To Be Among Friends: Desire, Containment, and Communion in the Space Between Floors at Grand Central Art Center
By Tyler Stallings View of Grand Central Art Center elevator closed as one approaches To Be Among Friends, 2025. At the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, the mundane elevator is transformed into a liminal chamber of longing in To Be Among Friends, a collaboration...
OCCCA at 45: Climate Futures, Balancing Acts, and the Legacy of Art as Resistance
By Tyler Stallings Barbara Berk, lining up, 2025. Performance installation involving a live balancing act with a rod, performed only during the April 5th reception at OCCCA’s 45th anniversary exhibition. Celebrating its 45th anniversary, the Orange County Center...
Embroidered With Desire: The Unruly Art Of Carole Caroompas
By Tyler Stallings Carole Caroompas, Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale Go on Tour: Dead or Alive, 2001, acrylic on found embroidery on canvas over panel, 30 x 30 inches. Collection of Mary Anna Pomonis. Photo: Eric Stoner For decades, Carole Caroompas relentlessly...
Artist/Curator Profile: Dakota Noot
In this edition of the artist interview, the OC Art Blog had the pleasure of asking Dakota Noot some questions about both his art and curatorial practices. Dakota Noot’s work vibrates with radiant contradiction, rural and queer, grotesque and playful, mythic and...
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The OC Art Blog was created in 2004 as a way to build community and promote the marginalized but dynamic Orange County art scene.
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