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This Saturday night ISM: Gallery at the Koos Art Center opens Best in Show. The opening will run from 7 to 10pm. The details of the show are below:“BEST IN SHOW” A Friendly Art CompetitionISM: gallery presents a playful take on the journey from student to professional artist. A group of student artists from a Junior College, a State School and a Private University will exhibit their work in an environment that provides anonymity from the school they attend, showing amongst their contemporaries in a true celebration of the creative impulse. During...

28 May, 2008 /

If animals real or imagined are your thing, OCCCA has a call for artists out currently that you should check out. The deadline is July 19th and Mat Gleason of Coagula fame will be the juror so I'm sure it will be interesting. Show will open in September ...

27 May, 2008 /

The Terra Cotta Warriors are now at the Bowers.The OC Fair is fast approaching and I will be jurying the photography competition. Deadline has been extended to June 1st. Get moving slackers!FOCA spent a day in OC.One word: BoobiesThe one museum that will get you in the summer groove.Our most underrated local museum. Have you been to the new building?Arts Festival season is now upon us. Laguna Canyon road will now grind to a halt.Change is upon us. Don't blow it Arts OC. ...

27 May, 2008 /

OK. Let me be the first to call a moratorium on anymore "Skateboards as art" shows or anymore more "artist series skate decks". Enough! Thank you for letting me vent.Artist t-shirts & Robots. You're next. ...

21 May, 2008 /

Robert Rauschenberg dead at 82 ...

13 May, 2008 /

Well OCMA has done it again. Christopher Knight visits Birth of Cool and loves it. This following the Mary Heilmann show which will probably go down as one of the top museum shows anywhere this year. Nice work OCMA! ...

10 October, 2007 /

Opening next weekend @ OCMA. Birth of Cool: California Art, Design & Culture at Midcentury. See you there. ...

26 September, 2007 /

Mrs. OC Art Blog and I ventured up to San Francisco this weekend to catch the opening of a new commission by Paul Paiement hosted by husband and wife gallery owners Heather Marx & Steve Zavattero. We also caught the Olafur Eliasson show at SFMOMA and the Dark Matters show and the Joachim Schmid exhibit at Yerba Buena. Trevor Paglen who was included in the Dark Matters show is my new favorite artist. I don't think I've seen spine-chilling art like that in a long...

24 September, 2007 /

For those that want to get a jump start on the art opening attendance there's a good one tonight over at the Irvine Valley College Art Gallery. Chicago artist Doug Cason opens tonight from 6-8pm and the show will run until Oct. 5th. ...

30 August, 2007 /

Wanted to give a heads up to everybody that OC based painting powerhouse Sherie' Franssen will open a show of new work at Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles on Sept. 8th from 5 to 7pm. You should not miss this one. ...

27 August, 2007 /

Have a Good Weekend. Via someecards ...

24 August, 2007 /