Architecture in Contemporary Art

Architecture in Contemporary Art at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) through March 18, 2023.

Architecture is a major theme of contemporary artistic practice both as a subject and as a method of investigation.  From the functional to the fantastical, OCCCA seeks art in all media — drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video, renderings of real or imagined structures, maquettes (small, preliminary models) and computer-generated projects. Architecture and Art is a testing ground for hypotheses with multiple possibilities of realization, oscillating between history and fiction. In the architectural imaginary, utopia and ruins are two sides of the same coin. OCCCA’s re-purposed industrial space is an “ideal palace” for the presentation of radical forms, offering a territory for experimentation where art and architecture intersect. — Rob Mintz