Reviews

Office alumni Mark Dutcher's recent show at Solway Jones Gallery is reviewed in this months Frieze magazine. ...

OC based painter (not Portland) and Office alumni Sherie' Franssen opens her show at Dolby Chadwick in SF this Thursday and Kenneth Baker from the SF Chronicle gave an early thumbs up. If you're up that way be sure to catch the opening and say hi to Sherie'. Mrs. OC Art Blog will be there Friday so I should have images to post eventually. ...

Before I leave. SqueezeOC visits the Oscene Here. OC Weekly visits the Oscene Here. ...

Jit Fong Chin over at SqueezeOC has done a couple intv's so far of artists that will be included in this years Calif. Biennial at OCMA. Mario Ybarra can be found here. (What is it that he does exactly?) Kate Pocrass can be found here.(Cult of the boring). Show opens this weekend. ...

Theo Douglas' review of Facing East can be found here. "Natasha Caruana’s “Facing East” is one of the most ambitious photography exhibitions you’ll see this year" ...

The Weekly visited Catherine Opie's new show at OCMA and you can read about it Here. ...

Be sure to check out this weeks edition of SqueezeOC where there will be a very nice interview of Naida Osline. If you can't wait to get the hard copy you can have a look online here. Enjoy. ...

Justin Edward Coffey from the OC Weekly came down to write about Naida and Jenna's show at The Office. You can read about it Here. ...

The current issue of artUS is out and inside you'll find a review of the Mark Dutcher exhibit that opened at The Office in February. Check it out. ...

Justin Edward Coffey from The OC Weekly paid a visit to The Office to review the Collinson/Christy/Robison show and writes about it Here. ...

The new Charles Long show "100 Pounds of Clay" at OCMA gets reviewed in today's LA Times. You can catch it here. ...

LA Weekly art critic Doug Harvey makes a guest appearance in this weeks OC Weekly to review the Pettibone/Hess show now at LAM. You can read it Here. ...

The Mark Dutcher interview is up over at Squeeze OC. You'll also be able to find it in the hard copy. Enjoy. Photo: Steve Zylius ...

Here's a great article on the current Painting in Tongues show at MOCA. It's mostly great because it mentions Mark Dutcher's show at the Office at the end of the article! Update: In regards to my earlier complaint Doug Harvey does say "While “Painting in Tongues” is largely successful in endorsing the idea that painting has this kind of potential, it isn’t hard to find equal or better exemplars of its curatorial premise out on the streets" Amen. ...

Doug Harvey of the LA Weekly visited Create and Be Recognized at the California Museum of Photography and writes about it here. Summary: Quibbles aside, this is a beautiful, moving and eye-opening show well worth the trek to the Inland Empire.-Doug Harvey ...