OCMA / Orange County Museum of Art

04/27/2023

OCMA in conjunction with Catering by Mix Mix and Argaux present the Women in Wine Series. Taking inspiration from our 13 Women exhibition which pays homage to OCMA’s 13 visionary women founders, our five-part food and beverage series celebrates women and other members of our local wine community.

Partnering with the female-owned and operated Argaux, a wine purveying trio founded by Arden Gilfillan, Margaux Reaume, and Lexi Jones, we join in a collaborative mission to inspire and connect people from all walks of life through food, wine, and art, highlighting their benefits for one’s mental, intellectual, and emotional health.

Mingle with winemakers, importers, cheesemongers, and other fine goods purveyors at OCMA once a month from May through September.

Advanced reservations are required. Purchase tickets below -

Cheese & Wine Tasting: https://10670.blackbaudhosting.com/10670/Women-in-Wine-Cheese--Wine-Tasting

Burgundy & Burgers: https://10670.blackbaudhosting.com/10670/Women-in-Wine-Burgundy--Burgers

Summer Spritz & Artist Spotlight: https://10670.blackbaudhosting.com/10670/Women-in-Wine-Summer-Spritz--Artist-Spotlight

Fried Chicken & Champagne: https://10670.blackbaudhosting.com/10670/Women-in-Wine-Fried-Chicken--Champagne

Endless Summer "Farm to Table": https://10670.blackbaudhosting.com/10670/Women-in-Wine-Endless-Summer

04/13/2023

Join us this Sunday, April 16, for a film screening of Wall-E, the second in a three-part film series in response to Daniel Arsham’s “Wherever You Go, There You Are.” Arsham’s multilayered practice asks the question: What if we could dig through the future? Arsham creates works that operate as future relics of the present—eroded casts of everyday objects. The film will be screened indoors on Level 2.

Wall-E takes place in the distant future, where a solitary waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. Wall-E (2008) is rated G with a runtime of 98 minutes.

Sunday Cinema tickets are free and required. Reserve here! - https://10670.blackbaudhosting.com/10670/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=85c81da4-1385-4bb2-a94b-29661004ea67

Interested in a special dinner and a movie experience? 🤖 🍿 Make a reservation here! - https://10670.blackbaudhosting.com/10670/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=a3e6089f-a46f-422a-9e2b-c662873df22c

Image Credit: © 2008 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

03/28/2023

Join Narsiso Martinez in conversation with OCMA’s CEO and Director, Heidi Zuckerman. Drawing from his own experience as a farmworker, Martinez creates mixed media installations with multi-figure compositions set amidst agricultural landscapes. In 2023, Martinez received the Frieze Impact prize for his work examining the immigrant experience in the agriculture industry. His work was recently on view in the California Biennial 2022: Pacific Gold exhibition. Martinez received a Master of Fine Arts from California State University Long Beach.

Tickets are free and required. Happy hour at Verdant Café opens prior to the talk at 5 PM. RSVP here: https://ocma.art/calendar/artist-talk-narsiso-martinez/

Limited floor seating reserved for members, first come first served. Interested in becoming an OCMA member? Learn more here: https://ocma.art/support/membership/

Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging

03/23/2023

The MIND at OCMA is more than just a gift-shop…

Imagined by Please Do Not Enter , the celebrated concept store, the MIND provides a unique shopping experience, featuring a distinctive selection of vintage and artist-designed contemporary products, mixing jewelry, fashion, design, and books. Mind challenging, mind blowing, and international in scope, each piece is heart-fully selected to become the perfect trophy of your visit to OCMA.

Shop items like -
Carrie Mae Weems: “A Great Turn in The Possible”
Necklace Rainbow by ISKIN Sisters
Blue Avocado Vase by Ilex Studio

Visit OCMA to browse in-person or shop online https://www.pleasedonotentershop.com/ocma/ ! Members receive 10% off of all purchases. Become a member today here -- https://ocma.art/support/membership/ 🛍️📚

03/20/2023

Spring is Finally Here 🌼

In “French Mustard Field,” Jane Gottlieb captures a blooming mustard field in France through a fisheye view. The ephemeral, dream-like nature of the image and its fleeting, smoothed-out tones are accomplished through her intricate process of hand-painting layers of retouching dyes onto a Cibachrome print.

Gottlieb is recognized for her vibrant and evocative photography of architecture, landscapes, monuments, and cities deprived of living figures. Known as a colorist, Gottlieb uses color to emanate joy and ebullience, with the hope of inspiring similar emotions in her audience.

Jane Gottlieb, French Mustard Field, 1993. Hand-tinted photograph, 35-1/2 × 47-1/2 inches. Collection of Orange County Museum of Art. Gift of Claudette Shaw, Newport Beach, 1998.020.

