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tan colored fabric with words in brown color that read to be among friends

Joshua-Michele Ross and Hope Meng: To Be Among Friends

April 5 – August 10, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5 from 7-10PM During the virtual performance The Adjacent Possible, which ran at the height of the pandemic, artist Joshua Michele Ross opened by collecting participants’ desires. Ross then recited them back at the end of the show, closing with a sense of community and […]

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Women in front of solid grey background, brown hair with hand on right ear and mouth open

Jennifer Reeder: Nevermind

March 1 – May 11, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1 from 7 – 10PM Nevermind is a non-narrative post-punk aria, one in Jennifer Reeder’s three-part video series significantly inspired by Steina and Woody Vasulka’s Let it Be (video, 1970). This project is about the manifestation of gender and rebellion in media culture. It threatens the power of the hero […]

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A large painting of a street scene with people and cars walking along a building lined street

Rachel Hakimian Emenaker: Deep Roots Among Fallen Trees

March 1 – May 11, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1 from 7 – 10PM At the intersection of globalization, migration, and memory, Deep Roots Among Fallen Trees offers a reflection on architecture as a space where loss and regeneration coexist, where memory is both preserved and erased. This installation delves into how diasporic communities continue to develop complex cultural […]

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White wall with colorful hand drawn poster and images clipped onto its surface. Posters include cartoon figures and text, images are of people and city locations.

Dino Perez: Baile / Caile

February 1 – May 11, 2025 In the 1980s and 1990s, many families migrated from Mexico to Orange County, California, particularly Anaheim and Santa Ana. These cities became hubs where immigrant communities, including the artist’s family, found belonging and built new lives. As a first-generation Latinx growing up in this environment, artist Dino Perez witnessed […]

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Front yard of home located on street corner with 58 colorful yard signs installed on the front lawn. Each sign bearing the name of former candidates for US President that lost their election.

Nina Katchadourian: Monument to the Unelected

Nina Katchadourian: Monument to the Unelected, (2008 and ongoing) September 26 through November 17, 2024 Grand Central Art Center in collaboration with Community Engagement LOCATION: Monument to the Unelected is viewable on the lawn at 896 S. Oakwood St. Orange, CA 92869 PLEASE NOTE: Our advance thanks to visiting patrons for their respect to the property, neighbors and surrounding […]

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multiple images of individual placing items into large plastic carrier that would become a time capsule

Santa Ana Time Capsule Opening Event

Daniel Tucker, Rosten Woo, and Manny Escamilla Program and Opening of the Time Capsule Saturday, September 7 @ 6PM Join us on Saturday, September 7th at 6 pm for a program to mark the unlocking and opening of the ten-year Santa Ana time capsule installed at Grand Central, developed originally in 2014 as part of […]

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Large round bronze object on pedestal in the lobby of the Giffith Park Observatory. Object is a time capsule.

Daniel Tucker / Future Perfect: Time Capsules in Reagan Country

September 7 – November 17, 2024 Daniel Tucker’s 2015 work Future Perfect: Time Capsules in Reagan Country grows out of an interest in the continued echoes of a speech delivered by Reagan following the end of his Governorship in California on August 19th, 1976 at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. In this […]

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older man in blue jeans and and lite blue striped long sleeved shirt crawling on the dark wood floor through an interior doorway of a home

Evan Apodaca: Insurgent Smokescreen

September 7, 2024 – February 2, 2025 Since 2017, Evan Apodaca’s work has sought to deconstruct U.S. imperialism and the militarization of Southern California. In Insurgent Smokescreen, Apodaca assumes the role of historian by depicting first-hand accounts of Vietnam War era antiwar activists from Southern California. From Ocean Beach to Del Mar and Oceanside, CA, moments of state-sanctioned repression against antiwar dissent are […]

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Great block wall in a suburban backyard setting with four photosgraphs attached to it, two of semi-trucks, one of a warehouse, and one of a large propane fuel tank. leaning on the wall to the right is a small shovel. On the ground to the left is a small propane tank. A garden hose lays on the ground in front of the wall.

Rodrigo Morales: 91 East

June 1 – September 15, 2024 In the 1980s, a mere 234 warehouses dotted the landscape of the Inland Empire. Today, over 4,000 logistic centers have been implanted across the region in a rapid movement to bring commerce to the region. Once identified by its untouched land, the area has become enveloped by the sprawling […]

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