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The Anton and Jennifer Segerstrom Permanent Collection Pavilion , Avenue of the Arts Gallery , James B . and Rosalyn L . Pick Gallery , Visionaries Gallery
Daniel Arsham ’ s solo exhibition “ Wherever You Go , There You Are ”— his first major US museum show — explores the artist ’ s concept of fictional archaeology . Arsham ( b . 1980 , Cleveland , OH ) works across sculpture , architecture , drawing , and photography to investigate ideas of history , symbology , and the material nature of time . Traditionally , archaeology has been employed as a methodology to sort through and process the past , but Arsham ’ s multilayered practice asks the question : What if we could dig through the future ?
Interested in the notion of time travel , the artist creates works that operate as future relics of the present — eroded casts of everyday objects and human figures built from geological materials like sand , pyrite , and volcanic ash . A camera , telephone , and hourglass , all conductors of information , merge with a replica of the 1981 De- Lorean built by “ Doc ” Emmett Brown in the classic 1980s film “ Back to the Future ” to operate as remnants of the present seen through the eyes of future researchers .
OCMA ’ s exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue .
Organized by Heidi Zuckerman , CEO and Director , OCMA
“ 13 Women ” February 17 – August 20 , 2023 The Muzzy Family Special Exhibitions
Pavilion
“ 13 Women ” marks OCMA ’ s 60th anniversary , paying homage to the thirteen women who founded the Balboa Pavilion Gallery , the earliest iteration of OCMA , which opened in 1962 . On view in The Muzzy Family Special Exhibitions Pavilion , “ 13 Women ” exhibition presents work from the 1960s to the present by artists in the museum ’ s collection . Centered on the work of thirteen pioneering female artists , each of whom share the visionary qualities of the museum ’ s founders , the exhibition features the work of Chantal Joffe , Sharon Lockhart , Zanele Muholi , Rosa Navarro , Lorna Simpson , Mary Weatherford , and Carrie Mae Weems , among others .
“ 13 Women ,” Part II is curated by Heidi Zuckerman , CEO and Director , OCMA
“ Alice Neel : Feels Like Home ” June 23 – October 22 , 2023 The Anton and Jennifer Segerstrom
Permanent Collection Pavilion
“ Feels Like Home ” examines the role of kinship , chosen family , and the importance of community within the work of Alice Neel ( 1900-1984 ), one of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century . A curated selection of 40 paintings , many pulled from the estate ’ s collection , focuses on Neel ’ s honest , intimate portraits of her home , children , animals , and expanded family .
Everyday occurrences — from two nuns walking arm in arm in the park to folks gathered in a movie theater lobby — also demonstrate a close bond with New
York , which provided Neel with a sense of belonging , enabling the artist to create her own definition of family . Images of the city are combined with portraits of parents and siblings , embraces between children and their beloved pets , and detailed insights into the artists and poets in Neel ’ s circle — revealing the extraordinary breadth of an artist for whom there was no separation between art and life .
“ Alice Neel : Feels Like Home ” is organized by Courtenay Finn , Chief Curator
“ YU JI : A GUEST , A HOST , A GHOST ” JUNE 23 – OCTOBER 22 , 2023
James B . and Rosalyn L . Pick Gallery , Visionaries Gallery
How are our bodies impacted by changes in the environment around us ? This question is at the core of Chinese artist Yu Ji ’ s sculptural and installation-based practice . Rrather than focusing explicitly on the tensions that often underlie this relationship , Yu Ji ( b . 1985 , Shanghai , China ) asks us to re-examine the ties between our bodies and the built environment , offering the possibility that these connections are transformative .
In her first US museum solo exhibition , “ Yu Ji : A Guest , A Host , A Ghost ,” OCMA presents the first ten works in her ongoing series “ Flesh in Stone ” ( 2012 – ongoing ), where different-sized cement casts of the human body are presented in fragments , as parts of a larger whole .
Alongside these intimate cement works , the exhibition includes three of her Refined Still Life lithographs ( all 2020 )— ghostly , fugitive images of landscapes printed onto curved plates of stainless steel . Fragmented and abstracted , Yu Ji ’ s works seem to have come from the past while being reminiscent of a world still coming into being .
Combined with a new work created in response to the curved architecture of OCMA ’ s Mezzanine and Landing Galleries , “ Yu Ji : A Guest , A Host , A Ghost ” explores the interwoven relationship between the body , nature , and the built environment , asking us to think deeply about what it takes to occupy a physical form today .
“ Yu Ji : A Guest , A Host , A Ghost ” is organized by Courtenay Finn , Chief Curator , with
ZIYING DUAN , ASSISTANT CURATOR . “ Jennifer Guidi : And so it is .” SEPTEMBER 15 , 2023 – JANUARY 6 , 2024
The Muzzy Family Special Exhibitions Pavilion
Jennifer Guidi ’ s layered painting practice investigates and generates meditative states of being — spaces in which spiritual , natural , and ethereal boundaries cease to exist . Guidi ( b . 1972 , Redondo Beach ) produces abstract , colorful compositions that build on ancient theories of energy and perception to transport us into heightened states of being . Using a me-
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