03/16/2023

03/07/2023

Can art serve as a talisman? 🍀

Fred Tomaselli made this work “April 2, 2015 #2” at a time when California’s water levels were reaching near crises proportions of rain and snowfall during a 4-year drought. The work is an alteration of the New York Times front page on April 2, 2015, which featured an article about the drought-starved Lake Oroville. The original photograph reveals steep barren banks and houseboats crowded together on the shrinking surface of the reservoir. Tomaselli’s mixed media approach to this work, with his painterly interventions, dramatizes the physical result of the drought with impeding, dried-up, and towering cliffs overlooking the nearly leveled lake. The rainbow beyond the bluffs, however, poses a sense of reverie, optimism, and recourse, one that Lake Oroville is lucky to have experienced today.

“13 Women: Variation II”, curated by Heidi Zuckerman, highlights works from the 1950s to the present in our collection. Find this piece and more on view!

Image: Fred Tomaselli b. April 2, 2015 #2, 2015. Gouache, collage, and digital print on watercolor paper. 17 x 11 inches. Collection of Orange County Museum of Art. Museum purchase. Acquired by OCMA as part of our Sixtieth Anniversary Initiative, 2022.014.001

03/03/2023

Not your average cooking show. 👩‍🍳 🍳

In “Semiotics of the Kitchen”, now on view in OCMA’s “13 Women: Variation II”, Martha Rosler sports an apron and presents a cooking-implement demonstration before a camera. Created in 1975, parodying TV personalities like Julia Child and June Cleaver, Rosler wields various kitchen tools and cooking paraphernalia in alphabetical order, sternly announcing their names with a firm glare at her viewers. No cooking takes place in the video. Rosler solely presents the items — knives, nutcrackers, choppers, bowls, and more, with mannerisms that fluctuate between oddly humorous, intense, and disturbingly violent.

“13 Women: Variation II”, curated by Heidi Zuckerman, features works from the 1950s to the present in our collection. Now on view!

Image: Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975. Single-channel video, 06:09 min. Collection of Orange County Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds provided through prior gift of Lois Outerbridge, 2004.013.004

02/09/2023

OCMA is excited to announce the first major US Museum solo exhibition of American artist, Daniel Arsham – “Wherever You Go, There You Are” where we explore his concept of “fictional archaeology”.

Join us at 8 PM on Valentine’s Day for music by DJ MARLEE XX, special V-day cocktails, and a public book signing by Daniel Arsham! Galleries open until midnight!

RSVP: https://www.jotform.com/form/230165929521052

Interested in becoming a member at OCMA? Join now to get exclusive access to this exhibition and other museum events and programs. https://ocma.art/support/

Image: Daniel Arsham, Untitled (moon painting), 2016. Gouache on mylar, frame, 43 3/16 x 43 3/16 x 2 1/8 in (109.7 x 109.7 x 5.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin

02/08/2023

13 Women: Variation II is opening with a public celebration on February 14 from 8 PM – 12 AM. The ongoing exhibition series features Lorna Simpson, and her large-scale photographic-and-text work that confronts conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history and memory. Wigs (Portfolio) is a collection of hair pieces, depicting everything from Afros and braided hair to blond locks and doll wigs. The twenty-one panels of wigs and seventeen smaller text panels are printed on felt— itself a material with hair-like texture. Affixed to the wall with pins, the images and text look like scientific specimens.

Curated by Heidi Zuckerman and presenting works from the 1950s to present by artists in our collection, 13 Women Variation II opens concurrently with Daniel Arsham’s Wherever You Go, There You Are, on February 14 at 8 PM.

RSVP here: https://www.jotform.com/form/230165929521052

Interested in becoming a member at OCMA? Join now to get exclusive access to museum events and programs. https://ocma.art/support/

Lorna Simpson, Wigs (Portfolio), 1994. Waterless lithograph on felt. 72 x 156 inches (overall). Collection of Orange County Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds provided by Dr. James B. Pick and Dr. Rosalyn M. Laudati, 2001.003.001-039. © Lorna Simpson

01/20/2023

See yourself in Fred Eversley’s parabolic lenses.

“The lens has a fisheye effect, so you can see yourself in the work,” says Eversley. “I always work with the relationship between the viewer and the object, and the connection between what surrounds the viewer and what surrounds the object.”

“Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World)” is the artist’s first museum retrospective on the West Coast in more than 40 years. The exhibition highlights Eversley’s contributions to the history of art in California while examining his role as one of the only artists of color in the Light & Space movement.

Don’t miss the chance to see the exhibition before it closes this Sunday, January 22. https://ocma.art/exhibitions/fred-eversley-reflecting-back-the-world/

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