ARTS • Kick off summer with the Oceanside Museum of Art

from The May/June issue of the Osider Magazine 2022

by Montage Visual Communication

OCEANSIDE HARBOR FUN GUIDE

THE OSIDER MAY / JUNE 2022

Music at the Museum is the first Friday of every month through September.

Kick off Summer with the OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART

WORDS: SHELBY ROWE

A Kind of Heaven: Kirsten Zirngibl The Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) has invited artists, students, and the plain ol’ curious through its doors to connect with creativity since 1997. This year marks OMA’s 25th anniversary as a cultural and historical pillar in Oceanside, and they’re welcoming the community to come down and celebrate with a list of stacked summer events. Catch a quick summary below of two events starting this month: Music at the Museum, and “A Kind of Heaven,” and be sure to check out their website for the rest of their summer schedule.

Music at the Museum: A Tribute to Oceanside

The first Music at the Museum of the year starts on May 6, and is in celebration of Oceanside Unfiltered—a street art exhibition showcasing local photographers curated by The Osider’s very own co-founder Zach Cordner. The exhibition shows a raw and uncut perspective of Oceanside. In honor of the exhibition, the local artists behind the lens and OMA’s 25th anniversary, the first Music at the Museum is kicking off the summer series with a block party celebration.

The evening includes performances by local musician Dezzy Hollow and break dance artists

Wild7s Freestyle Krew. You can expect old school and funk sounds by DJ-Grande, and catch the Member's Only Car Club holding it down with their lowriders on Pier View Way. The event is free—both for the Oceanside Unfiltered exhibition and Music at the Museum event. For the rest of summer until September, you can catch Music at the Museum on the first Friday of every month in collaboration with First Friday Oceanside Art Walk. The music series is themed “A Tribute to Oceanside,” so each month will have a different musical performance by local talent from RexRode Productions. The lineup for the next few months includes Daring Greatly, Taryn Donath Trio, Leonard Patton Trio, and Johnny Tarr Group.

Music at the Museum has been connecting artists and the community for the past five years, and is a perfect introduction to the Oceanside Museum of Art if you’ve never visited before. “When I moved to Oceanside, there were people just a few blocks away who didn’t know there was a museum here,” Mara Mingalone, Executive Director of OMA, said. “So, the series was really born from that motivation to make the museum accessible, welcoming, and open to anyone who wants to come in with no barriers in terms of admission fees.”

A Kind of Heaven Exhibition

Starting on May 21, you can see A Kind of Heaven at the Oceanside Museum of Art that showcases whimsical pieces by a handful of Southern California visionary artists.

“This artwork is really looking at fantastical ideas and interpretations of other worlds. You might call this fantasy artwork or magical artwork or magical realism, but really they’re just beautiful and sometimes eerie and strange ideas about other types of reality,” Katie Dolgov Director of Exhibitions and Collections said.

Each artist welcomes their own imagination to illustrate their own version of reality in a world where rules don’t exist. Artist Martin Jarmick welcomes you into an alternate world through video representation, and Tim Hengst invites you to make sense of an image of a mossy tree printed on aluminum. It’s an exhibition showing the familiar in an unordinary way, masking the mundane with the peculiar by altering the way we see and conceptualize reality. It can easily be described as a visual feast. “There are absolutely sumptuous colors, and something that’s probably a little unusual about this exhibition is that there isn’t any abstract work, “ Dolgov said. “It’s all identifiable, but what can be identifiable in these works ranges so vastly from almost sci-fi type building scapes to monstrous beasts, and then just a lot of beautiful forms and colors.” OMA will be showing the A Kind of Heaven exhibition until August 21. Admission is $10, $5 for seniors and military, and free for students. The Museum is open Thursday-Sunday.