Stained Light

OCCCA, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the exhibition STAINED LIGHT, an Art Exhibition of Photography & Related Works by Richard Bohn

November 4 through November 25, 2023

Gallery hours: Fridays & Saturdays, noon to 8 p.m. - Thursdays and Sundays, noon to 5 p.m.

Opening Reception: Saturday November 4, 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

Artist Contact: rich@richardbohnart.com

About the Exhibition

• There is mystery in Art.
• How was it done? How long did it take?
• What was the artist thinking?
• Was a special technique or material used?
• Was the artist at the beach when it happened?
• Does the art take one away to a distant place?

Away to the depths of the ocean or the depths one's thoughts.

Away to the world of the miniature, where the viewer is omnipotent and all seeing.

Where ordinary objects in time and space are transformed and elevated in

esthetic statue, to an essential role in the collective whole.

The obiects only identifier being that it is a work of art.

What may be unknown is now know.

In it's treatment and juxtaposition the distance between

a scrape pile, a mountain trail and a pristine gallery is small.

My work is based on a process called "Intuitive Collecting'

The collected raw material, consisting of unidentified displaced elements,

is therefore transformed. I declare that I am an artist therefore I am