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Deep
International Call for Art
Juried show by Grace Kook-Anderson,
Curator, Laguna Art Museum
May 5 - June 25 2011
Opening Reception: May 7, 2011. 6 PM to 10 PM
Collectors Day Reception May 21st, 4-8pm
Deep is an exhibition by artists who persist in trying to express the intangible, creating work for which no simple explanation suffices. With existential landscapes, angst-filled portraits, feverish abstractions, arcane conceptual constructions, philosophical photographs, seductive ceramics and sculptures, self-reflexive videos, heady performances, esoteric installations, and internet-based New Media explorations, the artists in Deep are fearless in the face of the infinite, unafraid of introspection. And sometimes Deep is funny! Deep is a riddle, an enigma, a plunge into the unknown.
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Grace Kook-Anderson received her B.A. in Art History (2000) and Art Practice (2001) from the University of California, Berkeley, and received her M.A. in Curatorial Practice (2007) from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She is a co-founder of InSitu, a curatorial collaborative (2007-present). Her curatorial projects focus on contemporary art with an emphasis on the investigation of place and social change. At Laguna Art Museum, Kook-Anderson has curated WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon; OsCene 2010; Jeremy Fish: Weathering the Storm; Sean Duffy: Searcher; and is the coordinating curator for Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971 in conjunction with the Pacific Standard Time initiative.
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Juror’s Statement
It was a great pleasure to serve as this year’s juror for OCCCA’s DEEP exhibition. With over 800 submissions, I had the opportunity and challenge to review a diverse amount of works. Because of the wealth of submissions, I enjoyed seeing a variety of artistic practices which led me to focus my selections toward a more contemporary viewpoint.
Organizations like OCCCA are deeply important to the local community as well as to the community of artists it acknowledges. I would like to congratulate the artists recognized in this exhibition as well as to thank all the artists that have taken the time to submit their works this year. The occasion to be a juror for OCCCA has been a wonderful opportunity and I am grateful to have been selected.
Grace Kook-Anderson
Curator of Exhibitions, Laguna Art Museum
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Film Screening:
Documentary: Vanishing of the Bees
Saturday May 21st, 8pm FREE
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July 1-30, 2011
You First: UFORA
Call for Art
July 1st, Deadline for Entries
October 1-29, 2011
An Open Call For Art! "You First" seeks art reflecting a paradigm shift in the way we think about art. The art of our time is a multilayered, international, interdisciplinary conversation.
"You First" invites works with a compelling physical presence and a strong conceptual component to make this utopia tangible. "You First" requests thought-provoking videos, photographs, paintings, sculptures, fashion, installations, and art utilizing computers and the internet. In addition to public practice, social sculpture, and relational aesthetics, You First is interested in projects created by artist-duos and collectives working collaboratively in all mediums.
"You First" encourages offbeat, experimental endeavors, documented or re-constructed events, art based on personal archives or disciplines such as biology, anthropology, sociology, architecture and urban planning. "You First" explores the psycho-geography of cities and demystifies the corporate mentality. "You First" values journeys to exotic locales and critiques of commercialism. "You First" welcomes art that deconstructs the mass media's distortions of reality.
"You First" dares progressive artists to submit works that intensify the feeling of being alive while promoting thinking and conversing in the here and now.
presented by UFORA curators Dalibor Polivka and Rob Mintz.
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Deadline for entries is July 1st, 2011
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