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Learn more about the Art Classes that are offered at the Triton Museum of art, whether it be an online course or an in person after school class. Art Courses & Workshops Filter by Age Demographic Select Age Demographic Filter by Course Type Select Course Type Filter by In Person or Online Select In Person or Online Create with the Curator: Paint Night at the Triton Workshop Enjoy a step-by-step paint night this February with Triton Museum’s Curator and Artist Vanessa Callanta. Price $40 Early Bird Pricing (Until Jan 30th), $40 for Members, $50 for Non-Members (after Early Bird Pricing ends) Duration 1 Day Dates & Time Friday, February 13th, 2026 from 6:30PM-8:30PM Read More Wet & Needle: Felting a 2D Piece with Alieh Rezaei Workshop Join us for a hands-on workshop - combining Wet Felting and Needle Felting techniques - with artist Alieh Rezaei at the Triton Museum. Price $60 for Members, $70 for Non-Members Duration 1 Day Dates & Time Saturday, February 28th, 12:30PM-3:30PM Read More Treasure of Asian Art (Lecture Series) Lecture Join Triton Museum of Art Executive Director, Preston Metcalf, for an enriching lecture series on Asian Art! Price $80 for entire series, $25 for individual drop-in lectures Duration 4 Weeks Dates & Time Thursday evenings, March 26th through April 16th, from 7:00PM-8:30PM Read More Wild Critters: Explorations in Drawing (Triton Online: Winter 2026) Art Class Start off 2026 by joining Jeff Bramschreiber in an online exploration of drawing media, this time focused on different wild critters. Price Members (6 Weeks): $120 Members (8 Weeks): $160 Non-Members (6 Weeks): $140 Non-Members (8 Weeks): $180 Day Pass: $21 (Members), $24 (Non-Members) Duration 6 Weeks, 8 Weeks Dates & Time Friday Evenings from January 9th through February 27th from 6:00PM-8:00PM Read More The Texture of Remembering by Seema Kohli Workshop Join artist Seema Kohli and the team of Laasya Art for a special immersive workshop on memory and identity. Price Members: $95, General: $100 Duration 1-Day Dates & Time Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 from 11:00AM-1:30PM Read More Fabric Manipulation Workshop: Creating a Fabric Butterfly Wish Workshop Join us for a workshop on making a handmade fabric piece with guest artist Leila Ghasempor. Price Members: $70, Non-Members: $75 Duration 1 Day Dates & Time Saturday, April 18th, 2026 from 1:00PM-3:00PM Read More Warli: An Art With Geometry (Workshop with Lalima Srivastava) Workshop Join us at the Triton Museum this April for a workshop on Warli Art, instructed by guest artist Lalima Srivastava. Price Members: $85, Non-Members: $90 Duration 1 Day Dates & Time Saturday, April 25th, 2026 from 11:30AM-3:00PM Read More Fundamental Painting Class: Exploring the Elements of Art (Spring 2026) Art Class Join Art Educator Maryam Moshiry for a 6-week painting class, in-person at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara! Price Members: $320, Non-Members: $350 Duration 6-Weeks Dates & Time Thursdays, March 12th through April 16th from 10:30AM-12:30PM Read More Knife Painting the Wild in Acrylics (Triton Online: Winter 2026) Art Class Join us in our Triton Online Series of Acrylics with Jeff Bramschreiber! The focus of this round will be on Knife Painting for 6 or 8 weeks. Price Members (6 Weeks): $120 Members (8 Weeks): $160 Non-Members (6 Weeks): $140 Non-Members (8 Weeks): $180 Day Pass: $21 (Members), $24 (Non-Members) Duration 6 Weeks, 8 Weeks Dates & Time Thursday Evenings from January 8th through February 26th from 6:00PM-8:00PM Read More Fundamental Painting Class: Exploring the Elements of Art Workshop Join Art Educator Maryam Moshiry for a 6-week painting class, in-person at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara! Price $300 for Members, $320 for Non-Members Duration 6 Weeks Dates & Time Thursday Mornings from 10:30AM-12:30PM, January 15th through February 19th Read More Year of the Horse: Lunar Painting Workshop (Teens and Adults, Ages 13+) Workshop Let’s paint today! In this workshop for teens and adults, celebrate the new year with the Triton Museum and instructor Mei-Ying Dell’Aquila in a special painting session on the iconic animal: the Horse! Price $26 per person Duration 1 Day Dates & Time Sunday, March 8th, 2026 from 1:00PM-3:00PM Read More Sketchbook Magic (Triton Online Winter 2026) Art Class Join artist Jeff Bramschreiber and the Triton Museum for a new online class on exploring the magic of using your sketchbook. Price Members (6 Weeks): $120 Members (8 Weeks): $160 Non-Members (6 Weeks): $140 Non-Members (8 Weeks): $180 Day Pass: $21 (Members), $24 (Non-Members) Duration 6 Weeks, 8 Weeks Dates & Time Wednesday Evenings from January 7th through February 25th from 6:00PM-8:00PM Read More Let’s Paint Horses! A Children’s Lunar Art Workshop (Ages 6-12) Workshop Neigh, neigh, let’s paint today! Rein in the new year of 2026 with the Triton Museum and instructor Mei-Ying Dell’Aquila in a special children’s painting workshop on the iconic animal: the Horse! Price $26 per person Duration 1 Day Dates & Time Sunday, March 8th, 2026 from 10:00AM-12:00PM Read More

