UCSB AD&A Museum Field Trip to POOCH: The Art Full Life of Keith Julius Puccinelli Exhibition on Wednesday, November 13 at 9:30AM

WHAT: MUSEUM FIELD TRIP TO POOCH: The Art Full Life of Keith Julius Puccinelli

WHEN: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 from 9:30-10:45 AM

WHERE: UCSB AD&A MUSEUM

Please arrive on time, and bring your research papers since they are due at the beginning of class. The museum is adjacent to the University Center and Storke Plaza/Tower. 

I have scheduled a private tour of the museum for our class. The museum, is normally closed at this time, and they are staffing it so that our class can enjoy the exhibition alone.

About this exhibition:

This exhibition features the work of graphic designer and fine artist Keith Puccinelli, AKA Pooch, alongside selections of work from the folk and contemporary art collection he and his wife, Frances Garvin Puccinelli, built over their 33-artful-years together. Pooch was a long-time Santa Barbara resident who began his artistic career as an award-wining graphic designer with his studio Puccinelli Design (1983-1996). In 1998, after surviving cancer and at the urging of his wife, he began working full-time as a fine artist and became an active and recognized contributor to the Southern California art scene. This exhibition investigates how humor, tragedy, and wit animated Puccinelli’s art and design. Furthermore, the exhibition situates Puccinelli’s career within the constellation of his local and regional contemporaries including Dane Goodman, Hugh Margerum, Hilary Brace, Joan Tanner, Richard Ross, Lily Guild as well as artists like Claes Oldenberg, Philip Guston, Annie Toliver, Wayne Thiebaud, Chip Kidd and many others who influenced his practice more broadly. POOCH celebrates the extraordinary gift of more than 600 original works of art and the full artist's archive including design and documentary materials.

 

Keith Julius Puccinelli (b. United States, 1950-2017) received his Bachelor of Fine Art from San Jose State University in 1973. As a fine artist and self-taught graphic designer, he founded Puccinelli Design in 1983 in downtown Santa Barbara and ran a successful studio until 1995 when he closed the business to pursue other creative interests. For more than 40 years, Pooch has exhibited artworks in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries, museums, and contemporary art spaces. His work is included in private and public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Wilding Museum of Art & Nature, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum. 

 

The exhibition includes drawings, sculptures, sketches, and designs by Keith Puccinelli alongside artworks and objects by:

Todd Anderson, Sandow Birk, Jeff Brouws, Ginny Brush, Wendy Burton, Hilary Brace, Nell Campbell, Robbie Conal, Bob DeBris, Ann Diener, Linda Ekstrom, David Gilhooly, Howard Finster, Julia Ford, Colin Fraser Gray, Rollin Fortier, Marlin Garien, Dane Goodman, Penelope Gottlieb, Lily Guild, Philip Guston, Nathan Hayden, Mary Heebner, the Huichol people, Patricia Hedrick, Neal Izumi, James Harold Jennings, Susan Jørgensen, Philip Koplin, Dan LeVin, Holly Mackay, Hugh Margerum, Penny Mast McCall, Wayne McCall, Virginia McCracken, Barbara Parmet, Jens Pedersen, Rafael Perea de la Cabada, Gail Pine, Fran Puccinelli, Harry Reese & Sandra Liddell Reese, Richard Ross, Alison Saar, Marie Schoeff, Judith Scott, Tom Stanley, Nicole Strasburg, Joan Tanner, Masami Teraoka, Wayne Thiebaud, Susan Tibbles, Richard Tullis, Dug Uyesaka, Beatrice Wood, Seyburn Zorthian

POOCH: The Art Full Life of Keith Julius Puccinelli is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and is curated by Meg Linton. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Keith and Frances Puccinelli Trust. 

UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents: Silkroad Ensemble Home Within

To launch Spring Quarter, Arts + Lectures will be hosting a live musical-drawing performance at Campbell Hall and it is free to all UCSB students!

