"Oasis"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 2005
Location: South Entryway
Medium: Oil on canvas
On loan by Donna Pruner to the ARC Permanent Art Collection
"Jollity"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 2005
Location: Southwest Hallway
Medium: Oil on canvas
Another painting from a 2005 series with juxtaposed subject matter in riotous color. This work also plays with spatial relationships and whimsical activity leaving the viewer to ponder which end is up.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Still Life III - Puzzle Part"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 1976
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Medium: Oil on canvas
On loan by Donna Pruner to the ARC Permanent Art Collection
"Cinderella's Garden"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 1974
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Medium: Oil on canvas
In the 70's, Gary painted several realism works. He was fascinated with the concept of nostalgia and especially with the saccharin aspect of nostalgic memory. This painting portrays the sun washed innocence of a dewy skinned child watering a patch of perfect sweet peas. He also started using color in such a way as to impart the illusion of inner light.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Tryptic"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 1970
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted realistically with subject matter arranged to boggle the mind, this work is typical of Gary's art work from the late 60's to early 70's. He painted several larger than life "Human Scapes" punctuated with his signature color palette.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Corporate"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 1993
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Medium: Oil on canvas
A doll-like twirling ballerina in a sea of green peas makes this painting unique. This work is from a series that Gary created in the early 90's. He liked using peas, jelly beans, and other assorted amassed subject matter in these paintings.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Adoration II"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 2008
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Medium: Oil on canvas
This oil painting is a "sequel" to the popular work titled "Adoration". Instead of birds surrounding an iconic rubber ducky, the artist used an assortment of dogs. These dogs were all family pets and have special meaning to Gary.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Big Horn"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 1982
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Medium: Oil on canvas
This oil painting was from Gary's early wildlife series. While the other paintings in the series displayed Gary's trademark bright color palette, Big Horn was painted in a toned manner. While it has semi-monochromatic feel, there's actually an abundance of subtle, carefully chosen colors. Gary chose this particular color method to create the spiritual element of a majestic beast becoming one with its surroundings.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Ceremonies"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 2000
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Medium: Giclee print from watercolor
This print was made from one of Gary's favorite watercolors. This work was named for the intricate ceremonial headdress. The howling wolf complements this theme with the wild ceremony of spiritual bonding within the pack. The Koi fish? Well, that's just classic Pruner.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Presaging"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 1989
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Medium: Watercolor on paper
In this watercolor, Gary used a stag with intense alertness in his eyes. Some viewers have said that he looks fearful; others commented that the eyes had the look of death, but Gary's intent was to show the stag's intangible instinct for survival. Always on guard for what may be coming next. Gary added the Koi fish for spacial and contextual ambiguity.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Global Parts"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 1994
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Medium: Collage on board
A rare Pruner collage, In 1994, Gary was intrigued by beautiful papers with intricate patterns. He used a variety of these artisan papers along with his own prints to create a very limited series of collages.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Gift for Gary Pruner"
Ann Bachtold conceived the idea of a gestalt portrait of Gary as a retirement gift. She asked the Art Department for help and we all did our part. Students, former students, staff and faculty. The only criteria was that each finished rectangle match the finished area in size, line, texture, and value ( the light to dark qualities). Gary passed last August. His wife Donna gifted to the Permanent Art Collection, so that Gary would always be remembered.
"Strawberries"
Artist: Judy Yemma - 2016
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Medium: Archival Ink Jet Print on Photo Rag
In this series of fun food portraits, Judy Yemma was inspired by the local Farm to Fork movement to create a series of 40 fruit and vegetable images that convey her sense of whimsy and her appreciation of their forms, colors, textures, and personalities. The compositions, lighting, and titles of each piece exquisitely inform the viewer of the stories she is telling.See Oak Café host for price sheet and/or contact information.
"Banana Miranda"
Artist: Judy Yemma - 2016
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Medium: Archival Ink Jet Print on Photo Rag
In this series of fun food portraits, Judy Yemma was inspired by the local Farm to Fork movement to create a series of 40 fruit and vegetable images that convey her sense of whimsy and her appreciation of their forms, colors, textures, and personalities. The compositions, lighting, and titles of each piece exquisitely inform the viewer of the stories she is telling.See Oak Café host for price sheet and/or contact information.
"The Discussion"
Artist: Judy Yemma - 2016
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Medium: Archival Ink Jet Print on Photo Rag
In this series of fun food portraits, Judy Yemma was inspired by the local Farm to Fork movement to create a series of 40 fruit and vegetable images that convey her sense of whimsy and her appreciation of their forms, colors, textures, and personalities. The compositions, lighting, and titles of each piece exquisitely inform the viewer of the stories she is telling.See Oak Café host for price sheet and/or contact information.
"From Within"
Artist: Scout Handford - 2011
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Medium: Aluminum on steel base
On loan by artist to the ARC Permanent Art Collection.
