The OC Art Blog

Albert & David Lopez @ SolArt

This Saturday night is also the opening of the collaboration between brothers Albert & David Lopez at SolArt Gallery in Santa Ana. I hear it's a big new space and hope to check it out this weekend with camera in hand.

danyol @ The Box

This Saturday night the Box Gallery opens danyol: At The Seams. Also at 8pm the chamber rock quartet Carletta Sue Kay will play with danyol on the guitar. Enjoy!

Robert Rauschenberg dead at 82

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Serra in Paris

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OC Weekend

You're getting the report early again because I'm leaving town again, this time to Vegas where I will seek fame and fortune. There's a few solid shows coming up this weekend so enjoy yourself.

Nobuhito Nishigawara opens at @space on Saturday night.

This is Not Here curated by Peter Blake opens at JFlynn Gallery on Saturday night. (image: Jorg Dubin)

Don't forget the Meet Meet The Artists Party is Friday night at the HBAC. Performances by Finishing School included. 

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HB Art Center Auction - Reminder

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.

Signals @ The Orange Lounge

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 (2007) draw from music, cinema, and the visual arts.

Below is a short clip of Jimmy Joe Roche and Dan Deacon's Ultimate Reality

Jeff Gillette @ Bert Green

  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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OC Weekend

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.

HB Art Center Party/Auction

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 center.

Outside The HB Art Center from Dharma Bum on Vimeo.

2008 Calif. Biennial Artist List

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 Beshty
Andrea Bowers
Jedediah Caesar
Sarah Cain
Bruce Conner
Einar and Jamex de la Torre
Felipe Dulzaides
Sam Durant
ESL (Esthetics as a Second Language)
Morgan Fisher
Piero Golia
Gronk
Karl Haendel
Mark Hagen
Skylar Haskard
Patrick Hebert
High Desert Test Sites
Evan Holloway
Margaret Honda
Salomon Huerta
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
Jordan Kantor
Mary Kelly
Tony Labat
D'nell Larson
Elad Lassry
William Leavitt
Matt Lucero
Shana Lutker
Daniel Joseph Martinez
Rodney McMillian
Julio Cesar Morales
My Barbarian
Eamon Ore-Giron
Raymond Pettibon
Yvonne Rainer
Marcos Ramirez
Marco Rios
Amanda Ross Ho
Aaron Sandnes
Anna Sew Hoy
Jim Skuldt
Kara Tanaka
Joel Tauber
Ruben Ortiz Torres
Erika Vogt
Mary Weatherford
Lauren Woods
Brenna Youngblood

Attn: Photographers

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.