Jeffrey Frisch - Biography
Jeffrey Frisch is a past 4 term Director of the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA). Prior to becoming Coordinator of the John Wayne Airport Arts Program in 1998, he managed his own company, Jeffrey Frisch Design Associates for over 10 years.
Mr. Frisch is experienced in arts management, exhibition development and fine arts installation. He has more than 25 years’ experience in graphic design, exhibition design, architectural design, architectural signage design and architectural scale model construction for corporate, municipal and non-profit organizations. Clients have included the cities of Burbank, Santa Ana, and the Irvine Company, through various property management companies, as well as the Discovery Museum of Orange County.
As a representative of OCCCA, Mr. Frisch worked in partnership with the City of Santa Ana to relocate OCCCA to the city’s downtown artist-village area. Following extensive remodeling of a former automobile repair facility, OCCCA’s new space opened to the public in 2000. In 1994 he was the 1st artist to move into the then new Santa Ana Artists Village.
He is a past affiliate member of OCCCA, past member of the Board of Directors of the Irvine Contemporary Arts Council and a former Irvine City Council appointee to the Special Committee on the Arts.
A graduate of California State University, Los Angeles, Jeffrey Frisch received a Bachelor’s degree in graphic design and a Master’s degree in sculpture from that University. Previous to that he attended Art Center College of Design followed by active duty in the United States Army from 1966 to 1968.
As a working artist with an exhibition record dating from 1965, he frequently exhibits his mixed media constructions in the Southern California area. Recently, after years of producing visually aggressive low-relief wall-hung found-object sculptural pieces heavy with whimsy, Mr. Frisch has been creating a series of "dreamVessels". They are very detailed found object, bilaterally symmetrical works, highly evocative of fantastic sailing vessels based upon some ancient technology from a parallel universe. When arrayed in armada style exhibition, these works, drawing heavily from marine architecture, create a profound visual presence that transcends conventional description.
Mr. Frisch has two grown children, a son living in New York and a daughter, also an artist, living in Santa Barbara, California.
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