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Leaving Their Mark: New gallery seeks to invigorate the art community of...
In many areas all over the world, the dirtiest, grimiest places are also the places where the creative people are. Whether it be for low rent, more space, the love of the metropolis, or to invigorate...
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Holiday Art Markets
With gas prices down and the stock market reaching all-time highs as we approach the end of 2014, no doubt you’re looking for a place to put your excess cash to work. If so, you might want to consider...
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Bridges at an Exhibition: Miguel Palma’s “Synapse” at Coastline Gallery
In the sculptural work of Portuguese artist Miguel Palma, a cast concrete block might mark the open page of a favorite book. A half-finished Erector set model of the Eiffel Tower might appear alongside...
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Best Wurst Option
Every arts district needs a Bavarian beer hall serving fancy Old World weiners. Downtown Los Angeles has Wurstküche, San Diego’s Gaslamp has the sausage fest known as Sausage Fest, and now, on Santa...
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Iberian Travelogue
An exhibit of Iberian Peninsula-inspired paintings by Laguna College of Art + Design students and faculty opens this week at the LCAD Space at Forest & Ocean Gallery in Laguna Beach. “The Majesty...
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conTEXTual abstraction @ Peter Blake Gallery: A Chat With Mat Gleason
Saturday night the Mat Gleason curated exhibition conTEXTual abstraction opens at Peter Blake Gallery. This group show will feature artists that utilize various forms of text in their work and includes...
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Highlights from the CSUF Faculty show
The 2015 faculty exhibition opened tonight at Cal State Fullerton’s Begovich Gallery (a chance, perhaps, for students to grade the teachers). Fine artists in the show include Julie Orser, Joe Biel and...
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Circling Jack London Square
The First Friday art walk in Oakland, California — known as Oakland Art Murmur — is a chance for galleries throughout the city, from uptown to downtown to Jingletown, to throw open their doors for an...
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INTERSECTION @ Jamie Brooks Fine Art
Written by: Roberta Carasso The selection of work by artists – Arno Kortschot, Connie Goldman, and Gary Petersen – is a look into the dimensions artists develop to express formal and spatial ideas –...
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OC Artist Trace Mendoza is ‘Always Lurking’
Trace Mendoza creates hypnotic work that makes you feel inspired, inquisitive and strangely euphoric. A seemingly schizophrenic fixation with cultural iconography, his Southern California homeland,...
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“SUCCESSIONS” @ Jamie Brooks Fine Art
“SUCCESSIONS” OPENING: April 2, 2016 Jamie Brooks Fine Art 2967 Randolph Avenue Unit C, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 949-929-4143 What is better than an artist’s fresh, brand new, and stimulating paintings? It...
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Art from the OC Review at Orange Coast College
The Orange Coast Review is Orange Coast College’s literary journal. The current issue (which I art directed) contains sixteen pages of art from mostly local artists working in various media, including...
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Openings – 6.25.16
4:30 p.m., Venice Los de Abajo is a Southern California printmaking collective whose members strive to keep alive the Latin American tradition of printmaking while also experimenting with new...
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Prima Facie: Openings at Coastline and Jamie Brooks
Mark Zuckerberg by Ray Turner 6:45 p.m., Costa Mesa Mark Zuckerberg, having done as much as anyone who isn’t Steve Jobs to push us all headlong into the digital age (whether we wanted it or not) now...
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No Name features big names at DAX Gallery
Rainbow Watercolor by Bumblebeelovesyou When I first visited DAX gallery for its opening in 2013 owner Alex Amador had big plans for the Costa Mesa space that would bring fine urban art to Orange...
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Keeping Time: An Opening for “Rhythm” at Irvine’s Great Park Gallery
Matt Maust, Dum Vacation, 2016, detail images The worlds of rock music and fine art have long traded personnel back and forth, from John Lennon dropping out of art school to make music as one of the...
View ArticleColor Vision at the Huntington Beach Art Center
This Saturday night a special show, curated by Jim Ellsberry and Suzanne Walsh, opens at the HB Art Center. Color Vision brings together scientifically and culturally engaging aspects of how we...
View ArticleChing Ching Chen at The Irvine Arts Center
Saturday night I made it to the opening of Re:Balance at the Irvine Arts Center. All around a great show but the stand out in the show was the work of Ching Ching Chen. I wanted to write something more...
View ArticleThe Fantastical Imagination in “Chapter One” @ Brea Gallery
The Brea Art Gallery is a small, distinct gallery that is often overlooked; however, its current exhibition, “Chapter One,” is a reminder that it is a staple of Orange County. An inviting display of...
View ArticleGetting Your OC Art Fix During the COVID-19 Pandemic
With the art world on lockdown, and with many of us desiring, even needing, to feed our art addictions, many visual and performing arts organizations throughout the OC are getting creative with how...
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