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It’s been a while back the Orange County Building of Art has apparent a new exhibition. Seven months, to be exact, back “Carlos Amorales: Discarded Spider” opened aftermost October. The reviews for that appearance were alloyed to absolutely negative.
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Now, the Newport Beach building has aloof opened two new exhibits: “New Art for a New Century: Abreast Acquisitions, 2000-2010” and “15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol.” Each runs through Sept. 19.
Both shows draw abundantly from the museum’s abiding accumulating – which seems to be a trend these canicule amid California museums, from the Building of Abreast Art, Los Angeles to the Laguna Art Building to the Building of Abreast Art San Diego.
For abounding institutions, it’s a cost-cutting measure, as showcasing works already in the accumulating is a abundant beneath big-ticket action than acclimation a new appearance from scratch. It makes faculty in this era of recession, crumbling contributions and decreased budgets.
“New Art for a New Century” offers a attending at some of the museum’s important acquisitions during the accomplished decade. Artists actuality accommodate Mary Heilmann, Lee Bul, Rodney McMillian, Amanda Ross-Ho, Kori Newkirk, Kota Ezawa and IƱigo Manglano-Ovalle.
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT
If you’ve been advantageous absorption to the building for the accomplished few years, you’ll apprehension that a acceptable bulk of the assignment in “New Art” has been exhumed from antecedent exhibits and California Biennials.
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To be absolutely honest, abundant of the assignment in “New Art” is not that impressive. It’s the aforementioned affectionate of anniversary and biennial-inspired assignment that may be somewhat trendy, but lacks soul. I abhorrence to be heartless, but the belletrist “D.O.A.” assume an apt description, decidedly for Sterling Ruby’s puke orange “Monument Stalagmite/Fait Accompli” (2006) and the final arcade of works by Nayland Blake. OK, chains and cages in a atramentous room. We get it. What else?
On the brighter side, Mindy Shapero’s 2008-09 carve “All the edges at the aforementioned time all the time” is multi-dimensional, with profiles of faces fabricated from powder–coated animate rebar. The centermost is intricately textured and about floral, allegedly fabricated from copper-leaf-coated hand-cut paper.
Heilmann, who had her own amazing abandoned appearance at the building in 2007, proves that she’s the penultimate painter’s painter with the 2005 oil on canvas “Surfing on Acid.” Pastel and atramentous never went so able-bodied with hot pink.
In “Hutch” (2004), Newkirk, a 2006 Whitney Biennial artist, has complete a generic, burghal mural from chaplet and bogus hair.
Lee Bul’s white “Supernova” (2000), crafted from hand-cut polyurethane panels and aluminum armature, appears to aggrandize and abound in altered directions, like an conflicting organism.
The appearance appearance two able pieces by Ross-Ho, an advancing L.A. artisan who was featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. “Peacock” (2007), an archival ablaze jet print, changes its attending depending on the angle of the viewer. “New Seizure 2” (2008) involves random, begin images on hand-drilled area rock, which gives the allotment a sturdy, yet punctuated, background.
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POWERFUL PICTURES
On the added ancillary of the museum, “15 Minutes of Fame” is acutely a stronger exhibition. This appearance comprises account photography from aboriginal addition to abreast shots.
Some acclaimed photographers are aggregate here, including Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Dorothea Lange, William Claxton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, Edward Weston and Warhol.
Weston’s 1935 “Nude (Charis Wilson, Santa Monica)” is artlessly beauteous in its anatomy and beauty. John Coplans’ alternation of macho nudes and torsos is odd and fascinating.
“15 Minutes” includes the applesauce photography of Claxton, who apparently accomplished added in that average than anyone else. His images of Ornette Coleman, Max Roach, Jack Sheldon, Chet Baker, Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins are air-conditioned and classy, aloof like their subjects. Abounding of these pictures were additionally apparent in OCMA’s “Birth of the Cool” in backward 2007-early 2008.
An original, active book of one of the best iconic images ever, Alberto Korda’s 1959 account of Che Guevara (“Guerrillo Heroico”), is additionally on view. That awful affecting angel sits abreast pictures taken by Lawrence Schiller of Richard Nixon, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Marilyn Monroe.
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Schiller attempt the acclaimed albino extra on the set of her final movie, “Something’s Got to Give.” In his 1962 alternation “Marilyn Monroe 12,” he captures her in a pond pool, in assorted states of dress and undress. She looks afloat and happy, a far cry from her affection during her final days.
Other Schiller portraits accommodate Walt Disney, Muhammad Ali, Bette Davis, Clint Eastwood and James Earl Jones.
“15 Minutes” does an accomplished job of accouterment key, criterion images from the 20th century, including Lange’s archetypal “Migrant Mother, Nipomo, Calif.” (1936) and “Pledge of Allegiance at Raphael Weil Elementary School a Few Weeks Prior to Evacuation, San Francisco” (1942). Both abduction analytical moments in American history like few photographs have.
At the aforementioned time, the appearance offers some bottom accepted efforts by Garry Winogrand, Binh Danh and Danielle Rossell that are about as able and allegorical of a accurate time and place.
Again, some of these pictures accept been apparent at OCMA before, such as Rineke Dijkstra’s “Stephany, Saint Joseph Ballet School, Orange County, CA” (2003) and Tim Sullivan’s “At the Ocean Floor (Levitation)” (2005). Several celebrity Polaroids by Warhol were absolutely apparent at addition Orange County venue, Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center, in 2008.
But overall, acquaintance does not brand antipathy in “15 Minutes.” It’s a smartly organized and presented show, and stands arch and amateur aloft “New Art for a New Century.” While the contempo acquisitions appearance may leave some visitors abrading their active or activity numb, the photography display should amuse and annotate in means that alone abundant art can.
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Contact the writer: 714-796-6026 or rchang@ocregister.com
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