Current Exhibition

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”, Bob Dylan

 

Dramatic weather is everywhere, affecting our lives, more than ever before.  We just experienced the hottest average temperature ever recorded on Earth. Heavy, blinding fog, smoke from forest fires and incessant smog fill the air. We have had record sleet and snowfall this year, giving us dangerous swollen rivers late into summer. 

 

Topicality is OCCCA’s forte, and the extreme weather caused by climate change has become an existential threat to our planet now. From Rembrandt and Turner to Gerhart Richter’s Secrets of Clouds, for centuries, artists have been interpreting the weather in their art. Now is the time for artists to make a statement.

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Robin Repp 2024​​​​

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ABOUT THE JUROR: 

Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. Formerly the arts editor at the L.A. Weekly, she is the co-founder of 13ThingsLA, and a contributor to the Village Voice, Flaunt, Artillery, and other culture publications. She studied art history at Vassar College, curates and juries exhibitions, writes prolifically for exhibition catalogs and monographic publications, and speaks at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally. She is the recipient of the Rabkin Prize, the Mozaik Future Art Writers Prize (twice), and the LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Critic of the Year award (twice). Her oneiric novella Zen Psychosis (Griffith Moon) was published in 2020 and features a suite of pinhole photographs by Osceola Refetoff.

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EXHIBITING ARTISTS: 

Susan Amorde, Ivaylo Angelov, Brandin Baron, Jane Bauman, Hector Beven, Erika Bradberry, Scott Bruckner, Gerardo Canul, Harry Cassell, Sarah Cecil, Deborah Cornell, Deborah Davidson, Lee Anne Dollison, Molly Enholm Velazco, Mehrnoosh Eskandari, Kim Farbota, Farima Fooladi, Joe Forkan, Joseph Foster, Dellis Frank, Arie Galles, Marilyn Geary, Suvan Geer, Emily Goff, Michael Green, Henry Hate, Lynette K. Henderson, Hugo Heredia Barrera, Karen Hochman Brown, Steve Hopper, Jan Kessel, Alexis Krasilovsky, Faina Kumpan, Darlene Laguna, Tom Lamb, Dean and Laura Larson, John Leben, Marietta Patricia Leis, Yelena Lev, ROBERTA LEVITOW, Kenji Liu, Lucinda Luvaas, Gina M , Annie Marini- Genzon, Lori Markman, Karena Massengill, John Q McDonald, Maidy Morhous, Robert Nelson, Vanessa Niederstrasser, Joe Notaro, Patsee Ober, Mike "Ojos" Panasitti, Carol Paquet, Andrej Pisoncik, Jerry Podany, Dali Polivka, Donnal Poppe, Maruja Powys Heiser, Caron G Rand, Steve Reinhart, Robin Repp, Rotem Reshef, Ted Rigoni, Susan Rollins, Angela Sanders, Robin Sarner, Ellen Seefeldt, Cory Sewelson, Daveed Shwartz, Daveed Shwartz, Paul Silkowski, Linda Stelling, Jane Szabo, Marie Thibeault, Barbara Thompson, RITA TOIKKA, Lily Tsutsumida, Bart Vargas, Maureen Vastardis, Debra Vodhanel, Juliette Vos, Melissa Wang, Brenda Welsh, Charise Whitaker, Joy Wolf, Thom Wright, Robyn Wyman-Dill