< Back Let’s Paint Horses! A Children’s Lunar Art Workshop (Ages 6-12) Price $26 per person Location Triton Museum of Art Dates Sunday, March 8th, 2026 from 10:00AM-12:00PM Duration 1 Day Enroll About the Course As a symbol of bravery and strength, the Horse has been depicted in visual art since prehistoric times. Art Educator Mei-Ying Dell’Aquila will guide your child in creating their own Horse painting inspired by the style of Franz Marc and Expressionism. Required Materials: As this is a painting class, please have your child wear clothes that they are comfortable wearing around acrylic paint, as well as shoes that are comfortable for walking. (Optional: Bring an apron for painting) A portion of the workshop will be spent outdoors. All other materials will be provided for use during the workshop. Objectives: Learn to depict the shape of the horse. Children will also have the option of depicting the mythological unicorn or pegasus. Encourage children to practice creativity and imagination. Learn about bright colors in Expressionism. Practice with big brushstrokes in painting. Observe sculptures on the Triton Museum grounds for inspiration. Triton Museum History: The iconic Morgan Horse sculpture in front of the Triton Museum was commissioned by our museum’s founder, Robert Morgan, whose favorite horse was also named Triton. Learn more from the City of Santa Clara website. ( https://www.santaclaraca.gov/Home/Components/ServiceDirectory/ServiceDirectory/1261/2661 ) FAQ Please note: This workshop will be offered twice on the same day for different age groups: pick between a children’s workshop in the morning (ages 6 to 12) or a teen’s/adult’s workshop in the afternoon. (ages 13 and up) Please ensure you are selecting the correct time slot when registering. Cancellations: The Triton Museum may cancel a class, camp, or workshop due to weather, health, an emergency, or low attendance. In those cases, the registered attendee will be notified of the cancellation as soon as possible and will be offered a refund or credit for the class. Photography Policy: The Triton Museum reserves the right to use photographs taken during classes and workshops for publicity and media purposes. This includes but is not limited to the Triton website and social media. If you do not want yourself or your child included in these photographs, please notify Triton staff at the time of enrollment. Questions? Please contact education@tritonmuseum.org Your Instructor Mei-Ying Dell'Aquila Mei-Ying Dell’Aquila is a Taiwanese American award-winning artist residing in California. Primarily working in oils, her work has been exhibited in solo and juried shows in museums and galleries throughout the US, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA and the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon. Mei-Ying holds a Master of Arts degree from San Francisco State University and is the former owner and teacher at My Art School, an afterschool art program she ran for 25 years in Cupertino. As an educator, she encourages students to become the best they can be through promoting “self-empowerment to take charge and change the world for the better.” This legacy can be seen in her own paintings, which depict strong, confident figures and dynamism. Website: https://meiyingdellaquila.org/

< Back Fundamental Painting Class: Exploring the Elements of Art (Spring 2026) Price Members: $320, Non-Members: $350 Location Linn Studio Dates Thursdays, March 12th through April 16th from 10:30AM-12:30PM Duration 6-Weeks Enroll About the Course Enter into a beginner-level/intermediate-level painting class designed to introduce students to the foundational elements of art while fostering their ability to articulate and analyze visual language. The class is aimed at individuals interested in developing a strong artistic foundation, whether for personal expression or as a stepping stone to more advanced techniques. Objectives: Introduce students to the fundamental elements of art: line, shape, form, space, color, value, and texture. Develop a visual vocabulary to describe and analyze artworks. Build confidence in applying artistic concepts to creative projects. Encourage experimentation and personal expression through structured practice. Required Materials: Please bring your own: Drawing Paper Pad or Mixed-Media Paper Pad Apron (optional) Curriculum Outline Introduction to the Elements of Art: Definitions and visual