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Past Art Courses & Workshops Filter by Course Select Course CURRENT COURSES Beyond the Enhance Button: An iPhone Photography Workshop with Fine Artist Ron Dell'Aquila Go beyond the enhance button and master the camera app on your iPhone with guidance from Fine Art Photographer, Ron Dell'Aquila. Date and Time Sunday, October 8th from 11:00am to 2:00pm Course Type In-Person Workshop Read More Chinese Watercolor Painting Workshop With May Shei Learn foundational strokes of free hand style, Xieyi technique, and how to seamlessly blend Asian and Western wet-in-wet techniques to create beautiful watercolors and mixed media artworks. Date and Time Saturday, October 14th from 1:00pm – 4:00pm Course Type In-Person Workshop Read More Drawing Techniques for the Creative Mind with MeiYing Dell’Aquila In-person afterschool camp at the Triton Museum of Art. Open to students ages 6-15 years old. All Materials Included. 8-Sessions. Date and Time Wednesday Afternoons from 3:30pm to 5:00pm, September 6th through October 25th Course Type In-Person Course Read More Triton Online: Acrylic Painting Using a Knife and Brush (Pt. 2) Develop and grow your drawing skills using a knife and brush. Gain community and level up your skills from the comfort of your own home! Whether you are a novice or an experienced artist, this theme-based course is perfect for all artistic levels! Date and Time Monday Nights from 5:30pm to 7:30pm; September 4th through October 16th, 2023 Course Type Online Course Read More Triton Online: Explorations in Drawing (Pt. 2) Develop and grow your drawing skills using a variety of media. Gain community and level up your skills from the comfort of your own home! Whether you are a novice or an experienced artist, this theme-based course is perfect for all artistic levels! Date and Time Friday Nights from 6:00pm to 8:00pm; September 8th through October 13th, 2023 Course Type Online Course Read More

Upcoming Exhibitions at the Triton Museum of Art. Upcoming Exhibitions CURRENT UPCOMING PAST EXHIBITION Edge of Silence Jacqueline Boberg JAN 24 - APR 19 EXHIBITION Cul-de-sac Jonathan Crow JAN 10 - MAY 3 EXHIBITION The Theater of Premature Truths Emanuela Harris Sintamarian JAN 24 - APR 26

What's On Filter by Event Type Select Event Type May 25th, 2024 / 2pm - 4pm Artists Reception Reception Read More May 11th, 2024 / 2pm - 4pm Artist Talk Artist Talk Read More May 10th, 2024 / 6pm - 8pm Tequila Tasting Fundraiser Event Read More

The Past Exhibitions that were previously shown at the Triton Museum of Art. Past Exhibitions Filter by Year Select Year CURRENT UPCOMING PAST Various Artists Salon at the Triton: A 2D Art Competition and Exhibition MAY 25 - SEP 8 2024 Various Artists EDRC's 2024 Be-You-tiful Contest and Exhibit MAY 25 - SEP 8 2024 Ayesha Samdani Layers and Splashes MAY 11 - SEP 1 2024 Michelle Gregor Palace of Leaves APR 27 - SEP 15 2024 Miha Sarani The Punctum Void: A Miha Sarani Retrospective JAN 20 - MAY 12 2024 Miha Sarani SLVN MCHN JAN 20 - MAY 12 2024 Chukes Identity Theft and Beyond JAN 20 - APR 14 2024 Lost San Jose The Same Streets Everyday JAN 20 - MAY 12 2024 Yunan Ma An Ode to Planets JAN 13 - APR 28 2024 Holt Murray Memories Revisited NOV - DEC 2023 May Shei Spirit in Bloom: May Shei's Ink and Watercolor Worlds SEPT 9 - DEC 30 2023 John Cerney Tall Tales SEPT 9 - JAN 14 2023 1 2 3 4 5 1 ... 1 2 3 4 5 ... 5

Check out our most recently posted videos below, including our last recorded Book Club lecture! Click here to see our past lectures! VIDEOS Last Lecture: February 4th, 2026 Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer Presented by Preston Metcalf Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them. Journey down the ancient Nile with Executive Director and Art Historian Preston Metcalf explores the high watermark of art in the 18th Dynasty Egypt.

