Blue Wave, 2009 Acrylic on wood 96 x 394 x 40 inches   Cordy Ryman Hail to the Grid Exhibition on view through December 19th Mark Moore Gallery 2525 Michigan Avenue, A-1 Santa Monica, CA 90404 Telephone 310 453 3031 Fax 310 453 3831 info@markmooregallery.com www.markmooregallery.com Cordy Ryman's inaugural solo exhibition in Los Angeles and with Mark Moore Gallery has made for an acclaimed debut. In the early days of the exhibition, Heather Jeno Silva of Flavorpill LA asserted: "Straddling a fine art line between sculpture and painting, Cordy Ryman flirts with both media but never really commits. Ryman is distinctly indebted to Frank Stella's minimalist sculptural paintings and his installations exhibit an equally inherited playfulness of materiality. By focusing on the process of building and the specificity of space, Ryman ultimately alters entire environments and finds his true partner in architectural ingenuity." In her Exhibition Preview feature, Associate Editor of Beautiful/Decay, Sasha Lee, interviewed Ryman as she shadowed him during his installation process. Shedding an astute light on both Ryman's art historical appropriations and process, she holistically expounds on the exhibition: "As the show title implies, Ryman both riffs off the conceptual frameworks of minimalism and abstraction, and simultaneously playfully transgresses some of the movements' core philosopies. While minimalism delights in the precision and rationality of its more reductivist tendencies, at the very core of Ryman's sensibility is an opposing sense of spontaneity and free-form creation." Allison Gibson of Daily Serving also spoke with Ryman about his work for her review of Hail to the Grid, which she declared "celebrates freedom," a sentiment that echoed the Kansas City Star's preview of Ryman's concurrent group exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (MO). Closing on December 19th, Hail to the Grid remains on view for four more days. Thereafter, the gallery will be closed to the public for the holiday season, but accepting of viewing appointments through January 4, 2010. For more information on Hail to the Grid or MMG's upcoming exhibition with Allison Schulnik, opening January 9, 2010, please visit the gallery website at www.markmooregallery.com. 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