examples. Line and Shape: Exploring contour, gesture, and geometric vs. organic shapes. Form and Space: Creating depth through perspective and volume. Color Theory: Understanding hue, value, saturation, and color relationships. Value and Texture: Techniques for rendering light, shadow, and surface quality. Integrative Practice: Combining elements to create balanced compositions. Final Project: Individual creative piece demonstrating the learned concepts. Your Instructor Maryam Moshiry Maryam Moshiry is a full time artist and art teacher who currently lives and works in the Bay Area. She has been painting for over 20 years and has exhibited her work in numerous shows across Iran and the United States. In addition to her studio practice, Maryam has been teaching painting and drawing to both children and adults for more than 15 years, sharing her passion for art and creativity with students of all ages. Website: https://maryammoshiry.com/

See all of our current and upcoming events at the Triton Museum of Art. What's On 2026 Salon at the Triton: A 2D Art Competition & Exhibition Submission deadline: March 13, 2026 Exhibition: May 2 - August 16, 2026 Artists Reception: May 16, 2026 Welcome to the 2026 Salon at the Triton: A 2D Art Competition & Exhibition - our annual art competition! Open to all artists living and working in California, this is an incredible opportunity to show off your work. And who knows? You may just see your work on our Museum's walls. For all information on this competition, including entry instructions, juror information, and important deadlines, head over to our dedicated webpage. tritonmuseum.org/salon-2026 or click the 2026 SALON link under our Art + Events tab! RSVP Jonathan Crow Artist Talk Friday, March 6th, 2026 1:00PM - 2:00PM Free Admission (RSVP on Eventbrite) Inside the Triton Museum Jonathan Crow is a Santa Clara-based artist whose background in film heavily influences and shapes his work. Crow’s experience combined with oil as his primary medium come together in exploring form, color, and tension to create pieces that are reminiscent of stills from movies. Jonathan Crow’s exhibition, Cul-de-sac , consists of a curated collection of paintings that combine the quiet, unassuming stillness of suburbia, with moments of dark and unsettling humor. These scenes in his paintings draw inspiration from Edward Hopper, Richard Diebenkorn, and the films of David Lynch. In many of these scenes, there is a “growing unease” or “some menace that looms just outside the frame,” as Crow explains, which also brings forth conversations of vital topics including race, gender, and the complicated nature of living in America. This event gives you the opportunity to meet the artist and learn more about him and his work, while viewing the artist's current exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art. This event is free and open to the public (including free parking). RSVP Cynthia Ona Innis Artist Talk Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 12:00PM - 1:00PM Free Admission (RSVP on Eventbrite) Inside the Triton Museum Cynthia Ona Innis’s upcoming exhibition, Seams , is a collection of abstract pieces where pigments and textiles “meet at the seams” and have a conversation. Innis’s approach to abstraction is rooted in a physical, process-driven practice. The dialogue between the pigments and the textiles are uncovered through the way they respond to each other; pigments poured directly onto the fabric, bleach used to remove color, materials cut, stitched, assembled and reassembled. Engaging with the textures and weights of these materials, Innis allows her surfaces to transform organically, reflecting the ongoing evolution of this process. “Across these works, stitching, knitting, layering, and suspension become meditations on connection and fracture - memory and material, permanence and impermanence. The resulting surfaces reflect the layered experiences that shape how we see and move through the natural world,” Innis explains. This event gives you the opportunity to meet the artist and learn more about him and his work, while viewing the artist's current exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art. This event is free and open to the public (including free parking). RSVP Jacqueline Boberg Artist Talk Saturday, March 14th, 2026 1:00PM - 2:00PM Free Admission (RSVP on Eventbrite) Inside the Triton Museum Jacqueline Boberg is a Bay Area based mixed media artist whose focus is creating dynamic, vibrant works that jump on and off the wall. Jacqueline Boberg’s current exhibition Edge of Silence consists of an array of pieces that showcases her ongoing journey in design and mixed media. Boberg’s artistic exploration spans over thirty years across a multitude of mediums including watercolor, pastel, oil, and