Over the past 26 years I have directed, curated, contributed to and installed more than 600 exhibitions and artists installations. I have also had the pleasure of supporting many exibitions by guest curators as well as traveling exhibitions.
Here you will find many parts of an exhibitions history that left a rich and impactful impression on the arts scene in Orange County and beyond. These projects, exhibitions and installation were collaborations over the years between thousands of extraordinary artists of merit and students and brilliant contributors. Institutions who hosted these exhibitions are: CSUF Grand Central Art Center, OCC Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Laguna College of Art + Design, Laguna Art Museum and others.
As I add to these pages and it grows it may later become its own site which I will than link for your enjoyment and education. Unless otherwise stated photographs are by Eric Stoner. Some exhibitions listed after 2008 I had nothing to do with but I wanted to highlight them here because Dennis Cubbage, Mike McGee and CSUF Graduate student curated many of them.
In honor of all that was accomplished!
CSUF Grand Central Art Center
2012 back to 1998
Naida Osline – All the Queen’s Men, 2012
The Cacophony Society-Zone Show -You May Already be a Member…, 2012
The Cacophony Society Zone Show is a retrospective look at the
Cacophony Society, a national collective of guerrilla artists, dada
pranksters and various eccentrics pursuing “experiences beyond
the mainstream.” Dedicated to activities mocking societal
expectations, sacred cows and good taste, The Cacophony
Society evolved from the San Francisco Suicide Club and its
members were chief organizers of the Burning Man Festival
in Northern Nevada. The Society’s pranking served as inspiration
for the activities of Project Mayhem in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club.
The exhibition transforms the museums main gallery into a wildly
immersive environment filled with photos, graphics, video, props,
costumes, and original art from Society events.
R I D E, 2011
Curated by Loriann Hernandez
Hiromi Takizawa – Sundown Spectacles, 2011
International glass and installation artist Hiromi Takizawa will produce a new art experience in the Project Room at Grand Central Art Center. GCAC will feature the work Shipping from California as well as a new installation that will also include over 400 re-purposed optical lenses.
Chaos Job: Restrain Order, 2011
Byblos: The Return to My Inspiration, 2011
Hand Pulled: The Complete Shag Print Collection, 2011
Bale Creek Allen – Empire. 2011
The Curiosities of Janice Lowry, May 7 – June 12, 2011
The book was a labor of love with essays by Jon Gothold, Mike McGee, Mark Ryden, Joanna Roche, designed by Wendy Peng, publishing coordination and exhibition curated by Andrea Harris-McGee.
Suggestivism, 2011
Curated by Nathan Spoor
Joe Sorren:Interruption, 2010
Mila Gokhman, 2010
Layer Cake, 2010
Detras de las Cortinas, 2010
Laurie Lipton – Weapons of Mass Delusions, 2010
Curated by Dennis Cubbage
Christopher Ulrich – Demoneater, 2010
Curated by Dennis Cubbage
The American Dream in Terra Cotta, 2010
Curated by Dennis Cubbage
California artist Jonathan Ginnaty exhibits his sculptural ceramic work. An Orange County based sculptor who recently won the 2009 Downtown Santa Ana Business District recognition award and grant for outstanding Orange County artist, Ginnaty creates astounding, full-scale clay-constructed office environments and installations.
BC Space – Mything in Action, February 6 – April 11, 2010
C0-Curated by Mike McGee and Andrea Harris McGee, Book design and coordination by Andrea Harris McGee
Featured: Marsha Adams, Steve Axelrad, Barbara Berk, George Blakely, Angie Bray, Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jim Cokas, Eileen Cowin, Darryl Curran, Jorge Dubin, Greg Erf, Jacques Garnier, Suda House, Graham Howe, Mark Johnstone, Harold Jones, Robert Ketchum, Lynn Kubasek, Victor Landweber, James Lerager, Greg MacGregor, Douglas McCulloh, Jerry McGrath, Patrick Nagatani, Thomas Neff, Joyce Neimanas, Kenda North, Sheila Pinkel, Susan Rankaitis, Andrew Savulich, Lonny Shavelson, Ilene Segalove, John Sexton, Clayton Spada, Pat Sparkuhl, Jim Stone, Arthur Taussig, Richard Turner, Jo Whaley, Mihoko Yamagata and Eadweard r. York
Hidden Wounds, Paper Bullets, 2010
Eugenie Goldschmeding – Recent Work
, April 20 – May 5, 2009
Co-curated by Dennis Cubbage and Andrea Harris-McGee, Book design and coordination by Andrea Harris-McGee. Photos by Prolong and Eric Stoner.
