Art Events

Heads Up: Subject Matter Gallery is moving to The Lab/Anti Mall. Their opening party will be next weekend. Beware of Tools. Details follow: Know False PaintingsMay 7th 2005 (6pm - 11pm) Subject Matter Gallerys grand opening at the LAB anti mall The opening reception for "know false paintings" Featuring art work by: Tyke Witness, Krush one, Rich uno Fashion show by NIKITA starts at 8:30 Music all night by: DJ Willow, From elsewhere, DJ Japson Free give aways to the first 100 people thought the door ...

22 April, 2005 /

                                        Sound artist Noah Thomas, who will be opening a sound art installation at The Office in June, will be part of the so.cal.sonic experimental and improvised music series this Wednesday at Open in Long Beach. The event starts at 8pm sharp so don't be late. so.cal.sonic @ Open 144 Linden Ave. (at Broadway) 562-499-OPEN Featuring: Noah Thomas, Jeffrey Roden, The Choir Boys, Missincinatti ...

19 April, 2005 /

The Newport Beach Film Festival is about to start and one of the entry's will be a profile of Guerrilla artist Ron English. Matt Coker covers the latest here. ...

15 April, 2005 /

Just a reminder that OCMA has ongoing opportunities to get your art education on. For example the next few weeks offers a couple of great artist talks/lectures: Irving Blum: Revisiting Ferus Apr 23 - 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Director of the famous Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles from 1957 to 1966, Irving Blum was one of the most influential art dealers of his time, giving many important artists their first exhibitions. At this special lecture and discussion, Blum recounts personal anecdotes and inside observations about...

13 April, 2005 /

This Saturday the Santa Ana Seven open their new installation/performance at The Office from 6-9pm. If you are in the area don't miss this one. It will be quite the event. Hope to see you there. Santa Ana Seven Pop! California Palindrome Saturday, April 16th, 6-9pm @ The Office info: 714-767-5861 About Palindrome We (Santa Ana 7) propose a survey of more recent history through a trilogy of installation/performance oriented projects to be on view starting April 16th at The Office. The project(s) loosely address the impact of religion,...

11 April, 2005 /

Sunday night Mrs. OC Art Blog attended the closing event of the Detours show Dinner w/Marc at The HB Art Center and took a couple of pictures. You may have heard about this but if not, Marc Horowitz is a San Francisco based conceptual artist who wrote "dinner w/ Marc 510-872-7326" on a dry erase board fixed to desk-like piece of furniture, which was being shot as a retail product for the 2004 Crate & Barrel Catalog. He did it in hopes to have dinner...

10 April, 2005 /

  Here is a non art related post but actually more important. I wanted to let everybody know about the Bash of the year. My business partner at my real job Barry Vince heads up the Blue Foundation who hold an annual Grand Prix party where all proceeds benefit Children Today. Children Today runs The Playhouse which is a daycare program for homeless children in and around Long Beach. They do great work. So you can attend a great party and help the kids at...

06 April, 2005 /

The OC Register reports today that the Laguna Art Museum is looking to give up it's prime ocean view location for bigger digs in the canyon. The powers that be will be going in front of City Council tonight to seek approval. Great move in my opinion. Also of note, longtime Bowers Museum curator Armand Labbe' passed away last Saturday from cancer. The museum will hold a memorial service on a date to be announced. ...

05 April, 2005 /

Local collective Finishing School launched their new web based project delocator.net  this weekend at San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Galleries. delocator.net is an online database project that creates a comparison between the amounts of local independently owned cafes and Starbucks retail stores within a specific zip code. By comparison of numeric quantity and site-specific detail, the user will see evidence of unchecked aggression and power that corporate businesses have in our communities.  The site is also a free online space for independent cafe...

04 April, 2005 /

This Wednesday is another .ISM Quarterly event at The Lab. Details Follow: GRAND OPENING OF THE ARTERY an art gallery at the LAB sponsored by ISM quarterly FEATURING PROJECT #2 "LITTLE SQUARES" several 6"x6" squares dispersed at random, each square will share a piece of each individual artist. MUSIC Piltatope - 7:45 Ann Lynn - 8:30 Margo Lee - 9:15 .ISM AT THE LAB The first WEDNESDAY of every month from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ...

04 April, 2005 /

Via MAN Andrea Rich resigns from LACMA. ...

04 April, 2005 /

It is the first Saturday of the month so you all know the place to be this weekend will be the Santa Ana Artist Village and surrounding locales First off Scribble Theory Gallery celebrates their 1 year anniversary with new works by Derek Hess. Congrats! The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art Opens Get it Off Your Chest.   Bobbie Mandel opens at Viento y Agua Gallery in Long Beach (time for a website Tom). Raw Boiled and Cooked opens at The Grand Central Art Center. Should be...

01 April, 2005 /

Just in case anybody has the old date for the Santa Ana 7 show at The Office. The opening date has been moved to Saturday April 16th. It'll be quite the event so please mark your calendars. ...

29 March, 2005 /

As someone who runs a Gallery that focuses on young and emerging artists it has definitely come to my attention how little the University/Art School system prepares their students for life in the real world upon graduation. Well here is an opportunity to sharpen your art business skills and jump start your career. Ashley Emenegger formerly of Gallery 825 has started her own consulting company Mclean Fine Art and will be conducting a two day workshop titled Art is My Business. Details follow: Art Is My Business...

27 March, 2005 /

All these shows end this weekend or within the next week. So hurry up! Michael Maas at Viento y Agua Gallery Detente at Greenwood Chebithes Gallery. The Passionate Gesture at Marion Meyer Gallery. Color it Orange at The Laguna College of Art & Design. California New Old Masters & Gallery C. Enjoy. ...

25 March, 2005 /

This Thursday Caryn Coleman of sixspace and ABLA fame will be participating on a panel that will be discussing arts journalism. Go support your local art writer. Details follow: Join us for a panel discussion organized by the Greater L.A. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists on Thursday, March 24. It’ll be more than just New York-bashing. What’s at stake is nothing less than the way Southern California art is perceived around the world. PANELISTS: Caryn Coleman co-owner of sixspace and writes art.blogging.la Peter Frank, art critic for...

21 March, 2005 /

Hope to see you there. Details follow: Beatriz da Costa, a collaborator with CAE and Assistant Professor at the University of California Irvine, will be delivering a lecture at the Huntington Beach Art Center concerning the unjust criminal case against Dr. Steven Kurtz, a member of the artist collective Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) on Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 7:30p.m. The lecture is a part of HELP CAE, a project included in the exhibition “Detours” presented by Finishing School that addresses the unjust criminal case against...

15 March, 2005 /

This Saturday will be the final show for the OOTS group in their current space. Hopefully they'll set up shop somewhere else soon. Details follow: Join the OOTS  core group of  7  and guest artists Ruxandra Isai, Thomas Broersma, Doug Kingsbury, Ryan Ward, Megan Ford, Justin Ireland, Ian Bragg, John Hagen, Rando, and Santi Sundara. Once again…. Live music!! Porkchops and Applesauce, the drum and bass duo (no kids, a real drum and a real bass) will be performing a live set starting at 10:30pm. DJ...

15 March, 2005 /

Wanted to mention that tonight the very nice Carol Es opens a show at Highways in Santa Monica. Go out and support a fellow blogger. ...

11 March, 2005 /