Oppenheim speaks
of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's
love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics
of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school,
fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics
of the 1950s, a lack
of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona
of a good student, playing by the rules
of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College
of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University
of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use
of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance
of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods
of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental
of one's own work, critical dissent, impact
of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations
of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases
of development.
Natual Porto Art Show, City
of Porto, Casa da Música, PT Dieu Donné Annual Benefit, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, US Just
Love Me, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg, LU TANK Art Attack Launch: Artists Support Women for Women International, DKNY, London, UK The Crude and the Rare, 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, US Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, The National Arts Club, New York, US Platform 2010 / Projected Image, Artsonje Center, Seoul, KR NY Art Book Fair, Electronic Arts Intermix, MOMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York, US Broken Off, screening Estoril Film Festival, various cinemas in Estoril, PT 12 films and videos by Lawrence Weiner, screening Time / Store, e-flux, New York, US Der erste Impuls Skizzen Zeichnungen 1958 - 2010, Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, DE Yes Or Yes, Yes Or Yes 2, curated by Lisa Holzer and Chiara Minchio, Nice and
Fit, Berlin, DE Deutsche Angst, audio Painting and Sculpture, Lehmann Maupin, New York, US Je crois aux miracles, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, FR The Winter Show, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, IS Display:
Objects, Buildings and Space, Palácio Quintela, Lisbon, PT Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, US Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US