acrylic. A decade in abstract mixed media reshaped her artistic vision and she has recently returned to landscapes and still lifes, merging contemporary experimentation with timeless observation. This event gives you the opportunity to meet the artist and learn more about her and her work, while viewing the artist's current exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art. This event is free and open to the public (including free parking). RSVP Emanuela Harris Sintamarian Artist Talk Friday, March 27th, 2026 1:00PM - 2:00PM Free Admission (RSVP on Eventbrite) Inside the Triton Museum Emanuela Harris Sintamarian’s current exhibition, The Theater of Premature Truths , consists of a series of works that explores her personal identity and lived experiences within context. As a Romanian immigrant in the United States, Emanuela Harris Sintamarian’s work is shaped by the negotiation between belonging and estrangement. Concepts of dualism, fragmentation, and migration show up in Sintamarian’s pieces, reflecting on the complexity of identity and memories. “I construct polyphonic images - fractured allegories of my physical, emotional, and intellectual journey. Loss, displacement, and containment become catalysts for ritualized acts of self-expropriation, transforming absence into generative force,” Sintamarian describes. This event gives you the opportunity to meet the artist and learn more about her and her work, while viewing the artist's current exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art. This event is free and open to the public (including free parking).

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2023 Salon at the Triton Museum: 2D Competition Winners Thank you to all of the artists who submitted and participated in our 2023 Salon at the Triton Museum of Art: 2D Competition. 2023 Salon at the Triton Museum Recipients Andrew Leone Andy Nguyen B. Nicole Klassen Barbara McLain Bernard Lint Bing Zhang Bismillah Iqbal Brandon Stauffer Brenda York Cathy Locke Chiachen Wang Chieko Shimizu Chris Patio Christie Marks Clark Gussin Dana Mano-Flank Dana Weigand Dave Ralston Deborah Hall Denise Howard Denise Laws Dottie Lo Bue Edi Matsumoto Elaine Heron Elena Mukhina Elizabeth Barlow Enrique Luna Eric Guan Fei Fiorenza Gorini Hadi Aghaee Hana Lock Hanh Tran Hargun M Mann Heather Capen Helen Yang Hwei-Li Tsao James Mertke Jane Yuen Corich Janet Yelner Janey Fritsche Jaya King Jeff Herman Jeff Ishikawa Jemal Diamond Jim Promessi Jonathan Crow Jonathan L. Clark Joy Broom Julia Munger Seelos Julia Woods Julie Grantz Julie Tsang Kavanagh Juliette Berman Jung Han Kim Kaaren Marquez Kanna Aoki Karen Cox Karl L Jensen Katherine Young Kendra Morrison Kevin Bjorke Laura Mchugh Leslie Landers Lin-Ching Peng Lorraine Lawson Lou Bermingham Lynne Auld Maeve Croghan Mariana Moreno-Gonzalez Marie Cameron Marise Zimmermann Marti Somers Mats Olsson Matthew Reynolds Maura Carta May Shei MeiYing Dell-Aquila Melissa Kreisa Mila Kirillova Mina Ho Ferrante Muneeba Zeeshan Ni Zhu Olivia Chen Omar Harb Pat Moseuk Patricia Jones Paul Art Lee Peter Baczek Peter Carey Peter R. Paluzzi Raja GuhaThakurta Richard Dweck Renée Switkes Robert Semans Ron Dell'Aquila Seema Gupta Sena Clara Creston Sharon Pomales Tousey Silvia Poloto Stanislava Chening Starr Davis Stephanie Gieralt Mullaly Stephen Mangum Susan Chan Susan Manchester Susie Wilson Suszi Lurie McFadden Tiffany Wan Trung Cao Youming Cate Yuliia Kolesnytska 2023 Salon Best of Show Winner! Hana Lock Guren , 2022, Ballpoint Pen, Acrylic, Watercolor, Ink and Gold Foil on Wood Panels, 24" x 72" Painting First Place Cathy Locke Tea Leaves , 2022, Oil, 25" x 31" Second Place Julie Kavanagh Girl with Dahlias , 2021, Oil on Panel, 28" x 24" Drawing First Place Tiffany Wan Serenity , 2023, Graphite, 20" x 26.25" Second Place Youming Cate Girl with Pearl Necklace , 2023, Pastel on Paper, 27.5" x 21.5" Photography First Place Elaine Heron Mongolian Hunter and His Eagle , 2022, Photography, 20" x 24" Second Place Ron Dell'Aquila Storefront Conversation , 2023, Photography, 20" x 30" Mixed Media / Printmaking First Place Peter Baczek Flying Buttress , 2022, Etching, 25" x 21" Second Place Brenda York A Conspiracy Of Happenstance And Moondust, 2023, Mixed Media on Canvas, 30" x 48" Director's & Curator's Choice Director's Choice (Preston Metcalf, Executive Director and Senior Curator): Katherine Young, The Sacred Sea Curator's Choice (Vanessa Callanta, Curator): Stanislava Chening, Sonya Curator's Choice (Bryan Callanta, Curator of Digital Programming): Chieko Shimizu, AMAVI Director's Choice Preston Metcalf, Executive Director and Senior Curator Katherine Young The Sacred Sea , 2023, Mixed Media--Oil and Gold Leaf on Wood Panel, 60" x 60"