GCAC 10 year Anniversary Exhibit, February 7 – March 22, 2009
Co-curated by Dennis Cubbage and Andrea Harris-McGee
R. Crumb’s Underground, 2009
Janice Deloof – Erase Stigma: A festival celebrating mental health awareness, July11-August 23, 2009
Opening Credits – A CSUF Alumni Entertainment Graphics Exhibition March 23, 2008
Guest curatorial contribution by Cheryl Salva, Cliff Cramp, Dana Lamb and Larry Johnson. Coordination by Andrea Harris McGee and Dennis Cubbage.
How Green R U?, 2008
Mel’s Hole – Artists Respond to Paranormal Land Events in Radio Space, September 6 – October 19, 2008
Curated by Doug Harvey, Exhibition Coordination by Andrea Harris McGee, Installation by Dennis Cubbage, Matthew Miller and Andrea Harris McGee.
Featured: Reverend Ethan Acres
Tim Armstrong
David B.
Jimmy Chertkow
Sarah Cromarty
Albert Cuellar
Christian Cummings
Georganne Deen
Mark Dutcher
Gregg Gibbs
James Hayward
John Higham
Elliott Hundley
Marie Johnston
Paul Laffoley
Nate Lowman
Michael C. McMillen
Avigail Moss
Gary Panter
M.A. Peers
Mary Pongratz
Victoria Reynolds
Steve Roden
Ross Rudel
Connie Samaras
Charles Schneider
April Schwass
Jim Shaw
Nathan Spoor
Linda Stark
Craig Stecyk
Don Suggs
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
The Firesign Theatre
Dani Tull
Jeffrey Vallance
Marnie Weber
Georgeanne Deen
Cathy Ward
Chris Wilder
Eric Wright.
Inter-Personal – New work by Bradford J. Salamon, September 6 – 28, 2008
curated by Dennis Cubbage
A CSUF Entertainment Graphics Alumni Exhibit, February 2 – March 23, 2008
Edwin Alvarenga, Jeff Bacon, Helen Bayat, Ryan Batcheller, Phillip Cisneros, Tim Clark, Cliff Cramp, Michael Daley, Hans Dastrup, Ryan Di Donato, Sarah Dooley, Andy Engle, Eric Floen, Coby Gewertz, Eric Gonzalez, Christian Hill, Martin Hsu, Taesoo Kim, Heisuke Kitazawa, Jen Long, Larissa Marantz, Chris Miller, Bill Murphy, John O’Brien, Ron Pagenkopp, Cathy Pavia, John Puchalski, Ted Robledo, Cheryl Savala, Steven Stewart, Vin Teng, Rusty Tracy, Andy Tung, Eduardo Villacis, Jennifer Wood, and Rafael Zentil.
Subsumere: Assemblage, February 2 – March 23, 2008
Subsumere: Assemblage investigates the assemblage art-making of Southern California artists: Rebecca Edwards, Barry Krammes and Janice Lowry. Curated by Dennis Cubbage
Amy Caterina – This used to be real estate, now it’s only fields and trees , July 5 – August 24, 2008
Splitting Images, July 5 – August 24, 2008
Michael Knowlton – Blackwater Babylon , June 7 – July, 2008
Richard Turner – Contempt Mandala
, November 1 – December 21, 2008
Curated by Richard Turner with Andrea Harris McGee and installation by Dennis Cubbage and Matthew Miller.
Alessandro Fornaci: Amerika-Sumerika, 2008
Frank Martinangeli: Creation, 2008
Animal Magnetism, September 4-27, 2008
The Original Art of Basil Wolverton – Collection of Glenn Bray, September 1 – October 21, 2007
Curated by Glenn Bray with Andrea Harris-McGee, Exhibition Design and installation by Dennis Cubbage, Andrea Harris McGee and Matthew Miller. Book Coordination by Andrea Harris McGee.
