The Triton Museum of Art presents -futility in three acts- (August 29, 2026 - January 10, 2027) by Sieglinde Van Damme. Sieglinde Van Damme is a California-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work is focused on abstraction as an open, undefined potential to new interpretations. Her work reflects on the depth of our individual pasts and the complex dynamics behind big life choices. Van Damme’s message for her art is: re-imagine what else is possible. Born in Belgium, Sieglinde Van Damme moved to California in 1998. Van Damme graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) with a MS in Economics and a MFA from San Jose State University. Van Damme’s art and writings have been published in various catalogs and publications, both in the US and Europe. As an award-winning artist, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, including the US, Europe, Russia, India, and Japan. Van Damme’s art is also included in private and corporate collections around the globe, including Sotheby’s International Realty in France - Monaco. Sieglinde Van Damme’s upcoming exhibit, -futility in three acts-, explores identity, memory, adaptation, and how we continue to negotiate who we are as we move through life. Having immigrated to the US from Belgium, Van Damme realized that adapting to new circumstances where our experiences change our identity asks us to consider what parts of us stay, evolve, or have to be let go as a result of our many choices. Structured in three movements: destruction, reconstruction, and re-imagination. Van Damme wants us to utilize this exhibit to explore what happens when life changes course: What remains? What evolves? How do we stay connected to who we are while allowing new possibilities to emerge? At its core, this exhibit reflects a belief that “life itself is a creative act. That identity is not singular. And that we often have more freedom, possibility, and authorship in shaping our own lives than we realize,” Van Damme states. Van Damme’s exhibit comes forth to not only have viewers reflect on their own understanding of transformation as a concept, but what transformation means within the context of their own individual lives. -futility in three acts- by Sieglinde Van Damme will be on view in the Triton Museum of Art’s Digital Gallery starting August 29th, 2026. The exhibit will unfold in three parts, featuring: -futility in three acts-: On view August 29th, 2026 - October 8th, 2026 V O I D: On view October 8th, 2026 - November 19th, 2026 Things change and then nothing happens: On view November 19th, 2026 - January 10th, 2027

The Triton Museum of Art presents Rose Sellery: Fragile Strength (August 29, 2026 - January 3, 2027). Rose Sellery is a Santa Cruz-based, multidisciplinary artist whose work navigates the dichotomies of beauty and brutality, fragility and strength, traditional and rebellion by way of using various objects, often overlooked or discarded, and crafting a story through their own visual language. Originally from Venice, CA, Rose Sellery’s creative path has been shaped by years in the ceramics, woodworking, and jewelry industries, experiences that continue to inform her tactile, materially driven practice. She has also played a significant role in her local arts community, serving as Program Coordinator at Cabrillo Gallery, as a driving force behind FashionArt Santa Cruz, and later co-founding Pivot: The Art of Fashion. Currently, Sellery is a co-owner and curator at MK Contemporary Art in downtown Santa Cruz and founder of the Ripple Effect Arts Festival. The artist’s upcoming exhibition, Rose Sellery: Fragile Strength, explores the complexities of our lives through sculpture, conceptual garments, and photography. Everyday objects and materials - glass, fabric, metal, bone, found objects - whose value may otherwise be found solely in their utility - are sculpted and arranged into narratives that carry the weight of culture and history. Using humor and irony as an entry point, what lies beyond the softened execution is a plethora of conversations on issues of gender bias, societal pressure, resilience and survival. Ultimately, Sellery’s practice is about holding space for these many contradictions and complexities we experience in our lives, as well as giving reverence to the lived experiences that are often minimized or even erased. Rose Sellery: Fragile Strength will be on view in the Triton Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection Gallery starting August 29th, 2026.

The Triton Museum of Art presents Eye/Hand (August 29, 2026 - January 3, 2027) by Harry Clewans. Harry Clewans is an Oakland-based, largely self-taught artist whose work reveals how the big picture is made up of all the little details. Harry Clewans started out as a painter and has been working out of his studio in Oakland, CA since 1983. Clewans’s art consists of large-scale woodblock prints by assembling hundreds of smaller printed images. For the past thirty years, Clewans has been making the woodcuts for these pieces from found objects and has since built an extensive collection that he uses and reuses for his work. For every woodcut made, Clewans has a print of it that he’s pinned to the wall in his studio, serving as a sort of periodic table, each individual woodcut being an element for the larger picture. Harry Clewans’s upcoming exhibition, Eye/Hand, is a collection of works that hope to communicate that all things, by virtue of their makeup, are connected. Because the woodcuts are made from found items, Clewans also wants to emphasize that “all things participate in a cycle of composition and decomposition, in which the old, the broken down, and the disposed of becomes material for the new.” Some of these woodcuts may consist of objects such as a broken lightbulb, a battered plastic toy, a dried piece of kelp, etc. The texture of one woodcut image may be used to depict the skin of an animal, the ground floor, or the trunk of a tree. Exhibited extensively in California, nationally and abroad, his work has been awarded the James Phalen Award for printmaking and a fellowship at the Kala Institute of Art. His work has also been collected by The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, the Mills College Art Collection and the Judah L. Magnes Museum. Harry Clewans’s exhibition, Eye/Hand, will be on view in the Triton Museum of Art’s John and Eve Mathias Gallery starting August 29th, 2026.

