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The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection II
Newport Beach
oct 3, 2009 - mar 21, 2010 This exhibition is the second part of a year-long exhibition featuring important video and new media works from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition traces experiments with electronic media art from the early 1970s to the present including major California artists who were at the forefront of exploring television as an art form in the early 1970s alongside younger generations of U.S. and international artists working with video and other media technologies that have emerged during the past 30 years. The checklist includes Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Jeremy Blake, Chris Burden, Kota Ezawa, Isaac Julien, Mary Kelly, Suzanne Lacy, Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, Robin Rhode, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, Shirley Shor, Tim Sullivan, William Wegman, and others.
The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection II continues the museum’s four-decade tradition of presenting media art. The Newport Harbor Art Museum (NHAM), the former name of the Orange County Museum of Art, was among the first museums to present video art. NHAM and F-Space, operated by U.C. Irvine graduate students, collaborated to produce New Art in Orange County (1972) with performance and video art by Barbara Smith and Chris Burden. Subsequently, the museum also organized Chris Burden: A Twenty-Year Survey in 1988 and Chris Burden: Tale of Two Cities in 2001 and 2007. Since the early 2000s, the Orange County Museum of Art has prominently featured recent video in exhibitions such as One Wall: A Video Series (2001), Girls Night Out (2003), Disorderly Conduct (2007) and the California Biennials (2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008).
Now available from home: Guide By Cell
Come to the galleries or enjoy a tour from home-Guide By Cell now allows visitors to hear from the artists of The Moving Image! Just call 949-203-3053, listen to the instructions, and choose one of the following prompt numbers to hear commentary recorded by artists themselves. Current available artists include: Exhibition overview (1), Chip Lord (2), Cory Arcangel (3), Jem Cohen (6), Mary Kelly (10), Martin Kersels (12), Julia Meltzer (15), Alan Rath (17), Shirley Shor (19), Mungo Thomson (22), Kerry Tribe (23), Bill Viola (24), Eleanor Antin (31), Martha Rosler (32) and Barbara Smith (33).
This exhibition is organized by Karen Moss, Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Programs and the curatorial staff at the Orange County Museum of Art. Interpretive materials for this exhibition were made possible through a grant from The Getty Foundation.
Images: Kerry Tribe, Here and Elsewhere, 2003; 2 channel DVD projection; collection of Orange County Museum of Art
Cory Arcangel and Frankie Martin, 414-3-Rave-95, 2005; single-channel video; 4 min, 54 sec.; collection of Orange County Museum of Art, museum purchase with funds provided through prior gift of Lois Outerbridge
Alan Rath, Watcher II, 1999; aluminum, custom electronics, acrylic, two cathode ray tubes; collection of Orange County Museum of Art, gift of the Curator’s Circle |
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Carlos Amorales: Discarded Spider
Newport Beach
oct 11, 2009 - apr 4, 2010 Discarded Spider is an exhibition featuring the drawings, sculpture and video work by one of Mexico’s leading contemporary artists, Carlos Amorales. For more than 10 years, Amorales has collected images from books, magazines, the Internet and, most importantly, his own photographs of the urban environment surrounding his Mexico City home and studio. He dissects the composition of each image, isolating a shape over which he creates a digital silhouette through the technique of rotoscoping, a process closely associated with animation.
The resulting imagery—what he calls his Liquid Archive—has grown to include more than 1,500 uncanny digital drawings that include birds, geometric patterns, spider webs, men, monkeys, skulls, wolves, and a woman undergoing the transformation of pregnancy. Amorales fluidly blends the disparate imagery in myriad, unforeseen combinations that evoke both beauty and horror, the familiar and the strange.
Exhibition-related event:
Carlos Amorales Artist Talk
Sunday, October 11
2pm, free with museum admission
Carlos Amorales: Discarded Spider is organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, and curated by Raphaela Platow. The exhibition is made possible by generous support from FRCH Design Worldwide.
The Orange County Museum of Art presentation is organized by curator Sarah Bancroft. A fully-illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with essays by Platow as well as Nestor Garcia Canclini, Jose Falconi, Jens Hoffmann, and a conversation with the artist by Joan Jonas.
Image: Carlos Amorales, Discarded Spider, 2008; painted aluminum and rubber; courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert Paris, New York, London
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