Orange County Register

A film still from “Interrupted Passage” (2008) by Julio Cesar Morales. 

The Orange County Museum of Art has announced the artists for its 10th California Biennial, scheduled for Oct. 26-March 15, 2009.

Works by more than 50 artists will be on view during the 2008 biennial, and for the first time, off-site projects will take place in collaborating venues from Tijuana to Northern California.

The guest curator is Lauri Firstenberg, founder and director/curator of LAX ART in Los Angeles.

The artists will be: Micheal Arcega, Edgar Arceneaux, the Backroom, Kelly Barrie (offsite), Justin Beal, Walead Beshty (offsite), Andrea Bowers, Jedediah Caesar, Sarah Cain, Bruce Conner, Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Felipe Dulzaides, Sam Durant, ESL (Esthetics as a Second Language, offsite), Morgan Fisher, Piero Golia (offsite), Gronk, Karl Haendel (offsite), Mark Hagen, Skylar Haskard, Patrick Hebert, High Desert Test Sites (offsite), Evan Holloway, Margaret Honda (offsite), Salomon Huerta, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Jordan Kantor, Mary Kelly, Tony Labat, D’nell Larson (offsite), Elad Lassry, William Leavitt, Matt Lucero (offsite), Shana Lutker (offsite), Daniel Joseph Martinez, Rodney McMillian, Julio Cesar Morales, My Barbarian (offsite), Eamon Ore-Giron (offsite), Raymond Pettibon, Yvonne Rainer, Marcos Ramirez, Marco Rios, Amanda Ross Ho, Aaron Sandnes (offsite), Anna Sew Hoy, Jim Skuldt (offsite), Kara Tanaka, Joel Tauber (offsite), Ruben Ortiz Torres, Erika Vogt, Mary Weatherford, Lauren Woods and Brenna Youngblood (offsite).

Offsite locations will include Estacion Tijuana — Marcos Ramirez’s independent exhibition space in TJ, Mexico; Julio Cesar Morales’s artist-run space in San Francisco; and sites in Culver City, Hollywood and Joshua Tree.

OCMA will publish a 208-page catalog in conjunction with the exhibiton.

Congratulations to the artists. Check this space out for more information about the 2008 biennial.

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