The news is coming out early on the big December art fairs. Line-up's can be found here and here. OC Art Blog Prediction: $75 oil, rising interest rates, housing bubble burst, lots of articles on the HOT art market/collecting art this year only means that late December is when the "Where did the art buyers go?" articles start coming out. Look for Scope Houston in 2006...
Great article on Habib Kheradyar and his long time downtown space Post can be found here. Post's final show takes place on Sept. 10th. Thanks for the memories. (photo Wayne Shimabukuro) ...
Squeeze OC visits While Pollock was Sleeping at the Laguna Art Museum and interviews LAM Curator Tyler Stallings here. ...
The LA Times does a piece on starting an art collection on a budget in today's calendar. ...
Being in HB nudged between Long Beach and OC I take notice of what local schools around here are active in the local art scene and I would have to say hands down Cal State Long Beach is the winner. I run into those students everywhere. I wish I could say the same about some other OC schools. Anyway, why don't we all return the favor and go support their little shindig this weekend called the Greater LA MFA Exhibition. Greater LA MFA features approximately...
The last time I had done any acting in any theatrical production was when I got the coveted lead role of Santa Claus in my 3rd Grade holiday play, after peaking so early I thought it was time to hang it up...
Headed over to SoundWalk 2005 in Long Beach tonight and It was great time. There was a great crowd and I ran into a few familiar faces like Michele Jaquis, xtine and Carrie Yury. If you missed it you can still catch part of the show at Koo's, otherwise make sure you don't miss it next year. Some photos follow: All Ages Peek at the Queen Mary Sound Bike xtine's Mozart Effect. The cactus listening to 50 cent is the winner. Michele Jaquis' installation. ...
Congrats to HB artist Charli Siebert who was part of Artforum's most recent LA critic's pick. Nice job! ...
Yesterday I passed on the surf and headed up north to meet Mark Dutcher at his Culver City studio. Had the opportunity to see his new work and hang out and talk for a while. I'm very excited to report that we'll get a chance to see some of this new work in the OC early next year at The Office. More on that later. After leaving Mark's I headed over to MOCA to catch the Basquiat show. The interview film downstairs is a must...
Hit the beach today then went over to the artists village for lunch and caught Exquisite Electric and the Bird Show at GCAC. Both shows were good. There's also a lecture by Poet/Artist/Theorist Alan Soundheim tomorrow night at 7pm at GCAC. Sounds like an interesting one for bloggers. Photos follow: getting better Grand Central Art Center Exquisite Electric Bird Show Bird Show ...
This Saturday the LBC will be the place to be to catch the opening of Soundwalk 2005. Be sure to catch The Office's November artist Carrie Yury's sound installation on the corner of Elm and Ocean. Hope to see you there. This year with over 60 contributing artists from Southern California, Germany, Italy, UK, and New Zealand Soundwalk 2005 offer's another environmental experience with new and returning artists participating in the alteration of this familiar urban space. The outdoor sound installations add a layer...
I'm taking a mental health break from work all week and was hoping to get in a lot of surfing. Bolsa Chica at 10am...
Local fashionista Paul Frank does Andy Warhol and a couple of OC Weeklies discuss it here and here. Can you see the momentum building here. Forget the gallery system. All the young dudes hope to get their very own RVCA t-shirt. ...
For those of you that are suffering the August art withdrawls I wanted to point you to a local program on our local NPR station called Pacific Drift. You might remember me mentioning them back in January. I caught a couple of re-broadcasts last night. One was a piece on Vincent Price and his Art Collecting legacy and the other was a walk through of the recent Hammer show, Thing. Great stuff. They have many podcasts available on their website. The show airs on Sunday nights. Check...
Tamara Chuang over at the OC Register made mention of the OC Art Blog on her blog yesterday. Thanks Tamara! I suppose I'll have to pick up my summer posting now...
Received a notice today about another Surf and Skate show with some solid corporate sponsorship and thought I would do my community service for the day and point all you aspiring gallerists/artists to a great article on the Art of Selling Out. Just replace musician with artist/gallery. Remember, all you hipsters are quite the demographic and there's some cold hard cash to be made out there...
"I'm doing a fine art piece. That's my purpose — not for human rights, or for supporting religion or a political statement," LA based artist Hiro Yagamata proposes a project I can get behind. ...
Edward Winkleman does it again with a great post for artists concerning the studio visit. Check it out. ...
