Open until 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday & Saturday
The new Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) presents Sanford Biggers: Of many waters… For over two decades, Los Angeles native and New York-based artist Sanford Biggers has been working across mediums to weave our understanding of narrative, perspective, and history into broader contexts. Commissioned for the opening of OCMA’s new building, Of many waters… (2022) is a 24-foot-wide-by-16-foot-tall multimedia outdoor sculpture that operates as a combination and continuation of Biggers’s Chimera, Shimmer, and Codex series. A hybridized figure, the sculpture combines an archetype of a European reclining male figure with a 19th-Century Baule double-face mask assembled from metal sequins. The new commission is Biggers’s first Chimera-Shimmer hybrid—a new form that the artist considers “an object for future ethnography”—and the largest sequined work he has made to date. In addition to the complex networks of historical references that course through this work, the Biggers’s traces connections to antiquity, non-Western cultures, and traditions, including Buddhism’s sacred geometry.
Free Admission Daily | Closed Monday
11 am-6 pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday
11 am-8 pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Early Entry for Members daily at 10 am
Phone: 714.780.2130
Email: info@ocma.art
2023/07/19 - 2023/08/13
OCMA / Orange County Museum of Art
3333 Avenue of the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Located on the Segerstrom Center for the Arts campus in Costa Mesa, California, OCMA is within walking distance from South Coast Plaza and is easily accessible by public transportation, car, and bike. Like many cultural institutions, OCMA does not own or operate a parking garage.
Area Parking
All local rates and availability are subject to change without notice.
Tower Plaza Parking Structure
600 Anton Boulevard
Irvine Parking
3201 Avenue of the Arts
The MET Parking
535 Anton Boulevard
By Car from John Wayne Airport
18601 Airport Way, Santa Ana, CA 92707
Take JWA Roadway and N Airport Way to MacArthur Blvd 5 min (1.0 mi)
Take I-405 N to Avenue of the Arts in Costa Mesa
Take exit 9B from I-405 N 4 min (2.2 mi)
Drive to Avenue of the Arts 2 min (0.4 mi)
Arrive at 3333 Avenue of the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA 92626
By Public Transportation
The closest bus stops to OCMA are below.
Anton-Avenue of the Arts (463 Southbound)
Anton-Park Center (57 Northbound, 463 Northbound/Southbound)
Anton-Sakioka (57 Northbound, 463 Southbound)
Sunflower-Avenue of the Arts (57 Southbound, 86 Eastbound, 150)
Sunflower-Stevens (86 WB, 150)