OCMA / Orange County Museum of Art

Thanking you, part 2: In this set of photos, you’ll see that some of the roses have personalized dedications for those our community lost over the last year. These images were shared over the past couple of weeks as you picked up, constructed, and delivered your roses to help us all remember those who have been lost due to COVID-19. We could not have done this project without our amazing OCMA community - thank you for contributing to the Orange County Rose River Memorial! The... final installation will open next week. About the Rose River Memorial at OCMA: Internationally recognized artist Marcos Lutyens is creating the OC Rose River Memorial to remember those who have passed away from COVID-19 in Orange County. Join this collaborative effort to create 3,000 hand-made roses for a memorial that visualizes our collective loss and generates community healing. As part of a nationwide COVID-19 Memorial Day, Lutyens will combine community-made roses into an installation that will be on view outside OCMA from Monday, March 1 through Sunday, March 7. Photos via our community on Instagram: maria_ti1, shannnobieger, lookswhosblogging, pamelasm on Twitter, gglaube, sarah.sunshine.86, lyonmama, sac4th, maribeth_mcfaul

Today and tomorrow we are sharing YOUR art. We want to thank our amazing OCMA community for contributing to the Orange County Rose River Memorial. These images were shared over the past couple of weeks as you picked up, constructed, and delivered your roses to help us all remember those who have been lost due to COVID-19. The final installation will open next week stay tuned for details! About the Rose River Memorial at OCMA: Internationally recognized artist Marcos Lutyens... is creating the OC Rose River Memorial to remember those who have passed away from COVID-19 in Orange County. Join this collaborative effort to create 3,000 hand-made roses for a memorial that visualizes our collective loss and generates community healing. As part of a nationwide COVID-19 Memorial Day, Lutyens will combine community-made roses into an installation that will be on view outside OCMA from Monday, March 1 through Sunday, March 7. Photos via The Westin Anaheim Resort, and on Instagram and Twitter via @andyv_renditions, @brigeet, @arlis4costamesa, @gglaube, @hughjohnroberts

It is time to return your roses! Today we begin the work of putting together the Orange County Rose River Memorial pictured is the grid that’s waiting for your roses. Please return your roses at OCMA today through Sunday between 11am and 6pm. It's not too late to participate! Click the link here to learn more about using your own materials to make roses for this Memorial: https://www.roseriver.memorial/supplies About the Rose River Memorial at OCMA: Internationally recogni...zed artist Marcos Lutyens is creating the OC Rose River Memorial to remember those who have passed away from COVID-19 in Orange County. Join this collaborative effort to create 3,000 hand-made roses for a memorial that visualizes our collective loss and generates community healing. As part of a nationwide COVID-19 Memorial Day, Lutyens will combine community-made roses into an installation that will be on view outside OCMA from Monday, March 1 through Sunday, March 7. Photos via Rose River Memorial and @juliecandothat on Instagram.

This month’s Cinema Orange film is Alice Street, available for streaming tomorrow through Sunday February 21. In the film, Oakland’s unique cultural legacies come to life through the story of an unlikely partnership between Oakland artists Pancho Peskador, a Chilean studio painter, and Desi Mundo, a Chicago-born aerosol artist. Despite threats to their ambitious plans for a four-story mural in the heart of Oakland, three years of intensive community engagement pays off, resul...ting in one of Oakland’s most iconic public artworks. Space is limited; please RSVP at https://ocma.art/alice-street. Only available in Southern California. Presented in partnership with The Newport Beach Film Festival and organized by Leslie Feibleman, director of special programs and community cinema, Newport Beach Film Festival.

Tomorrow artist Marcos Lutyens will be hosting a virtual workshop in which he will guide participants into a space of mindfulness to create roses for the OC Rose River Memorial while being together virtually. The event begins at 11am pacific, and after the meditation and a demonstration, participants are invited to share stories, ask questions, and hear from Lutyens about the upcoming installation. Space for the workshop is limited; please RSVP here: https://www.ocmaexpand.o...rg//rose-river-memorial-works/form. Lutyens is based in Los Angeles and the UK. His artistic practice targets the psychic and emotional well-being of his audiences. His works take form in installations, sculptures, drawings, short films, writings and performances. In the time of COVID-19, Lutyens created a series of 12 zoom performances to help the healing process of people in various countries around the world, and is currently working on modeling grief into a large scale COVID-19 artwork, called Rose River Memorial. Photo via Rose River Memorial

Now streaming: Elastic Ambience by Julian Day Responding to our sense of time metamorphosing over 2020, Julian Day offers a series of 24 hour-long soundscapes that will accumulate over the month. Inspired by Erik Satie’s century-old concept of ‘furniture music’ and influenced by the rich domain of ambient composition, Elastic Ambience is a set of aural moods that mark the hours. One hour of sound will be added each day to a recurring broadcast that occurs every 12 hours, completing the aural clock by the New Year. Learn how and when to tune in: https://ocma.art/elastic-ambience/

