The OC Art Blog was created in 2004 as a way to build community and promote the marginalized but dynamic Orange County art scene.

Heads Up everybody! Finishing School's latest action Open House will be taking place, of all places at my house, and you are all invited. The date has been set and all the festivities will be taking place on Sunday Nov. 6th from 1-4pm. All the details can be Found Here. Open House facilitates temporary coalitions of people from various networks of experience, framed in a domestic setting for the simple purpose of creating meaningful experiences in a space that was previously inaccessible. FS hopes that...

17 October, 2005 /

Reminder: This Saturday night is the Laguna Art Museum annual Art Auction extravaganza. You can now view both the Juried Artist work and the Invited Artist work. Hope to see you there. Image: Sherie' Franssen ...

17 October, 2005 /

Rebecca Schoenkopf visits the Portrait show at CSULB's Univeristy Art Museum and gives it the thumbs down. Justin Edward Coffey checks out the Eugene Berman show at the Long Beach Museum of Art and gives it the double snap. Liz Goldner doesn't like Pretty Art anymore. That spells trouble for someone that can't quite find her way out of Newport/Laguna Beach. ...

13 October, 2005 /

Christopher Knight visits MOCA's new show Ecstasy: In and About Altered States and writes about it here. ...

11 October, 2005 /

For those interested, an art fair was held in my favorite city this last week and you can get a report from La Dauphine's foreign correspondent here And Oliver Kamm participates here, here and here. ...

11 October, 2005 /

Ran up to Culver City on Saturday to pick up our new Robert Olsen painting from Susanne Vielmetter and catch a couple of quick shows before they came down. Two are highly recommended but they'll probably be taken down by the time you read this. The Cristoph Draeger video/installation at Susanne Vielmetter was haunting and the Chloe Piene drawing show at Sandroni.Rey was solid. Her drawings in the last Whitney Biennial were one of the highlights for me and these ones were even better. Great...

09 October, 2005 /

Thought I'd pass on some more local artist opportunities: Long Beach Arts is looking for artists for their National Open Exhibition. Brea Gallery has a call out for their Made in California exhibit. Good Luck! ...

07 October, 2005 /

Edward Winkleman asked that we spread the word about a new project that Jennifer Dalton is undertaking. She wants to know how you live. You might remember my post on Jennifer here. ...

07 October, 2005 /

Rebecca Schoenkopf from the OC Weekly visits the Camille Rose Garcia show at GCAC and writes about it here. She also likes what she finds at OCMA's "Villa America" ...

06 October, 2005 /

For all you X fans. The LA Times visits Exene's show at the Santa Monica Museum here. ...

06 October, 2005 /

Wanted to let everybody know, a little early, about two openings this weekend in our area that should not be missed. First off is the Christine Nguyen opening at Enview Gallery. I probably own more pieces by Christine than any other artist in my collection so obviously I'm a big fan. Show opens Sat. at  7pm and will go till 10pm. I hope to see you there. Second up is the Doug Buis opening at Whittier College's Greenleaf Gallery that will take place on Sunday from...

04 October, 2005 /

Went to Riverside this weekend to attend an event and had a great time. Mrs. OCArtBlog and I had a chance to get away for a little bit and see what the 909 had to offer in the way of an art scene and we came away really quite impressed:   Home Base the Mission Inn. Highly recommended if you ever find yourself in downtown Riverside. First stop was the Riverside Museum of art to catch the Carlos Estrada-Vega show. Next we ran into the...

02 October, 2005 /