The OC Art Blog was created in 2004 as a way to build community and promote the marginalized but dynamic Orange County art scene.

  This Wednesday, Diana Markessinis is celebrating the installation of her third public art, Untitled Tree #2, which she is donating to the City of Santa Ana in an effort to promote and encourage art in the public realm.  Date: Wednesday the 23rd of February Time: 7pm Place: Santiago Park Nature Center, Santa Ana Address: 600 E. Memory Lane, Santa Ana. Click here to view the flyer. Check out Diana Markessinis' blog.   ...

21 February, 2011 /

Got an iPhone? Love taking pictures? Here's your chance to shine. Pixels: The Art of iPhone This is an open call for submissions for the Pixels: The Art of iPhone Photography exhibition. An open call for iPhonographic art to be exhibited at the Orange County Center For Contemporary Art, March 31-April 3o, 2011. Existing Pixels’ artists will shortly receive an email regarding submitting pictures already on the site and other submission options. All photos MUST be shot with and processed using an Apple iPhone.  No computer-based processing allowed.  Any model of the...

20 February, 2011 /

02/08 (TUES):   Breakdown Curated by Julie Schustack// Chapman UniversityDates on view: 01/25 - 02/24Location: Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman UniversityGallery days/hours: Mon-Fri, 12-5PMOpening Reception: February 8, from 5:30-8pmCost of admission: Free02/11 (FRI): Laguna College of Art and Design Master of Fine Arts Faculty and Student ExhibitionDates on view: 02/11 - 03/19 Location: Irvine Fine Arts Center14321 Yale Avenue, Irvine, CA 92604 Gallery days/hours: Monday - Thursday: 10am - 9pm, Friday: 10am - 5pm, Saturday: 9am- 5pm, Sunday: ClosedOpening Reception: Friday, February 11, 5-8pmCost of admission: Free 02/11: Show title:...

10 February, 2011 /

This record player is the product of advanced graphic design students taught by Ed Giardina of Finishing School at Cypress College. The packaging transforms into the record player. Enjoy. -Krystal ...

05 February, 2011 /

It is another eventful week! This week we have a lot of art openings in colleges and universities; Irvine Valley College (IVC), University of California, Irvine (UCI), California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and Chapman University. Check out this calendar for more events!   Don't forget Art Walk in Santa Ana is this Saturday!   Thursday, February 3rd: Irvine Valley College (IVC) Art Gallery Presents: Digital World On view: February 3rd - March 3rd Location: IVC Art Gallery, B1125500 Irvine center Dr.,Irvine, CA 92618  Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday @1-6PM Opening reception: Thursday, February...

30 January, 2011 /

As an undergrad I took many classes that did not count towards my degree; some to pursue personal interests and some were out of confusion as to community college and university requirements.  One such class I erroneously enrolled in was printmaking with The’ Nguyen.  This class was a lower division linocut and woodcut class where I was also taught collagraph, letter press, photo transfer, silkscreen, reductive block printing, and etching into plexi from one man with endless ideas; this was in addition to meeting my...

30 January, 2011 /

    If you have the chance, I recommend the journey from Orange County to our L.A. County neighbor, Long Beach, for the show Constructions and Excavations featuring the work of Southern California artists Jonathan Anderson and Nathan Huff. Curated by Jeffrey Rau of Sixpack Projects, a  new curating collective. Anderson's body of work entitled "Constructions" and "Impasse" establishes a consistent conceptual framework that uses the flat surfaces of painting to investigate tensions that exist in our understanding of both image and word. Huff's series of "Absurd Excavations"...

27 January, 2011 /

Thursday, January 27: Euan Macdonald: KIMBALL 1901 - January 27 - March 25, 2011Opening Reception: January 27, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.Nichols Gallery, Pitzer Art Galleries - Pitzer College Pitzer College1050 North Mills Avenue · Claremont, CA Note: Thursday, February 24, 3:30 p.m.Nichols Gallery, Broad Center, Pitzer CollegeDiscussion and exhibition walkthrough with artist Euan Macdonald and director/curator Ciara Ennis More information on the exhibit. ---------- Emerging Artist Series #5: Worker: James Gilbert & Jennifer Vanderpool January 27 - March 25, 2011Opening Reception: January 27, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.Lenzner Gallery, Pitzer Art Galleries On opening night,...

25 January, 2011 /

PSYCHOPTICBLACKLIGHTFUZZ PART II @ Hurley's )(  Space Gallery, Costa Mesa   When I arrived at Hurley, it was dark and filled with people. I dragged my empty stomach and avoided walking straight into the catering refreshment on the left. I murmured to myself, "Don't stare at the food in the eye. Look away...

23 January, 2011 /

I went to a fire sale hosted by illustrator Robert Pokorny and walked away with this “test print” (you say test print, I say artist proof) for $5.00.  Five dollars! Too bad I only had a webcam to take the photo with.- Krystal http://www.robertpokorny.com/robertpokorny/Home.html     ...

22 January, 2011 /

  Blogger interviews artist pre-opening. . . the dreamachine!!!! Hurley's Resident Artist DALEK and the Dreamachines When I first met artist Dalek I was standing in the main gallery space on the Hurley compound in Costa Mesa, California.  Their VP of Art and Design Scott Patt was filling me in on Hurley's history and extensive community outreach programming, while we waited to meet James Marshall, Mr. Dalek himself. The gallery was dark but alive with neon lines that shot up in rings from a center point in...

21 January, 2011 /

Get your tickets quick or you might miss our very own George Herms and his opera at Disney's REDCAT theater, just across the street from MOCA on Grand Ave.  Hope to see you all there, I'll be going to the Friday night, Feb 4th showing. Here are the details: February 3 - February 5 GEORGE HERMS: THE ARTIST’S LIFE Known as one of the founders of California assemblage and an influential figure of the Beat generation, George Herms premieres a new free-jazz opera that features large-scale sculptural instruments, live and recorded video, and featuring the...

20 January, 2011 /