Vertical oil on canvas painting with diamond shaped forms with text painted against a blue ground.
Abstract watercolor drawing of a kitchen table with cooking instruments; included is a cooking whip and various jars situated on a table with a red tablecloth; signed and dated at lower right.
TANNER, Joan; REESE, Harry; REESE, Sandra
Michael Dvortcsaks Posto #1 conveys the role the artist plays as inventor of form and bystander to creation. Comprised of long verticals and rectangular shapes that ground smaller forms and illuminate a range of hues, the work is suggestive of a non-specific interior space. (The title word, Posto, means "place" in the Italian language.) Dvortcsaks artistic effort is an attempt to "bring inert matter to life" and his approach to the blank canvas is "getting used to the rectangle and allowing the work to reveal itself." Dvortcsak completed this painting while teaching at UC Santa Barbara.
Give Up Now or Wait and See What's Coming
UCSB alumnus John Bommer received his MFA in painting in 1983 and while in school was a teaching assistant in the Film and Media Studies Department. Gary H. Brown, who was his partner, mentor and friend, described his work in an exhibition catalog as entailing many different styleshe was always experimentingthough the one constant is the common thread of language...Etymology, signs, linguistics, film and semiology were a deep part of John's life and work. Give Up Now or Wait and See Whats Coming (1985) combines Bommers interests in film and language with his alarm at the AIDS epidemic ravaging the nation and the gay community in particular. The title, written across the composition, is a spirited message of support to everyone affected by the AIDS crisis to carry on in the hope that treatments or a cure might be found. Bommer reminds one that giving up only leads to dire circumstances as evidenced by the Collaged image of the train bearing down on the man and woman who stand seemingly helpless on the tracks rather than moving out of the way. His work was among the earliest to address AIDS in art, a consequence, no doubt, of seeing his own friends in pain. A year after this was completed, Bommer was diagnosed with an AIDS-related illness and died nine months later in Santa Barbara tended by Brown. Throughout those months, Bommer was true to the message in this work as he remained optimistic, brave and ever thankful to friends and family for the love and support they gave him.
Photographic print of several painted wax heads. Toward the left, one wax is painted to resemble a clown using black paint.
Estate of Frances Garvin and Keith Julius Puccinelli
Triptych Buddhist image; each panel is woven using traditional Vietnamese weaving methods.
Photocopy print in black ink of Nero playing a lyre while Rome burns. Stamped block of artist's intials at lower right: PM
Gift of John Moore in memory of Peter and Judit Meller
Nero Playing the Lyre while Rome Burns
Stamped print in brown ink of Nero playing a lyre at left while Rome burns.
Photocopy print in black of Minerva being taught by a pig; she is holding a book on her left.
Stamped print in brown ink of Minerva being taught by a pig. She is holding a book on her left.
Stamped print in brown ink of Minerva holding a book being taught by a pig; image located at upper center of sheet.
Photocopy print in brown ink of a figure standing to the left of a painting detailing a image of a woman, fish, and bird hybrid creature.
Photocopy print in brown ink of Socrates preparing to drink poison with figures watching.
Photocopy print in brown ink of the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
Photocopy print in brown ink of a figure playing an instrument surrounded by an array of animals in a grove.
Print in brown ink of nude female riding the back of male figure dressed in stripes.
Photocopy print of a man wearing a toga talking to a child standing on a stool below is written Fabulinus. Artist's intials at lower right
Stamped print in brown ink of a seated figure talking to a child at his side.
Photocopy print of a female figure teaching a child how to calculate. Artist's intials at lower right.
Stamped print in brown ink of a female figure teaching a child how to calculate.
Photocopy print of a female figure singing to a child in front of her. Artist's intials at lower right.
Stamped print in brown ink of a female figure singing to a child in front of her.
Photocopy print of a seated man talking to a child at his side below is the name consus. Artist's intials at lower ight.
Stamped print in brown ink of a man wearing a toga talking to a child standing on a stool.
Sketching in pencil on tracing paper of two female figures teaching a young child different lessons.
A seated, hairy figure wearing a toga holding out a mask as he looks at it. Artist's intials at lower right.
Playwright with Cosmic Mask (Nero?)
A seated figure wearing a toga holding out a mask as he looks at it.
A figure portraying the god Mercury with a rod and letter in his hands above a countryside background.
A figure portraying the god Mercury with a rod and chicken in his hands.
Photocopy print in brown ink with a figure holding a sword and a second figure holdng a string looking at each other. Artist's intials at lower right.
Stamped print in brown ink with a figure holding a sword and second figure holding a string looking at each other.
Photocopy print in brown ink of a figure playing an instrument with a city burning in the background. Artist's intials at lower right.
Stamped print in brown ink of a figure playing an instrument at left with a city burning in the background.
Photocopy print in brown ink of a seated figure looking staright ahead; pairs of feet to his left and right.
Stamped print in brown ink of a seated figure looking straight ahead.
Photocopy print in brown ink of a female figure leaning on a tree talking to a smaller figure.
Stamped print in brown ink of a female figure leaning on a tree talking to a smaller figure.
Photocopy print of a female figure with a book at her side and pig talking.
Sus Minervam (Version 2, book on left)
Stamped print in brown ink of a female figure with a book at her side and pig talking.
Stamped print in brown ink of a female figure with a book in front of her and pig talking.
