The exhibition

“Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment”

Naoto Fukazawa

The collective art exhibition "LAYERS" explores the concept of layers, and how artists transmit their unique perspectives by employing a variety of layering techniques such as glazing, collage, encaustic, assemblage, photomontage, and stacking.

The word “Layer” has often been used to describe a technique used by artists to create depth in their work. Layering approaches in art-making provide intriguing and distinctive outcomes. Historically, painters glazed multiple layers of paint on canvas to achieve dimension. In the 1960s, layer painting became a type of "process" art that developed through the 1970s as abstract, and later advanced with greater complexities. Today, layering includes materials other than paint. The result is described as mixed-media, a method that engages more than one material to create a finished piece.

Featured artists
Guest artists: Jenny Yurshansky & Jon Ng,

with Annie Clavel, Andrea Moni, Becky Black, Beverly Jacobs, Carolyn Yarnell, Debra Vodhanel, Gina Genis, Jeffrey Frisch, Rich Bohn, Robin & Robert Repp, & Tom Lamb.

Jenny Yushansky

“My practice is deeply informed by being a refugee who was born stateless. Through a community oriented approach to research, I explore the trauma of displacement and interrogate notions of belonging and otherness within the frames of landscape, historical documents, and social constructs.

Formally, this manifests as absence, loss, or erasure. My long-term projects are intertwined narratives that utilize various materials such as cast, slumped, and found glass, charred steel, MDF manipulated to simulate antique display cases, embroidered textiles, hand-cut paper silhouettes of plants, laser etched granite, photographic installations, and writing".

Jon Ng: "Fighter Series"

“The Figure has always been a subject that engages our senses, our mind, and our spirit. I am interested in the gesture and pose of a figure, as a means of exploring its character.

In the 'Fighter' paintings, I examine possible traits while visualizing their potential form. Then develop cues that might suggest a motivation, or an emotion, behind the action".

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

Begun by artists in 1980 with exhibitions free to the public, OCCCA, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, all-volunteer, artist-run gallery located in the heart of the Santa Ana Artists Village.

OCCCA presents exhibitions of contemporary art, along with concerts, performances, art classes, symposiums, and publications.

Website: https://occca.org/

OCCCA is pleased to invite you to the opening reception of the exhibition

Layers

curated by Andrea Moni

Guest Artists:
Jenny Yurshansky & Jon Ng

Opening Reception: Saturday June 3,from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

during the monthly Santa Ana Art Walk.

On view June 3 through 24, 2023

Date:
June 3 through 24, 2023

Time:
Friday to Sunday - noon to 5 p.m.

Location:
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,
117 N Sycamore Street, Santa Ana, CA 92701