The Triton Museum of Art presents Here and There (August 22, 2026 - January 17, 2027) by Tim Guan. Tim Guan was the Best of Show winner of the 2025 Salon at the Triton: A 2D Art Competition & Exhibition with his selected artwork, George, Doomscrolling (2024) Tim Guan is a San Francisco-based, figurative oil painter whose art is influenced by his life and his background in technology. For as long as he could remember, art has been an integral part of his identity and remained that way even through his earlier career. As someone who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over a decade, Tim Guan has borne witness to the high-speed changes of public and private life, either as a direct result of digital innovation or a byproduct of it. Once a “true believer” in the promises of the tech industry, his paintings aid him in exploring his complex feelings regarding his personal complicity in these changes as they sit alongside his critiques of them. After finding ways to remain committed to his art during the COVID-19 pandemic, Guan left the tech industry in 2025 to be a full-time artist. Tim Guan’s upcoming exhibition, Here and There, presents a collection of works that examines our relationship to embodied experience. The digital world has become inseparable from our everyday life, affecting the way we keep in touch with our loved ones, to the way we choose our next meal, down to how we develop and foster relationships. Here and There represents the internet granting us the ability to essentially be “here and there,” in multiple places at once, but being less present than ever. “As so much of our lives shift online, the body can come to feel less like an essential dimension of the self and more like something to be managed, optimized, or transcended altogether,” Guan states. With nearly unfettered access to the world around us, in many ways it creates fractures in our socialization and ability to develop certain types of connections. The figures in Guan’s pieces speak to the various conditions we find ourselves in and how they negotiate their bids for connection. Guan’s exhibition offers these questions for viewers: What remains unique, meaningful, or irreplaceable about physical experience? What is worth noticing, preserving, and honoring about life in a body? Tim Guan’s work has been exhibited around the Bay Area at Wessling Contemporary, Decentered Arts Studio, The Drawing Room, Rosebud Gallery, and the Triton Museum of Art. You can learn more on Tim’s website and socials at timguan.art. Here and There by Tim Guan will be on view in the Triton Museum of Art’s Rotunda Gallery starting August 22nd, 2026.

The Triton Museum of Art presents Intrusive Thoughts (August 15, 2026 - January 17, 2027) by Devon Blood. Devon Blood is a Bay Area-based tattoo artist and author whose work, at its heart and in its blood, is driven by the conviction to not just triumph over adversity, but to “keep laughing” and stay positive throughout the journey. A third-generation San Franciscan, Devon Blood grew up one of eight children, with a strong, and supportive single mother. Growing up in a working-class family, Devon Blood understood that life wouldn’t be easy - it would often have its highest highs and its lowest lows. Though what made things more difficult was struggling with undiagnosed OCD, which also shaped the framework of how he moved through his life. At the age of twenty-six, Blood was a rising star in the Oakland tattoo industry. However, his life changed drastically in 2006 when a botched home invasion and robbery resulted in a near-fatal gunshot wound to the head. Miraculously, Blood survived his injuries. However, he still faced severe hemiparesis, his right hand developing micro tremors as well as extreme atrophy. As a result, he had to teach himself how to be left-handed through consistent daily practice. To this day, Blood still continues to suffer from the aftereffects of the bullet colliding with his brainstem. In a remarkable series of triumphs, Devon Blood taught himself to tattoo and continue making art with the left side of his body, resulting in the creation of an entirely new portfolio based on his new aesthetic. Blood also published an autobiographical book aptly titled, Keep Laughing, reflecting on his experiences accompanied with photographs and artwork from before, during, and after his recovery. Devon Blood’s upcoming exhibition, Intrusive Thoughts, is a culmination of his journey thus far and a visual chronicle of some of his greatest dreams and worst nightmares. It is an exhibition that is raw and vulnerable, allowing visitors the opportunity to witness art that marks a particularly personal chapter of Devon Blood’s life. “[Intrusive Thoughts] is a twisted tribute to my firm conviction in life that no matter who you are, or what you're going through, you have to stay up, stay strong, and above all else - keep laughing,” Blood states. Today, Devon Blood is the proud father of two, featured by Vans during their Pass the Bucket campaign, more recently the subject of a Hearst Television special featured on their subsidiary KCRA Channel 3 Sacramento, and continuing to be a rising talent in the modern art world. Devon Blood’s exhibition, Intrusive Thoughts, will be on view in the Triton Museum of Art’s Cowell Room Gallery starting August 15th, 2026.

