Reviews

Last Saturday night, a couple of friends and I went to the D-Block Projects’ inaugural exhibition, “Open Storage” in Downtown Long Beach. We started out the night by entering in the show from the back door. The place was slightly difficult to find.                                  D-Block project invited artists to show their artwork in a storage facility that would not have otherwise be in the public eye. The show intended the artwork to be at random selection from each other, so it was up to the viewers to...

12 January, 2011 /

    This week, the Americans for the Arts Action Fund graded our U.S. senators on their support of the arts.  While 28 members received a failing grade, both California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein did well with Boxer receiving an A+ and Feinstein a B+.   Criteria used to grade senators included: keeping jobs in the arts, supporting public art, supporting museums, showing initiative in the arts by cosponsoring arts legislation, showing leadership in the arts by signing the "Dear Colleague Letter" for more...

24 September, 2010 /

    Even as I write this, I have six windows open on my laptop, my cell phone just inches away, and my earphones blasting music. Me? Addicted to technology? No way! At California State University Fullerton’s Begovich Art Gallery, curators Jennifer Frias and Lilia Lamas present a timely exhibition examining our social constructs created by new media and digital technology. Metadataphile: The Collapse of Visual Information suggests that over-communication through technology has lead to miscommunication.  Visually, the exhibition is a sensory experience of video, sculpture,...

19 September, 2010 /

       Mike Stilkey, Untitled Installation of 4,400 books and paint   (photos by Alyssa Cordova )Artist Mike Stilkey, far rightSo-cal artist judges books by their covers     Good news!  In case you missed Costa Mesa’s )( Space Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Reminiscent: Mike Stilkey, it has been reinstalled in the Hurley creative retail space in Laguna Beach just in time for their one year anniversary.                     Orange County active wear giant Hurley recently opened their new gallery in Costa Mesa, CA  to give art-thirsty Orange Countians refreshing monthly art shows curated by former Billy Shire...

06 July, 2010 /

I had the best intentions I promise. I had a slew of photos for you documenting my visit to New York and the various fairs but unfortunately Mrs. OC Art Blog's camera, with my precious photos, is traveling around NYC somewhere in the back of a cab. So that means you're going to get my down & dirty summary of what I saw this weekend. The Whitney Biennial: I overheard a particular dealer state that the Whitney this year is not a survey of what's...

31 March, 2008 /

The final reviews for The Office's final show re-Perspective, curated by Chloe Flores and Autumn Beck are in: Greg Stacy's OC Weekly review  can be found here. (Thanks for the nice send off Greg) Rebecca Schoenkopf's District review can be found here. (She didn't like the show so much, but thanks for all the support over the years Rebecca. She was supportive from the beginning) ...

04 October, 2007 /

Jit Fong Chin was kind enough to notify me that she has a great podcast of Mary Heilmann talking about her paintings "The End", "Capistrano"and others over at the SqueezeOC website. Nice job again Jit Fong! A must listen ...

07 June, 2007 /

Christopher Knight visited Mary Heilmann's show at OCMA and wrote about it HERE. Richard Chang from the OC Register Writes about it HERE. ...

04 June, 2007 /

In the LA times today Christopher Knight wrote about Richard Tuttle's show at MOCA. I caught this one at the Whitney a while back and it was magnificent. I will be going back for sure. Highly recommended. ...

28 April, 2007 /

Congrats to Monica Furmanski for getting a great review in the LA Times today for her current show at Fringe Exhibitions in Chinatown. Monica was in the first show ever at The Office in April of 03. She rocks! ...

27 April, 2007 /

Richard Chang takes on Kutlug Ataman's new video shot in OC now featured at OCMA, for it's all white cast. It's a good read featuring some input from Tyler Stallings. ...

18 March, 2007 /