You see lots of Art for free.
In recession-era America, free food is important.
Can't think of one.
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I'm seated next to
Sarah Bancroft, the talented young curator of this year's Biennial, and
five of the artists involved: former Santa Ana resident Carlee Fernandez, Brian Dick, UCI graduate Juan Capistran, Sherin Guirguis and Futurama animator Jason
Plapp of Finishing School. Everyone is
personable and friendly, the caffeine in the ice tea getting everyone
chatty, the conversation drifting from mundane topics like marriage
(with most everyone at the table hitched or headed towards the altar
over the next months) to the dearth of OC artists involved in the show
(more about that in next week's blog when Art Whore hosts an e-mail
conversation with Ms. Bancroft).
We talk about the rarity of women
curators, especially ones with families: “It's not a 9 to 5 job. It
really isn't,” says the single Bancroft.
over-rated,” adds Fernandez.
Bancroft tells us she won't follow in
the footsteps of predecessors and do any repeats of previous Biennial
invitees. “It seems counter-intuitive to invite people who've already
been in the exhibition,” says Dick.
so,” Bancroft says, wrily.
Preferring to focus on emerging talent is a
welcome trait from any passionate curator hoping to shake things up a
bit and I'm excited and impressed that she's traveled to almost 150
studios to gather the 45 artists involved: “There is nothing more
exciting for me than to do studio visits.”
begin to keep that many individual artists straight? “Everyone has a
file,” she tells me, and explains that there's always an epiphanic
moment when she's looking at the artist's work or talking with them that
sets those she invited to participate apart from the other 100-plus.
I
ask if it's all new work, and she tells me that the artist's roster will
involve both already existing and site-specific work from my
table-mates, as well as as the artists below. (Click on the links
provided to get an idea of the diversity of Bancroft's eclectic taste):
Zoe Crosher, Dru Donovan, Mari Eastman, Eve Fowler,
Rebecca
Goldfarb, Katy Grannan, Alexandra Grant, Drew
Heitzler, Violet
Hopkins, Alex Israel, Glenna
Jennings, Barry MacGregor Johnston, Vishal
Jugdeo, Stanya
Kahn, Andy
Kolar, Jennifer Locke, Los Angeles Urban Rangers,
Tom Mueske, Tucker Nichols,
Camilo
Ontiveros, Nikki Pressley,
Andy Ralph, Will Rogan,
Paul
Schiek, Taravat
Talepasand, Wu Ingrid Tsang,
Zlatan Vukosavljevic,
Nina Waisman, Flora
Weigmann, Allison
Wiese, Lisa
Williamson, David
Wilson, Patrick
Wilson and John
Zurier.
The 2010 California Biennial will run from October 24,
2010 thru March 13, 2011. For more information, go to the OCMA website.
Dave Barton has written for the OC Weekly for over twenty years, the last eight as their lead art critic. He has interviewed artists from punk rock photographer Edward Colver to monologist Mike Daisey, playwright Joe Penhall to culture jammer Ron English.
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