Visit the Triton Museum of Art. Check out our hours, location, and guidelines. Admission to the Triton is free of charge; additionally, we offer free parking. Visit the Triton Museum of Art Address 1505 Warburton Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95050 Hours Tuesday - Sunday: 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed on Mondays & holidays Admission The Museum provides free parking, and free admission to our exhibitions, as well as many of our community events. Visiting Information Backpack Policy: For safety purposes, we kindly ask that you limit the amount of personal belongings you bring into the museum. Backpacks are not permitted in the galleries and may be stored behind the front desk at your own risk. The museum is not responsible for any lost, stolen, or damaged items. Animal Policy: We are only permitting official service animals and they must be kept on a minimum 6ft leash. Pets are not permitted in the museum or in any of our venues. Plan Your Visit Museum Closures Gallery Closures February 25th, 2026: Permanent Collection Gallery Workshop from 11:00AM-2:00PM April 18th, 2026: Permanent Collection Gallery Workshop from 1:00PM-3:00PM Group Visits & Guidelines Adults are required to be in control of children at all times. Instructors: Please call ahead to ensure that the museum is not in the process of setting up for an event if you require a quiet environment for a lecture. Students: Attendance confirmation slips are available by speaking with the museum attendant. What's on at the Triton EXHIBITIONS Learn More Learn More EVENTS LEARN Learn More Interested in a Membership? JOIN TODAY

JAN 10 - MAY 3Born in Ohio in 1971, Jonathan Crow received his MFA in Filmmaking from the California Institute of the Arts in 2003. Before turning to painting, he spent many years working in the film industry—a background that continues to shape the cinematic atmosphere of his work. In 2013, following a career shift, Crow returned to his early love of drawing. His series Veeptopus—portraits of U.S. Vice Presidents with octopuses on their heads—became an online sensation and was featured in BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times. Since 2018, Crow has focused primarily on oil painting, developing a body of work that explores the uncanny beauty and quiet tensions of Southern California suburbia. His paintings—at once humorous, unsettling, and deeply observed—draw inspiration from Edward Hopper, Richard Diebenkorn, and the films of David Lynch. Crow’s work has been exhibited throughout the Bay Area and beyond, including Arc Gallery (San Francisco), the New Museum Los Gatos, Marin MOCA, TAG Gallery (Los Angeles), and the de Young Museum. Crow is currently based in Santa Clara, California. Cul-de-Sac Jonathan Crow JAN 10 - MAY 3 Now on View in the Cowell Room Gallery Plan Your Visit < Back Marquee: Woman and Five Cars, 2025, oil on canvas Overview When I was a child in the 1970s, my parents drove me from our home in rural Ohio to visit my grandparents in suburban California. I was struck by the mountains, the palm trees, the dusty colors of the hills—and especially the light. Those brief visits left a lasting impression, like an image burned onto film. Nearly fifty years later, I paint those same Californian suburbs. Working in oil, I use their tidy streets and manicured yards as a stage to explore form, color, and the tension between the familiar and the strange. My background in film shapes how I compose each scene—like a still from a forgotten movie—charged with a quiet sense of story. Through these ordinary landscapes, I create images that are at once amusing and unsettling, inviting reflection on race, gender, and what it means to live in this complicated country called America. About the Artist Born in Ohio in 1971, Jonathan Crow received his MFA in Filmmaking from the California Institute of the Arts in 2003. Before turning to painting, he spent many years working in the film industry—a background that continues to shape the cinematic atmosphere of his work. In 2013, following a career shift, Crow returned to his early love of drawing. His series Veeptopus—portraits of U.S. Vice Presidents with octopuses on their heads—became an online sensation and was featured in BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times. Since 2018, Crow has focused primarily on oil painting, developing a body of work that explores the uncanny beauty and quiet tensions of Southern California suburbia. His paintings—at once humorous, unsettling, and deeply observed—draw inspiration from Edward Hopper, Richard Diebenkorn, and the films of David Lynch. Crow’s work has been exhibited throughout the Bay Area and beyond, including Arc Gallery (San Francisco), the New Museum Los Gatos, Marin MOCA, TAG Gallery (Los Angeles), and the de Young Museum. Crow is currently based in Santa Clara, California. Previous Next

