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Martin Creed: Work No. 3868 Half the air in a given space Orange County Museum of Art Newport Beach, CA By Chris Hoff Recently I was listening to the Art Angle podcast interview of Joshua Citarella, facilitator of the burgeoning online platform Do Not Research. In this wide-ranging conversation Citarella forecasts a total atomization of the art world where everything resembles Tik Tok and predicts the fall of institutions and museums. He argues that this fall of institutions will be brought about by the move to produce more and...

16 August, 2024 /

By Liz Goldner Kudos to OCMA for mounting an exhibition of Alice Neel’s artwork. The painter has been described by art critic Roberta Smith as, “equal if not superior to artists like Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon and destined for icon status on the order of Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney.” Residing most of her life in New York City, Neel (1900-1984), a feminist and bohemian, painted and socialized with people of color, gays, radicals, civil rights and political leaders, Warhol superstars, musicians, artists, women...

09 July, 2023 /

This Saturday night at 205 N. Broadway in Santa Ana, longtime painter and OC resident Ryan Callis will open a show of new paintings. Oh No, I Seem Very Happy!!!” opens from 6-9 Saturday Sept 3rd, and will consist of new paintings, 100 posters for sale, and an accompanying zine for the first 50+ people in attendance. The OC Art Blog caught up with Ryan to ask a few questions about the show and his work. Enjoy! Painter Ryan Callis Can you start by telling us...

02 September, 2022 /

By Chris Hoff The skin found on the tips of our fingers, is known as friction skin. Left behind fingerprints are not visible to the naked eye so they must be made visible in some way. This is the utility of fingerprint powder, it makes the invisible, visible. In the new show at CREAR Studio titled Detain & Displace. The powerful work of Alberto Lule makes use of the medium used against him, fingerprint powder, and makes the invisible, visible as well. To great effect. Alberto Lule at...

30 August, 2022 /

By Mat Gleason Growing up on the county line revealed little difference between Orange County and Los Angeles County but illustrated the frisson of borders nonetheless. There was a place called “The Ditch” which was an open sewage channel that stunk but had great dirt hills to ride bikes. Located just beyond the fence in the back of Buena Park’s Big Tee Golf Course, was it in Orange County or Los Angeles County? When La Mirada residents rose up...

19 February, 2021 /

Q: With COVID and all, I have felt stuck for a year now. What can I do to get unstuck? Dear Fellow Traveler, The word stuck typically brings images to my mind of being five years old, venturing out into a deliciously dirty, mostly dried-up creek behind my house—and in my quest for fun not noticing nighttime raindrops had created a form of muck, which snatched a flip flop from my foot, swallowing it whole. Ah, well I’ll abandon it there, I’ll be barefoot and free!  What’s the point in wrestling with stuck,...

16 February, 2021 /

With the art world on lockdown, and with many of us desiring, even needing, to feed our art addictions, many visual and performing arts organizations throughout the OC are getting creative with how they remain relevant to the larger OC art scene. Luckily, many art organizations are offering opportunities for the public to still engage and enjoy art digitally, whether it be through live streaming, virtual tours, social media engagement, online art collection browsing, film screenings, videos of recorded performances, or through art-related lectures. This...

18 May, 2020 /

I am in quarantine. Not sure how long this will last. And like many others, in an effort to find something to do that isn’t staring into one of the several glass screens in my home, I am thinking this would be a good time to clean my office. I mean really clean my office. According to Kyle Chayka’s recent release, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, a new survey of the minimalism of the moment, I may be suffering from an abstract desire for a different and simpler world that...

09 April, 2020 /

[caption id="attachment_5667" align="alignleft" width="229"] Carlotta Corpon, Space Composition with Chambered Nautilus[/caption] California’s identity is inextricably tied to its landscape, and has one of the most varied geographies in the Union. Attempting to capture California landscape art and its evolution for over a century is already ambitious in scope. However, California Landscape Into Abstraction: Works from the Orange County Museum of Art, OCMA's current exhibit, goes beyond an examination of 19th and 20th century California landscape and - as a result of thematic organization, a broad definition of...

26 February, 2014 /

Thursday, 03/03: The Plains of Id: Mapping Urban Intervention In Los Angeles On view: March 3 – April 17, 2011 Opening Reception: March 3, 5-8 PM   WHERE: UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM (UAM) College of the Arts California State University, Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Boulevard Long Beach, CA 90840-0004   //An exhibition that focuses on contemporary artists who intervene within a specific area of Los Angeles’ sprawling topography. Artists include: Sandra de la Loza, Patrick “Pato” Hebert, Joel Tauber, and the artist collective Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young).// UAM@noon March 9, 12:15-1 PM, Sick Amour Tree Planting Ceremony   Friday, 03/04: Downtown Fullerton Art...

01 March, 2011 /

It is another eventful week! This week we have a lot of art openings in colleges and universities; Irvine Valley College (IVC), University of California, Irvine (UCI), California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and Chapman University. Check out this calendar for more events!   Don't forget Art Walk in Santa Ana is this Saturday!   Thursday, February 3rd: Irvine Valley College (IVC) Art Gallery Presents: Digital World On view: February 3rd - March 3rd Location: IVC Art Gallery, B1125500 Irvine center Dr.,Irvine, CA 92618  Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday @1-6PM Opening reception: Thursday, February...

30 January, 2011 /

Thursday, January 27: Euan Macdonald: KIMBALL 1901 - January 27 - March 25, 2011Opening Reception: January 27, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.Nichols Gallery, Pitzer Art Galleries - Pitzer College Pitzer College1050 North Mills Avenue · Claremont, CA Note: Thursday, February 24, 3:30 p.m.Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer CollegeDiscussion and exhibition walkthrough with artist Euan Macdonald and director/curator Ciara Ennis More information on the exhibit. ---------- Emerging Artist Series #5: Worker: James Gilbert & Jennifer Vanderpool January 27 - March 25, 2011Opening Reception: January 27, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.Lenzner Gallery, Pitzer Art Galleries On opening night,...

25 January, 2011 /