Some of the Orange Coast College – Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion exhibitions curated and presented during my time directing the gallery.
I’m A Frayed Knot – February 11 – March 17, 2012
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee and Amy Caterina
The exhibition was born out of an appreciation for artists who work with fiber materials and deal with mixed media in new and innovative ways, according to Harris. The title, “I’m a Frayed Knot,” is derived from the punch line of a joke. The joke is about a string that reinvents itself by tying himself into a knot and unraveling one end of himself in an attempt to look like a human being—when asked if he is a string, he replies, “I’m a Frayed Knot ” The exhibition is about reinvention and pushing the limits of what is possible with media. Using knitting, beading, embroidering, quilting, sculpting and painting, the artists blend traditional and otherwise common materials into distinctly unique objects.
Featured: Alice Beasley, Arias Collins, Dennis Cubbage, Gabriel Dawe. Norman Deesing,
Carol Es, Lynn Kubasek, Dameon Lester, Mark Mothersbaugh, Susie Rubenstein, Alison Bly Stein, Corey Stein and Stitchocracy
Mass Appeal – OCC Student Annual Exhibits – 2009, 2010, 2011
Coordinated by Andrea Harris McGee with the help of OCC students and faculty.
Phillipp Sholz Rittermann Emperors River
Exhibition
Month of Photography LA collaboration
April 7 – April 28, 2012
Co-organized by OCC School of Photography/ Damian Tsutsumida and Blade Gillissen
Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, April 7th 2-4pm (talk) and 4-6pm.(exhibition reception) In the Project Room Gallery we will be featuring the art of Rick Steadry “Billets Doux de Paris” April 7th-27th, 2012
Closing Reception, Rick Steadry Retirement Farewell Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavillion
Things That Keep Me Up At Night – November 12 – December 16, 2011
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee and Tom Dowling.
Featured: Eugène Atget, Don Bachardy , Eileen Cowin , Johan Grimonprez, David Jones, G. Ray Kerciu, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Naida Osline, Adam Ralston , Richard Ross, Yvonne Lee Shultz, Arvie Smith, Pat Sparkuhl , Jennifer Towner, Marnie Weber, Weegee , Joel-Peter Witkin and Garry Winogrand
Joe Forkan – Lebowski Cycle - September 10 – October 28, 2011
The exhibition will be the first show on the fall calendar for the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion and will include fourteen large scale paintings from The Lebowski Cycle, as well as many smaller works and sketches, painted over the last four and a half years. The timing couldn’t be better, as the series is currently close to completion.
Speak for the Trees –August – July 8 – August 12, 2011
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee Featured: Mark Ryden,Yoko Ono, Robert Norton, George Katzenberger, Katherine Gray, Axel Erlandson (Tree Circus), Sam Maloof, Ed Ruscha, Jim Cokas, Dirk Hagner, Kim Abeles, Ellen Jantzen, Mark Dion (Documentation of Neukom Vivarium), Laurie Hassold, Mark Chamberlain, Jerry Burchfield, Deborah Davidson, Ning Yeh, Lynn King, Winifred Wood, James Lorigan, Corey Stein, Eugenie Goldschmeding, Eric Stoner, Tom Dowling, Cara Barer, Jean Miele, Christopher Burkett, James Surls, Jean Francois Podevin, Larry Scher, Jean Towgood, Aaron Norton and Pat Warner
The Art of Melvin Sokolsky – April 1 – April 29, 2011
Curatorial collaboration with Month of Photography L.A.
Main Gallery
Sokolsky joined the staff of Harper’s Bazaar when he was 21 and has been a major contributor to Esquire, McCall’s, Vogue, Newsweek and Show. His photographs of internationally famous personalities have appeared in many of the major museums and magazines worldwide.
Special Thanks to our lecture and exhibition sponsors:
Bowhaus, Fahey Klein Gallery, Canon, Fujifilm, Pro Photo Connection and Wyndham Hotels
Jennifer Rocholl and Janice Lowry -
April 1 – April 29, 2011
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee
Jennifer Rocholl is an LA based advertising & editorial photographer. Born and raised in Southern California, she attended photo classes at Orange Coast College then went on to graduate from Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design in 2002. She travels globally shooting for clients such as: American Eagle Outfitters, Nike, PacSun, Oakley; and Nylon, Rolling Stone, Spur and Flaunt magazines. Jennifer was one of PDN’s 30 in 2008.
Janice Lowry was born in Phoenix, Arizona, under the desert sun. She relocated to Southern California and pursued her career as an artist. She graduated with an MFA from Art Center College of Design and began creating assemblages as a solution for expensive framing, using materials from everyday life. Janice was an amazing mixed media artist who also worked as an illustrator, designer and professor. Janice was also known for her journals which now reside with the Smithonian Archive of American Art, Washington, DC.
