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Founded in 1962 as Balboa Pavilion Gallery, the Orange County Museum of Art now finds itself starting a new chapter with a new building and five inaugural exhibitions on deck. Here's the lowdown on the celebratory events.
"Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World)" will take visitors on a journey through Eversley's practice, zooming in on his explorations of material and color via his trove of parabolic lenses.
The new Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Costa Mesa, California opens on October 8, 2022 with five new exhibitions, including "California Biennial" and "13 Women."
Narsiso Martinez's mixed media installations juxtapose portraits of farmworkers and agricultural landscapes against cardboard produce boxes. Drawing from his own experience as a farmworker, his work amplifies the people who fill produce sections and restaurant kitchens around the country.
Sharon Ellis' luminous landscapes draw on nearly the whole history of landscape painting. Think American Luminists, Charles Burchfield and his "animated landscapes" and even Light and Space artists James Turrell and Robert Irwin.
Slated to open in 2021, the Thom Mayne-designed building has been more than a decade coming. But it looks worth the wait.
When the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) launched the California-Pacific Triennial in 2013, it became the first California museum to survey the work of Pacific Rim artists. Its tradition of highlighting artists in the region continues this year.
This Architecture at California-Pacific Triennial Isn't Meant to Last, But It Still Serves A Purpose
Architecture may imply buildings and homes lasting decades, or even centuries, but the second California-Pacific Triennial at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) shows that it can also be a lens to understand history, obsolescence and memory.
The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) was started by 13 innovative women, who learned to become gallery managers, curators and preparators. How this museum has thrived is a story of foresight, hard work and the mounting of forward-looking exhibits.
OCMA's exhibition "The Avant-Garde Collection" examines the ever-evolving definition of avant-garde as it is represented through their permanent collection.