Selective Memory

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art proudly presents two solo exhibitions of contemporary photography:

Selected Memories by Robin Repp and Self Evident by Jane Szabo. Two special guest artists, Jeffrey Gillette and Laurie Hassold and will also be displaying their sculptural works. Please join OCCCA and the artists for the Opening Reception on Saturday, April 1st between 6-10pm at the gallery located at 117 N. Sycamore St., Santa Ana, CA 92701, during the Santa Ana Art Walk.

Robin Repp’s work Selective Memory offers the viewer a time traveler’s glance into the private lives of a mid-century California family. Originally shot on Super 8mm film in 1959-1966, these photographic images are Repp's own very personal memories, sometimes chaotic, lifted and revisited as a moment in time. Faded, fuzzy and blurred, we are there for intimate scenes and family events, enlarged to abstraction and distortions in a print. Unreliable memory gives way to sometimes barely recognizable images of a 55 Ford Station Wagon, a classic wooden power boat on Newport Bay, Mouseketeer Roy signing a cartoon at Disneyland and new outfits on Christmas morning.  Like a personal Zapruder film, viewed over and over again, Repp stops on those frames for just a brief glimpse of the past.