The OC Art Blog was created in 2004 as a way to build community and promote the marginalized but dynamic Orange County art scene.

If you were at the opening of Ground Us at the Huntington Beach Art Center a couple of weeks ago, then you saw this performance for the P. Williams installation in the backroom. Pat finally got a rough cut of the video up on YouTube. He told me that he was going to put the installation back together so you may not currently see it in the disarray it is in this video. I have not gone back there to really check it out.--James ...

14 July, 2008 /

Since I have been given the permission to post things outside of the visual arts, I am going to test the water a bit here for my inaugural post. I will try not to veer too far from Orange County very much. But for this one we will visit our neighbors in Long Beach.So here is the rundown. The record store Fingerprints on Second Street is doing a free in-store performance with one of my favorite bands, The Submarines. I recently went to see...

14 July, 2008 /

Hello loyal OC Art Blog readers. I wanted to take moment and welcome a new blogger to this here site. James Rojsirivat is an artist/designer who also happens to be a member of the artist collective Finishing School. James is much younger than me and that means he has much more energy. So look forward to more gallery opening photos, more videos and even some treks across the orange curtain into LA. Rumor has it some stuff happens up there. Welcome James!! ...

14 July, 2008 /

C-Monster paid a visit.Richard Chang took a look.Theo Douglas spent some gas money.Greg Stacy dropped in.And the OC Art Blog will be there in a couple of weeks, because that's how we roll. ...

11 July, 2008 /

This Saturday night About Abstraction opens at The Guggenheim Gallery on campus at Chapman U. Brandon Anschultz opens at @space gallery J. Fynn's 2 year anniversary show is Saturday night. ...

11 July, 2008 /

True or False? George W. Bush has allowed the National Endowment For The Arts to grow for eight straight years. ...

09 July, 2008 /

Here's a quick vid of the Amy Caterina installation currently up at GCAC. Her website for the project, Free Range Knitting is also up. ...

09 July, 2008 /

C-Monster does OC here and here. Hey, next time give me a heads-up and I'll buy you lunch. ...

07 July, 2008 /

Tell us about your work?   I have been painting feverishly since before finishing Grad school at CSUF in 1997. Majoring in printmaking (later painting…), I tend to do paintings in series. My longest running body of work would be my “Slumscapes:” paintings of third-world slums. These culminated from travels to countries like India, Bangladesh, Peru, Indonesia, the Philipinnes, Kenya, Brazil, etc. I’ve also created series of deserts (with debris), post-apocalyptic ruins (usually of Disneyland), fallen freeways, cartoon collage/abstractions. I’m presently working on a post-traumatic vision of Las Vegas and have started adding figures into my slumscapes.   What Artists...

07 July, 2008 /

Speaking of Amy Caterina, here's a great story in the OC Register about how she donated a kidney to Mike McGee and how everything went. Must read. Make sure you give her a hug when you see her at her opening on Saturday night. ...

03 July, 2008 /