Experience OCMA like never before! In light of the latest stay-at-home order, we want to give our supporters something to look forward to. Become a member between now and December 18, and be entered for a chance to win a private museum visit for when the stay-at-home order is lifted. You’ll have the chance to explore six new exhibitions, as well as a selection of works from our permanent collection, on your own without any other visitors. With our 32,000 square foot buildi...ng, airy galleries, rigorous cleaning procedures, and mask requirement, this is a safe way to get a dose of art and creativity.* Become a member between now and December 18, and be automatically entered into a raffle to win this unique opportunity. The 10 lucky winners will be notified on December 21, at which time OCMA will contact you to schedule your visit. Members are the lifeblood of the museum. Your support plays an essential role in making possible our exhibitions and programs and ensuring everyone has access through free admission. Starting at only $70 a year, it is a great way to support the museum. Plus, you'll receive an exclusive OCMA mask or tote bag and have a shot at winning a private museum visit! Become a member: https://ocma.art/membership/ *Visitors will be required to follow OCMA’s COVID-19 safety protocol. Photo: Instagram user @madd_mary See more

While the museum is closed, we are excited to share some components of our exhibitions virtually. Now on our website are several video works by Marsia Alexander-Clarke: https://ocma.art/marsia-alexander-clarke-ojos-profundos/

Emotions may be running high these days, so why not channel those emotions into art? There is just one more day to participate in Martin Kersels' A Glossary of Feelings Expressed by Sound. https://ocma.art/programs/ Martin Kersels, Kouros and Me #2, 2000. Color photograph. 47-3/8 x 71-3/8 inches. Museum purchase with funds provided through prior gift of Lois Outerbridge.

Members are the lifeblood of OCMA. Your support plays an essential role in making possible our exhibitions and programs and ensuring everyone has access through free admission. This #GivingTuesday, become a member and receive an OCMA mask or tote bag. Purchase a membership: https://ocma.art/membership/

Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza gives you a rare look at the making of the artwork that is now on view at OCMA. Mendoza’s exhibition, "Navigating Technics," explores the residues of colonialism in the Philippines and proposes methods of decolonization; she sees her work as a tool meant to encourage the viewer to reconsider history. In honor of Filipino-American History Month, come experience this moving show and consider this timely topic.

Artist Marsia Alexander-Clarke gives you a rare look at the making of artwork in her exhibition at OCMA, "Ojos Profundos." The exhibition will be on view again as soon as OCMA is able to reopen.

In conjunction with her paintings and neon works in the galleries, Alexandra Grant has taken her idea of going one step further, referenced in the title of her show, by installing a grantLOVE pop-up shop in the lobby of OCMA. Sale proceeds for this incarnation of grantLOVE will support the acquisition of art by underrepresented artists for the museum’s collection.

Enjoy some autumn vibes on this first day of Fall. Richard Anuszkiewicz, Moon Gold, 1968. Acrylic on panel. 36 x 36 inches. Gift of Avco Financial Services, Newport Beach, California.

Now on view: Alexandra Grant’s exhibition, Telepathy is One Step Further than Empathy In this work, by repeating the quote I was born to love not to hate from Sophocles’ play Antigone and through bold mark-making, Grant evokes Antigone’s selflessness as she stands up to the state and sacrifices her life in exchange for her beloved deceased brother’s body. Grant’s abstractions offer the viewer a painterly expression of human struggleorder and chaos operate concurrently, and love can overcome hate. Alexandra Grant, Antigone 3000 (1), 2018. Acrylic paint, acrylic ink, sumi ink, collage, wax rubbing, and colored pencil on paper mounted on fabric. Courtesy of the artist.

Today at 5pm, join exhibiting artists for a virtual discussion on timely issues they explore in their work, such as identity, cultural legacy, immigration, and colonialism.

We're one step closer to our new buildingread on for highlights from yesterday's topping out ceremony.

Maynard Dixon was born in Fresno, California, and drew constantly as a child, documenting the new settlers, trappers, cattlemen, and expansive landscape of the area. After three months at the California School of Design in San Francisco, Dixon abandoned formal art training and traveled throughout the West, capturing the landscape and the people in his illustrations and poetry, which soon appeared in leading magazines and newspapers. Maynard Dixon, The Loner, c. 1930. Watercolor on paper. Gift of the estate of Dr. Irwin Schoen.

In response to the wide range of emotions many of us experience lately, artist Martin Kersels is developing a glossary of feelings expressed through sound. Created using the body, quotidian objects, and digital augmentation, this project builds on Kersels’ interest in the audio of the everyday. As social distancing and digital communication challenge our ability to read visual cues, Kersels clues us into the ways our ears enable comprehension and decode the feelings of others. Listen:

I wanted to find a way to make art that didn’t involve subjectivity. This work, from Charles Gaines’s Numbers and Trees series, uses hand-drawn grids overlaid onto photographs of trees to address the tension between artistic subject matter and the systems representing it. Charles Gaines, Numbers And Trees X #4, Red Violet January, 1991. Acrylic sheet, acrylic paint, watercolor, silkscreen, photograph. Collection Orange County Museum of Art, Museum purchase with funds provided through the prior gift of Lois Outerbridge.

Between a reopening, a virtual gala, a nationwide search for a director, and a new buildingwe've been a little busy. We're excited to welcome you back to the museum!

Enjoy some autumn vibes on this first day of Fall. Richard Anuszkiewicz, Moon Gold, 1968. Acrylic on panel. 36 x 36 inches. Gift of Avco Financial Services, Newport Beach, California.

Stream this documentary today through Thursday as part of our ongoing series with The Newport Beach Film Festival.