Mark Mothersbaugh – Beautiful Mutants
, September 1 – October 21, 2007
Exhibition Curated by Andrea Harris-McGee. Installation Dennis Cubbage and Andrea. Publication: Extraordinary location photos by Eric Stoner, Model: Alyssa Wiens Cordova. Artwork by Mark Mothersbaugh Written by Mark Mothersbaugh and Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte Hardcover, 278 pages, 254 Full color images Special recognition to: Mutato Muzika, Johnny Brewton, Michael Pilmer, Greg Escalante, Joe Escalante, Corbon Poorboy, Barret Oliver, City of Glendora and the Rubell Family. Design by Ryan Di Donato, Edited by Sue Henger, Publication Coordinator Andrea Harris-McGee, Artwork Photography by Randall Michaelson.
Mark Leysen and Karen Thayer: New Works, September 1-30, 2007
Myron Conan Dyal – Primortial Images of a Modern Mystic, April 7 – May 20, 2007
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee. The first public exhibition by self-taught Southern California-based artist Myron Conan Dyal. Primordial Images of a Modern Mystic features 18 paintings, 12 drawings and 20 sculptures from Dyal’s vast oeuvre spanning nearly three decades. His imagery is overwhelmingly dark and haunting and obviously created with obsession and compulsion. He uses papier-mâché to create his sculpture, in large part, because its immediacy accommodates his urgency to see his objects in three-dimensional form. His usually figurative or organic forms are derived from visions he experienced during epileptic seizures and self-induced trances he encountered on his spiritual journey to come to grips with his lifelong struggle with the epilepsy and its stigma.
Handmade Puppet Dreams, April 7 – May 20, 2007
Curated by Amy Caterina and Bob Pece from Ratpowered Films, and Heather Henson
Featured: Genevieve Anderson, Paul Andrejco, Kate Artibee, Marsian DeLellis, Laura Heit, Lyon Hill, Steve Johnson, Tim Lagasse, Eli Presser, Matty Sidle, Hoku Uchiyama, Xander Marrow and Mat Brinkman, Sean Meredith and Paul Zaloom, Mike Mitchell and Dan Brown, Thomas Sontag and Alex Moulton, Seamus Walsh and Mark Cabellero, Damien Eckhardt-Jacobi and Vincent Bova, Janie Geiser, Tony Giordano, Jason Murphy and Scott Shoemaker
Drawn to Gravity April, 7 – May 20, 2007, Zachary Kleyn, Jennifer Celio and Naoe Suzuki
Photography by Andy Warhol, June 2 – 27, 2007
Recent work by Francisco Tellez-Giron, June 2 – 27, 2007
Emerging Artist Collective, June 2 – 24, 2007
Jeffrey Vallance – Relics and Reliquaries, June 2 – 24, 2007
Curated by Jeffrey and Andrea with installation design by Dennis Cubbage and Matthew Miller.
