The Doug Harvey curated LA Weekly Biennial is up and unfortunately I missed the opening. I would like to congratulate the six Office Alumni included. Not a bad ratio. Will try and get out there and get some pics soon. image: Walpa D'Mark ...
I ran over to @Space On Friday night and caught the Max King Cap show. I really liked the wall to wall installation and thought it came together really well. As a former gallery director I feel for them though, painting the walls black and then getting them back to white is never easy. Here's some pics: ...
One of the many OC Art Blog correspondents made it out to Laurie Hassold's opening at Bert Green Fine Art and was kind enough to shoot some photos. Enjoy: Laurie & Bert Green Laurie & Jeff Gillette ...
There's a new gallery in town and their grand opening is this Saturday night from 7-10pm. The Box Gallery's first show will feature long time OC art fixture Aaron Kraten and it looks like local curator Johnny Sampson will be handling the curatorial duties. The Box is located 765 Saint Clair in Costa Mesa. Get out there and support the new endeavor. ...
2008 SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Long Beach-based art collective Hooray for Humans is currently accepting submissions for its 2008 Short Film Festival taking place Saturday, February 23, 2008, at Koo’s Art Center (www.koos.org) in downtown Long Beach. This open-themed event will showcase a variety of independent, experimental, and documentary short films from around the country. Submissions are currently accepted online through the following e-mail address: info.hoorayforhumans@gmail.com. Your submission will be part of a community-based event that will not only energize the Long Beach art/film scene, but also...
Ran over to the HB Art Center to pick up my Mark Dutcher painting that was included in his recent show there. While there I got to talk with Travis Collinson and see some new work of his including a portrait he did of Mark. HBAC Curator Darlene DeAngelo also let me know that drop offs for the famous Center on the Centered start tomorrow so get your work ready and go get hung. Here's some pics: My Dutcher Travis with new work Love this portrait of...
Mark your calendars kiddies. The next installment of artLA kicks off at the end of the month. The opening night party kicks off on Thursday night Jan. 24th. Tickets for the opening night event will run anywhere from $50 to $200 depending on how early you want your shot to grab some art. The rest of the weekend will be a little more affordable at $15 a pop. Actually the gallery line up this year looks to be the strongest yet and if you're...
This Friday night BC Space in Laguna Beach is opening their annual winter solstice show with Amateur which will feature some of So Cal's best photographers showing work that they did just for the love of it. Show starts at 7pm and none of the work will be for sale. image: Eadweard York ...
Blogger, artist, curator, Marshall Astor and a few other names you might recognize from OC are going to be in a show this Thursday night at Sabina Lee Gallery. Opening runs from 6-9pm. ...
This Saturday night Courting Allusion featuring Alison Foshee and Sara Simon opens at @Space Gallery. The opening will run from 5-9pm and I hope to see you there. ...
The art fair to rule all art fairs ABMB is about to kick off. I will not be attending, as usual my Agoraphobia usually kicks in the first weekend in Dec. and then leaves for the rest of the year. Weird. Anyways here's a link to ArtInfo. They usually do a pretty good job of updating the happenings for those interested. ...
Ran all over town on Saturday night. First stop was Chinatown to go see my friends in FS. Then ran down to Santa Ana to catch the Bob Pece show and watch David Lee give some money to the winners of the Santa Ana Business Council Art Grant. Then off to J. Flynn for the Ornament Show. Fun was had by all and here are some pics: Fringe Chris Csikszentmihalyi & Edmund Ming-Yipkwong from MIT's Media Lab They're maple seed pods falling in the pattern...
It's first Saturday again so that means Santa Ana will be the place to be, along with the Ornament Show at J. Flynn. Things to do include: The Santiago Bird Project will have it's book release party at Grand Central Art Center. Really looking forward to the Bob Pece show at the Memphis Backroom Gallery. You'll be able to get your nude on at spaceonspurgeon's Naked: Figuratively Speaking show. The LA Assemblage Group opens at OCCCA Hope to see you out and about. Enjoy. ...
This Saturday night the Ashley Eckenweiler curated Ornament Show Tree Trimmings II opens at J Flynn Gallery. The opening will run from 7 to 10pm. I will be there spreading some holiday cheer (that means standing in some corner) and will hope to see you there too. Lots of great artists participating. ...
Wanted to let you all know about a few OC related art events coming up in the LA area that will feature some of our better OC based artists. On Thursday night Mt. SAC College will open a retrospective of sorts for OC based artists Tyler Stallings & Naida Osline. This will be a great show by a couple of great OC based artists. Don't miss it. On Sat. night OC based instigators Finishing School open a new project titled Hegemonic Hybrids at Chinatown's Fringe...
In conjunction with the current show Birth Of Cool, this fall OCMA will be presenting a series of jazz concerts. Tonight kicks it off with a performances by Quetzal Guerrero and the Warriors with DJ Bobby Soul. The show will run from 6-10pm and it's free for members or $5 bucks for non-members. Have fun! ...
We're losing another gallery but instead of getting down about it Joseph And Chela Banuelos of Amorviejo Art Gallery will be going out in style. With a party! This Saturday night Amorviejo invited 30 artists to hang work which you will be able to buy off the wall with no gallery fees. There will be lots of wine and live music by Peanut. The opening will run from 7-9pm. Be sure to go say thanks to two class acts. I look forward to their...
It's going to be a full weekend. Here's one more to check out. On Sunday from 2-6pm OMC Gallery in HB will open Names & No-Names in Photo History (Part One) Images from the collection of Rolf Goellnitz & RoxAnn Madera. There will also be a guest speaker on Sunday. Alan Griffiths from Luminous-Lint will give a talk during the opening. Don't miss it. ...
This week there are a couple openings of note on Thursday night. Thought I'd share. Sandow Birk opens Depravities of War at the CSULB University Art Museum Some LCAD students and alumni are having an opening of their work at the Fairhaven Mausoleum. You'll be able see the work by candlelight...
