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Past Exhibitions
As part of the museum’s 50th anniversary celebrations, OC Collects presents curated selections from more than a dozen of the most important private collections in our community. Since the museum’s founding in 1962, collectors in Orange County have been among the most supportive and adventurous champions of modern and contemporary art, although this is little known or acknowledged within the broader artworld. The exhibition will include major paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos ranging from classic modern works to emerging artists of the present moment.
OC Collects is organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and curated by Director Dennis Szakacs and Chief Curator Dan Cameron.
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The 50th Anniversary Lead Sponsor is Cartier.
The 50th Anniversary Elite Sponsors are 24 carrots – catering and events and South Coast Plaza.
Image at right: Doug Aitken, 1968, 2011, High density foam, wood, and mirror, 36 x 80 x 8 1/2 inches; Collection of Moira and Fred Kamgar © Doug Aitken. Image: courtesy 303 Gallery. |
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On view through Dec 30, 2012, For its 50th anniversary, the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) is showcasing its permanent collection in a series of twelve installations, each lasting between two and six weeks. To stimulate discussion within the museum’s audience around the works’ historical and aesthetic meanings, more than fifty works by twenty-four artists who are included in OCMA’s collection will be juxtaposed in combinations that run against the grain of their typical generational and/or stylistic affinities.
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Joan Brown, The Journey #5, 1976; Enamel on canvas, 90 x 72 inches; Collection Orange County Museum of Art; Museum purchase with additional funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts |
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Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce was the first exhibition to bring together the work of these four important American modernist painters. More than 100 works were drawn from the most prominent and private collections in the United States for this exhibition.
All four women made indelible marks on modernist art of the 20th century— O’Keeffe and Pelton created distinctive images using lush, organic forms, while Martin and Pierce produced signature geometric works of sublime simplicity. They also all drew on nature as their primary focus, inspired by arid and spare desert environments: O’Keeffe, Pierce and Martin, lived much of their lives in New Mexico, while Pelton resided in Cathedral City near Palm Springs, California. Through their keen sense of place they each developed vocabularies with varying degrees of abstraction and share an interest in illumination and a desire to convey transcendence and spirituality in their paintings.
This exhibition is organized by Karen Moss, deputy director for exhibitions and programs.
Major support for this exhibition is provided by Jayne Murrel, Pamela and James Muzzy, and Barbara and Victor L. Klein.
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On view through Sep 9, 2012, Jack Goldstein X 10,000 is the first American retrospective of Jack Goldstein (1945–2003), a central figure in Postmodernist discourse of the 1970s and 1980s. Goldstein’s oeuvre developed over the years in an unusual breadth of media, from sculpture, performance, and film, to photography, records of sound effects, paintings, and aphorisms. For more information, click on the links below:
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Read some of the recent articles, reviews, and posts about the exhibition:
Artforum reviews OCMA's current exhibition Jack Goldstein x 10,000 and adds the exhibition to their "Critics' Picks" list click here to read more
Art review by Daniella Walsh in the Independent click here to read more
Christopher Knight from the LA Times reviews the Jack Goldstein exhibition and states "fascinating Jack Goldstein retrospective."
Jack Goldstein, The Jump, 1978; 16mm film, color, silent, 26 sec.; Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne and the Estate of Jack Goldstein |
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On view through May 27, 2012, Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series presents nearly 80 paintings, drawings, prints, and collages that demonstrate the complexity of Diebenkorn's artistic concerns in this masterful body of work. For more information, click on the links below:
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Read some of the recent articles, reviews, and posts about the exhibition:
For Mat Gleason’s review on Huffington Post, click here
Christopher Knight’s review in Los Angeles Times, click here
Hunter Drohojawska-Philp review aired on KCRW radio, 89.9, click here
Susan Stamberg’s interview with Sarah will run on NPR’s Morning Edition, click here
Jori Finkel’s feature in Los Angeles Times, click here
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #105 (detail), 1978; Oil and charcoal on canvas; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum purchase, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Endowment Fund and The Burnett Foundation. ©The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn |
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On view October 9, 2011 - January 22, 2012
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Features
Daily Pilot
Los Angeles Times
Newport Beach Magazine
Orange County Register
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On view October 9, 2011 - January 22, 2012
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Features
Daily Pilot
Newport Beach Magazine
Orange County Register
Orange County Register
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On view April 10–September 4, 2011
Features
Los Angeles Times
Newport Beach Independent
Orange County Register
OC Weekly
Riviera
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H BOX is an innovative portable screening room for presenting major new video commissions by international artists. Designed by Portuguese artist/architect Didier Fiuza Faustino, H BOX premiered at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and had its U.S. debut at the Orange County Museum of Art. The OCMA presentation included videos by ten international artists including Alice Anderson (United Kingdom), Yael Bartana (Israel), Matthew Buckingham (USA), Sebastián Diaz-Morales (Argentina), Cliff Evans (USA), and Kota Ezawa (Germany), Cao Fei (China), Dora García (Spain), Shahryar Nashat (Switzerland), and Su-Mei Tse (Luxembourg).
