The CSUF Grand Central Art Center, a staple of Orange County's contemporary art scene, celebrates its 10th year anniversary of incredible programming, exhibitions and events with a huge retrospective exhibition. This multi-media exhibition features highlights from over 200 exhibitions, 35 artists-in-residence, our art catalogs published by Grand Central Press and more! Notable artists such as Mark Ryden, Jeffrey Vallance, Robert Williams, and Extremo the Clown are just some of our past artists showing in celebration of this landmark milestone in Grand Central Art Center's history.
March 7, 2009, 12-3 pm. Kick off event and afternoon party, 7-10 pm. The BIG party Admission is Free.
Featured Artists:
Extremo the Clown, James Hill Michael Knowlton, Manuel Pardo, Elizabeth Turk and Kirara Kawachi, Suzanne Williams, Franco Angeloni, Mark Mothersbaugh, Rosemary Covey , Laurie Hassold, Thomas Kinkade, Jeff Gillette, Amy Caterina, James Lorigan, James Doolin, Mark Ryden, Edward Colver, Jeffrey Vallance, Eric Jones, Jim Jenkins, Sandow Birk, Charles Krafft, Robert Williams, Rat Powered Films, David Michael Lee, Myron Conan Dyal, Camille Rose and more.
The Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center is the result of a unique partnership between the university and the city of Santa Ana. Located ten miles south of the main campus in the heart of downtown Santa Ana Grand Central Art Center is a mixed residential, commercial and educational complex. The art center is a 45,000 square-foot, half-city block deep and full city-block long, three-level structure containing live/studio spaces for visual arts graduate students, the Grand Central Gallery, the Project Room, the Grand Central Theater, Watermark Printmaking Workshop, the Gypsy Den Cafe, the Rental and Sales gallery, classrooms, and a studio and living space dedicated to the center's international artist-in-residence program.
Santa Ana community activist Don Cribb and Cal State Fullerton Gallery Director Mike McGee originally conceived the Grand Central Art Center in 1994 as the anchor and catalyst for a ten-square block area in the heart of downtown designated as the Artists Village.
Featured films:
YOU CAN AWESOME
Michael Mohan, TRT: 05:35
By the time your children finish watching this 1908’s educational program, they will gbe experts in math, mechanical function engineering and snarf. They will also be dead.
RETURN TO PURGATORY
Jay Barba and Brian Farrelly, TRT 07:31
Dead film, political and rock-n-roll legends star in this short. Jimi Hendrix attends a high school guidance session from George C. Scott and follows a different career path.
LOSING YOUR CHERRY
Jay Barba and Brian Farrelly, TRT 00:10:00
An educational film from the 1950’s where an animated fruit pie helps guide young boys into the scary but thrilling world of adult sexuality.
DANDY'S INFERNO
Antonio de Los Reyes, Gerit Vanderberg and Mary Allan
Dandy's Inferno is a domestic odyssey that follows one cat's quest for gastronomic nirvana. Embarking from the familiar comforts of home, Dandy confronts a labyrinth of surreal detours. A fantastic collage of animation, puppetry and magical sets, Dandy's Inferno blurs the line between logic and naked animal passion.
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Betsy Lohrer Hall, TRT: 03:48
A look at relationships...between two nations... a parent and child... a human being and his not-so-distant kin.
MY FATHER'S LUNCH
Tony Mendoza, TRT 00:06:58
My father has eaten lunch every day at the same restaurant for 30 years. His routine was amusing and I decided to go along with a video camera, on a day when something unexpected occurred.
MY TRIP TO LIBERTY CITY
Jim Munroe, TRT: 07:33
Jim Munroe’s video art series Pleasure Circuit Overload (42 minutes) is a series of seven pieces about videogames. Through movie preview spoofs, in-game machinima, quirky short drama and documentary interviewing, this diverse collection aims to deepen the cultural discourse around gaming.
