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With the art world on lockdown, and with many of us desiring, even needing, to feed our art addictions, many visual and performing arts organizations throughout the OC are getting creative with how they remain relevant to the larger OC art scene. Luckily, many art organizations are offering opportunities for the public to still engage and enjoy art digitally, whether it be through live streaming, virtual tours, social media engagement, online art collection browsing, film screenings, videos of recorded performances, or through art-related lectures. This...

18 May, 2020 /

Any kind of patriarchal poke in the eye is welcome, especially one that upends the tired visual dynamic of submissive women, but is there anything particularly revolutionary about replacing those suppliant female bodies with male figures in the same position? Additionally, if a painter’s intent is to subvert the ‘male gaze,’ why would they still include bound or nude women as the centerpiece of their imagery? Those questions are likely to hang in the air as you walk away from painter Katerina Olschbaur’s solo exhibition “Dirty Elements”...

09 March, 2020 /

illustration by Jared Millar (after Alfred Lutjeans) Museums these days are in the content creation space: From MOCAtv to the obligatory museum blog to the iPad apps put out by the Metropolitan Museum of Art — for better or worse, it’s about more than just publishing a scholarly catalog with a section of color-printed plates. Lately the Laguna Art Museum has entered the multimedia fray with a series of documentary films by Dale Schierholt entitled “California Masters.” The first of these, “Tony DeLap: A Unique Perspective,”...

01 July, 2014 /

    CALL FOR PROPOSALS   Catalyst, UCI's on-campus undergraduate art gallery, in conjunction with Cal State Fullerton art students,  is looking for student artwork from both campuses to be displayed February 17 - March 4, 2011.  We accept works of any medium such as painting, drawing,  photography, performance, sculpture, installation, etc. Please help us with providing artwork to fill our walls. Simply follow the link and fill out the online form:  http://www.catalystgallery.org/submit-a-proposal/     PLEASE SUBMIT BY FEBRUARY 7, 2011 Join the Facebook invite for this opening reception. Got any questions or comments? Feel free to...

20 January, 2011 /