February 2 - March 24th, 2012
Opening Reception: February 4th, 2012. 6pm to 10pm
Soho Taco Food Truck will be serving on the opening
Second Reception: March 3rd, 2012. 6pm to 10pm
Taco Maria Food Truck will be serving on the opening
Special Performance Event: 8:30pm
THE SEWING SISTERS Live Show:
"See You at The Dissecting Table"
with a guest performance > by Artist Toni Ivashkov
9:30 Hiro Makino's new music project
"THERE IS A FOX"
FEB 18th: Free, doors 6pm show 7pm
7pm - Buko Pan Guerra; of The Swords of Fatima > solo banjo +
8pm Christie Scott of Pretty Agony +
9pm - Cold Grey Eye > ethnic industrial +
Screening of classic 1981 concert:
Siouxsie and the Banshees -
A blistering live performance filmed in Germany, featuring Spellbound, - Hong Kong Garden, Arabian Knights, Halloween, Happy House, Head Cut, - Regal Zone, Voodoo Dolly, Israel and more.
March 3rd: Free, 8:30pm
8:30pm Special Performance Event:
THE SEWING SISTERS Live Show:
"See You at The Dissecting Table"
with a guest performance > by Artist Toni Ivashkov
9:30 Hiro Makino's new music project
"THERE IS A FOX"
March 24th: Free, doors 6pm show 7pm
Toaster Music, featuring Sumako and Sander Roscoe Wolff > beats, electronics, guitars, etc. +
Trestles, > Electronics +
The League of Vampiric Bards > Gothic Poetry and Song
70 page color catalog available for purchase:
Selected Artists:
Janice Arnold, Adrian Avila, Carrie Ann Baade, Aaron Bass,
Lon Casler Bixby, Derek Blackman, Michael Blake,
Sayuka Bloodstone, Clare Bond, Robert Brown, Leslie Brown, Claudia Carballada, Nancy Caster, Joseph Cavalieri,
Nora Chapkovich, Nicholas Coroneos, Thea Costantino,
Judy Csotsits, Eddee Daniel, Adam Deal,
Tradd Featherstone, Amy Fitzsimons, Lisa Folino,
Risa Gettle, Dave Gordon, Tammy Greenwood, Kelley Hensing, Elyse Hochstadt, Jonathan Howard, Cara Jaye, Jeanne Kelly, Elizabeth Kenneday, M. Annie Kilborn, Kent Krugh, Valerie Labelle-Desmarais, Lance Larson, Christopher Leonhardt, Patrick Loehr, William Martinez, Colm McCarthy, LT Mustardseed, Nicholas Nawroth, Maxwell Nelson, Dennis Olsen, Christopher Puzio, Josh Reed, Mauro Rosa, Meagan Segal, Craig Sibley, Shereen Soliman, Patrick StPaul, Jessica Teckemeyer, Philip Vargas, Stefanie Vega, Michele Winkler, Jessica Wohl
Sayuka Bloodstone: Bookplate series: Reverie.
5 x 4 inches, Copper plate print
Juror: Amy V. Grimm
Independent Curator and Assistant Professor of Art History & Museum Studies: Irvine Valley College
Gothic invites submission from artists evincing a peculiar, perverse, idiosyncratic sensitivity, influenced by literature, movies, television and the tabloids, in painting, drawing, sculpture, illustration, fashion, graphic design, animation, photography, video, digital media, computer-based works, installation and performance. OCCCA's museum of the macabre will display supernatural mutations, bizarre curiosities permeated by fantastic and pathological themes.
Gothic is a mix of Medievalism, Romanticism, science fiction, Victoriana, punk, the uncanny, the grotesque, and the erotic, inseparable from despair, fear and rapture. Gothic reveals the shadow within, the skull beneath the skin.
Text by Rob Mintz
Bibliography
Gilda Williams, ed., Documents of Contemporary Art, The Gothic, MIT/Whitechapel, 2007.
Christoph Grunenberg, ed., Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late-Twentieth Century Art, Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art/Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1997.
The Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal. Baltimore: Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, 2006.
Adrian Avila: Hello. 28 x 43 inches, Watercolor on matboard
Juror: Amy V Grimm:
Amy V. Grimm is an Independent Curator and Assistant Professor of Art History & Museum Studies at Irvine Valley College. Grimm received her B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York in New Paltz, New York. She received a Graduate Certificate in Museum Management and a M.A. in Art History from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Grimm’s M.A. Thesis, is titled, Andy Warhol: An Inquiry into Self Identity and Portraiture. Ms. Grimm’s area of specialization includes Modern and Contemporary European and American Art. Grimm’s museum and academic career spans over fifteen years including work for the Albany Institute of History & Art, the South Carolina State Museum, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Long Beach Museum of Art.As a museum curator, Grimm has developed and supervised over 40 exhibitions including independent projects and museum collaborations. Notable exhibitions include, Out of Eden: The Sculptural Work of Harry Geffert for the El Paso Museum of Art, and Sweet Subversives: Contemporary California Drawings for the Long Beach Museum of Art. Grimm’s scholarship related to exhibition programming and independent critical reviews have been published as museum catalogs and articles in national publications such as Sculpture and Artlies magazines.