The OCMA presentation iincluded new video commissions by four international artists including Matthew Buckingham, Cliff Evans, Cao Fei, and Kota Ezawa. H BOX, is a special installation presented in conjunction with the museum’s spring collection exhibition, The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection.
Exhibition Credits
H BOX is produced by Hermès Foundation. The presentation at the Orange County Museum of Art is organized by Karen Moss, deputy director for exhibitions and programs.
About Hermès Foundation
Created in April 2008, the role of the Hermès Foundation is to guide and bring together all the different actions of sponsorship within the House of Hermès and to clarify their orientation. Its activity is concerned with providing support in four main areas: contemporary arts, contemporary crafts, education and research on environmental issues. |
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February 3, 2008–June 1, 2008
Newport Beach
Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times features painting, video, and installation projects by local and international artists whose works reveals the political turbulence, cultural malaise and general instability of our tumultuous times. Including Pilar Albarracin, Karen Finley, Pearl C. Hsiung, Glenn Kaino, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Rodney McMillian, and Robin Rhode, these artists reference subjects such as war and terror, social and racial tension, urban and environmental disaster, psychological break-down, and criminal behavior in a range of mixed media and video installations. Using striking images and imposing structures, often imbued with surrealist absurdity and irony, they represent and perform this pervasive sense of global chaos and disorder.
Disorderly Conduct is organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and curated by Karen Moss, curator of collections and director of education & public programs at OCMA and co-presented by haudenschildGarage, La Jolla.
This exhibition and its public programs are cosponsored by the haudenschildGarage, La Jolla. Significant support is provided by Michael D. Ray.
Robin Rhode, Color Chart, 2004-06, digital animation, 4:50 minutes; Orange County Museum of Art; museum purchase with funds provided through prior gift of Lois Outerbridge. Image courtesy of the artist and Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New Yorkpermanent_press4479_DC-release-w.-logo.pdf 74KB |
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May 3, 2008-September 14, 2008
Orange Lounge, South Coast Plaza
Signals: A Video Showcase presents a series of three thematic exhibitions designed to highlight the Orange County Museum of Art’s collection of video art. Featuring selections from the permanent collection along with additional works by emerging and established artists, each exhibition will last approximately six weeks, giving viewers the opportunity to see up to 14 individual works of video art over the course of the summer. The exhibition includes work by John Baldessari, Jeremy Blake, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Bia Gayotto, Joel Morrison, and Goody B. Wiseman.
Jeremy Blake, Winchester Redux, 2004; Single-channel video, 5:00 min loop; Collection of Orange County Museum of Art; Museum purchase with funds provided through prior gift of Lois Outerbridge
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This exhibition of work from the museum's permanent collection traces experiments with electronic media art from the late 1960s to the present day. It began with a gallery of pioneering early single-channel video work from the 1970s that evolved from sculpture, and body-oriented performances. Subsequent galleries featured room-sized video installations that first emerged with the advent of new projection technologies in the 1980s and also more recent work in digital media from the past decade.
The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection features an international roster of artists including: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Cory Arcangel, Jeremy Blake, Kota Ezawa, Chris Burden, John Baldessari, Isaac Julien, Christian Marclay, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, Robin Rhode, Pipilotti Rist, Shirley Shor, Tim Sullivan, Diana Thater, Mungo Thomson, Bill Viola, and William Wegman.
This exhibition is organized by Karen Moss, deputy director for exhibitions and programs, Orange County Museum of Art.
Christian Marclay, Telephones, 1995; Video, edition of 250; 7 min.; Museum purchase with funds provided through prior gift of Lois Outerbridge
Diana Thater, Wicked Witch, 1996; 3-lense video projectors, laserdisc player, CAV laserdisc, and existing architecture, edition 2 of 2; dimensions variable; Museum purchase with funds provided through prior gift of Lois Outerbridge |
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October 26, 2008–March 29, 2009
Newport Beach and Orange Lounge, South Coast Plaza
The 2008 California Biennial showcased works by some of the state’s most exciting and innovative emerging artists. The only exhibition of its kind in California, the Biennial provided support and exposure for talented young artists working in one of the world’s great creative centers. The exhibition presented large-scale installations, sculpture, paintings, photographs, film and video art that reflect today’s eclectic communities, cultures, and artistic trends. The Biennial continues the museum’s four-decade history of presenting new developments in art and supporting artists on the verge of international recognition. The exhibition was presented at both the Newport Beach and South Coast Plaza locations.
The 2008 California Biennial was organized by the Orange County Museum of Art with guest curator Lauri Firstenberg. A catalog with essays by the curators accompanies the exhibition.
The 2008 California Biennial was presented by Deutsche Bank.
Major support was provided by Michael Krichman and Carmen Cuenca.
