OCMA opens the Catherine Opie show on Sunday. Unfortunately it sounds like her early portrait work will not be included in the show. My question with the later work has always been, "is there anything new here?" Go check it out and find out. ...
Before I forget. Longtime OC painter Michael Maas opens a show in the Pomona Arts Colony on June 10th at the Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center Gallery. Most of the info can be found here. Go support the formerly local painter. ...
This Sunday local instigators Finishing School will be part of the CAR:turally ADVANCED REALIZATIONS show being held at local experimental space Arden2. The show will run from 4pm to 6pm and feature many other artists including Center for Tactical Magic, Allie Bogle, Erin Cosgrove, Ryan Ross and others. Don't miss it. Image: Finishing School ...
Saturday was art day. First off I headed up to Chloe Flores' place to help jury the upcoming Tour De Artistes fine art event. Then Mrs. OC Art Blog and I headed over to MOCA for the Rauschenberg show (must see) and the Lorna Simpson show (very good). We then went to the Hammer for the Societe Anonyme show (inspiring) and after that we headed to Track 16 Gallery in Bergamot to catch the Tyler Stallings curated Alan Sondheim show (cyber chaos). After that we...
Tonight is the UCI MFA exhibition. Unfortunately there is no website but I can tell you that it will run from 6-9pm and the artists featured will be Eric Cho, Tom Haviar, Jessica Lawless, Amy Robinson & Carrie Yury. It will be held at the University Art Gallery at 712 Arts Plaza on campus. See you there. ...
The current issue of artUS is out and inside you'll find a review of the Mark Dutcher exhibit that opened at The Office in February. Check it out. ...
This Saturday is the fourth Saturday so that means the place to be will be downtown Long Beach. One of my favorite Book/Music/Magazine/Art establishments {open} will be showing new work by Thomas Lee Bakofsky and the opening will run from 6-10pm. Directions can be found Here. See you there. ...
Soundwalk 2006 now has a Blog up and running. The submission PDF should be available shortly so mark it as a favorite and stay tuned. I'm sure this years event will be the best yet. ...
Last night was a blast. The show really came together well and the feedback was great. Thank you to those of you that came out and supported the artists. Especially those of you who buy stuff. They like it when that happens. Some photos of the festivities follow: Naida Osline Jenna Gallemore L to R: Jenna, Tyler Stallings, Brooklyn artist Alan Sondheim (Alan opens at Track 16 this weekend) Jacqueline Bunge most likely discussing the OsCene The Office Mark Dutcher w/Arbus OC Weekly art critic...
Some of the art that will be available for auction this Friday at the HB art center is now online. I see a couple of pieces that will be getting bids from me. ...
Tonight on our local public station KOCE. Jacqueline Bunge and Tyler Stallings will be discussing this years OsCene at the Laguna Art Museum. The show will air at 6:30 and 11:00pm on the Reel Orange. Check it out. ...
It's that time again! This Saturday the Office will open The Captiva Collection by Naida Osline and in our project room we will be introducing Jenna Gallemore. The opening starts at 6pm and all the directions can be found on the website. Hope to see you there! ...
Participated in the Sunset Beach Art Festival this Weekend. All the money raised goes to art education in our local schools and god knows they need it. The weather turned out to be great and the whole event was a lot of fun. It was great seeing a lot of people I haven't seen for awhile while working on my tan. Thanks to everybody that stopped by and said hello. Here's some photos: The Firehouse Gallery Local painter and long time Bolsa surfer Ricky Blake. ...
I'm so happy to let you all know that Office alumni Christine Nguyen will be doing a large scale photo-based piece in the Hammer Museum lobby that will open Sept. 17th in conjunction with the Wolfgang Tillmans/Aernout Mik exhibition. You might remember her last from our artLA booth and her most recent show at enView. Way to go Christine! P.S. Mark Dutcher who just had a show at The Office will also be showing at the Santa Monica Museum in Sept. with Phillip Guston and...
This Saturday night local OC artist/curator Tyler Stallings will open a series of new paintings at long time LA gallery Newspace. The opening will run from 7-9pm and you should go support and support the local boy. Plus I've seen some of the new work and it is really good. ...
