Join artist Fran Siegel for a hands-on exploration of color and light inspired by Common Ground: Early 20th-Century Artist Communities in Southern California at UC Irvine Langson IMCA. Focusing on some of the landscape paintings in the exhibition, you’ll discover how artists used color to create depth and space in their work. In her own practice, Fran combines a love for California’s natural beauty with different techniques like collage and drawing. In this workshop, she’ll help you create your own multi-media collage and drawings inspired by the California landscape focusing on how color impacts representation of space within a composition.
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2025
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Venue: Langson IMCA, 18881 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine
Parking Airport Tower structure is free for two hours with validation
This program is free and open to all participants aged 16 and up. Registration for this workshop is now full.
No prior art experience is necessary.
Please email imca@uci.edu with questions or requests for accommodations.
About the Artist:
Fran Siegel’s drawings and installations are rooted in location-based research that explores landscape, culture, and materiality. Her work is held in prominent collections, including those of Los Angeles County Museum of Art , The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), The Morgan Library and Museum, and Yale University, where she earned her MFA. Siegel has been awarded several international residency fellowships including a Fulbright to Brazil, representing the U.S. at Ecuador’s Cuenca Biennial, and participating in two Getty Pacific Standard Time research initiatives. These projects led to a solo exhibition at UCLA's Fowler Museum in 2017. Her most recent project, Transformative Currents (2024), features an installation of four Southern California Wetland Restoration sites at the Oceanside Museum of Art. Siegel has received a second Fulbright to Portugal (2025) to collaborate with the National Tile Museum in Lisbon.
Her permanent tiled mural for LA Metro’s La Brea and Wilshire station is set to open in 2025. Siegel is represented by Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles and has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the City of Los Angeles and the California Community Foundation. She has taught drawing and painting at California State University, Long Beach School of Art for over 22 years.
About UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art
UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art (Langson IMCA) is home to two foundational gifts of California Art from The Irvine Museum and Gerald E. Buck estate. In addition, the permanent collection of more than 4,700 works from the late 19th century and early 20th century through present day continues to grow, augmented by acquisitions and gifts. The university is planning to construct a permanent museum and research institute to serve as a global magnet for the presentation and study of California Art within its social, historical, environmental, and cultural frameworks. Langson IMCA is currently located in an interim museum space at 18881 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 100, in Irvine, CA. It is open to all Tuesday through Saturday 10 am to 4 pm. Admission and parking for up to two hours are free. Follow us on Instagram @langsonimca.