OCMA Announces the 2017 California-Pacific Triennial Artists

NEWPORT BEACH, CA—The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) today announced the names of 25 artists and artists’ collectives whose work will appear in the 2017 California-Pacific Triennial: Building As Ever. This is the second iteration of the program that places important California art practices within those from countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean. California’s geographical position on the Pacific Ocean has long enriched its cultural prominence, and the demographics of the state are strongly linked to the diverse countries along the Pacific Rim. With a focus on the topic of architecture and the temporal precariousness of the built environment, OCMA Senior Curator Cassandra Coblentz selected the final artists from the US and 10 other countries around the Pacific Ocean. The 2017 California-Pacific Triennial will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue and the exhibition is on view May 6 through September 3, 2017.

2017 California-Pacific Triennial: Building As Ever

Participating Artists

(Full list of bios at end)

anothermountainman (Stanley Wong) Hong Kong, China

Carmen Argote | Los Angeles, USA

Michele Asselin | Los Angeles, USA

Cedric Bomford | Victoria, Canada

Santiago Borja | Mexico City, Mexico

Leyla Cardenas | Bogotá, Colombia

Cesar Cornejo | Lima, Peru, Tampa, USA

Beatriz Cortez | Los Angeles, USA

Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman

Teddy Cruz | San Diego, USA

Fonna Forman | San Diego, USA

Ken Ehrlich | Los Angeles, USA

Yuki Kimura | Kyoto, Japan

Patricia Fernandez | Los Angeles, USA

Lead Pencil Studio

Annie Han | Seattle, USA

Daniel Mihalyo | Seattle, USA

Renée Lotenero | Los Angeles, USA

Cybele Lyle | Oakland, USA

Ronald Morán | San Salvador, El Salvador

Trong Nguyen | Saigon, Vietnam

Nancy Popp | Los Angeles, USA

Olga Koumoundouros | Los Angeles, USA

Pilar Quinteros | Santiago, Chile

Byrony Roberts | Los Angeles, USA

Alex Slade | Los Angeles, USA

Super Critical Mass

Julian Day | Sydney, Australia

Luke Jaaniste | Brisbane, Australia

Wang Wei | Beijing, China

Haegue Yang | Berlin, Germany; Seoul, South Korea

The project raises questions that enable a greater understanding of how the contemporary built environment effects human experience in the world. The artists bring a variety of ethnic, religious, government, and personal histories to the conversation. Among the issues to be addressed are the recording of history and preservation; the concept of home and displacement; and the influence of power, economics, and political systems on global construction.

“In time of rapid growth and accelerated construction around the Pacific Rim, we can no longer consider architecture as permanent. The need for revised thinking on time relative to the built environment has taken on a new urgency,” stated OCMA Senior Curator Cassandra Coblentz. “It has been exciting over the past several months to talk with many artists from around the region and welcome some of these artists here to respond to our site in Orange County .Their insight has offered an important foundational understanding of the topic while also providing a broad range of innovative perspectives on the subject.”

The 25 participating artists in the 2017 California-Pacific Triennial are presenting work in a full range of media—drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation as well as performance-based and socially engaged work. The majority of the works to be shown will be created specifically for this project or will be on public view for the first time. Many are site-specific installations. While a few participants are trained as architects, all of the artists focus on architecture, the built environment, or the concept of the lasting or temporal nature of building.

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