Echoes of the Pitch by Pancho Jiménez The City of Santa Clara and The Triton Museum of Art presents Fútbol: The Art of the Game, a group exhibition and fundraiser (May 16, 2026 - August 2, 2026). To celebrate the upcoming FIFA World Cup* soccer games coming to Santa Clara this summer, The City of Santa Clara and The Triton Museum of Art are hosting a special exhibition combining both sports and art. Soccer, also known as fútbol, is a sport played by millions of people around the world. It’s also a sport that combines passion and community. This special exhibition features one-of-a-kind artwork from a talented group of diverse Bay Area artists. The exhibition is also a special fundraiser for the Museum. These skilled artists have given their time and talents to provide the Museum with donated works that correspond with the soccer theme. The art, in each artist’s respective style, will either incorporate an actual soccer ball or a reimagination of one. All works will be for sale through the Museum, starting at the artists’ reception on May 16, 2026 at 12:00 pm, and through the duration of the exhibition.** All funds received from the sale of these works goes directly back to the Triton Museum of Art to help support our mission of art, community, and education. Participating Artists: Sean Boyles, Vanessa Callanta, Ryan Campbell, Trung Cao, Judith Cook, Jonathan Crow, Mei-Ying Dell’Aquila, Ron Dell’Aquila, Steve Dellicarpini, Jemal Diamond, David Einstein, Mark Engel, Donny Foley, Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian, Hila Itszhak, Pancho Jiménez, Dean Larson, Lorraine Lawson, Hana Lock, Lost San Jose, Miguel Machuca, James Mertke, Preston Metcalf, Olivia Osborn, Jeff Owen, Peter Paluzzi, Jonathan Perea, Priyanka Rana, Alieh Rezaei, Ayesha Samdani, Tandem Panting (Suzette McDonough & James Whitehouse), Kori Thompson, Cedric Vu We wish to thank all of the participating artists – it is because of you, our community, that we exist and thrive. Fútbol: The Art of the Game will be on view in the Triton Museum of Art’s Cowell Room Gallery starting May 16th, 2026. *The City of Santa Clara and The Triton Museum of Art are not affiliated with FIFA or any professional soccer or sports association. ** Artwork will be sold on a first come, first served basis. We will not be reserving works for anyone; they must be purchased directly from the Museum in person starting at the artists’ reception. If artwork is not sold at the reception, it will remain for sale through the duration of the exhibition. Any sold works will remain on view in the Triton Museum for the duration of the exhibition and may be picked up by the buyer from the Museum once the exhibition has concluded.

Visual Duets: The Art of Creating Together The Triton Museum of Art presents Visual Duets: The Art of Creating Together (May 16, 2026 - August 16, 2026) by Judith Cook and David Einstein, Donald (Aldo) and Era Farnsworth, Ellen Konar and Steve Goldband, and Tandem Painting (Suzette McDonough and James Whitehouse). This exhibition brings together four collaborative artist duos whose creative practices demonstrate the power of partnership and shared artistic vision. Across the four duets, this exhibition showcases painting, photography, printmaking, and mixed-media artwork. This exhibition features painters Judith Cook and David Einstein. Over the span of two decades, Cook and Einstein’s collaboration transforms abstraction into a visual conversation. Working across oil, acrylic, ink, and mixed media, their process unfolds as a responsive exchange, each mark replying to the other. Nature is what first sparked their partnership and expanded into explorations of social, cultural, and environmental themes; their work merges two distinct sensibilities into unified compositions that emphasize gesture, color, and spatial dynamics. Cook’s focus on inner perception and transformation complements Einstein’s process-driven exploration of light, flow, and color, resulting in layered works that balance intuition with formal rigor. Also featured are Donald (Aldo) Farnsworth and Era Farnsworth, whose partnership bridges art, understanding of materials, and art history. Working through Magnolia Editions, the collaborative studio they co-founded, their practice spans Jacquard tapestry, printmaking, papermaking, and drawing. Their work reflects a deep engagement with materials as carriers of history, often incorporating techniques inspired by Renaissance-era papermaking and traditional Japanese processes. Their ongoing projects - including the Art Notes series and a narrative-driven exploration of Mount Fuji, blend craftsmanship, experimentation, and storytelling, demonstrating how collaboration can evolve into a way of life. Photographic artists Ellen Konar and Steve Goldband present works from their series Bayscapes, a body of work capturing the vivid, otherworldly salt ponds of the San Francisco Bay. These photographs document a landscape shaped by 150 years of industrial activity and now undergoing ecological restoration. “The beauty is real. So is the ruin,” Konar and Goldband state. Combining Goldband’s sensitivity to geometry and light with Konar’s interest in memory and meaning, the work exists as both environmental advocacy and elegy, holding the tension between beauty and loss as these striking, accidental abstractions disappear. The exhibition also highlights Tandem Painting, the collaborative practice of Suzette McDonough and James Whitehouse. Their vibrant figurative works center on identity, representation, and social justice, uplifting everyday individuals as they view them - as heroes. Drawing from McDonough’s background in visual storytelling and community engagement, and Whitehouse’s experience in science, law, and activism, their paintings aim to uplift while provoking reflection. Rooted in mutual respect and dialogue, their process mirrors the themes they explore: belonging, resilience, and the power of being seen. Visual Duets: The Art of Creating Together will be on view in the Triton Museum of Art’s John and Eve Mathias Gallery starting May 16th, 2026.

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