones, and to corrupt or destroy the object’s function. This act of mischievous “sabotage” is applied to ephemeral and iconic objects such as newspapers, comic books, product boxes, sweaters, and stamps, and more recently to larger formats such as wallpaper and furniture – and, by doing so, she turns a neutral vehicle for a message into an object to be considered.By giving value to something which would normally be disposed of, Rugg transgresses conventional systems by obliterating what is conceived to be the important element, “the content”, and retaining everything else, the material, the shapes, the typography, the color palettes, and the layout. Through these works, she continues her investigation into the relationship between images and their signifier. Rugg questions the way in which the information we process daily is preconceived and prompts the viewer to consider the familiar from an entirely new perspective.Matter is neither created nor destroyed in Kim Rugg’s work, but surgically, strategically repurposed. Rugg reconfigures familiar printed materials: here newspapers, magazines, and maps; previously also postage stamps, comic books and cereal boxes. By altering their forms and tweaking or altogether eliminating their legibility, she slams on the visual brakes, forcing a closer, slower inspection of objects we typically look through rather than at. The raw materials of her enterprise give up their transparency and functionality as information delivery systems to become instead sculptural interpretations of those same systems. They sacrifice one type of authority but assume another. 

Kim Rugg received her MFA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (London). Her work can be seen in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art (D.C.) and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Honolulu Museum of Art, the Norton Museum (FL), and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (TX) among others. She has been included in exhibitions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (CA), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Cologne), and Nettie Horn Gallery (Manchester), P.P.O.W. Gallery (NYC), and was the recipient of the Thames and Hudson Prize from the Royal College of Art Society in 2004. She lives and works in London (UK). 

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is the largest visual arts institution in the Pacific Northwest, featuring a collection of over 25,000 artworks from around the world. Located in downtown Seattle near Pike Place Market, it serves as a central cultural hub, with two additional locations: the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the waterfront. The collection features diverse, global art ranging from ancient to contemporary, including significant Northwest Coast Native American art, African art, and modern installations.

For more information on this artist, go to: https://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/kim-rugg

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Mark Moore Fine Art proudly presents ULTRA 26, an exclusive ARTSY online group exhibition featuring new works from 23 talented gallery artists

Posted on October 8, 2026 | Leave a comment

Mark Moore Fine Art proudly presents ULTRA 26, an exclusive ARTSY online group exhibition featuring new works from 23 talented gallery artists. Continuing a tradition that began with the “Ultrasonic International” Exhibition in 2006, this show highlights a diverse range of mediums and styles, showcasing the vibrant creativity of our artists.

Experience fresh, innovative pieces from: Josh Azzarella, Mark Bennett, Iván Carmona, Ken Craft, Dennis Ekstedt, Amy Elkins, Vernon Fisher, Jennifer Gunlock, Todd Hebert, David Klamen, Dimitri Kozyrev, Beth Lipman, Jeffry Mitchell, Okay Mountain, Max Presneill, Joseph Rossano, Kim Rugg, Christopher Russell, Jason Salavon, Allison Schulnik, Heidi Schwegler, Dirk Stashke, and Yoram Wolberger.

Dive into the cutting edge of contemporary art with ULTRA 26—an unmissable celebration of creativity and talent.

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

Visit www.markmooregallery.com for more info.

#MarkMooreFineArt #ULTRA26 #ContemporaryArt #GroupExhibition #ArtShow #GalleryArtists #ModernArt #ArtCollectors #VisualArt #ArtExhibition #Artsy #EmergingArtists #FineArt #CreativeExpression #ArtLovers #ArtCommunity #InnovativeArt #MixedMedia #ArtGallery #SupportArtists

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Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that MCNAY ART MUSEUM has acquired a major work by artist MARK BENNETT for its permanent collection

Posted on October 7, 2026 | Leave a comment

Mark Bennett
Home of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson (Batman), 2015
Archival pigment print on Hot Press Cotton Rag
32 × 48 in (81.3 × 121.9 cm)
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Collection of the McNay Art Museum

Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that MCNAY ART MUSEUM has acquired a major work by artist MARK BENNETT for its permanent collection. 

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).Mark Bennett is in the Public Collections of several prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, CA. His works are also part of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Portland Art Museum in Portland, OR. Additionally, he is represented in The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, and the New York Public Library in New York, NY. Other notable collections include the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA, the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis, IN, and the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. His works can also be found at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, and the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He is included in the collections of Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA, and the West Collection in Oaks, PA, as well as the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA and the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA. Further representations can be found at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. His artwork is also housed in the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles, CA, Seattle Art Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, and the McNay Museum in San Antonio, TX. The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, is Texas’ first modern art museum, founded by heiress Marion Koogler McNay, who bequeathed her Spanish Colonial Revival home and art collection to create it, opening in 1954. It showcases significant works of modern and contemporary art, including pieces by Picasso, Van Gogh, Hopper, O’Keeffe, and Pollock, alongside extensive prints, drawings, and theater arts, set within beautiful landscaped grounds featuring sculptures. 

For more information on this artist, go to: https://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/mark-bennett

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Mark Moore Fine Art proudly announces that Laguna Art Museum has acquired Christopher Russell’s work “Explosion 29” (2015)

Posted on October 6, 2026 | Leave a comment

CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL
Explosion 29, 2015
14×18 inches
Digital print and scratched plexiglass
Collection of the Laguna Art Museum

Mark Moore Fine Art proudly announces that Laguna Art Museum has acquired Christopher Russell’s “Explosion 29” (2015), a unique piece blending digital print and scratched plexiglass. Russell’s work merges photography, drawing, and painting to challenge traditional views of nature and landscape. Inspired by historical patterns and photographic traditions, his art creates textured, abstract vistas that invite deep reflection. His work is held in major museums worldwide, including the Getty and Hammer Museum. Laguna Art Museum, Orange County’s oldest cultural institution, now houses this innovative sculpture in its permanent collection.