Ning Yeh –Master Chinese Brush Painting – February through March 2011.
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee
The artist is known for his Chinese brush paintings of horses, flowers and landscapes, and he has written best-selling books and produced award-winning instructional videos on Chinese brush painting.
Land – Era – People: China’s Lishui Photographers –February through March 2011. Includes 110 photographs by six prominent Chinese photographers. The exhibit includes portraits, villages, occupations and tools from the mountain region of southwestern Zhejiang Province.
Ron English – Status Factory – November 10 – December 17, 2010
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee with Ron English
Check out article by Dave Barton: “Status Factory: The Art of Ron English” at Orange Coast College showcases the work of the culture-jammer extraordinairehttp://www.ocweekly.com/2010-11-25/culture/ron-english-orange-coast-college/
Photo Environment September – October 2010
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee – “We are bringing together artists who push the photographic media to new levels and draw out the physical and psychological in their work,” said Arts Pavilion director Andrea Harris. “With an eye for the unusual, subtle and unique, many of the artworks twist up the idea of photo, environment and image presentation.” Special thanks to Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec and Catharine Clark Gallery.
Featured: Participating faculty members included Blade Gillissen, Damian Tsutsumida, Rick Steadry, Laurie Hassold and Lisa Bloomfield. The artists featured are from Quebec and Toronto Canada, Florida, China, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Folsom and Orange County. Artwork has been brought to OCC from all these locations around the globe. In addition to OCC faculty, participating artists include Zhou Ning, Barbara Higgins, Eric Stoner, George Blakley, James Hill, Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Amy Caterina, Richard Gilles, Diane Landry, Elizabeth Bryant Suzy Lake and George Katzenberger.
Harbour Chronicles – A Life in Surfboard Culture
- February 13– April 9, 2010
Curated by Mitchell De Jarnett, Greg Escalante and Andrea Harris McGee, installation collaboration with Matthew Miller. Book design by Wendy Peng. Inspired by the life and work of master surfboard shaper, Rich Harbour, this 144 page, full color hard cover book includes essays by Mike Marshall, C.R. Stecyk III, Steve Pezman and Mitchell De Jarnett. “I consider Rich Harbour a master sculptor and engineer,” says Andrea Harris–McGee, Director of the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion.
The Art of Alex Grey – November 14 – December 18, 2009
Curated by Andrea Harris-McGee with exhibit design and installation contribution by Matthew Miller.
The Sacred Mirrors present the physical and subtle anatomy of an individual in the context of cosmic, biological and technological evolution. The Self-Portraits span 40 years of the artist’s life.
Impact – The Big Print – September 9 – October 23, 2009
Collaboration with Los Angles Printmaking Society – co-curated with Donna Westerman
Featured: Sarah Brayer, Michele Burgess, Richard Estes, Helen Frankenthaler, Joe Goode, Pascal Giraudon, Dirk Hagner, Roger Herman, Roy Lichtenstein, Patrick Merrill, Mimmo Paladino, Endi Poskovic, Robert Rauschenberg, Allen Ruppersberg, Sheryl Seltzer, Rufino Tamayo, June Wayne and Safet Zec
John Paul Jones – The Pursuit of Beauty’s Perfect Proof
– April 4-May 8, 2009
Cal State Fullerton Main Art Gallery Director Mike McGee has organized the most ambitious and inclusive retrospective to date of a lifetime of artwork by this nationally recognized artist. The exhibition John Paul Jones: A Retrospective includes more than 100 prints, paintings and sculptures, requiring two separate venues in order to exhibit such a large body of artwork concurrently: the Main Art Gallery at Cal State Fullerton and the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College. Special thanks to Dennis Hudson and Nancy Noble.
Seeing the Figure Anew – Selections from the Darrel and Marsha Anderson Collection February 5 – March 13, 2009
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee – Featured: Stephan Balkenhol, Manifredi Beninati, Sandow Birk, Andrew Boyer, Richard Bunkall, Timothy Cummings, Anh Duong, Jeanne Duval, Martha Erelebacher, Cynthia Evans, Judy Fox, John Frame, Till Freiwald, Julie Hefferman, F. Scott Hess, Chantal Joffe, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Ira Korman, Oldrich Kulhanek, Laura Lasworth, Peter Liashof, Malcolm Liepke, Carlo Maria Mariani, Cecelia Miguez, Enjeong Noh, Chikako Okada, Raymond Pettibone, Jim Phalen, Christopher Pugliese, Robert Schwartz, Robert Shultz, Barbara Spring, Sally Storch, Francesca Sundsten, John Swihart, Marc Trujillo, Ray Turner, Christopher Terry, Olav Westphalen and Peter Zokosky
Natural Connection – November 5 – Dec 12, 2008
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee
Featured: Elizabeth Turk, James Lorigan, Amy Caterina, Karen Brown and Kiara Kawachi