Photocopy print of a figure looking into a pool of water surrounded by plants. Artist's intials at lower right.
Stamped print in brown ink of a figure looking into a pool of water surrounded by plants. Artist's intials stamped at the lower right.
Ancient Romans Ploughing (Beatus Ille; version 2)
Photocopy print of a farmer plowing his field with oxen. Artist's intitals at the lower right.
Ancient Romans Ploughing (Beatus Ille; version 1)
Photocopy print of a farmer plowing his field with oxen with an overlay of an inscription.
Cupid Aiming His Bow with Greek Inscription (version 2, APXHN...)
Photocopy print of a child-like figure wielding a bow with a border of circular patterns and a greek inscription in below image. Artist's intials at the lower right of border.
Cupid Aiming His Bow with Greek Inscription (version 1, MIKKY(L)A...)
Photocopy print of a child-like figure wielding a bow with a border of circular patterns and a greek inscription below image. Artist's intials at the lower right of border.
Photocopy print of a child-like figure wielding a bow. Artist's intials at lower right corner.
Noli Turbare (Archimedes, version 2, with cityscape)
Photocopy print of soldier and a figure taking mesurements on the ground looking at each other with cityscape background.
Photocopy print of soldier and a figure taking mesurements on the ground looking at each other and the caption Noli Turbare below. Artist's intials at the lower right corner
Stamped print in brown ink of soldier and a figure taking measurements on the ground looking at each other.
Photocopy print of a man and monster wrestling. Artist's intials at lower right, stamped.
Stamped print in brown ink of a man and monster wrestling; Artist's intitals at lower stamped.
Photocpoy print of a figure wearing a toga leaning on a stool with greek lettering at top left corner. Two greek letters are intialed at lower right in the stool legs.
Drawing in pencil, marker. and correction fluid of a figure wearing a toga leaning on a stool. Cic intialed at lower right.
Photocopy print in brown ink depicting a grim faced figure with connected hands
Drawing in pencil and marker depicting a grim faced figure with connected hands
Stamped print on gold foil of a seated figure with coins falling surrounded by a cicrular repeating device of a nude female figure and swan.
Stamped print in brown ink of a seated figure surrounded by a cicrular repeating device of a nude female figure and swan.
16 Photographs of Various Locations
16 small color photographs probably used for reference when completing prints; some are identified on reverse and include: Michelangelo discovered in S. Lorenzo;Verona, Piazza delle Erbe; Detail of Padua Santo, Firenze, Boboli; Milan Market; Camposanto, Pisa; Siena Barn, self-portrait; Santa Barbara Flood, Venezia
To Bea + Dudley from Peter (Sybil)
Black image plastic of a woman's face and hands in a black circle
Black image of two men holding one another, one right-side up and one upside-down
Black image on beige paper of two men in a hot-air balloon above a desert landscape
Black image on beige paper of a brigade of hornblowers before a brick wall that covers top of print
Brown image of two mirrored figures facing each other with two stools separated by matching designs.
Black and white image of a plump woman with chicken in baskeet looking up at a little demon atop a column
Dark brown image on beige paper of three bees arranged vertically
Paedophiliac Explaining his Credentials to Victim
Black image of seated man with back turned, and boy's face at left
Dark brown image of Greek woman wearing dress, seated-reclining, holding a scroll, within a decorative frame
Dark brown woodcut on beige paper of a standing nude male and a kneeling woman with jug, in a frame of brown
Black and white imaget on tan paper of a a seated man pointing at a picture frame, and a standing woman holding a teacup.
Black and white image on black paper of a gypsy reading a man's palm, both figures standing
Black and white image of a knight in armour with spear and shield, standing atop a "dragodile" laying across bottom of print
Black and white sketch-like drawing of two figures holding one another, one right-side up and one upside-down
Black and white image of two figures, only arms and faces distinguishable, playing chess.
The Name of the Chestnut Explained
Dark brown image of a seated woman in dress and a boy standing to her right, dropping a chesnut in her bosom; leaves above top center
Black and white image of a mountainous scene with a small figure (Mona Lisa?) dressed like a nun skipping at bottom left
Not Everyone can Afford to Retire
Black and white image of a man with an ax splitting a log; background of circles with changing designs
Redish-brown image of a cherub with torch burning a woman seated with her back to him; title pasted underneath image.
Red-brown ink drawing of harpy atop pillar and man below
Happy New Year to Bea! (Bathing Woman)
Red-brown ink drawing of nude woman seated atop bathtub and butler with champagne flutes
Redish brown image of Odysseus and Circe standing.
Redish brown mage of Circe wand at right and three pigs in sailors' clothes at left.
Redish-brown image of seated woman at left pointing a javelin at a screaming man.
Redish brown image of two mirrored figures with stools and two mirrored patterns between them made from rubber stamp.
Redish brown image of woman balancing tip-toe on chair with man standing below to catch her.
Brown image of two men hunting facing left; one is laying down in foreground and appears to be dead. Trees at top center and right area.
Brownish red image of a lion with grid pattern at left.
Brownish red image of man holding out hand facing forward; right hand on boulder.
Brown ink drawing of two figures dancing.
Brown figure sitting in chair; dressed to resemble a pilgrim holding a violin.
Brown ink image of two figures; nude female standing on stool.
Brown ink image of two figures; nude figure of Pymalion standing on stool.