Significant funding was provided by the Beall Family Foundation and Toby Devan Lewis with additional support from Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Fry, Harpo Foundation, Dr. James B. Pick and Dr. Rosalyn M. Laudati, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Edward LeVasseur, Jr, the Nimoy Foundation, and the Peter Norton Family Foundation.
Special thanks to the Peter Norton Family Foundation on behalf of Eileen Harris Norton and to Eve Steele & Peter Gelles for additional project support.
Off-site projects were produced by LAXART Public Art Initiatives with ForYourArt in conjunction with The City of West Hollywood Art on the Outside program. Special thanks to the City of West Hollywood and its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, High Desert Test Sites, and the Cultural Affairs Division, Culver City. Special thanks to Eugenio Lopez for additional off-site project support.
The official media sponsors of the Orange County Museum of Art are the Orange County Register and Coast magazine.
Additional media support provided by ForYourArt.
Raymond Pettibon, No Title (I Thought California), 2008; Billboard; Courtesy of the artist; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; and LAXART Public Art Initiatives with ForYourArt and Art on the Outside City of West Hollywood; Billboard location: Sunset Boulevard and Olive Drive, West Hollywood; Photograph courtesy of by Daiana Feuer
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October 7, 2007–January 6, 2008
Newport Beach
Birth of the Cool examines the broad cultural zeitgeist of “cool” that influenced the visual arts, graphic and decorative arts, architecture, music, and film produced in California in the 1950s and early 1960s. The widespread influences of such midcentury architects and designers as Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra, have been well-documented. Less well-known, however, are the innovations of a group of Hard-Edge painters working during this period including Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Fredrick Hammersley, Helen Lundberg and John McLaughlin, whose work retains a freshness and relevance today. Birth of the Cool revisits this scene, providing a visual and cultural context for West Coast geometric abstract painting within the other dynamic art forms of this time.
Birth of the Cool Tour Schedule:
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy
February 15-April 13, 2008
Oakland Museum of California
May 18-August 17, 2008
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
September 19–January 5, 2009
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
February 27–May 31, 2009
Birth of the Cool is organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, deputy director for programs and chief curator at OCMA. The exhibition is accompanied by a 300-page publication. Major support for Birth of the Cool is provided by Brent R. Harris, The Segerstrom Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Significant support is provided by Bente and Gerald Buck, Twyla and Chuck Martin, Jayne and Mark Murrel, Pam and Jim Muzzy, Barbara and Victor Klein, and Victoria and Gilbert E. LeVasseur Jr.. Additional support is provided by Toni and Steven Berlinger and Patricia and Max Ellis. Corporate sponsorship is provided by Gucci and Design Within Reach. The official media sponsor of OCMA is The Orange County Register. Additional media sponsorship is provided by KCRW and KKJZ. Image credit: Karl Benjamin, Black Pillars, 1957, oil on canvas, private collection. © Karl Benjamin, courtesy of Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood.
Julius Shulman, photograph of Case Study House #21 (Pierre Koenig, architect, Los Angeles, 1958), 1958. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institutepermanent_press4474_OCMA.Birth-of-the-Cool-press-release07.08.pdf 326KB |
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October 7, 2007–January 6, 2008
Orange Lounge
Deaf since childhood, Joseph Grigely is best known for creating works that explore the failures, idiosyncrasies and ruptures of language and communication. His latest project, St. Cecilia, recently purchased by the Orange County Museum of Art, demonstrates the nuances between seeing and hearing a musical performance and the connection between his own memories of music as a child and his current relationship to experiencing music as a deaf adult.
Born in Massachusetts in 1956, Joseph Grigely became deaf at the age of ten because of a childhood accident. He first became known in the early 1990s for a series he called Conversations with the Hearing, works of art ranging from intimate wall-based works to room-sized installations that incorporated handwritten notes he used to communicate with the hearing world. Most recently, Grigely has begun a series of works that explore sound—from his own memories of sound as a child, to explorations of how sound “looks.”
Joseph Grigely, Production still from St. Cecilia, 2006. Photo courtesy of Dan Myers.permanent_press4476_OCMA.Grigely.Release.pdf 96KB |
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July 15, 2007 - September 14, 2008
Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments
This exhibition of works from the Museum’s permanent collection focuses on the development of contemporary art in the pivotal period from the 1960s to the 1990s. Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments features important examples of pop art, assemblage, conceptual art, video, performance, installation, and neoconceptual work from the museum’s collection. Included in Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments are artists’ books, archival materials, and documentation from key museum exhibitions that launched the careers of prominent artists such as Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Wallace Berman, Chris Burden, Vija Celmins, Charles Ray, Ed Ruscha, Alexis Smith, James Turrell, and others. This new collection installation also provides a framework for scholarship about these artists and groundbreaking moments in Art Since the 1960s in interpretive materials in the galleries and the museum Web site.
Vija Celmins, Eraser, 1967, acrylic on balsa wood.
Collection of the Orange County Museum of Art; Gift of AVCO Financial Services, Newport Beach, CA
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