Architecture in Contemporary Art:

AN OPEN CALL FOR ART

All media/mediums welcome

Deadline to enter:

December 30, 2022

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Jurors:  Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena

Escher GuneWardena Architecture, Los Angeles, California

Exhibition February 4 - March 18, 2023

at OCCCA, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

117 N Sycamore St., Santa Ana, CA 92701, USA

OPENING RECEPTION: February 4, 2023

Architecture in Contemporary Art

An Open Call for Art from OCCCA. All media welcomed

Architecture is a major theme of contemporary artistic practice both as a subject and as a method of investigation. The urban landscape is a seismograph of social change. Architecture is imbricated in a myriad of social issues, such as ecology, humanitarian crises, immigration, cultural heritage battles, gentrification, historic preservation, and city planning. Architecture also takes a starring role in our visions of the future and our glimpses of the past. The virtual environments of cyber space push architecture beyond physics, probing art’s outer limits.

From the functional to the fantastical, OCCCA seeks art in all media — drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video, renderings of real or imagined structures, maquettes (small, preliminary models) and computer generated projects. Architecture and Art is a testing ground for hypotheses with multiple possibilities of realization, oscillating between history and fiction. In the architectural imaginary, utopia and ruins are two sides of the same coin. OCCCA’s re-purposed industrial space is an “ideal palace” for the presentation of radical forms, offering a territory for experimentation where art and architecture intersect.

Robert Mintz

About the jurors

Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena

Escher GuneWardena Architecture, Los Angeles, California

Frank Escher trained at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zürich, Switzerland), is the editor of the monograph “John Lautner, Architect”, and serves on the boards of the John Lautner Foundation, the Julius Shulman Institute, and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Ravi GuneWardena studied architecture at California State

Polytechnic University, Pomona and art history in Florence, Italy. GuneWardena has served on the Hollywood Public Art Advisory Panel for the CRA/LA and is currently the director of the Los Angeles branch of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana.

T I M E L I N E

Deadline to enter: December 30, 2023

Exhibition runs from February 4 through March 18, 2023

Opening Reception: July 9, from 6 to 10 p.m.

Fees: Minimum: $45.00 for up to three JPGs. $90.00 for six JPGs. Maximum allowed: nine JPGs for $100.00. (A savings of $35.00)

All entry fees help support OCCCA, an artist-run, non-profit arts organization, serving the community since 1980.

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Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

Begun by artists in 1980 with exhibitions free to the public, OCCCA, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, is a 501(c) 3 non-profit, all-volunteer, artist-run gallery located in the heart of the Santa Ana Artists Village. OCCCA presents exhibitions of contemporary art, along with concerts, performances, art classes, symposiums, and publications.