Local Motion, August 4 – 19, 2007
Our Place, 2007
Progress In Search of the American Esthetic– Michael Davis and Stephen Moore, 2007
Bill Burns – Safety Gear for Small Animals , Feb 3 – March 9, 2007
Alex Gross – Retrospective, 2007
Bruce Linn – Better Angels and Worse Demons, August 4-26, 2007
Burn – Group Graffiti Exhibit, July 7 – 24, 2007
Pictures of the Gone World – Collection of Long Gone John, February 3 – March 18, 2007
Fullerton Arboretum – Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum
Sowing Dreams, Cultivating Lives: The Japanese American Farmer
September 23, 2006 to January 14, 2007
Delusionarium 3, 2006 – Marya Alford, Kathryn Andrews, Andrew Armstrong, Steven Bankhead, Eric Allan Bene, Will Benedict, Jesse Benson, Lindsay Brant, Doug Buis, Tami Demaree, Ed Gomez, Luis G. Hernandez, Matt MacFarland, Jacob Melchi, Tom Norris, Nicole Quaid, Mark Roeder, Joe Sola, Johan Thurfjell and Sam Watter Eye Candy – Karen Arm, Suzan Batu, Jane Callister, Wendy Edwards, Benicia Gatner, Kathleen Kucka, Marilla Palmer, Carolina Parlato, Liza Phillips, Carolee Toon, Kathyrn Can Dyke
Edward Colver – Blight at the End of the Funnel , July 1 – August 20, 2006
Tania Mauraud – La Fabrique , November 1 – December 31, 2006
Oil Elastic World of Plastic, 2006 – A Degeneration-Regeneration Installation by Rick Frausto
100 Artists See Satan, 2005
Curated by Mike McGee, Andrea Harris McGee and Greg Escalante
Featured: Kim Abeles, Rev.Ethan Acres, Lita Albuquerque, Peter Alexander, John Alexander, Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen, Bale Creek Allen, Kevin Ancell, Franco Angeloni, Van Arno, Gary Baseman, Sandow Birk, Cliff Benjamin, Chaz Bojorquez, Jonothan Borofsky, David Bunn, Chris Burden, Bill Burns, Kalynn Campbell, Scott Marvel Cassidy, Amy Caterina-Barrett, Colin Chillag, Dan Clowes, Joe Coleman, Coop, Rosemary Covey, Sarah Cromarty, Russel Crotty, R. Crumb, Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Mitchel DeJarnett, Tony DeLap, Jason Dugan, Extremo, Enzia Farrell, Llyn Foulkes, John Frame, Paul Frank, Steve Galloway, Bia Gayotto, John Geary, Gregg Gibbs, Jeff Gillette, Mat Gleason, Stuart Gow, Alex Grey, Scott Grieger, Rick Griffin, Don Ed Hardy, Laurie Hassold, Mark Heresy, George Herms, Anaida Hernandez, F.Scott Hess, James Hill, Jim Jenkins, Seth Kaufman, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Tom Knechtel, Michael Knowlton, Frank Kozik, Charlie Krafft, Diana Kunce, Paul Laffoley, Don Lagerberg, Bad Otis Link, James Lorigan, Janice Lowry, Barry McGee, Liz McGrath, Michael McManus, Michael C. McMillen, Ryan McNamara, Dean McNeil, Mear, Patrick Merrill, Martin Mull, Enjeong Noh, Naida Osline, Manuel Pardo, Raymond Pedttibon, The Pizz, Kenny Price, Roland Reiss, Victoria Reynolds, Boyd Rice, Rachel Rosenthal, Erika Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Mark Ryden, Saber, Mike Salisbury, Kenny Scharf, Ilene Segalove, Shag, Jim Shaw, Dustin Shuler, Brian Smith, Craig Stecyk, Corey Stein, John Swihart, Szukalaski, Haruko Tanaka, Richard Turner, John Valadez, Jeffrey Vallance, Marnie Weber, Mary Hull Webster, William T. Wiley, William Wegman, Robert Williams, Liz Young, Paul Zelevansky, Peter Zokosky
Kit Kube – Critical Mass, February 5 – March 20, 2005
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee
Rosemary Feit Covey – Strip, February 5 – March 20, 2005
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee
Easy Action – Group Exhibit, February 5 – March 20, 2005
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee
The Art of Camille Rose Garcia
– The Saddest Place on Earth
, October 1 – December 18, 2005
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee
Fashion Front, October 1 – December 18, 2005
Curated by Dennis Cubbage, Alyssa Cordova and Andrea Harris McGee
Unnaturally Marvelous, October 1 – November 6, 2005 Christiane Ceavske, Brent Gothold and Matthew J. Price
Curated by Dennis Cubbage
Exquisite Electric, 2005 – Jim Campbell, Adam Chapman, Marianne Magne, Tony Oursler, John Slepian and Camille Utterback
James Hill – Hangin in Like Gunga Din and In the time of Louie Louie, 2004
Thomas Kinkade – Heaven on Earth, April 3 – June 27, 2004
Seeing Double – Jim Payne’s 3-D Portraits , 2004
Megan and Murray McMillan, 2004 27 Acknowledged and Sanctioned People Installation
Joe Diebes – vessels, 2004
Ron Reihel – California: Twilight, 2004
6 Booths 7 weeks, 2003 –Film and Video Series
Extremoganz, 2003
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee
An exhibit of works by Oregon’s eccentric artist/performer Extremo the Clown, features Art Car artists and their creations, stilt walkers, fire-eaters and Extremo the Clown. The exhibit in the Main Gallery offers a never-before-seen painting and installation by Extremo, a Strob-a-rama room and Ultraviolet Spectra-depth Kinetic Hall.
