Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series thru May 27 at OCMA

In his Boston Globe review of the current Diebenkorn show at Newport Beach's Orange County Museum of Art, art critic Sebastian Smee wrote the following:

"A great and stately unfolding occurs in the 'Ocean Park' paintings of Richard Diebenkorn, among which can be counted some of the most beautiful works of art created in America, or anywhere else, since the Second World War.
To stand before these austere but drenchingly beautiful canvases is as close as art gets to the feeling of taking refuge on a cold day under a warm shower. The larger paintings, in particular, impose a physical, almost drug-dragged restraint against removing oneself from their ambit."

You will never get another chance to see so many works from this series together.  It ends May 27!

Richard Diebenkorn Ocean Park #140

Here's the OCMA blurb:

Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series is the first major museum exhibition to explore the artist’s most celebrated series created from 1967 to 1988. Recognized as a leading West Coast Abstract Expressionist in the 1950s, Diebenkorn turned his attention to figurative painting in 1955 and achieved equal success in this alternate style. In 1967 he returned to abstraction, and during the next twenty years would forge one of the most compelling and masterful bodies of work of the 20th century: the Ocean Park series. Featuring approximately 80 works—including paintings, prints, drawings, and collages—this exhibition captures Diebenkorn’s practice of working simultaneously in diverse media and provides audiences with the first opportunity to explore the complexity of Diebenkorn’s artistic and aesthetic concerns in this seminal body of work.

Richard Diebenkorn Ocean Park # 96 at OCMA

HERE is a link to the museum's website.  It's in Newport Beach, near Fashion Island.  And the second Sunday of every month is FREE!