About Silkroad Ensemble: Home Within,

“Kevork Mourad’s live sketches combine with Kinan Azmeh’s clarinet to create a whirlwind of images to mirror the seven years of war that have made their country unrecognizable.” Reuters

Home Within is an emotional accounting of home in a time of conflict. This audio-visual performance, conceived by Syrian composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Syrian-Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad, is an impressionistic reflection on loss, longing and the impact of tragedy on our sense of home. Rather than follow a narrative, the artists document home within specific moments in Syria’s recent history, using the counterpoint between image and sound to establish a sense of sustained urgency and continued hope for both their homeland and communities around the world.

Here is Silkroad's trailer for "Home Within". It shows some of Kevork's work for the show and outlines the theme, "What is Home?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZZT_KtIq0

This event is FREE to UCSB students. 

Students can register at https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=4731

Spaces and Scenery Adrift in Santa Barbara: A Solo Exhibition by Avery DeSantis at the Glassbox Gallery

Artist Talk with Yumiko Glover | Thursday, May 30

Transience, acrylic on canvas, 77" x 154", 2017

Artist Talk Featuring Yumiko Glover

Day: Thursday, May 30

Time: 12:30-1:45

Location: Buchanan 1930

www.yumikoglover.com

About Yumiko Glover:

Yumiko Glover was born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan. She received her BFA from the University of Hawai’i in 2011 and her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2017.

Glover has exhibited her artwork in a solo exhibitions at the Glass Box Gallery at UCSB, and the Brian Ohno Gallery in Seattle, Washington, curated group exhibitions at the Cedar Street Galleries in Honolulu, the Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center, the Honolulu Museum of Art’s exhibition Modern Love: 20th Century Japanese Erotic Art and the Honolulu Museum of Art’s 2013 Biennial Artists of Hawai’i. Glover was selected as the Top 25 Fine Artists for the 100 Best Annual 2014 & 2015 issues of the Creative Quarterly, the Journal of Art & Design. 

Transience of life, a central tenet of Buddhism that is used to describe the aesthetics of impermanence, is the major concept of her current work. By combining the elements that symbolize impermanence, Glover is representing the preciousness of those lives that existed during past and current wars. Glover’s most recent work, Transience, is currently exhibited at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX-Terminal 7/8) though March 2019 as a part of the Wild Blue Yonder exhibition.

Tomoko vs Mr. A (Detail)

Images provided courtesy of Yumiko Glover

Enpsychlowmedia MFA First Year Review Exhibition at The Red Barn Gallery

Temporary Clash 2019 | The Department of Art MFA Exhibition at the AD&A Museum

EVENT DATE: 

Saturday, May 11, 2019 to Sunday, June 2, 2019

The Department of Art is pleased to present the 2019 MFA thesis exhibition entitled Temporary Clash at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara. The exhibition will be on view from May 11-June 2, 2019. A reception will be held on Friday, May 17, 5:30-7:30pm at the AD&A Museum on the campus of UCSB. The exhibition is free and open to the public. 

These eight young artists—whose enigmatic works are exhibited at the AD&A Museum—have developed individual projects that collectively incorporate a broad range of materials, aesthetics, and methods. From discrete objects that transcend their mundane origins to paintings, photography, data programming projections, and weavings, they present an array of idiosyncratic sensibilities. These different approaches simultaneously accentuate each artist’s singular voice whilst harmonizing as a whole

MFA students to be exhibiting their work include Maiza Hixson, Madeleine Eve Ignon, Adam Jahnke, Kayla Mattes, Elisa Ortega Montilla, Andrew Morrison. Echo Theohar, and Christopher Anthony Velasco.

Cover image: Kayla Mattes, Firewall, 2019, handwoven cotton and hand-dyed wool. 

#TemporaryClash

Art 1A LACMA Field Trip Spring 2018

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CHIURA OBATA: AN AMERICAN MODERN AT THE UCSB AD&A MUSEUM

      Chiura Obata, Grand Canyon, May 15, 1940, Watercolor on silk, 17 1⁄2 x 21 3⁄4 in. Amber and Richard Sakai Collection

Your first research paper, which is due on Thursday, February 8 in lecture, is about Chiura Obata's work. The AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara has an exhibition featuring this artist, and it is currently on view.

