Mar Doré Gallery

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About the Mar Doré Gallery

We have unusual international collections of fine art which include modern art, contemporary sculpture and traditional indigenous art and antiquities. We sponsor new and exciting work by contemporary American artists and contemporary artists of diverse cultures from all over the world. A portion of sales is donated to non-profit cultural organizations that work with indigenous communities to maintain cultural integrity by developing self-sustaining economic programs.

Executive Director

M3 / Mar Doré Milpa - Aka Mary Mizenko

• 1983 – BA Economics, Minor Art & Equestrian Science: William Woods College, Fulton MO
• 1983-84 – Stanford University Art Post Doc Studies: Frank Lobdell, Nathan Olivera
• Frank Lobdell pulled me aside and said I should go to the MFA program @ SFAI.
• 1987-1989 – San Francisco Art Institute MFA Degree
• 1987-88 – George Coats Performance Works Stage Technician “Actual Sho”
• 1987-1989 – SFAI studied with Barbara Rodger, Carlos Villa, Bruce McGaw, Master’s program
• 1988 – Publication: Heresies 23, Pg 12 with Lucy R. Lippard “Right Now is Always the Best Age.”
• 1988 – The Emanuel Walters Gallery Spring Show, San Francisco, CA
• 1988 – SFAI Graduate Gallery Opening Show, Group Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
• 1989 – Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco “What Moves!” multimedia performance piece with dancers, film, recorded and live musicians. Produced and sculpted statue totems and main character costume
• 1989 – MFA SFAI painting and sculpture
• 1989 – MFA Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
• 1990 – Solo Exhibition, Galerie Binnenland, Amsterdam, NL
• 1990 – NRC Handelsbad Amsterdam, July 12, 1990, Page 20 national paper review of art gallery show
• 1992-94 – Art Properties & Costume, Technical Director: Sound & Lighting for Avant Garde Theater and Indigenous People protest. 1st Native American Opera by White Cloud Wolfhawk Eagles Quetzalkanbalam, “Get Lost Again Columbus” performed throughout the SF Bay Area.
• 1992-1996 – Art Properties, Set, Costumes, Technical Director: Sound, Lighting, DRM Quetzalkanbalam’s “Sacred Tales of the Popol Wuj”
• 2009-2012 – Houston Center for Photography, courses in Night Photography, Printing, and Photoshop.
• 2010-2012 – Mardi Gras Indians Video & Photography documentary: Imbedded with House of Dance of Feather Ronald Lewis and the Lower 9th Street Mardi Gras Indian Gang Comanche Hunters. Photographic and video documentation of the Super Sunday, St. Joseph, and Mardi Gras events in New Orleans, LA.
• 2010 – Mardi Gras 1956: “Through My Father’s Lens” documentary video on Boing Boing featuring the Mid City Mardi Gras Parade 1956 found slides taken by my father. It set me off exploring Mardi Gras and photography more deeply and my NOLA roots.
• 2013-2024 – Foto Collage for Ambience Doré Furniture Sales
• 2017-2023 – Day of The Dead Photo capture, SoCal Events and Foto collages. Day of the Dead Los Angeles events. Foto collages featuring themes. M3’s Maria Delores and other works.
• 2011-2023 – Photographic capture of equestrians at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center & beyond, life in SoCal. Work for Foto collage and study of sculptures, paintings, and drawings.
• 2022-2024 – LA River 3D Collages. Curated found objects pulled from the LA River and street. Return to hands-on art, less photography.
• 2024 – New works returning to roots of painting, drawing, sculpture experienced in emotional capture rather than through a lens.