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1.Spagnola - '89 - 90$ Toti says "Another gypsy dancer I guess" (Living Room Gallery, over the fireplace, on the right.)
2. Sisters - 01 - 250$ Tpti says "It belongs to the “Writing the body” series and incorporates the photographs of clay figures... Toti says: "The clay figures that are photographed on the pages were sculpted with my eyes closed. Once I took the pictures, I destroyed the figures. I printed the photographs on Museum paper, then layered them with painting and collage. The narrative refers to Dante’s Divina Commedia." (Living Room Gallery, over the fireplace on the right)
3. Mother Map - 02 - 150$ Toti says "You will see other maps in the entryway to the Living Room Gallery, they form series, This one is isolated and represents the body of the mother. No better map." (Living Room Gallery, over fireplace high on the right)
4. Cactus- 00 - 280$ Toti says "Just a blue collage about this beautiful plant" (Living Room Gallery, over the Guest Room Door, on the right.)
5. Aurora - 91 - 90$ Toti says "Just a nursery painting - the snake is called Aurora, that means Dawn - it represents the Rainbow and the magic of light" (Right wall, over the speaker, to right of fireplace)
6. Shell - 01 - 50$ Another Valentine (Living Room Gallery, back of room, side of shelf)
7. Journey #3 - Ducks (On wall by guest room door, over the speaker)
8. In the woods – '89 – (SOLD) A simple journal page – hand made frame
*****9. Una mas love letter # - '07 - 120$ Same series of love letters, you will find another one in the Guest Room
10. Christmas DownTown L.A. – '01 – 120$ This belongs to a series of miniature maps, all other have been bought. Think about them as funny little stamps…
11. Dream # 3 (conversation in the woods) – 02 – 90$ This collage belongs to a series of dream paintings. It includes clay figures that I used to do with my eyes closed. Then, before destroying them, I photographed them and they took many roles in two dimensional pieces… Guest Room Gallery wall near window
12. Elephant's Planet - 02 - 280$ _ Belongs to a series of pod/planets (Living Room Gallery, left wall, near alcove)
13. I would have liked for it to be possible – 89 – 40$ This is also a pastel from a figurative journal of about 20 years ago.
14. Gypsy Violin – 89 – 50$
15. Journey #12 - Lions and Angels - 250$
16. One more love letter # (this is on hold)
17. Map #5 - Palermo, Sicily -'01 - $210 (near entry door, left, second from top)
18. Map #4Welcome to Paradise - '01 - $210(too many reflections, eventually will post better photo, near entry door, left second from bottom)
Fall – 07 - 200$ Another "fabric assemblage from a series of 4 seasons" (Living Room Gallery, left of Spring)
Spring – '07 - 200$ Toti says this is "one of her assemblages from a series of 4 seasons" (Living Room Gallery, left wall, toward the window)
Beauty and The Beast – '89 - 120$ Pretty old children painting on fairy tales (Living Room Gallery, left wall, center)
Frida & Nicholas - '04 - 180$ Toti says "Belongs to a series of more recent works involving drawing and painting/collage on paper." Left wall of Living Room Gallery, up high, center)
Vicki is not dead – 95 - 75$ (Living Room Gallery shows red image in this series) Toti says"It belongs to a series of etchings on the same theme. Refers to a twin/sister recurrent dream" (to the side of the fireplace)
Incantation #1- '02 – 320$ Toti says "One of three paintings about letters and bodies, again. These are about male and female, and all the strange beautiful worlds that define their separation, union, definition, confusion. In Italian, Spanish, French and English. Then there are the words that “sound like” and come add to the definition, randomly, arbitrarily and just for fun. Of course the charade is all yours. Please play with it. " (Living Room Gallery, up over the Guest Room door)
Incantation #2- '02 – 320$ Toti says again, "One of three paintings about letters and bodies, again. These are about male and female, and all the strange beautiful worlds that define their separation, union, definition, confusion. In Italian, Spanish, French and English. Then there are the words that “sound like” and come add to the definition, randomly, arbitrarily and just for fun. Of course the charade is all yours. Please play with it. " (In the Living Room Gallery, left wall near window, over our bedroom door)
Incantation #3- '02 – 320$ (will post a less blurry photo) Toti says again "One of three paintings about letters and bodies, again. These are about male and female, and all the strange beautiful worlds that define their separation, union, definition, confusion. In Italian, Spanish, French and English. Then there are the words that “sound like” and come add to the definition, randomly, arbitrarily and just for fun. Of course the charade is all yours. Please play with it. " (right wall of living room alcove)
Celeste – '84 – nfs Toti's comment "This is one of the illustrations for Italian writer Maria Celeste Celi’s “Loro non devono sapere” (They must not know), relating her childhood in Itlay in the fascist era." (top painting over the speaker by guest room door, over the speaker)
The client #2 – '89 – 40$ Toti's note "One more journal page" (Living Room Gallery to right of guest room door, to the right corner, middle painting, over speaker.)