View more work by Christopher Russell on our website here: https://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/christopher-russell

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Discover “Energy and Motion II: Abstraction 2026”, an exclusive online group exhibition presented by Mark Moore Fine Art on ARTSY

Posted on October 5, 2026 | Leave a comment

Discover Energy and Motion II: Abstraction 2026, an exclusive online group exhibition presented by Mark Moore Fine Art on ARTSY. Featuring 19 visionary artists, this show explores abstraction as “energy and motion made visible,” capturing vibrant movement through diverse materials and techniques.

Artists include Rebekah Andrade, Michael Batty, Tim Bavington, Larry Bell, Kara Maria, Helen Pashgian, Penelope Umbrico, and many more.

For more information and to explore the exhibition, visit Mark Moore Fine Art’s ARTSY exhibition page at: https://bit.ly/46cRbKM

Experience the dynamic interplay of form, color, and energy—on view now through November 29, 2026.

Explore the full exhibition and immerse yourself in the power of abstraction. For details, visit our website at www.markmoorefineart.com or contact info@markmoorefineart.com

#AbstractArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtExhibition #OnlineExhibition
#Artsy #MarkMooreFineArt #AbstractPainting #ModernArt #ArtCollectors #ArtLovers #ArtGallery #VisualArt #ArtInspiration #EnergyAndMotion #Art2026 #FineArt #AbstractExpressionism #ArtShow #CreativeExpression #ArtCommunity

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Discover “Reflections: The Ipswich River Drawing Series 2003” by Michael Batty – An Exclusive ARTSY Online Exhibition Ending Today

Posted on October 4, 2026 | Leave a comment

Michael Batty
Ipswhich River drawing #14, 2003
Graphite on paper
16 × 16 in (40.6 × 40.6 cm)

Discover Reflections: The Ipswich River Drawing Series 2003 by Michael Batty — a mesmerizing journey captured in a single continuous graphite line. Inspired by the serene Ipswich River, these drawings blur boundaries between reflection and reality, memory and perception.

Swipe through to experience how rhythm and repetition transform drawing into a meditation on movement and stillness.

Explore the full exhibition online at: https://bit.ly/4bcxi9B

#MichaelBatty #IpswichRiver #ContemporaryArt #DrawingSeries #ArtExhibition #Minimalism #AutomaticDrawing #GraphiteArt #ArtAndMemory #AbstractDrawing #ArtInspiration

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Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) has acquired a major work by artist MARK BENNETT for its permanent collection

Posted on October 2, 2026 | Leave a comment
MARK BENNETT
Home of Blanche Devereaux (The Golden Girls), 2021
Archival pigment print on Hot Press Cotton Rag
32 × 48 in (81.3 × 121.9 cm)
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC)
Mark Moore Fine Art is proud to announce that the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) has acquired a major work by artist MARK BENNETT for its permanent collection. 

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). Mark Bennett is in the Public Collections of several prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, CA. His works are also part of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Portland Art Museum in Portland, OR. Additionally, he is represented in The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, and the New York Public Library in New York, NY. Other notable collections include the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA, the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis, IN, and the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. His works can also be found at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, and the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He is included in the collections of Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA, and the West Collection in Oaks, PA, as well as the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA and the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA. Further representations can be found at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. His artwork is also housed in the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles, CA, Seattle Art Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, and the McNay Museum in San Antonio, TX. 

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at UTC is Tennessee’s first Institute of Contemporary Art. Housed in the Fine Arts Center at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, it serves as a creative epicenter and public gallery, bringing regional, national, and international contemporary art to the campus and the broader Chattanooga community. Founded in 2021, the ICA evolved from the university’s longstanding Cress Gallery of Art. While the former gallery primarily focused on local talent, student, and faculty shows, the ICA was launched to expand the space’s purpose, bringing in bold, adventurous contemporary exhibitions that foster creativity and artistic inquiry.

For more information on this artist, go to: www.markmoorefineart.com

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Mark Moore Fine Art proudly presents ULTRA 26, an exclusive ARTSY online group exhibition featuring new works from 23 talented gallery artists

Posted on October 1, 2026 | Leave a comment

Mark Moore Fine Art proudly presents ULTRA 26, an exclusive ARTSY online group exhibition featuring new works from 23 talented gallery artists. Continuing a tradition that began with the “Ultrasonic International” Exhibition in 2006, this show highlights a diverse range of mediums and styles, showcasing the vibrant creativity of our artists.

Experience fresh, innovative pieces from: Josh Azzarella, Mark Bennett, Iván Carmona, Ken Craft, Dennis Ekstedt, Amy Elkins, Vernon Fisher, Jennifer Gunlock, Todd Hebert, David Klamen, Dimitri Kozyrev, Beth Lipman, Jeffry Mitchell, Okay Mountain, Max Presneill, Joseph Rossano, Kim Rugg, Christopher Russell, Jason Salavon, Allison Schulnik, Heidi Schwegler, Dirk Stashke, and Yoram Wolberger.

Dive into the cutting edge of contemporary art with ULTRA 26—an unmissable celebration of creativity and talent.

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

Visit www.markmooregallery.com for more info.

#MarkMooreFineArt #ULTRA26 #ContemporaryArt #GroupExhibition #ArtShow #GalleryArtists #ModernArt #ArtCollectors #VisualArt #ArtExhibition #Artsy #EmergingArtists #FineArt #CreativeExpression #ArtLovers #ArtCommunity #InnovativeArt #MixedMedia #ArtGallery #SupportArtists

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