Just a reminder. This Friday night is the HB Art Center Auction. The auction will run from 7 to 9:30 with the live auction starting at 8pm. Admission is $50 and the funds go to support the center. Have fun! UPDATE: Friday night is FREE. It's the meet the artist's party. Next week is the auction. ...
The first of three thematic video showcases curated by Carol Cheh, designed to highlight OCMA's video art collection, opened this weekend at the Orange Lounge. Mash Up (May 3 - June 13) looks at the current cultural obsession with conflating diverse elements of popular and avant-garde media to create new art that is ironic, humorous, and frequently uncanny. Works such as Joel Morrison's Birds/Lewitt (2005), Goody-B. Wiseman's Superlovestarpower 2, 3 and 4 (2006), Ciprian Muresan's Un Chien Andalou (2004), and Jimmy Joe Roche's Ultimate Reality...
This Thursday night OC based painter Jeff Gillette will present a series of new work titled Desert Interventions at Bert Green Fine Art. The opening will run from 6-9pm during the Downtown Art Walk. There's also a nice article up on the show at Artscene. Don't miss it. ...
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I'm headed to the mountains for the weekend so you get the weekend report a bit early. There's a lot to do this weekend so get out there and have some fun. Matthew Price & the OC Roller Girls open @ GCAC On, of, and About Paper opens @ OCCCA Little Light opens at 98ten On Friday night Go,Rilla Gallery at 3013 N. Main in Santa Ana opens Green Giants. ...
The 8th annual HB Art Center Party/Auction is coming up on May 16th from 7 to 9:30 pm. There's also a meet the artist Party on Friday May 9th from 7 to 9pm that is always a good time and will also feature performances by my friends at Finishing School. Be sure to come on out and support our local art center. See you there. Following is a little video piece I did while Mark Dutcher and Sherie' Franssen were installing their outdoor installation at...
The artist list for the 2008 Calif. Biennial to be held at OCMA is out. Yes, there are some repeats and unfortunately there are no OC based artists in the show again but hopefully some day soon that will change. List follows: Micheal Arcega Edgar Arceneaux The Backroom Kelly Barrie Justin Beal Walead BeshtyAndrea Bowers Jedediah Caesar Sarah Cain Bruce ConnerEinar and Jamex de la Torre Felipe Dulzaides Sam DurantESL (Esthetics as a Second Language) Morgan FisherPiero Golia GronkKarl Haendel Mark Hagen Skylar HaskardPatrick HebertHigh...
The fine folks over at OMC Gallery have recently announced their latest project titled The Good Photo. It looks like a great opportunity for photographers to get their work out there to a larger audience and hopefully generate some sales. Take a look and submit some work. There will also be a live event on June 7th. ...
This Saturday night the 2nd City Council Art Gallery opens Earth, a Kim Abeles juried show. There will be 26th artists and it looks like Rick Frausto will be doing a recycled art workshop. Have fun! ...
Here's a quick vid of David Michael Lee's intro before my talk today at Santa Ana College's Art Forum Series. I think it went pretty well and I had a great time doing it. Always fun to talk about yourself! And many thanks to Linda White from FOCA-OC for coming out bearing gifts. Much appreciated. ...
If anybody has some free time tomorrow mid-day, I'll be giving a little talk for Santa College's Art Forum Series tomorrow at 12:30pm. For more info on the series and speaker bio's go here. ART FORUM SPEAKER SERIES at Santa Ana College is a weekly lecture series for noted artists, painters, sculptors, architects, ceramicists, art directors, art collectors, critics and writers to discuss their work. Inaugurated in 1979 by Founder, the late Professor Gene Isaacson, 1936-2005. ART FORUM is the longest running college art lecture forum...
On Saturday night Mrs. OC Art Blog and I headed over to the art walk at the Santiago Art District. It was our first time there and we had a nice time. Looks like there's going to be something to do the 3rd Saturday now. Looks like weekends in OC are filling up and it's nice to see. Here's the vid: ...
My friend Laurel Baccei is looking for an Education Curator for the Children's Museum of San Diego. The museum is realunching in May after a several year closure and complete architectural redesign. Looks like a great opportunity. Contact Laurel directly at laurelbaccei (at) yahoo.com. ...
Running out to Dallas for a quick trip so you're getting the report now. Looks like a couple of things to see this weekend. The Santiago Art District has an art walk this Saturday night. Go to the website for participating galleries. The Artery opens What Remains Featuring several artists including Andrew Dunn and Heather Wright and there will be music. ...
While I was out and about last night I had the opportunity to ask a few people involved in our local scene if they thought there was a recession coming and what that mean't for the Orange County art scene: ...
