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A new (to me) gallery, World Gallery is opening Revolver this Saturday night from 7-11pm. The location is 1980 Placentia in Costa Mesa. Go support the new effort! ...

19 November, 2008 /

This Saturday night Naturally Synthetic opens at @Space gallery and will feature artists Candace M. Briceno, Amy Caterina, Shannon Faseler and Dameon Lester.  The opening will run from 6-9pm. Don't miss it! ...

06 November, 2008 /

This Sunday is the Patchwork Indie Arts & Crafts Festival. The event will run from 11 to 5pm and with over 60 vendors participating it should be a great place to get some early holiday shopping done. The event will be held at 2202 N. Main Street in Santa Ana. See you there! ...

06 November, 2008 /

Grab your fixed gear, your beach cruiser, your old ten speed, or your tricycle just grab something because Thursday night is the Little Pharma Drug Run. Starting at MOCA, participants will first meet for a costume-making workshop and other activities. Dressed as their favorite pharmaceuticals, they will then embark on a group tour of the late-night drugstores of downtown Los Angeles. The event will culminate at Fringe Exhibitions in Chinatown, which will be hosting an incarnation of Finishing School’s Little Pharma, an interdisciplinary project investigating alternative medicines and lifestyles as viable antidotes...

05 November, 2008 /

soundDowntown 2008 is a one-day music festival on Saturday, November 15, featuring a lineup of over 50 locally and nationally recognized bands, DJ’s and performing artists at various venues throughout the Artist’s Village of downtown Santa Ana. This festival marks the recent re-launch of the historic Yost Theater, the re-establishment of Koo’s music programming at the Yost, the renovation of Festival Hall, the developing entertainment district along the Fiesta Marketplace, and the expanding visual arts components of the East Village as well as the 4th Street...

30 October, 2008 /

 Election day is near and the OC Art Blog will start endorsing certain candidates and certain prop's that we have a special interest in.Let's start with our first endorsement. NO on Proposition 8.I was going to do a little rant about separation of Church and State or how this great country of ours was founded by certain individuals that were escaping religious persecution, etc. etc. then I thought it would be better to let our great constitution do the talking.the Fourteenth Amendment to the United...

28 October, 2008 /

Move over Hockey Mom, It's time Art Mom had a voice. Image via Suz ...

24 October, 2008 /

Julio Cesar Morales, Interrupted Passage, 2008; Film still, from a performance by Julio Cesar Morales with Max La Riviere-Hedrick, Norma Listman and Daniel Gorrell; Courtesy of the artist and Julio Duffo, 2008Just a reminder that the California Biennial opens this Sunday at OCMA. Looking from all the off-site projects, I don't know if you can actually even attempt to see everything.The 2008 California Biennial continues the Orange County Museum of Art’s four-decade long history of presenting new developments in contemporary art. This year’s biennial is guest-curated by Lauri Firstenberg, founder and...

22 October, 2008 /

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21 October, 2008 /

Saturday night I met my friend Suz from the famous blog Alive in Wonderland down at the Santiago Art District Art Walk. She has made a little video of the festivities with a little help from her four year old. Enjoy: The Santiago Art District's Art Walk...

20 October, 2008 /

Heads-up! I will be doing a meditation workshop as part of Finishing School's current exhibition Little Pharma now running at Fringe Exhibitions in Chinatown.  I will be covering the many benefits of a regular meditation practice and some basic meditation techniques to get you started. The workshop will take place on Nov. 1st from 12-2pm. Hope you can make it! - Chris ...

20 October, 2008 /

OCCCA is once again doing Buy The Running Foot. The premise is simple. You pay by the linear foot, drop off the work, and they hang them. No jurying or censorship. Head over to their website for more details.--James ...

17 October, 2008 /

Penumbra opens at The Box on Saturday night. ...

17 October, 2008 /

Heads-up! Saturday night there's another art walk at the Santiago Arts District. Check it. ...

17 October, 2008 /