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

Lots to do this weekend in the OC. Hope to see you all out and about. Tonight Mediums opens at the Brea Gallery. Saturday Greg Drasler opens at GCAC Noah Thomas opens at the Office. Greg Stone opens at spaceonspurgeon. Second City Council members show and BBQ takes place from 6-9pm. Vibe opens at the Diseno Art Gallery. Self opens at OCCCA. Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950 opens at OCMA. and of course it's first Saturday artwalk time at the Santa Ana Artists Village. Whew! So after you make your visit to the Office...

03 June, 2005 /

You maybe remember me mentioning artist Zoe Strauss here. Well according to artnet she has been awarded one of the $50k Pew Fellowships. Way to go Zoe. ...

02 June, 2005 /

Well folks, It's time for another opening at The Office. I hope to see you this Saturday from 6-9pm. Details follow: Noah Thomas-Veneer Veneer, a mixed media and sound installation by Noah Thomas transforms the Office, altering the gallery so that the viewer is challenged to consider how they encounter interior space. Walls curve in to meet the viewer, the floor buckles under their feet, wooden sculptures protrude from the walls and floor. As a visitor you'll explore scale shifts in abstracted architectural and landscape models....

01 June, 2005 /

I wanted to notify you all about an opening this Friday at a space I have yet to visit. It seems curator Travis Collinson is stepping up the programming over at the Brea Gallery. This Friday the gallery opens Mediums: A Survey of Emerging Trends in Art. A show that will feature many of our local emerging artists including: Ruben Ochoa, Carlee Fernandez, Tyler Stallings, Deborah Aschheim, Shirley Tse and many others. I'm also especially excited because Travis asked to include the Naida Osline piece...

31 May, 2005 /

After a several weekends of doing everything but looking at art, Mrs. OC Art Blog and I made up for it this weekend. We put a few miles on the car traveling to LA on Saturday night to see the 50/50 show at Gallery 825 and the Eduardo Sarabia show at 4-F Gallery in Chinatown (the porcelain work is great). Then on Sunday we trekked down to San Diego to catch the Edward Burtynsky show at MOPA and the Retratos show at SDMA. Lots of...

30 May, 2005 /

Because there's an Orange County connection (Jamie Wilson formerly of Square Blue Gallery is the juror) and I've shown a few artists who were/are members I thought I'd let everybody know that Gallery 825 is holding there 50/50 show this Saturday Night. This fundraising event will include: Artwork from L.A.'s freshest talent priced under $1000 Culinary delights and desserts from the city's hottest tastemakers Cocktails in the Terraza Lounge sponsored by The Skyline Studios Music, prizes and much more Admission is $10 and it all goes to a very good...

26 May, 2005 /

Edward Burtynsky has a great review this morning in the LA Times. Tyler over at MAN also has lots of good links. Burtynsky is another great artist I would like to add to the collection. I wonder what this might do to pricing now?? So Tyler, because I would like your professional opinion, which series would you go with?? Three Gorges Dam Project?? Shipbreaking?? or Railcuts?? ...

25 May, 2005 /

Looks like it's gonna be new site week. I'd like to welcome to the blogroll OC Street. OC Street promises to deliver the latest in Orange County Street fashion and culture. Side Note: Now I'll probably lose half my traffic. All those teenage girls looking for the latest gossip about the TV show The OC are going to find them instead...

25 May, 2005 /

It looks like the group to the North known as Fecal Face are starting to have a little influence down here judging by the look of two new sites: The folks at Subject Matter Gallery have updated their site and have added a little blog component. And Via Subject Matter I discovered this new site that promises to deliver all the latest news and events for LA's underground art scene. ...

24 May, 2005 /

Because there has been light activity in the OC and I was running out of things to write about I thought I'd better pull the trigger on a purchase Ms. OC Art Blog and I have been considering for awhile so I could post something. So here is the latest addition to the collection: This work is titled Herman's Bed and is part of the series Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alec Soth. The work was purchased from Weinstein Gallery with much help from Gallery Director Laura...

24 May, 2005 /

Please help local artists xtine and Vasna Sdoeung launch their latest project, Mail A Virus, part of the Contagious Media Showdown sponsored by Eyebeam. Visit Their Site and pass this on to everyone you know! Every click counts in this "showdown". Mail A Virus is a site where participants email fashionable retro-postcards highlighting their favorite computer viruses to friends. Unlike emailing actual viruses to lists of strangers (or soon to be enemies), Mail A Virus is a safe method of recalling old virus favorites,...

20 May, 2005 /

(not me) Sorry for the light posting the last couple of days, work has been busy and I made my first final table in a poker tourney (4th place, $1,200 Hooray!). Anyway, Here's a run down of some recent art stuff in the OC. Keep it safe out there: This week Rebecca Schoenkopf gives us a tour of some of the OC's public art hot spots and her take on graffiti. Liz Goldner at the OC Metro gives us a run down on Aimee Greenberg's newest performance...

20 May, 2005 /

This is the work that is currently on my wish list. Too bad it's sold out. Granny Rocks. ...

17 May, 2005 /

Tyler over at MAN was musing earlier about his favorite painting in America and his favorite American painting so I thought I would throw in my two cents...

17 May, 2005 /