JAN 17 - APR 19Cynthia Ona Innis is a visual artist based in Berkeley, California. She holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from Rutgers University. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Crocker Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, among others. Innis has been recognized with numerous awards, including a 2025 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a James D. Phelan Award, a MacDowell Fellowship and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. She is represented by Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles. Seams Cynthia Ona Innis JAN 17 - APR 19 Now on View in the Permanent Collection Gallery Plan Your Visit < Back Marquee: Blue Slip , 2024, acrylic paint and ink on fabric and ribbon Overview My work begins with painting, then moves through disassembly and reconstruction—an ongoing exploration of connection and division. Where there is a seam, two or more things converge. These seams mark the joining of materials as well as the meeting of times, places and states of being. Moments such as sunrise and sunset, moonrise and nightfall fold into one another, revealing how change itself creates continuity. In a fractured world, the seam becomes both metaphor and method: a site where rupture and repair coexist. Seams explores the interplay of light, landscape and weather as a way to map perception and memory. The shifting glow of the sun, the stillness of the moon and the vastness of the night sky form a temporal and spatial framework for orientation and reflection. Informed by distinct weather patterns of coastal California, the marine layer, coastal fog and rays of light emerge as visual language that mirrors the mutable rhythms of the natural world. My approach to abstraction is rooted in a physical, process-driven practice. Pigments are poured directly onto fabric, or bleached to remove color, to create a dialogue between accumulating and editing, masking and unveiling, presence and absence. Materials such as cotton, canvas, nylon, and silver lamé hold equal weight to the pigments. Cut, reassembled and stitched, the surfaces echo tectonic movement and natural cycles of fragmentation and repair. Recent wall installations expand this practice through scale and suspension and the responsiveness of materials. Often beginning with recycled or discarded textiles, painted and sewn fabric panels are attached to wooden supports allowing them to hang freely and respond subtly to air and motion. In Fixing on a Horizon , multiple horizon lines reference sunrise and sunset as shifting points of equilibrium and orientation, while Blue Slip traverses gradients of blue, from pale to near-black that evoke twilight’s liminal expanse between clarity and obscurity. Across these works, stitching, knitting, layering, and suspension become meditations on connection and fracture—memory and material, permanence and impermanence. The resulting surfaces reflect the layered experiences that shape how we see and move through the natural world. About the Artist Cynthia Ona Innis is a visual artist based in Berkeley, California. She holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from Rutgers University. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Crocker Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, among others. Innis has been recognized with numerous awards, including a 2025 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a James D. Phelan Award, a MacDowell Fellowship and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. She is represented by Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles. Previous Next

JAN 24 - APR 19My work is deeply shaped by experiences growing up in London in the 60’s, when fashion and music were exploding, where clothing became art, and design burst into the everyday. I have a simple aim - to create dynamic, vibrant works that jump on and off the wall. When faced with a blank canvas, I seek out materials that will inspire my internal dialogue. Though I may gather my media, plan a color scheme, and start with a thumbnail of a design, I most often end up following the way the materials balance as they hit the canvas. While earning a living in tech in Silicon Valley and raising two children, I took every community college art course available in my spare time, and sought out teaching artists and mentors to help hone my skills in drawing, painting, and seeing. Edge of Silence Jacqueline Boberg JAN 24 - APR 19 Now on View in the Rotunda Gallery Plan Your Visit < Back Marquee: Chatter , 2024, acrylic on canvas Overview With thirty years of exploration across watercolor, pastel, oil, and acrylic, I’ve continually sought new ways to express light. A decade in abstract mixed media reshaped my artistic