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8/10/2010

Two exhibitions

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970

State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 is the first in-depth investigation of the development of conceptual art in California. Although these new forms emerged concurrently in other parts of the world, California’s seminal contributions remain lesser known than their East Coast and European counterparts. The exhibition charts the immense changes in artistic practices that coincided with the burgeoning number of art schools and university art departments, nonprofit art spaces, alternative galleries, and artist-run spaces and publications that provided exhibition opportunities in the relative absence of commercial support, and created a community that fostered an exchange of radical forms and ideas.

State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 is co-organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

The exhibition is co-curated by Karen Moss, adjunct curator at OCMA and Constance Lewallen, BAM/PFA curator

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Two Schools of Cool

OCMA’s origins are rooted in Los Angeles art and artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Two Schools of Cool reexamines a selection of these artists together with a new generation of artists that emerged in Los Angeles beginning in 2000.
The project pairs the two generations; providing them space in which to explore, experiment, and provoke through collaborative projects. Established artists of interest are John Baldessari, George Herms, Ed Moses, and Robert Williams. They will work with Jennifer West, Amanda Ross Ho, Sarah Cain, Shana Lutker, and Stanya Kahn. The exhibition examines similarities between the two generations as well as changes and shifts in the art world over the last four decades, including the increasing prominence of female artists and the use of new technologies.

Two Schools of Cool is organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and curated by Curator Sarah Bancroft.

Image: Martha Rosler, First Lady (Pat Nixon), 1972, photomontage from Bringing the War Home Series, 1967-72, 20 x 24 in.; courtesy of the artist, Brooklyn, New York and Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York

Media contacts:
Kirsten Schmidt - (949) 759-1122 ext 207 kschmidt@ocma.net
Chivan Wang - (949) 759-1122 ext. 205 cwang@ocma.net

Orange County Museum of Art is located at 850 San Clemente Drive in Newport Beach, California.
Hours are 11 am to 5 pm, Wednesday through Sunday, with extended hours Thursdays from 11 am to 8 pm.
Admission is $12 adults; $10 seniors and students; children twelve and under and OCMA members are free.

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