Allison Schulnik October, 2012 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 congratulates Allison Schulnik on the superb review of her recent exhibition in this month's Artforum (October, 2012). Written by Catherine Taft, the review astutely guides the reader through Schulnik's practice and development towards "Salty Air," and makes insightful note of her various references. Says Taft: Included in her recent exhibition "Salty Air," these pictures are typical of Schulnik's candy-colored impastos of marginal, otherworldly characters. However, this body of work expanded the artist's language to include a brash, quasi-feminist/polygendered visual vocabulary. In this group of thirty-one works - a family of oil paintings, sculptures, and works in gouache on paper - Schulnik seemed to celebrate the mermaid's shape-shifting femininity, giving her pride of place among a coterie of seafaring subjects: haggard captains, lone sailors, anthropomorphic crustaceans, fish heads. The sense of urgency that this facture relays and the dark, muddy world these works represent add great dimension to the younger artist's ideation of her maritime wonderland - one that ranges, via a strange sort of violence, from the uncontained pleasure of her liberated mermaids to the heaviness and sorrow of her outcast men. With the momentous closing of 2012 for Schulnik, we look towards a similarly significant start to 2013 with her solo exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum. As part of the museum's "ex•pose" series, the show will take place February 24 - April 28, 2013. For more information about the artist, or available work, please feel free to contact the gallery, and we will accommodate your needs. 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 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 , please contact us at ennouncement@markmooregallery.com