According to AD&A Museum,

Chiura Obata (1885–1975) was one of the most significant Japanese American artists working on the West Coast in the last century. Born in Okayama, Japan, Obata emigrated to the United States in 1903 and embarked on a seven-decade career that saw the enactment of anti-immigration laws and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. But Obata emerged as a leading figure in the Northern California artistic communities, serving not only as an influential art professor at UC Berkeley for nearly twenty years, but also as a founding director of art schools in the internment camps.

This exhibition presents an unprecedented survey of Obata’s rich and varied body of work that includes over 150 superb paintings and personal effects, many of which have never been on public display. With a prodigious and expansive oeuvre, Obata’s seemingly effortless mastery of, and productive engagement with, diverse techniques, styles, and traditions defy the dichotomous categorizations of American/European and Japanese/Asian art. His faith in the power of art, his devotion to preserving the myriad grandeur of what he called “Great Nature,” and his compelling personal story as an immigrant and an American are all as relevant to our contemporary moment as ever.

The University of California Press is publishing the exhibition catalogue that showcases more than 100 beautiful images and a selection of Obata’s writings, as well as a rare 1965 interview with the artist. The scholarly essays by ShiPu Wang, curator of this exhibition and a UCSB alumnus, and the other contributors illuminate the intense and productive cross-cultural negotiations that Obata’s life and work exemplify, in the context of both American modernism and the early twentieth-century U.S. racio-ethnic relations—a still-understudied area in American art historical scholarship. 

This exhibition and catalogue is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. The catalog can be found here: Chiura Obata An American Modern Catalogue.
                     
Exhibition dates:

Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara: January 13–April 29, 2018
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City: May 25–September 2, 2018
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan: January 18–March 10, 2019
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento: June 23–September 29, 2019

UCSB Department of Art MFA Exhibition 2017

U C S B
M a s t e r  o f   F i n e   A r t s
G r a d u a t i n g   C l a s s   2 0 1 7
E x h i b i t i o n

Past is Prologue

on view
May 13 - June 4, 2017
Opening reception May 19, 5:30 to 7:30pm 

"what's past is prologue; what (is) to come"

 (The Tempest Act 2, scene 1)

We like to think of treks and stories in neat frames of starts and middles and ends, but life insists on a more fluid, continuous and interconnected messiness.  What is to come has already started, what just ended has already spawned multiple beginnings.

The works in this show, a strikingly diverse collection of approaches and interests realized in an equally broad range of methods and media, form the selected output of the six UCSB graduate students about to conclude their Master of Fine Arts studies.  It is at once the carefully edited product of the research they are concluding, a current snapshot of where they now stand, and just possibly a glimpse of their future.

Rose Briccetti, Artemesia absinthum (wormwood), 2017, watercolor on panel, 36 x 48"

Marcos Christodoulou, Mare Nostrum (Where Have You Gone, Joe Géricault), 2017, oil, mixed media on canvas, 36 x 48"

Yumiko Glover, Tomoko vs Mr. A (Detail), 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 77 x 77"

Sunny Samuel, Bag of Spores (Matter Exchange), 2017, acrylic on glass, 60 dia x 1/4"

Peter Sowinski, Table For Marini, 2016, wood, outdoor carpet, foil tape, 36" W x 10" D x 55" H

Scotty Wagner, Trial Child: Nurture a Better Nature, 2017, video and installation 8 x 12 x 8'

Opening Reception   May 19, 2017   5:30 - 7:30pm For video driving directions to campus and parking info please click on this link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pIrItqqqIg

WELCOME to Art 1A Visual Literacy Summer Session B

Art 1A: Visual Literacy

University of California, Santa Barbara

Summer 2015 (Session B)
Instructor: Helen Taschian, Ph.D.

I look forward to meeting all of you in class next week! Please be sure to go to Associated Students to pick up your Course Reader, and to the campus bookstore to pick up John Berger's Ways of Seeing.

Please be sure to read the first assigned article, Carl Matheson's "The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony and the Meaning of Life" for the first lecture.

Additionally, if you are not already on Twitter, please set up an account for this class because many of our assignments will include Tweeting responses to works of art. 

1A Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/Art1AUCSB

Twitter Handle: @Art1AUCSB 

Get On Get Off | A Senior Painting Show By Michelle Angelillis