vision, and my recent return to landscapes and still lifes merges contemporary experimentation with timeless observation. My landscapes are born from fleeting moments — a slant of light, a shift in color, a spark of inspiration that demands to be caught in the mind’s eye before it disappears. Working in acrylic allows me to chase that immediacy and not fuss around as the paint dries instantaneously. Each canvas becomes a dialogue between instinct and experimentation, between what I see and what I feel. In the studio, joy lives in discovery — the thrill of pushing paint, of finding new challenges in every composition, of not knowing exactly where a brushstroke will lead. I embrace the possibility of failure as part of the creative process. Like Silicon Valley’s mantra, I believe in failing big and failing often — because each “failure” reveals something unexpected, something truer. My goal is simple: to capture not just the landscape itself, but the energy of the moment that inspired it — alive, imperfect, and full of wonder. Until I move on to the next thing… About the Artist My work is deeply shaped by experiences growing up in London in the 60’s, when fashion and music were exploding, where clothing became art, and design burst into the everyday. I have a simple aim - to create dynamic, vibrant works that jump on and off the wall. When faced with a blank canvas, I seek out materials that will inspire my internal dialogue. Though I may gather my media, plan a color scheme, and start with a thumbnail of a design, I most often end up following the way the materials balance as they hit the canvas. While earning a living in tech in Silicon Valley and raising two children, I took every community college art course available in my spare time, and sought out teaching artists and mentors to help hone my skills in drawing, painting, and seeing. Previous Next

JAN 24 - APR 26Emanuela Iuliana Harris Sintamarian is an artist originally from Romania, but currently she lives and works in Oakland, CA. Her work is informed by the relationship between her identity to her sense of displacement, and the ways she has devised to reconcile those incongruous elements. She is interested in perception, memory and the mechanics of motion, their visual translation, and the dichotomies intrinsic to them. She explores the fluidity and tension generated by contradictions: organized chaos and uncontrolled order, machine-like generated imagery, and imperfections, organized chaos and logical absurd. Ema also tends to adulterate the boundaries between representative and abstract. She leverages marks, colors, shapes, and textures to construct an undefined world, rather than mirror reality. Ema's work has been shown in solo and group shows at Sunny Art Center, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Constanta, Romania; Museum of Art, Arad, Romania; Triton Museum in Santa Clara, CA; Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA; the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, DE; Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia; Niklas Belenius Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden; Institute of Contemporary Art, CA and Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY. She was the recipient of the Leigh Weimer Award, (2021), the Artist Award SVCreates, San Jose, CA (2020), the Golden Foundation Fellowship, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY (2018), the Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA (2013), ArtShift Award (2008) and the Silicon Valley Arts Council Award (2010). She is the finalist for the Sunny Art Award (2021), and has been nominated for SECA-SFMOMA-History Art Award, SF, CA Ema received her first MFA in printmaking from University of Delaware, and her second MFA in painting from San Jose State University. She is a Professor Associated at San Jose City College. The Theater of Premature Truths Emanuela Harris Sintamarian JAN 24 - APR 26 Now on View in the Mathias Gallery Plan Your Visit < Back Marquee: Hora and how to construct a future: fools and scissors should be handled with care - Commedia dll'arte, 2024-2025, acrylic and gouache on hand cut wood panel Overview While a name can be a cosmic prison, identity acts as its guardian. My practice emerges from this paradox. As a Romanian immigrant in the United States, my work is shaped by a continuous negotiation between belonging and estrangement—an evolving dialogue among memory, displacement, and the strategies I have developed to reconcile these incongruities. Each artwork begins as a search for home: an unstable geography constructed through dualism, migration, and the fragments carried forward. I inhabit the liminal space between worlds—one remembered, one lived, and one imagined. From this tension, I create hybrid