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