This Saturday from 12pm to 10pm is the annual Tour Des Artistes in the East Village Arts District of Long Beach. TDA will be a day long extravaganza with tons of art, music, film screenings, spoken word and food. Tickets are $5 bucks and fun will be had by all. Hope to see you there. While there be sure to check out the Brooklyn>Long beach show at enView. ...
This is too great not to report now. On july 1st Grand Central Art Center will be opening Blight at The End of The Funnel works by Ed Colver. This exhibition will feature 20 selected photographs and 15 assemblage works in the main gallery by the long time photographer of the So. Cal punk music scene. The old punk rocker in me is very much looking forward to this show because of the old photographs from back in the day but also because old...
Local instigators Finishing School just recently participated in the show Urban Networks at Art Interactive in Boston. For some pictures of opening night festivities head over HERE. ...
The OC Weekly has a great article about longtime Wedge legend Ron Romanosky's Saturday night slide show at J. Moore Gallery in Seal Beach. Jeff at J. Moore does all my framing and is one cool dude. I'm not the only one who uses him, you always see interesting work when you go in to drop off or pick up. Highly recommended. Ron's opening will run from 6:30 to 9:30pm. Check it out. ...
This Saturday night Pervasion: The Art of Gary Baseman and Tim Biskup opens at the Laguna Art Museum. Compartriots for several years, and this being their first museum exhibition of showing together exclusively, Pervasion explores how both artists are at the forefront of blurring the lines between fine art, toy culture and other forms of media. Each has created unique characters that originate within densely packed imagery found in their paintings and sculptures, such as Baseman’s Toby, or Biskup’s Helper. These characters then become motifs...
Hope everybody had a nice weekend and hopefully you found a nice museum or gallery to go stay cool in. This last Saturday Mrs. OC Art Blog and I were paid a visit by the Laguna Art Museum's Contemporary Collectors Council. It was a lot of fun to give a little tour and talk about all the art that we have collected to date, both the works we really have grown to love as well as the mistakes we have made (or I have made...
It's first Saturday so that means Santa Ana's Artist Village will be the place to be. Looks like there will be lots to see and do. Also, don't forget about the Arden2 opening on Sunday. Also, I have the Laguna Art Museum Collector's Council coming to the house on Saturday to check out my stuff so I'm sure I'll blog about that...
OCMA opens the Catherine Opie show on Sunday. Unfortunately it sounds like her early portrait work will not be included in the show. My question with the later work has always been, "is there anything new here?" Go check it out and find out. ...
Before I forget. Longtime OC painter Michael Maas opens a show in the Pomona Arts Colony on June 10th at the Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center Gallery. Most of the info can be found here. Go support the formerly local painter. ...
This Sunday local instigators Finishing School will be part of the CAR:turally ADVANCED REALIZATIONS show being held at local experimental space Arden2. The show will run from 4pm to 6pm and feature many other artists including Center for Tactical Magic, Allie Bogle, Erin Cosgrove, Ryan Ross and others. Don't miss it. Image: Finishing School ...
Tonight is the UCI MFA exhibition. Unfortunately there is no website but I can tell you that it will run from 6-9pm and the artists featured will be Eric Cho, Tom Haviar, Jessica Lawless, Amy Robinson & Carrie Yury. It will be held at the University Art Gallery at 712 Arts Plaza on campus. See you there. ...
This Saturday is the fourth Saturday so that means the place to be will be downtown Long Beach. One of my favorite Book/Music/Magazine/Art establishments {open} will be showing new work by Thomas Lee Bakofsky and the opening will run from 6-10pm. Directions can be found Here. See you there. ...
Soundwalk 2006 now has a Blog up and running. The submission PDF should be available shortly so mark it as a favorite and stay tuned. I'm sure this years event will be the best yet. ...
Last night was a blast. The show really came together well and the feedback was great. Thank you to those of you that came out and supported the artists. Especially those of you who buy stuff. They like it when that happens. Some photos of the festivities follow: Naida Osline Jenna Gallemore L to R: Jenna, Tyler Stallings, Brooklyn artist Alan Sondheim (Alan opens at Track 16 this weekend) Jacqueline Bunge most likely discussing the OsCene The Office Mark Dutcher w/Arbus OC Weekly art critic...
Some of the art that will be available for auction this Friday at the HB art center is now online. I see a couple of pieces that will be getting bids from me. ...
Tonight on our local public station KOCE. Jacqueline Bunge and Tyler Stallings will be discussing this years OsCene at the Laguna Art Museum. The show will air at 6:30 and 11:00pm on the Reel Orange. Check it out. ...
It's that time again! This Saturday the Office will open The Captiva Collection by Naida Osline and in our project room we will be introducing Jenna Gallemore. The opening starts at 6pm and all the directions can be found on the website. Hope to see you there! ...
This Saturday night local OC artist/curator Tyler Stallings will open a series of new paintings at long time LA gallery Newspace. The opening will run from 7-9pm and you should go support and support the local boy. Plus I've seen some of the new work and it is really good. ...
This Saturday night enView Gallery will feature Unicorn Kryptonite: A Full Moon Film Screening which will feature a fantasy flavoured set of 11 short films. The screening starts at 9pm and I'm sure it will be a must see. Check it out. ...
I'm sure you all know that surf art is hot right now. Well this weekend you'll get a chance to see some great surf art, among other fine art, at the 39th Annual Sunset Beach Art Festival. If you are local you know that this festival has a great vibe and is for a good cause. It runs on both Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm and will feature plenty of art, music and food. It's held on the greenbelt on the ocean...