"Parade"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 2000
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Medium: Watercolor, ink on paper
This work is from one of Gary's favorite series of large intricate line drawings. He employed a profusion of Koi fish with exaggerated pattern and texture, highlighted with bold color. Gary often uses Koi in his work for their dynamic movement and endless color possibilities.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Forming"
Artist: Gary Pruner - 2000
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Medium: Hand colored on black line print
This work is from one of Gary's favorite series of large intricate line drawings. He employed a profusion of Koi fish with exaggerated pattern and texture, highlighted with bold color. Gary often uses Koi in his work for their dynamic movement and endless color possibilities.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Thousand Bowls, Feed the Hungry"
Artist: Chris "Max" Thompson
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Medium: Stoneware, Porcelain
The "Thousand Bowls" Art Project raises social awareness about the hunger issues facing 1 in 5 people in the greater Sacramento community. The project became a participatory piece involving 13 different galleries and over 600 collaborations by artists and community members. This is a small selection of the bowls.Work available for purchase from your Oak Café host.
"Cornelia Guest and Unidentified Man"
Artist: Andy Warhol - 1983
Location: Beverage Lounge
Medium: Photograph
Cornelia Guest is the third cousin of Winston Churchill, and the daughter of fashion icon C. Z. Guest. Cornelia identified the man for us. He is her brother Alexander. She also told us they were partying with Andy at Regine's discotheque in New York City, and that she was wearing Fabrice.
"Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft"
Artist: Andy Warhol - 1982
Location: Beverage Lounge
Medium: Photograph
Judy Garland's daughters, Liza and Lorna, are out on the town with Andy and an unidentified man. While both women had their portraits done by Warhol, Liza was also a close friend, often accompanying him to night clubs like Studio 54, or hanging out together at fashion designer Halston's house.
"Committee 2000"
Artist: Andy Warhol - 1982
Location: Beverage Lounge
Medium: Screenprint
Warhol and German artist Joseph Beuys were part of the "Committee 2000" group that met in 1981 in Munich. From Andy's own diary: "It's a club of twenty guys who got together and they're going to buy 2,000 bottles of Dom Perignon which they will put in a sealed room until the year 2000 and then open it up and drink it, so the running joke is who will be around and who won't."Warhol and Beuys each made an image for Committee 2000, but sadly neither of them were still around in the year 2000.
"Marguerite Littman and Unidentified Woman"
Artist: Andy Warhol
Location: Beverage Lounge
Medium: Photograph
Marguerite Littman was Truman Capote's inspiration for Holly Golightly from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and she taught Liz Taylor and Paul Newman how to mimic her Louisiana drawl for their roles in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." She knew Andy going back to his days as a commercial artist in the 1950's. This photo may be from 1978,l before she moved to England with her husband Mark Littman, who became Queen Elizabeth II's lawyer.
"Cornelia Guest, Joey Arias and Dolly Fox"
Artist: Andy Warhol - 1985
Location: Beverage Lounge
Medium: Photograph
Warhol introduced Cornelia Guest to soap opera star Dolly Fox at his 860 Broadway studio, saying that the two connected right from the start. Joey Arias is a performance artist and drag artist who still works in New York and is a good friend of Ms. Guest.
Oak Café commissioned works
Artist: Don Reid - 2015
Location: Women's Restroom
Medium: Print on Metal
Don Reid is the current Supervisor of ARC Printing Services. He has been taking photographs of the weekly menus of the Oak Café for many years.
Oak Café commissioned works
Artist: Don Reid - 2015
Location: Women's Restroom
Medium: Print on Metal
Don Reid is the current Supervisor of ARC Printing Services. He has been taking photographs of the weekly menus of the Oak Café for many years.
Oak Café commissioned works
Artist: Don Reid - 2015
Location: Women's Restroom
Medium: Print on Metal
Don Reid is the current Supervisor of ARC Printing Services. He has been taking photographs of the weekly menus of the Oak Café for many years.
Oak Café commissioned works
Artist: Don Reid - 2015
Location: Men's Restroom
Medium: Print on Metal
Don Reid is the current Supervisor of ARC Printing Services. He has been taking photographs of the weekly menus of the Oak Café for many years.
Oak Café commissioned works
Artist: Don Reid - 2015
Location: Men's Restroom
Medium: Print on Metal
Don Reid is the current Supervisor of ARC Printing Services. He has been taking photographs of the weekly menus of the Oak Café for many years.
"Romanesco"
Artist: Judy Yemma - 2016
Location:
Medium: Archival Ink Jet Print on Photo Rag
In this series of fun food portraits, Judy Yemma was inspired by the local Farm to Fork movement to create a series of 40 fruit and vegetable images that convey her sense of whimsy and her appreciation of their forms, colors, textures, and personalities. The compositions, lighting, and titles of each piece exquisitely inform the viewer of the stories she is telling.See Oak Café host for price sheet and/or contact information.