In the spirit of continuing the sneak preview thing. Next month The Office will open Naida Osline's several year Polaroid project The Captiva Collection and we are also excited to introduce Jenna Gallemore's polaroids in our project room. I've wanted to do a Polaroid show for several years now so I'm fired up it's going to happen. More to follow I'm sure. Naida Jenna ...
Both Todd Gibson at FTF and Tyler Green over at MAN weigh in on Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking currently at MOMA on their blogs today. I haven't seen the show so I can't comment but I especially liked Tyler's Quote: At a time when it's important for Americans to engage more with the Islamic world, its history and its traditions -- and at a time when it's especially important for American institutions to show and share the humanizing power of art, pretty much...
The new Charles Long show "100 Pounds of Clay" at OCMA gets reviewed in today's LA Times. You can catch it here. ...
Ran over to Santa Ana today for lunch with Jacqueline Bunge and to catch the Delusionarium 3 show at GCAC. The tuna sandwich at Memphis is highly recommended and it's very nice to have the sun out again. Sunny art day Delusionarium 3 Marya Alford Tom Dowling in the back room of Memphis ...
Guy Kawasaki offered up some great blogging observations after his first 100 days of blogging. My favorite are the first two: 1. The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy. 2. The more a blogger uses the pronoun “I,” the less he has to say. Many bloggers apparently believe that people not only give a shitake...
Well we hit the three year mark. Thanks for coming out everybody and supporting the space. Hopefully we got three more years in us. Great opening tonight. Great work, great company. Some bad pics follow: Charleton Christy Charleton Christy Travis Collinson showing some love Collinson Collinson Collinson Jean Robison. My camera doesnt take good pictures of video work, sorry. OsCene Curator Jacqueline Bunge Laguna Art Museum Curator & Artist Tyler Stallings with the Office's May artist Naida Osline. Office May artist Jenna Gallemore Artist Courtney...
My Business Partner's annual charity event to help raise money for Children Today, who provide services for homeless children in Long Beach, is this Saturday night. You should go and all the info can be found here. I'll be there after the opening. ...
LA Weekly art critic Doug Harvey makes a guest appearance in this weeks OC Weekly to review the Pettibone/Hess show now at LAM. You can read it Here. ...
Sorry for the lack of posts. This week has been work and Poker. I won a tournament at one of our local card clubs and took home a few K so that was sweet and now it's all about installation for the new show. This show will mark The Office's three year anniversary. How we doing?? Anyway, hope to see you all tomorrow night and if you can't make it just come here on Sunday and I'm sure I'll have some pics for you. Sometimes...
It's time again for another opening at The Office. This Saturday night from 6-8pm we'll be opening Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself featuring Jean Robison, Carelton Christy & Travis Collinson. I'm really excited to introduce these 3 very talented artists to our audience and I'm sure you will be pleased if you come on out. All the details can be found here. Hope to see you there. Side note: There was another request to have pizza at the opening again, so come hungry! Image: Travis...
OCMA has announced this years line up for the California Biennial and it includes: Scoli Acosta, Andy Alexander, Christopher Ballantyne, Walead Beshty, Bull.Miltec (Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic), Jane Callister, Binh Danh, Sergio de La Torre, Vicky Funari, Shannon Ebner, Ala Ebtekar, Brian Fahlstrom, Kianga Ford, Pearl C. Hsiung, Marie Jager, Shana Lutker, Christian Maychack, Martin McMurray, Joel Morrison, My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade), Kate Pocrass, Lordy Rodriguez, Arturo Ernesto Romo, Sterling Ruby, Leslie Shows, The Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David...
It's first Saturday time so that means Santa Ana is the place to be. Details follow: Enigma/Healing/Revelation & UNION Art Space American Beauties @ spaceonspurgeon Tina Strong @ Assunta Fox Blaine Fontana @ Scribble Theory Love Nest Fest courtesy of Rat Powered Films Delusionarium 3 @ GCAC Confessions @ OCCCA Tom Dowling will be in the Memphis back room. ...
I've discovered over the last several months that gallery owners are a sensitive lot. I use to think artists owned the market on insecurity (justifiably so) but I now believe gallerists own the title. No wonder artists and gallery people have a hard time getting along. The battle of insecurities. It seems the Smart Money is starting to take a closer look at the market and that means the swing will move back to the established artist. which really means everything Will start slowing. The sheep...
It's that time again. The Laguna Art Museum is now seeking submissions for the next OsCene: Contemporary Art and Culture in Orange County which will open in November. If you missed it last year it was a blast and I'm this year will be even better. This year's Curator will be Jacqueline Bunge local Curatorial star and the basic details are: Submit your stuff (resume/statement/slides/cd's,etc) to : Curatorial Dept., The OsCene Attn: Jacqueline Bunge Laguna Art Museum 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 You have...
This Saturday night local Orange County revolutionaries Finishing School will be heading over to the 909 to participate in the new show opening at the Sweeney art gallery at UCR. People for a Better Tomorrow, guest curated by Meg Cranston, will open at 6pm and run until 8pm. Go support the home team. "People For A Better Tomorrow"Guest Curator: Meg Cranston April 1 - May 7, 2006Reception: April 1, 2006, 6-8pm Center For Tactical MagicEverlovely LightningheartFinishing SchoolShana LutkerAmy MaloofBen ShafferEfrat ShalemMario Ybarra "People For A Better Tomorrow" focuses on artists...
