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 Saturday The Office welcomes Natasha Caruana and her latest series Facing East. The opening will run from 6-9pm and I hope to see you all there! Natasha Caruana is a London based visual artist who works essentially with photography. Her work extends the practice of examining and preserving both cultural and social histories through an approach that often stems from personal experiences. Caruana produces work that pushes the boundaries of the documentary tradition of photography in a playful and imaginative way, but at the...

03 July, 2006 /

Last Saturday was the annual Tour Des Artistes in downtown Long Beach. Many props go out to Chloe Flores for putting together a great little fine art event. She had to do a lot of work. Nice job. Here's some photos of the event before I had to leave: 6am set up time. The finished product Artist Matthew Furmanski Furmanski's riff on McCracken. I was told McCracken surfed...

27 June, 2006 /

This Saturday is the opening reception for Catherine Opie's show at OCMA. The opening starts at 7pm and there will be an artist talk during the event. Squeeze OC has a little interview of Ms. Opie here. ...

22 June, 2006 /

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. ...

21 June, 2006 /

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...

20 June, 2006 /

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. ...

19 June, 2006 /

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I've been sliding into the summer schedule. So what does that mean?? Well here's my list of what I'm going to do (or hope to do) this summer vacation: 1. Surf more. 2. On July 14th I play my first ever World Series of Poker event in Vegas. Yes I'm going for a bracelet. If I do well in that event I might even take a shot at the main event. 3. Still trying to talk Mrs. OC Art Blog...

19 June, 2006 /

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. ...

16 June, 2006 /

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...

12 June, 2006 /

The Weekly visited Catherine Opie's new show at OCMA and you can read about it Here. ...

08 June, 2006 /

Be sure to check out this weeks edition of SqueezeOC where there will be a very nice interview of Naida Osline. If you can't wait to get the hard copy you can have a look online here. Enjoy. ...

06 June, 2006 /

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...

05 June, 2006 /

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...

02 June, 2006 /

Justin Edward Coffey from the OC Weekly came down to write about Naida and Jenna's show at The Office. You can read about it Here. ...

02 June, 2006 /