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Please join us at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art for an exhibition featuring new photo-based mixed media, ceramic sculpture and video works by Christina (Xtina) Poncé, Lisa Popp and Matthew William.
Exhibition Dates: October 6th - 27th, 2012
Opening Reception: October 6th, 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Christina Ponce
Christina's work ranges from traditional photography, manipulated photographic processes and photography based mixed media. People and relationships tend to be the dominant subject matter. By using scale and aesthetics, the viewer is invited to engage in a relationship with the work. Currently, Christina's process begins with a photograph that is enlarged, broken apart and then reassembled. She uses wax and other mediums to obscure and seal the imagery and then selectively reveals the image beneath.
The entire process is consciously bringing multiple layers physically and metaphorically to each piece. It fascinates her that after being broken down and put back together, the cracks are always visible. Based on your own experiences and biases or beliefs, you can interpret this as you will.
 | | Christina Ponce, Untitled, mixed media |
Lisa Popp
Creating illusions of meaning working with the malleable and sensual characteristics inherent in clay and other materials continues to be Lisa's lifelong journey.
It is her intention to create geometric clay structures, reflecting fabric-like qualities that incorporate the timelessness of stitching and the traditions of women's work. Lisa's formal compositions focus on the relationships between form, shape, surface texture and color to reflect beauty. Her abstract figurative structures work in conjunction with these extensive clay "platelets" to create line, space and the illusion of other materials.
Lisa enjoys the play of metonymy in materials used and seeks to create a balance between the forces of tension and release through form and expression.
 | | Lisa Popp, Hamilton Park, detail, 60x74, Clay, vellum, wire |
Matthew William
Matthew's work explores self-perception, from how we perceive ourselves, how we wish to be perceived, to how the public perceives us. Each layer of perception builds upon the framework of the final composition, a disjointed verisimilitude of the "self."
Matthew believes the medium is an essential contribution to the artwork's idea of self-perception. Whether photography, charcoal, or paint, each medium lends itself to the various forms of perception. He begins with a photograph, the most visually accurate representation of self and strips away all features, leaving it void of individuality. He then chooses a facial feature from a popular celebrity to draw or paint back onto the face, representing the want to be someone else.
The final portrait portrays a feeling of the unfinished, a half-translated biography, like the frustration of having a person's name on the tip of your tongue, but never grasping it completely.
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Matthew William, Matthew, Mixed Media on Panel
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Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
117 North Sycamore
Santa Ana, CA USA, 92701
www.occca.org
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