Scrimshaw: The Art and Craft of the American Whaler
Bowers Museum
September 27 through July 7, 2013
Orange County
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Scrimshaw: The Art and Craft of the American Whaler
September 27, 2012 through July 7, 2013
Divested Interest: Exchange Dialogue with COG•NATE Collective & Ramiro Gomez
May 4 through July 14, 2013
Divested Interest: Exchange Dialogues with Cog•nate Collective & Ramiro Gomez features artistic exchanges, interruptions and interventions by artists Misael Diaz and Amy Sanchez of Cog•nate Collective and artist Ramiro Gomez. The artists have been invited to Grand Central Art Center to create artwork that is responsive to the current social climate, built environment and locational identity of Santa Ana through an ongoing series of installations, interviews and workshops.
Saskia Jorda: Unraveling Tradition
May 4 through July 14, 2013
Unraveling Tradition is an installation that sets out to explore the coming-of-age tradition of the Quinceañera, popular in Latin American cultures. Through this project, artist Saskia Jorda reflects on what it means for a young girl to experience this rite of passage, and examines the impacts on these young girls families and to their direct communities.
Gems of the Medici
April 15 through September 16, 2013
In the mid-1400s, many celebrated artists, goldsmiths, silversmiths and engravers were attracted by the abundance of wealth in the city of Florence, but the most important factor in this gathering of talent was the presence of the Medici family. This exhibition highlights some of the oldest and most unique pieces of the Medici collections including antiquities dating from the 1st century BCE.
Recents Posts
“Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective” at LACMA
I don’t know how it will play in Texas when it comes to the Nasher Sculpture Center in February 2013, but Ken Price’s magnificent exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is so thoroughly suffused with the bittersweet aura of a memorial that it’s impossible not to be thrilled by the joy that [...]
Grad school confidential
This is an essay about learning Photoshop. Kruger, “Your comfort is my silence’ 1991 I have to learn it for a class. I am in graduate school, see. I still have a hard time believing this. I’m in this multimedia experimental MA program in Specialized Journalism The Arts at the University of Southern California. I’ll [...]
Debating the Made In L.A. Catalog
As Made In L.A., 2012 nears its closing week many of us are coming to terms with the exhibition catalog, a hefty critical document, indeed. My collegue Roman Stollenwerk and I began a debate about its significance. We thought it would be a good idea to open up the debate to more voices. Here is our exchange, comments are open: (Full disclosure, while I [...]
Laura Lark Loves You #4: Following The Rules
(For an introduction to Laura Lark’s advice column, click here.) Dear Laura, I think I’m ready to approach a gallery about showing my work, and maybe even ask them to represent me as an artist. I’ve heard from older artists that it’s sort of like dating. Is that true? And if it is [...]
