Changing Terrain: Regional Artists Interpret Our Landscape

by Patricia Frischer

Kevin Perrault (detail)

Changing Terrain: Regional Artists Interpret Our Landscape is an unusual combination of invited artists, a number of artists from the previous 2013 exhibition Nature Improved: San Diego Artists Interpret Our Landscape and an open call for artists. The Curatorial Advisory Committee was Johnny Bear Contreras (sculptor and Kumeyaay public artist), Gabriel Boils Teran (visual artist and cultural agent), Katie Dolgov (Director of Exhibitions and Collections at Oceanside Museum of Art- OMA), and Tina Zarpour (Vice President of Community Engagement, Education & Collections at San Diego History Center SDHC). It is also unusual as it is a joint exhibition shown at the same time at OMA and SDHC. OMA has 2 venues for this show, the main galleries at Pier View Way and also OMA West at the Seabird.

There are  58 artists included at OMA, all are contemporary and all are from Southern California and Baja. This makes for a very large ranges of mediums and styles. Shown here are just a very few but they cover subjects such as a women’s role in society, plastic waste in the oceans, man’s relationship to nature,  climate change, wild fires and a pleathera of environmental issues. However, you can just enjoy the works for the way they look.

Kevin Perrault

Omar Campos

Jeanne Dunne

Wick Alexander

Judi Pettite

Irene Abraham

 

Emberly Modine

The following 4 works are just a sample of those on view at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park:

Sonja Schenk

Kim Reasor

Olivia Prior

Sihyeon Park

We happily report that Kevin Inman, Gail Roberts, Irma Sophia Poeter who have works in this show are past San Diego Art Prize recipients and you can see the 2026 SD Art Prize recipients in the large upstairs gallery: SD Art Prize 2026 Soft Power: On Color, Time, and Resistance: Danielle Dean, Ingrid Hernández, Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio. They share an Opening reception: Sat. Sept 19 from 5 to 7 pm Buy tickets here. PLUS: Soft Power in Practice: A Conversation with the 2026 San Diego Art Prize Recipients is on Sun Sept 27th from 2 to 4 pm, Buy tickets here.

Changing Terrain is concurrently at Oceanside Museum of Art and San Diego History Center (SDHC) 

August 22–January 17, 2027

Changing Terrain: Regional Artists Interpret Our Landscape at OMA

OMA: 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside, CA 92054 (760) 435-3720
Hours: Wednesday to  Sunday 11 to 5. Extended Hours on First Fridays 11 to 8
OMA Museum is open FREE on First Fridays 5 - 8 and First Sundays 11 - 5 of every month.

Changing Terrain: Regional Artists Interpret Our Landscape at SDHC 
Artist reception Oct 1
1649 El Prado, Suite #3, San Diego, CA 92101
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm