OCCCA Call For Art:

The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art invites creatives of all kinds to submit art for exhibition in

Body Language, curated by legendary LA artist

George Herms. Body Language celebrates the body as the sign supreme. 

Exhibition Runs April 5th - May 17th, 2014

Deadline for entries: March 1st, 2014

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Our bodies are implicated in everything we do, think and say. The body is pivotal to our understanding of our place in the universe. In contemporary culture the body has become an extraordinarily complex signifier. Computer generated, traditionally sculpted, assembled, drawn, painted, photographed, filmed or performed in the gallery as dance or theater, in participatory events, street art and fashion --- the artists in Body Language ascertain the true dimensions of the inter-human sphere, connecting art to daily life, dreams, desires and the return of the real. 

Body Language is about the body angelic, or monstrous, clothed or naked; the disabled body overcoming the odds; the hybrid body permeated by technology; bodies merging with animals, plants and machines; the body of the athlete in motion; the sacred body of the Psalms and the Sutras; the body marginalized, politicized; the body exploited by advertisers and the media; the body studied by market researchers, demographers, economists; the body at the switching point between the familiar and the strange; the body of mythology and fairy tales; the body marked by the artist; the body uniting those who observe with those who perform; the body of flayed corpses, anatomical drawings, autopsies and dissections; the body as seen by medical science; the body tattooed, scarified and pierced; the androgynous, alluring and dangerous body.

"The body electric and in the exquisite realization of health." 

-Walt Whitman 

"The body in danger on this earth, but not of this earth." 

-Jean-Paul Sartre

"The body as temperamental and vehement flesh." 

-Meyer Schapiro 

Curator George Herms, renowned West Coast master of assemblage art, belongs to the avant-garde generation directly influenced by trail-blazing painters, photographers, sculptors, choreographers and performance artists who collectively pushed the body toward new forms of expression in relation to myth, technology, spirituality, politics and psychology.