Andrew Schoultz Currency Tree, 2011 acrylic, ink and collage on paper 22 x 22 inches   Ultrasonic VI: Appropriate Opening Reception: September 10, 6-8p On view through: October 22, 2011 Featuring: Theodora Allen Sebastiaan Bremer Alika Cooper Mark Mulroney Okaymountain Andrew Schoultz Mark Moore Gallery 5790 Washington Blvd Culver City, CA 90232 Telephone 310 453 3031 Fax 310 453 3831 info@markmooregallery.com www.markmooregallery.com Mark Moore Gallery presents the sixth installment of its annual Ultrasonic series, Appropriate, featuring a selection of new work by six emerging artists. The practice of appropriation has been historically elemental in artistic and societal critique. By borrowing elements of the signifiers, icons and motifs of a given visual parlance, the artists in Ultrasonic VI have distinctively embraced adoptive techniques to illustrate the gravity of context and repetition in our communal ideologies. Sourcing retro postcards, records and film stills indicative of popular Americana, UCLA MFA candidate Theodora Allen paints seemingly insignificant fragments of a master image. An ordinary vase of flowers appears a pedestrian still life until recognized from the background of a popular Gram Parsons album cover - its initial familiarity refashioned based on shifting cultural association. Photographer Sebastiaan Bremer mines autobiographical memories and experiences to unearth ostensibly hallmark images of familial mannerisms and archival traditions. Meticulously dotting his chromogenic surfaces with hazy swirls of acrylic Braille, Bremer covertly distances his landscapes and portraits from assumed communal affiliations with every allusive speck. With nearly cubist technique, Guam-born Alika Cooper paints figures and scenes that are at once iconic and disconnected in their candidly inelegant likenesses. Exploring the myth of fame and beauty, she oftentimes appropriates characters from media imagery – Farrah Fawcett's features become angular and alien while Grace Jones suddenly seems less so. At first glance, Mark Mulroney's cartoonish superflat paintings appear to be Archie and Looney Tunes comics gone awry. His lighthearted palette and style filches a jocular sensibility akin to the mass graphics of childhood, but actually evaluate the implicit lewd and malicious desires we are raised to oppress. Similarly, artist collaborative Okaymountain repackages, reconstitutes and rekindles our consumerist desires with a sardonic edge. With ten members, the group creates installations and multi-media assemblage works that mimic the stock vernacular of our communal materialism, yet tweaks them just enough to reveal our superficial insecurities and convictions. Finally, Andrew Schoultz's large scale collaged paintings employ notorious emblems of imperialism and globalization – from the Trojan Horse to the American flag – that dissolve into a patterned frenzy of chaos and whimsy; not so dissimilar from our systemic modern habits. Initially historical in allegory, they ultimately issue a sense of foreboding anticipation. For full biographies or more information about the featured artists, please visit www.markmooregallery.com. Inquiries regarding available work can be directed to the gallery. Follow Us: Facebook Twitter You are listed in our mailing list or you opted-in to receive this email by joining our mailing list at http://www.markmooregallery.com/. If you received this email in error or no longer wish to receive these mailings, please go to http://www.markmooregallery.com/.php?email=artsnews%40absolutearts.com&check=ed3979d6 or contact us at ennouncement@markmooregallery.com. if the above address doesn't work. Note that this may take up to 3 days to process. If you would like to learn more about how we received your email address, please contact us at ennouncement@markmooregallery.com