Grimm is past president of the Border Museum Association in El Paso, Texas; an organization that sponsors events to promote international arts partnerships. Working for the College Art Association, Grimm has developed annual conference programming in cities such as Seattle, Atlanta, Boston and New York. For the College Art Association’s Annual Conference in 2007, in New York City, Grimm chaired the panel Out of the Frame: Creativity and Change. This panel addressed curatorial risk taking in light of controversial topics and technological challenges. Also during the 2007 conference, Grimm curated The Media Lounge, a unique space dedicated to showing contemporary new media, such as the MIT Media Lab, Potter-Belmar Labs and several independent filmmakers and videographers.
Grimm continues to lecture extensively on topics such as Andy Warhol, Contemporary Art and Museum Studies. As an Assistant Professor of Art History & Museum Studies, Grimm is developing a new undergraduate program in Applied Museum Studies for Irvine Valley College. Students participating in the program will gain the knowledge and skills necessary for a variety of employment opportunities, in museums and other arts organizations.
Carrie Ann Baade: Explaining Death to a Rabbit.
20 x 30 inches, Oil on panel
Juror's Statement:
The Gothic genre is heavily influenced by late 18th century literature. During this time writers looked back to medievalism (such as Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy) and included fantastic tales that included atmospheric worlds, secret passageways, and screams in the dark. This type of literature was extremely popular at the time and writers within this genre included Anne Radcliffe, Bram Stroker, Mary Shelley and later Edgar Allen Poe. The visual art world was closely aligned to these writers with their shared interest in the supernatural and the horrifying. Visionary and idiosyncratic artists such as Gustave Doré, William Blake, Francisco de Goya, and Henry Fuseli come to mind with their psychologically expressive and erotic works of art.
Today the term Goth is also linked to a much larger sub-culture, of black clothed Goth enthusiasts (Gothicists) who enjoy the cross-pollination in the arts and who are major consumers of Goth culture. Musical groups such as The Cure, Crüxshadows, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many others fall into this dark and moody genre. Gothic visual expression is heavily influenced by comic books and graphic novels. In the comic book, The Crow, by James O'Barr we see O'Barr unleash his psychological pain with epic violence on each page that inspired a film adaptation of the same name. The film version of the Crow comic was a precursor to the successful film adaptation of Frank Miller's comic Sin City.
The merging of literature, film, music and the visual arts is the core strength of the Gothic subject. Each artist included in this exhibition approached the subject utilizing a wide range of materials often in very unique ways to address the exhibition's concept. Despite the eclectic nature of the exhibition, many consistent themes are addressed such as death, transformation, outsider status and physical and psychological trauma. The works reflect each artist's particular relationship to Goth. These visual expressions are the critical links to the past, present and future of this complex interdisciplinary genre. And, society's insatiable appetite for all things Gothic is testament to the need to understand and express the darkness that makes us human.
Amy V. Grimm, Art Historian & Independent Curator
Kelley Hensing: Rumination. 33 x 27 inches,
Oil over drawing on paper mounted on board
Press Mentions:
Evil Lurks in Santa Ana, OC Art Blog
by Suzanne Walsh, February 12, 2012
OCCCA Presents 'Gothic': Bleak Days, Black Nights, OC Weekly
By Stacy Davies Friday, Feb 10 2012
Grimm Outlook, Riviera Magazine
by Rose Flores Medlock, January 27, 2012
'Gothic' Opening Reception, OC Weekly
Gothic, Culture Magazine By Stacy Davies
*Note show has been extended,
prospectus updated
April 7th - 28th, 2012
Opening Reception: April 7th, 2012. 6pm to 10pm
Soho Taco Food Truck will be serving on the opening
Open Call for Art:
Deadline March 31st, 2012 midnight
Curator and Juror
William Moreno
Online Entry Only:
You can enter up to three images
for your $38.00 entry fee*
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Dates: May 5 through June 23, 2012
Opening Reception: May 5th, 2012. 6pm to 10pm
Taco Maria Food Truck will be serving on the opening
Second Reception: June 2nd, 2012. 6pm to 10pm
Juror Statement
This exhibition investigates our relationship to the concept of time, the choices we make and the random, uncontrollable events that shape our lives. From the moment we begin our journey into the cacophony of the world – a series of decisions, choices and twists of fate guide us - often lurching or blissful and occasionally tragic. What have we chosen for ourselves? When has our hand been forced? Where have random or serendipitous events changed our course? When have we triumphed? What have we lost? What have we remembered and forgotten? Time is a recurring thematic in artists' works – witness the public response and fascination with Christian Marclay's 24-hour montage The Clock. Exploring that inexorable passage via divergent points-of-view, media and imagery demands introspection and perspective. This exhibition will investigate what binds or propels us, notions of conscious or unconscious experiences and the narratives we collect as we negotiate our lives.
-William Moreno
About the Curator and Juror
William Moreno is a curator, writer and director of William Moreno Contemporary which mounts periodic exhibitions. He was most recently the Associate Director of ArtPadSF, a hotel-based art fair. William was the founding Executive Director of the Claremont Museum of Art and the director of The Mexican Museum, San Francisco.
He has been a featured panelist addressing topics ranging from the contemporary role of museums and the international art landscape at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, the American Institute of Architecture, Latino Art Now Conference, William Turner Gallery, ArtPadSF, Flagstop and others. He has appeared on KCET's series California's Gold as well as other media. William serves as board President of LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and on the Advisory Board for the California Association of Museums.
May 12th: Concert, Free doors 6pm
On tour from France, Deleyaman
March 31, 2012-Last day for online submissions
April 2, 2012-Begin jurying process
April 6, 2012-Final selections due
April 29 - May4, 2012-Installation
May 5th, 2012-Exhibition Opening
June 23, 2012-Exhibition Closing
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