Shells – '02 – 220$ Toti says "In this collage you see people flying, in between planet, searching for locations" (Living Room Gallery, right of guest room door, to the right corner, over the speaker.)
Whale’s duet – 89 – (SOLD) Collection Mara Mataric's baby grandaughter Another nursery scene
Untitled #1 – 95 - 120$ Toti says "It belongs to a series of collages involving the figure of Christ. It has been removed from the same hospital, because judged offensive to religion. It is not."
Genealogy of grace – 02 (Collection Kathabela and Rick Wilson) Toti says "It is both a body/writing piece and a night score. The painting overlaps notes for a novel and takes inspiration from them."
Long Beach blue vase $22.
Joy – '03 – 40$ Illustrated poem Poem reads: "like the other/octopus/that/against the aquarium's wall// draws in bubbles/ her hieratic dance/for the visitor/she/loves// arabesque/ of apparent/ immobility> Copyright Toti O'Brien 2003
Brighton Rock – '89 - 50$ Illustration for a Graham Green famous novel
Map #2 Asia - '01 - $210. (near entry door, top left)
Map #3 Europa - '01 - $210 (near entry door, left, bottom)
Map #1 - Hiberia - '01 - $210
Map #6 - In the Labyrinth - '01 - $210(near entry door, far right)
Palermo Sicily – '96 – 120$ Pretty intimate work, pages of a living journal, about 20 years ago, some finished later
Femme de Dieu – 86 – 50$ It was a cd cover for a song about God’s wife falling in love with the devil… I liked the song of course
Urlo (Scream) - 03 - 240$ Collage become assemblage with found objects (Living Room Gallery left wall, above)
Ithaca - 03 - 150$ Summer quasi/nursery paintings (Living Room gallery, left wall, above)
Hillside - 01 - 50$ - Belongs to a series of Valentines commissioned by the Folk Tree (Living Room Gallery, back of room, side of shelf)
Frida like K - 03 - 320 This is a very severe image of Frida Khalo and I feel that she reminds a bit of my beloved Franz Kafka. As if in this portrait they could share a same soul. Do you think it’s possible? In the front, there are two opponents, in a little boat. Frida contains them and supervise them… I’m sure you can solve the charade
Ma l'amore mio non muore #2 - 02 - 320$
Flamenco - 89 - 70$
Left Hand Birth - 00 - 180$
Fando and Lys #2 - 84 - 75$
Invaso #2 - Aino - 02 - 180$
Invaso #4 - Graytune - 02 - 180$
Invaso #3 - Lifelight - 02 - 180$
Obscure Selves #9 (Eros) - '01 - 120$ Toti says "This belongs to a book called Obscure Selves. The clay figures that are photographed on the pages were sculpted with my eyes closed. Once I took the pictures, I destroyed the figures. I printed the photographs on Museum paper, then layered them with painting and collage. The narrative refers to Dante’s Divina Commedia. The all series is exhibited in a county hospital, but this one has been removed because judged inappropriate" (Living Room Gallery, right wall, to right of fireplace, over the speaker, over the "serpent")
X Large - 03 - 250$
Season #4 - 99 - 150$
Season #2- 99 - 150$
Journey #8- Mills - 250$
Journey #7- Squirrel Moon - 250$
Journey #9- Snails in the Labyrinth - 250$
Journey #10 - Busy frogs - 98 - 250$
Concettina - 92 - 120$
Hillside in the snow - 99 - 150$
Anita's dollhouse - 99 - 150$
Merge Lovers - 03 – 240$
Stub - 02 – 380$
Miniature Garden - 99 - 75$ each
Minature Garden '99 $75 each
Burning Johanna #1 – 95 – 75$
Ma l'amor mio non muore #1 – 01 – 320$ This belongs to a series called “Writing the body”. It involves drawing of letters that are actually bodies in motion… It involves pictures of bodies that in fact are doing/creating/ expressing/saying something. It is a body alphabet that says body sentences… Because body have souls and can talk
Fando e Lys #1 – 84 – 75$ Illustrations for a play of Fernando Arrabal (from a series of studies for the final poster). The play tells about how dependency in relationships makes people ill.