Unknown EXHIBITION Paintings Bing Zhang DATES: JAN 29 - MAY 7 YEAR: 2022 Previously on view in the Unknown < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION "I tend to paint people in moments of introspection or concentration. I want to capture moments when people show their real character and mood which are normally hidden behind the mask they put on in public. My painting is also about story telling. I try to tell stories that show the hidden truth which reflects people's relationship, their living condition, their mental state, their interests, and other aspects of their disposition in the world. My goal is to search out the humanity within these situations." Bing Zhang Previous Next

< Back Marc D'Estout JAN 18 - APR 19 A Singular Evolution: A 20 year survey of Marc D'Estout Marc D'Estout is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, art director and designer who graduated with a MFA from San Jose State University. His extensive career includes exhibiting at numerous galleries throughout California and the United States, being featured in several art and design publications, and keeping an active art and teaching career. Artist Statement: Marc D’Estout earned an MFA degree from San Jose State University and has had a long career as a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, art director and designer. D’Estout is a Silicon Valley Creates Grant recipient and has also been awarded a Rydell Fellowship in Santa Cruz County. His work is currently represented by Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, and he has exhibited at numerous venues including: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; Aqua Miami; University of Hawai’i Art Gallery; Red Gallery at Savannah College of Art and Design; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery; Palo Alto Art Center; Petersen Museum, Los Angeles; San Jose Museum of Art; de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University; Richmond Art Center, California; Bedford Gallery/Dean Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California; San Jose ICA; NUMU (New Museum of Los Gatos); and the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz—as well as furniture and design galleries such and LIMN and Coup d’Etat in San Francisco and Gallery of Functional Art in Santa Monica. D’Estout’s works have been published in several art and design magazines, newspapers, books and catalogs. He is a featured artist in the Juxtapoz’ Car Culture book, and his work was used for the cover image and featured in the significant Graphis book Products by Design. The Thompson Gallery at San Jose State University produced a 48-page monograph chronicling 2-1/2 decades of Marc D’Estout’s art and design work. In addition to his studio work, D’Estout maintained an active design and teaching career. He most recently held the position of curator for the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco. For ten years he served as Director for Art and Design for UCSC Extension. Prior to that he held positions as contemporary art curator and exhibit designer for both the Monterey Museum of Art and the Triton Museum of Art. He has also taught a variety of art and design courses at San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, various community colleges in the Bay Area, and Anderson Ranch in Colorado. D’Estout has also served as a juror and guest curator for numerous galleries and arts organizations throughout California. Previous Next

< Back Nathan Oliveira JAN 11 - APR 19 Nathan Oliveira: Variations on Form Born in Oakland, California, Nathan Oliveira was a leading artist in the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Oliveira earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in fine art from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) in San Francisco. He was a professor of art at Stanford University for 32 years. Collaborations: In tandem with this exhibition, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto will also be showcasing another exhibition of Nathan Oliveira’s work - Origins of Flight: The Windhover Studies by Nathan Oliveira (February 7 - March 25, 2025). Artist Statement: Oliveira’s invented forms live just outside the realm of possibility. The artist Nathan Oliveira (1928-2010) liked to say that he thought of himself as an abstract artist whose work “had to be about something.” That “something,”—most often a human figure, but sometimes an animal, wing, head or mask—was the physical manifestation of Oliveira’s poetic imagination; an invented form that lives just outside the realm of possibility. Over the long span of his career Oliveira worked in a variety of media including painting, drawing, lithography monotype and sculpture, challenging himself to create forms with an air of mystery that allowed room for his viewers to find their own meanings. “I set it up to the degree that it gives you something recognizable to interact with,” he once offered, "and if you’re creative, you create your own metaphor.” The works on view at the Triton, selected from the artist’s estate by him son Joseph, will present examples of Oliveira’s evocations of form in both two and three dimensions. In the Cowell Room Gallery oil paintings ranging from small studies of faces to a monumental canvas from the "Windhover" series will demonstrate the artist’s engagement with the flexibility of the oil medium. A selection of bronzes—including masks and figures—will show how Oliveira’s painterly sensibility remained tangible in the sensitive surfaces of his three dimensional works. In the Triton’s Rotunda, where works on paper will be featured, examples of the artist’s "Imi" and "Santa Fe" watercolors of female figures will join a series of lithographs from the 1960s. Olivera’s fluid watercolors, in which he allowed the paint to form rivers and pools that soak into the paper then coalesce into figures, are among his most distinctive inventions. Committed to the idea that making art involved finding unique forms Nathan Oliveira: Variations of Form will offer a fresh opportunity for viewers to encounter the myriad forms of his personal universe and appreciate them on their own terms. Previous Next

Rotunda Gallery EXHIBITION Close Up / From a Distance: Botanical & Landscape Photographs Joe Ramos DATES: MAY 21 - JUL 31 YEAR: 2022 Previously on view in the Rotunda Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Previous Next