Jay S. Willis – Convergence, 2003
Suzanne Williams – An Imprecise Survey of a Quest for Perfection , 2003
James Lorigan – Modern Myths and Ancient Fables, September – October 26, 2003
22 page book. Essay by Meg Linton, Curated and book design by Andrea Harris McGee
James F. Lorigan’s art is carefully orchestrated with luminous color and rich brushstrokes. These seductive strokes of his paintings and the elegant sensuous lines of his prints are born out of his passionate reverence for the craft of art making.
As one engages Lorigan’s art, beyond the seduction, it quickly becomes obvious that the work is about fable, myth and morality. What is less obvious, but perhaps more significant, is that these paintings and prints are a documentation of his personal journey through life. They reference specific trials, tribulations and memorable, albeit sometimes mundane, incidences in the artist’s life, and his response to the world at large as he sees it unfold through life experience, conversations, television, radio and newspapers. Lorigan takes it all in and combines, filters and organizes it into narratives that seem to make some sense out of it all while ultimately leaving the larger questions open ended.
Jerry Rothman – Feat of Clay: Five Decades of Jerry Rothman, November 2 – January 11, 2003
Von Dutch: An American Original, 2002
Charles Krafft – Villa Delirium, May 2 – June 15, 2002
Rachel Rosenthal – Nihon Journal, 2002
Jean Lowe Gentlemen’s Club, 2002
The Art of Peter Zokosky, 2002
Michael Jantzen – Dwelling Places , August 2001
Deeper Skin: Photography by Naida Osline, 2001
Don Bachardy – Recent Work, 2001
Mark Ryden, 2002 – Bunnies and Bees, 2001
Kenny Scharf – Car Nation, 2001
Drawing Towards an End, 2001 – Paul McCarthy, Franco Angeloni and Liz Young
Robert Williams – Best Intensions, 2000
Curated by Andrea Harris McGee and Mike McGee. One of the primary themes in Williams’ oeuvre is his questioning of the verity of experts and authorities: be it the scientist, politician or art critic. By deconstructing and reconceptualizing fables, folklore, history, myth and beliefs Williams exposes cracks in the truth and gives cause to question conventions. What is perhaps most unsettling about his work is that he does not offer pat rebuttals or solutions. His paintings and titles add up to open-ended conundrums. He reinforces for us one of the most disturbing and uncomfortable truths that we have had to wrestle with at the end of the millennium: absolutes are not always absolute. Mike McGee, February, 2001
Franco Angeloni – Win a Trip, April 1 – June 1, 2000
Anaida Hernandez – Juegos Ilegales/Illegal Games, January 1 – February 29, 2000
Eye Candy – Contemporary West and East Coast Women Painters, 2000
Society of Illustrators , 2000
15 Minutes of Fame One Second at a Time, 1999 – A Work in Progress by Diana Kunce
Sig Alert 2, 1999–Tetsuji Aono,Maura Bendett, Tyler Stallings, Susan Hornbeak-Ortiz, Christel Gruenewald, Stephen Shackelford, Steve DeGroodt, Martin Durazo, Jennifer Katell: The Dollhouse Gallery, Brandon LaBelle, Steve Roden,Liza Ryan, Sally Elesby, Habib Kheradyar, Colin Cook, Phyllis Green, John Geary, Dan Manns, David Grant, Danielle Abrams and Seth Kaufman
James Doolin, 1999 – Selected Works 1983-Present
Robert Williams Best Intensions, 2000 
James Doolin
1999 – Selected Works
1983-Present
Megan and Murray McMillan, 2004 27 Acknowledged and Sanctioned People Installation 
Seeing Double – Jim Payne’s 3-D Portraits, 2004 
Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders 
Sandow Birk and Elysse Pignolet 