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Sweet wolf – 89 – 50$
Toti – 89 – 40$
In the woods – 89 – 40$ All those are pastels from a figurative journal of about 20 years ago. They all relate to the night and dream.
Dream # 2 (dark woods) – 02 – 90$ From a series of paintings based on dreams, again
Out of the blue – 03 – 280$ My collages in 2003 started to become assemblage, wanting to come out of the frame. After all what else are frames for? Many pieces represent angels, like this one
Blue lagoon – 89 – 40$ More dancers
Bimba – 02 - 280$ It belongs to the series “Writing the body”. It contains references to Hebrew scripture and ancient scripture. Decoded by a little girl (bimba in my language)\
Season #3– 99 – 150$
Season #1 – 99 – 150$
Journey #5 – 98 - 250$
Journey #1– 98 - 250$
Journey #2– 98 - 250$
89) Quisa Sibilas Quisa Sombras - 07 - 280$ This painting responds to a poem of my friend Manuel Luna, “Una Mujer un vestido rojo”. It’s a very strong poem, about a woman that loses her son at the borders. It has lots of political and social meanings, but also simply talks about a pain so deep that it becomes madness. I know that pain, I have seen it. I was thinking of the poem while painting, but also of some dreams of mine where I saw women with huge open internal cavities in their chest, through which they could feel and understand things at a very different level. Women like Sibilas… Like Cassandras. Sorry if the concept is a bit dark, for some… This is what the painting is about.
Little Eva – 84 – 40$ Long time ago, from a quantity of illustrations and nursery paintings (many more are available for children rooms)
Vicki is not dead – 95 - 75$ Toti says"It belongs to a series of etchings on the same theme. Refers to a twin/sister recurrent dream" (to the side of the fireplace)edit
Minotaur My Love – 99 – 240$ A relatively old piece, this is not a collage, only a pastel, but it still comes in bits and pieces… like whatever I do. Once, in this Poetry salon I defined Love as a Monster. Somebody felt kind of offended, thinking that Monster is bad and Love good. Well, Monster has never been bad for me. “Monster” is any reality composed by incongruous parts that supposedly shouldn’t belong. But sometimes they want to and they just come together, creating a Monster. That can be adorable indeed, and I really love Minotaur.
Resurrection of Virtue #1 – 02 - 180$ This belongs to a series of collages that involve words and figure drawing. Most drawing interpret the sculptures of one of my favorite artist, Cecilia Miguez. Like most of my work, please take this like a strange charade… I’m sure you can solve it
Selfportrait at 43 (Soulsearch) – 02 – 150$ It is an intimate portrait, thinking of when I was a schoolgirl
Je ne croisrais je qu'a toi Belongs to a series called "jenecroiraisquatoi", a phonetical rendition of a French sentence that could roughly translate into "Iwontbelievebutyou". The all series refers to the fact that, especially when big and painful deals are at stake, it is difficult to establish where the truth lies and who really can tell it. We end up with the need of making a choice, of believing, more than what it's said, what our feelings tell us, what we perceive in the sphere of our emotions and feelings. And the other image is Diego kissing her on her death bed, since, contrasting with what everyone would think, he had the strength of accompanying her in her agony and loving her until the last instant. History is not always the official one, not exactly. There are subtleties... were truth hides. They belong to the heart.
Je ne croirais qu'a toi Those two paintings belong to a series called "jenecroiraisquatoi", a phonetical rendition of a French sentence that could roughly translate into "Iwontbelievebutyou". The all series refers to the fact that, especially when big and painful deals are at stake, it is difficult to establish where the truth lies and who really can tell it. We end up with the need of making a choice, of believing, more than what it's said, what our feelings tell us, what we perceive in the sphere of our emotions and feelings. So I chose Frida with a letter in her hands, like if she just read in that letter a truth that would, for example, deepen and steady her profound affection for Diego, her certainty of his worthiness, in spite and above what everybody had to say of his infidelities.