cartographies that resist literal interpretation. Architecture, ornament, and anatomy converge to form layered visual vocabularies—maps not of territory, but of perception. These works chart absence, transformation, and the act of becoming. By juxtaposing fragmented cultural iconography with abstraction, I construct polyphonic images—fractured allegories of my physical, emotional, and intellectual journey. Loss, displacement, and containment become catalysts for ritualized acts of self-expropriation, transforming absence into generative force. My process is interdisciplinary, spanning painting, drawing, printmaking, three-dimensional works, and muralism. I allow each medium to inform the others, privileging process over predetermined outcomes. I work within a space of “not knowing,” letting questions, rather than answers, guide each decision. I tend to work in series, believing that ideas unfold and evolve through repetition, variation, and recontextualization. Within each series, I alternate large-scale works with more intimate ones, considering how the viewer’s body engages with each—immersed in expansive works, contemplative with smaller pieces. Together, they form a rhythm between immersion and introspection. My approach balances cultivated spontaneity with rigorous research: sketching Romanian textiles, architectural motifs, and anatomical structures, while also responding intuitively to the evolving surface. Through layering, repetition, and erasure, I condense visual information into dense, stratified compositions where control and chance converge. This visual density mirrors the navigation of multiple cultural identities, inviting viewers to engage with ambiguity and multiplicity. Although this series emphasizes smaller, intimate formats, it lays the groundwork for future large-scale, memory-driven pieces activated by the viewer’s movement through space. My ongoing inquiry weaves together two central threads: Memory vs. Perception and Fragmentation. In the gaps between remembrance and invention, I locate the architecture of the self—continuously reconstructed, suspended between belonging and becoming. While informed by personal experience and broader social and cultural contexts, my work is not didactic. I do not provide answers or prescribe interpretations; rather, I invite viewers to inhabit spaces of ambiguity, reflection, and multiplicity. My paintings, drawings, and installations operate as open-ended inquiries—encounters with absence, memory, and fragmentation that encourage contemplation rather than instruction. In this way, my practice embraces complexity and uncertainty, honoring the layered, evolving nature of identity and the ongoing dialogue between self, place, and perception. About the Artist Emanuela Iuliana Harris Sintamarian is an artist originally from Romania, but currently she lives and works in Oakland, CA. Her work is informed by the relationship between her identity to her sense of displacement, and the ways she has devised to reconcile those incongruous elements. She is interested in perception, memory and the mechanics of motion, their visual translation, and the dichotomies intrinsic to them. She explores the fluidity and tension generated by contradictions: organized chaos and uncontrolled order, machine-like generated imagery, and imperfections, organized chaos and logical absurd. Ema also tends to adulterate the boundaries between representative and abstract. She leverages marks, colors, shapes, and textures to construct an undefined world, rather than mirror reality. Ema's work has been shown in solo and group shows at Sunny Art Center, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Constanta, Romania; Museum of Art, Arad, Romania; Triton Museum in Santa Clara, CA; Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA; the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, DE; Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia; Niklas Belenius Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden; Institute of Contemporary Art, CA and Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY. She was the recipient of the Leigh Weimer Award, (2021), the Artist Award SVCreates, San Jose, CA (2020), the Golden Foundation Fellowship, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY (2018), the Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA (2013), ArtShift Award (2008) and the Silicon Valley Arts Council Award (2010). She is the finalist for the Sunny Art Award (2021), and has been nominated for SECA-SFMOMA-History Art Award, SF, CA Ema received her first MFA in printmaking from University of Delaware, and her second MFA in painting from San Jose State University. She is a Professor Associated at San Jose City College. Previous Next

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