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    OCMA changes things up for summer
    • June 26, 2023

    Summer is heating up and the Orange County Museum of Arts has a cool option for those looking for something to do inside: A trio of new exhibits have opened in its galleries.

    This is the museum’s first summer in its new $94 million home that opened at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in October. And visitors have been streaming through its doors since the opening – it welcomed its 100,000th guest in late February and just this month surpassed 200,000 people.

    New to look at are exhibits “Alice Neel: Feels Like Home,” “Tony Lewis: CASUAL T,” and “Yu Ji: A Guest, A Host, A Ghost,” all curated by Courtenay Finn, OCMA’s chief curator. This is the first solo exhibition by Chinese artist Ji in an American museum.

    Sam and Hartley, 1945, oil on canvas is part of the Alice Neel: Feels Like Home exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa on Friday, June 23, 2023. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

    Flesh in Stone—Component #3, 2015, one of the first ten works of the Orange County Museum of Art’s exhibition of A Guest, A Host, A Ghost by artist Yu Ji in Costa Mesa on Friday, June 23, 2023. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

    Tony Lewis: CASUAL T is one of the new exhibitions this summer at the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa on Friday, June 23, 2023. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

    Alice Neel: Feels Like Home is one of three new exhibitions this summer at the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa on Friday, June 23, 2023. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

    Protrude II, 2022 Video projection on acrylic is part of the Orange County Museum of Art’s exhibition of A Guest, A Host, A Ghost by artist Yu Ji in Costa Mesa on Friday, June 23, 2023. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

    Julie and Aristotle, 1967 oil on canvas is part of the Alice Neel: Feels Like Home exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa on Friday, June 23, 2023. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

    Visitors take in the Alice Neel: Feels Like Home exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa on Friday, June 23, 2023. The museum opened three new shows for the summer. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

    Chris Justice Boster of Laguna Niguel contemplates a work by Tony Lewis in Costa Mesa on Friday, June 23, 2023. Tony Lewis: CASUAL T is one of three new summer exhibitions at the Orange County Museum of Art. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

    The Westreich Family, 1978, oil on canvas looks back at visitors at the opening of the Alice Neel: Feels Like Home exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa on Friday, June 23, 2023. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

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    “Feels Like Home” features more than 40 pieces by Neel, a 20th century American figurative painter.

    “Alice Neel’s work reminds us that humans are imperfect, offering a poignant truthfulness about what relationships and emotions really look like,” Finn said. “Her work captures her own declaration that, ‘I paint to try to reveal the struggle, tragedy and joy of life.’”

    The Lewis exhibit makes use of the museum’s Avenue of the Arts gallery, with its floor-to-ceiling windows that share the art with the community passing by.

    The Costa Mesa museum has continued to refresh the “13 Women” exhibition it debuted with, now in its fourth variation, and Sanford Biggers’ bigger-than-life outdoor installation “Of many waters” will be on display through Aug. 13.

    Admission to the museum is free and it has artist talks, family activities, art nights and more planned throughout the summer. Get information on hours and events at ocma.art.

    Related links

    How to spend a day at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts for less than $75
    Here’s who’s behind 10 years of free admission at the Orange County Museum or Art
    What’s inside the new OCMA? Art looking both at the past and future
    Why the Orange County Museum of Art’s key donor stuck it out
    OC Museum of Art’s new building to open with spotlight on its ’13 Women’ founders

    ​ Orange County Register 

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