OCCCA Call For
Art:
The Orange County Center for Contemporary
Art (OCCCA) and the
Vietnamese American Arts & Letter Association
(VAALA) invites creatives of all kinds to submit art for exhibition
in HOME, curated by artist/curator Richard Turner.
Each
selected artist will have two (2) works accepted. One work will be displayed
at the
OCCCA gallery and
the other at the VAALA
facility.
Goal:
To illuminate and enrich our
understanding of the concept of "HOME" through artworks that critically explore
the concept and also allow us to see various interpretations from different
cultural standpoints.
Exhibition Dates: July 5th - July
26th, 2014
Deadline for entries: May 17th,
2014
The word "HOME" resonates on
cultural, emotional, intellectual, religious, philosophical, political
and spiritual levels-as a place, a space, a myth, a source of identity,
a promised land, a state of being, a war zone, an impossibility, and/or an
inalienable right.
This simple word is open to a wide variety of
interpretations. HOME can connote security, belonging, memory, and
comfort, or arouse feelings of dread, alienation, and pain. HOME
informs and is informed by geography and history, identities and ideologies,
imagined and lived experiences.
Artworks may explore what it means to create a
HOME or to be without a HOME, what happens when we leave HOME and arrive in a
new place, or how relationships with culture, history, emotion,
intellect, religion, philosophy, politics, and spirituality affect the
idea of HOME.
Curated by Richard
Turner
Artist/curator
Richard Turner is a Professor Emeritus at Chapman University
where he taught contemporary Asian art history and studio art. He lived in
Saigon, Vietnam from 1959 -1961. He studied Chinese painting and language in
Taipei, Taiwan in 1963-1964 and Indian miniature painting in Jaipur, Rajasthan
in 1967 -1968 while on a Fulbright scholarship. As Director of Chapman
University's Guggenheim Gallery from 1975 - 2011, he curated over seventy
exhibitions including several that examined the art and issues of Asian American
communities in California and the contemporary art of Asia. His most recent
curatorial project, Facing West / Looking East for the Oceanside Museum of Art,
featured works by 20 artists who shared a common interest in borrowing,
recycling and sampling from the cultures of Asia for their content and
commentary. His current studio work is sculpture and drawing based on his
interest in Chinese scholars rocks.
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