Cowell Gallery EXHIBITION The Big Red Chair Project Eve Page Mathias DATES: MAY 6 - AUG 13 YEAR: 2023 Previously on view in the Cowell Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. "There once was a big red chair in my living room. My sweet old dog, Luna, enjoyed sitting up on the back of it so she could look out the window. Luna passed, and the chair got old, too. Because this chair means a lot to me, I pushed it into my studio. It is a reassurance as I work that mv little one is still there and that there are cherished triends to come. This chair anchored me. It has become a symbol of where my place in the world was during the Covid crisis. Now, when I ask someone to sit in the red chair, it "connects the dots" between those missing moments when was separated from mv friends and loved ones. Then we all emerged and came back together. When it was okay to see folks and the mist cleared, we were allowed to see each other again... I began a project of portraits of my dear female friends. Why only women? I think it was because I missed them the most. I puzzled over this because also treasure my triends who are male, and certainl) would like to paint them. Maybe it is because there is the yearning - the aching of the soul - that I perceive as a part of the female psyche. This was a good place to start because it is where resonate as a female person. But I also missed myself as an individual, a unique human being. During Covid one was only a cipher, not someone interesting. We were all just "Things" with masks who might possibly be a spreader of the disease. or worse, die. We were reduced to robots doing our jobs on a digital platform, being parents who couldn't permit our expressions of love because we were afraid we could make our children sick. I taught at the college level and suddenly had to reduce my persona into a voice on a computer monitor. This is not healthy for a person who thrived by human contact. Thus, the Big Red Chair Project began." Eve Page Mathias https://www.tritonmuseum.org/bigredchairproject "My Queen" Previous Next

Permanent Gallery EXHIBITION Tall Tales John Cerney DATES: SEPT 9 - JAN 14 YEAR: 2023 Previously on view in the Permanent Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. My work is meant for an audience that is not prepared to view art, or who may not even have an opinion about art, but people who are held captive in their cars while heading someplace. It doesn’t matter to me that they know who created the pieces or have any notion of how it came to be. I’m satisfied that for a few miles down the road they are left with some wonderment. In the rare event of showing my work in the confines of a gallery, I’m able to create little stories that invite a slower pondering of what’s taking place. I tend towards the theatrical, and I consider my pieces one act plays. I’m grateful for the generous size of the gallery so I can fill up the space with my oversized ‘actors’. John Cerney 2023 "Dance" Previous Next

< Back Dean Larson AUG 16 - JAN 4 Urban Visions: Life in Motion Artist Dean Larson was raised in Palmer, Alaska where he first learned painting under the mentorship of Alaskan Artist Fred Machetanz. After graduating from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon Dean moved to Baltimore, Maryland for graduate studies at the Schuler's School of Fine Art and Towson University. In 1997 the artist moved to San Francisco, CA. He has long been associated with the resurgence of the American Contemporary Realist movement. Dean has written books, been featured in numerous art periodicals, has mounted over twenty-five solo exhibitions, and has been featured in over fifty group shows in museums and galleries across the U. S. He is a well-traveled artist who thrives on diversity and is constantly searching for new subjects. He is adept with cityscapes, landscapes, portraits, and interiors. Through the use of compelling compositions and harmonious colors he draws the viewer into his canvases. Dean's commissioned portraits and studio paintings can be found in museums and other public collections in the United States and Europe. Larson also has taught painting (mainly cityscape and landscape) at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco since 2006. He maintains a studio near Mission Dolores, the original Spanish Mission in San Francisco. Larson has painted the portraits of Senator Ted Stevens which hangs in the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. and Senator Mark Hatfield which hangs at Willamette University. Larson's work is also included in the collections of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the Alaska State Capitol, Triton Museum of Art and Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. For more information visit www.deanmlarson.com , or www.instagram.com/deanlarson07 Artist Statement: Dean Larson Urban Visions: Life in Motion Over the past several years two central themes have consistently attracted and inspired my artist’s eye. The first motif is life in the city. Having relocated from Alaska and Maryland to California in 1997, the Bay area and in particular, San Francisco, became an instant source of diverse and compelling subject matter. From Russian Hill to North Beach, from Market Street to Golden Gate Park, the city that changes constantly presents new perceptions and subjects. The focus on what it means to be a contemporary realist is constantly at the forefront when planning new work. It’s never enough to simply copy what’s in front of you. There is a desire to go deeper and search for what is most significant and essential. Intentional soft blurs contrast with hard edges to have objects and figures come forth and recede and fuse to backgrounds within pictorial spaces. With my second subject, figures, I search for accidental moments where people reveal the variety of the human experience and also show glimpses of what it means to be living and working in modern society. Sometimes it is a lone figure and other times there is a group of figures where the relationships between the figures are closely observed, highlighting the gestures of each figure and the group as a whole. The search for mass shapes and abstract patterns that, by working through my painting process, eventually becomes more realistic, unique designs challenge and inspire me to keep painting each and every day. Previous Next