OCMA / Orange County Museum of Art

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

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.

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

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/ 🛍️📚

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.

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

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

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

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

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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This week is your last chance to explore parallels between Peter Walker’s landscape designs and Minimalist artworks by Sol Lewitt and Frank Stella.

Through photographs and two newly commissioned historical models, the exhibition “Peter Walker: Minimalist Landscape” highlights two iconic projects at the Segerstrom Center campus: Fountains and Plantings. The exhibition also features works from OCMA’s collection by Frank Stella and Sol LeWitt, artists who influenced Walker’s minimalistic approach to landscape design.

Visit the exhibition, Peter Walker: Minimalist Landscape, before it closes on January 22! Learn more: https://ocma.art/exhibitions/peter-walker-minimalist-landscape/

“Mixed media” doesn’t begin to describe Jessica Stockholder’s work.

“When looking at this work it’s easy to forget what the things are that the work is made of,” says Jessica Stockholder. The artist uses materials in unexpected ways. She is primarily concerned with the color, texture, weight, and quality of material.

In her work “1969,” Stockholder uses aluminum flashing, thumb tacks, lights, cords, tree root, wigs, acrylic yarn, cable clamps, carpet, papier-mâché, plaster, and rope. See this work in the special exhibition 13 Women, on view through August 20, 2023. This exhibition pays homage to the 13 women who founded the Balboa Pavilion Gallery—the earliest iteration of OCMA—which opened in 1962.

Image: Jessica Stockholder, “1996”, 1996. Gift of Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson, Los Angeles. Photo by Chris Bliss.

Take a journey through time, space, and color with Fred Eversley’s parabolic forms.

“The parabola is the perfect concentrator of all energy to a single focal point,” said Eversley. The artist’s works evoke mirrors and lenses, bending light and views. Moving from dark to light, and through the entire color spectrum, the constellation of works on view creates a heightened experience of seeing and being in space.

“Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World)” is on view through January 15, 2023.

⚡️ Revel in the sublime of Sharon Ellis’ electric landscapes.

Ellis uses as many as 60 layers of alkyd paint, making the saturated colors of her imagined landscapes even more vibrant.

Ellis has always been drawn to romantic art and poetry of the mid-1800s and work by American modernist painters. Ellis says, “I feel that my work follows in the tradition of love for the natural world, obsession with the painted universes we create, and a reverence for the mystery of imagination itself.”

See her work on view in California Biennial 2022: Pacific Gold, on view through February 26, 2023.

Image: Sharon Ellis, Night Storm, 2012-19. Alkyd on canvas, 30 x 40 in. Courtesy the artist and Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles

On December 18 at 3:00 p.m., step into The MIND and join us for a book signing and meet and greet with OCMA’s CEO and Director Heidi Zuckerman author of Conversations with Artists, Volume I, II, and III.

All three books will be available for purchase in our shop, The MIND, on Level 1. Everyone is welcome.

OCMA members are also invited to a Membership Holiday Event from 2–5:30pm! Enjoy cookies and hot chocolate at our Fueling Station, attend the book signing and browse our shop, The Mind and utilize your 10% discount, enjoy complimentary gift-wrapping.

The special exhibition "13 Women" marks the museum’s 60th anniversary, paying homage to the thirteen women who founded the Balboa Pavilion Gallery, the earliest iteration of OCMA, in 1962.

Presenting works from the 1960s to the present by artists central to the museum’s collection and who share the visionary qualities of the museum’s founders, 13 Women is on view through August 20, 2023. Discover works by Alice Aycock, Joan Brown, Cady Noland, Catherine Opie: https://ocma.art/exhibitions/13-women/

Joan Brown, The Journey #5, 1976. Enamel on canvas. 90-1/2 x 72-3/4 inches. Museum purchase with additional funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, 1978.008. Collection of the Orange County Museum of Art.

Commissioned for the opening of OCMA’s new building, Of many waters... (2022), is a 24-foot-wide-by-16-foot-tall multimedia outdoor sculpture that operates as a combination and continuation of Sanford Biggers’s Chimera, Shimmer, and Codex series.

A hybridized figure, the sculpture combines an archetype of a European reclining male figure with a 19th-Century Baule double-face mask assembled from metal sequins. The new commission is Biggers’s first Chimera-Shimmer hybrid—a new form that the artist considers “an object for future ethnography”—and the largest sequined work he has made to date.

On view through August 13, 2023. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3fZ3Ryj

Installation view : Sanford Biggers: Of many waters… (October 8, 2022 – August 13, 2023). Orange County Museum of Art. Photo: Yubo D**g, ofstudio

From a distance, Fred Eversley’s lenses and mirrored forms look like planets floating in space, their highly polished reflective surfaces reflecting and refracting the world, and our place within it.

Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World) expands on the groundbreaking 1976 exhibition of his work at OCMA. Using the work from OCMA’s collection as a springboard, an untitled black lens from 1976, the exhibition follows the logic of the black hole— the most luminous space in the universe—taking the audience on a journey through time, space, and color.

Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World) is on view through January 15, 2023.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3fN9uje

Installation view: Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World) (October 8, 2022 – January 15, 2023). Orange County Museum of Art. Photo: Yubo D**g, ofstudio

Paying homage to the history of landscape design at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts from the 1980s to the 2000s, the site-responsive project focuses on the work of landscape architect Peter Walker. One of the leading landscape architects in the Modernist movement, Walker is most recognized for co-designing the National 9/11 Memorial. His collaboration with the Segerstrom Family dates to the 1970s when he and his colleagues transformed a lima bean field into a park.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3fnavOK

Image: Installation view: Peter Walker: Model for Arrival Garden, Costa Mesa, CA, 1986, 2022. Commissioned by Orange County Museum of Art. Photo: Yubo D**g, ofstudio

Revisiting mythical stories and reimagining California as a changing land, the California Biennial 2022: Pacific Gold presents a set of distinctive voices, ones which question, challenge, and animate the past, while looking to the future.

Dating back to 1984, OCMA’s California Biennial defined the spirit of the institution for decades, exemplifying the museum’s six-decade history of presenting new developments in contemporary art while identifying emerging artists on the verge of national and international acclaim.

Learn more: https://ocma.art/exhibitions/california-biennial-2022-pacific-gold/

Image: Installation view: Hector Dionicio Mendoza, Hercules/El Mundo, 2019; Hector Dionicio Mendoza, Coyota, 2020. Orange County Museum of Art. Photo: Yubo D**g, ofstudio

On view starting October 8, Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World) follows the logic of the black hole—taking the audience on a journey through time, space, and color—anchored by a work from OCMA's collection, an untitled black lens from 1976.

From a distance, Eversley’s lenses and mirrored forms look like planets floating in space. Their highly polished surfaces reflect and refract the world. His technical understanding as a consulting engineer for NASA in the 1960s enabled him to use materials in ways that uniquely positioned his practice in the Light and Space movement.

Fred Eversley, Untitled, 1976. Opaque black cast polyester 19 3/8 x 19 3/8 x 7 in (49.2 x 49.2 x 17.8 cm) Collection of Orange County Museum of Art Given in fondest memory of Gertrude Fleischman by Pat and Carl Neisser, 1978.001. Photo: ofstudio. © Fred Eversley

🍴Get ready to dine at Verdant!

Our new café, developed by Executive Chefs Ross Pangilinan and Nick Weber with General Manager Alyssa McDiarmid, will offer a fresh, plant-forward menu that rotates weekly and highlights local produce available in Southern California.

Verdant will be located on our terrace level and will also offer gourmet coffees and teas, including ceremonial-grade matcha, and feature a full bar with a carefully curated wine list and craft cocktails. The café will be open for lunch 6 days a week (closed on Mondays).

On view starting October 8, Peter Walker: Minimalist Landscape, is our first attempt to champion creative makers and thinkers in the intersection of art and design at our new building.

Through photographs and two newly-commissioned historical models, “Peter Walker: Minimalist Landscape” will highlight two iconic projects at the Segerstrom Center campus: Fountains and Plantings—the entry court for Cesar Pelli’s Plaza Tower—and Arrival Gardens—the ramped entrance to the Performing Arts Center. The exhibition will also feature works in OCMA’s collection by Frank Stella and Sol LeWitt, artists who influenced Walker’s minimalistic approach to landscape design.

Learn more: https://ocma.art/exhibitions-upcoming/

Commissioned for the opening of OCMA’s new building, Sanford Biggers’ Of many waters… (2022) is a 24-foot-wide-by-16-foot-tall multimedia outdoor sculpture—the largest sequined work he has made to date.

Biggers’ piece operates as a combination and continuation of his Chimera, Shimmer, and Codex series. A hybridized figure, the sculpture combines an archetype of a European reclining male figure with a 19th-Century Baule double-face mask assembled from metal sequins.

Be the first to see the spectacular sculpture when the new OCMA opens October 8th! https://ocma.art/exhibitions-upcoming/

OCMA is reviving the California Biennial! When it first began in 1984, the California Biennial was the only regular survey exhibition of contemporary art in California.

Curated by former OCMA curator Elizabeth Armstrong—who curated the California Biennial in 2002, 2004, and 2006—with Essence Harden, Visual Arts Curator at the California African American Museum, and Gilbert Vicario, Chief Curator at the Phoenix Art Museum, “California Biennial 2022: Pacific Gold” reimagines California as a changing land.

The show gives us an opportunity to explore the diversity of the Golden State’s creative communities, from the high desert to the oceanside of Bolinas and Monterey, and through the dense metropolises of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Starting October 8th at 5pm, come see works in a variety of media, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, large-scale installations, textiles, ceramics, and videos.

Learn more: https://ocma.art/exhibitions-upcoming/

Images:
Alex Anderson, Lovely Shade Flower, 2021. Earthenware, glaze, and gold luster, 22 x 17 x 2 in (55.88 x 43.18 x 5.08 cm). Courtesy the artist and Sargent's Daughters

Claire Rojas, Circle of Infinite Chaos, 2022. Oil on panel, 64 x 56 in (162.6 x 142.2 cm). Courtesy the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. Photo: Eric Ruby

Narsiso Martinez, Pacific Gold, 2021. Ink, gouache, charcoal, collage, acrylic, and small paintings on produce boxes, 82 x 40 x 48 in (208.28 x 101.6 x 121.92 cm). Courtesy the artist and Charlie James Gallery. Photo: Yubo D**g ofstudio