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Cowell Gallery EXHIBITION A Painter's Life Roland Petersen DATES: JAN 7 - APR 23 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. Picnic with Cat and Books Previous Next

Unknown EXHIBITION Ten Japanese- American Concentration Camps Renee Billingslea DATES: FEB 8 - OCT 18 YEAR: 2020 Previously on view in the Unknown < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. Previous Next

Chinese Watercolor Painting Workshop With May Shei May Shei Saturday, October 14th from 1:00pm – 4:00pm 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. About the Instructor: May Shei May Shei was born in a HAKKA town in S. Taiwan, and grown in a very artistic family. May Shei (陳菊美) graduated from the Arts and Craft program at Tainan University of Technology (台南家專美工科) and the department of Art at Chinese Culture University (中國文化大學美術系) with a major in Commercial Design and a minor on Oil and Chinese painting. May is an art teacher and professional artist focusing on abstract, linear style, and contemporary art. She brings the richness of her country’s history into her artwork. May’s art blends the traditional techniques of Asian artists before her as well as her contemporary style. May often portrays the creatures of her childhood, now endangered and protected species, as well as ancient figures from Taiwan’s past. Her work examines the abstract and the natural, and the ways in which they collide with our modern world. May’s work blends eastern and Western styles in a contemporary fashion and has received multiple awards in a number of San Francisco Bay Area art competitions, she is an invited and featured artist in many galleries and Museum exhibits. She has held solo art shows in Taiwan, China, and the US. She gets the jury in for 2016 and 2017 Salon d’Automne Paris. BACK

Permanent Collection Gallery EXHIBITION The Punctum Void: A Miha Sarani Retrospective Miha Sarani DATES: JAN 20 - MAY 12 YEAR: 2024 Previously on view in the Permanent Collection 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 explores, and responds to the elements of everyday life - particularly by framing our collective existence, individual experiences, voyeuristic responses, and the idea of duality. I find playing with the formal elements helps me better visually represent these objectives. While the intention is to bring about an exploration of a dialogue with the past, I commonly engage in current issues; addressing cyclical occurrences throughout history, but with contemporary challenges. My art practice aims to create a juxtaposition of conceptual art and aesthetic value; thus visually combining what I believe to be the essence of art making as a philosophical pursuit. For this reason, reading of my work often includes both arbitrary and conventional signs, personal assumptions mixed with stylistic representation of post-modern content. My theoretical framing is to move my work beyond the hyped contemporary referent and trendy aesthetic which pay less attention to the content and more to approximation. My practice is also profoundly informed by my studies as an art historian, so I look to the old masters as well as new for inspiration. Still, I find myself most often returning to the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Kippenberger, Anselm Kiefer, Philip Guston and Neo Rauch. Modern viewers, I believe, have become accustomed to having art dissected and served to them - which tends to devalue the work and the process. Although I enjoy contemporary art and admire many of its practitioners, I strive to create something with a deeper significance; a bridge between the ancient rituals and modern audience. Miha Sarani, One of My Turns, 2020, charcoal, coffee, acrylic, commercial paint on wood. Previous Next

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Rotunda Gallery EXHIBITION Breaking Free Sculpture Exhibition Various Artists DATES: OCT 2 - NOV 28 YEAR: 2021 Previously on view in the Rotunda Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. Previous Next

Digital Gallery EXHIBITION SLVN MCHN Miha Sarani DATES: JAN 20 - MAY 12 YEAR: 2024 Previously on view in the Digital Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. I have always been enamored with music. For as long as I can recall, music play a significant part in our household. My father had an essential collection of record, which captured many various music styles - from Pink Floyd, Queen and Led Zeppelin, to Isaac Hayes, Cat Stevens and Rod Steward. I always loved the impact music could generally be within each of us. Naturally, I eventually began my own record - or rather CD - collection, and quickly incorporated my own musical tastes, such as Lou Reed, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Roxy Music and Radiohead. Unlike with my painting practice, I never received any formal training. My wife Tomitha gave me a synthesizer as a Christmas gift one year, and I mostly began arranging sounds that intrigued me. About 10 years ago, while struggling to complete a painting I vented my frustration on the synthesizer keyboard. I was struck by a juxtaposition of sound and image. This fascination eventuality lead to my first exhibition “Trojan Soul,” where I created a soundtrack to help expand the viewer's temporal span. This became a watershed moment for me. For this project particularly, I focused on revisiting some influential concept albums of the 70’s era - such as Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Lou Reed’s Berlin and David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy. I also reexamined The Smile’s A Light for Attracting Attention, and Jonny Greenwood’s You Were Never Really Here. I have always found that music communicates emotions in a more direct manner and can be more effective than painting because it unravels temporarily. With painting the audience experiences the aesthetic all at once, while with music the audience has to wait for what comes next - revealing itself over a course of time, thus allowing the audience to be moved, and captured by the unexpected. Still both artistic endeavors share commonalities as well. Where painting uses line and surface - or space - music employed sound and silence. Arrangements of either line/sound are both very intriguing to me as a maker, and painting with sound provides me with new opportunities and sets of challenges. I hope you enjoy this latest sonic exploration. Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 8 are currently on view. Chapters 5 and 6 will be added on February 20th. Chapters 1 and 7 will be added on March 19th Previous Next

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Cowell Gallery EXHIBITION An Ode to Planets Yunan Ma DATES: JAN 13 - APR 28 YEAR: 2024 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. Yunan Ma was born and raised in Taiyuan, China. She grew up learning fine arts, and was accompanied by a diverse talents of family members. Yunan came to the United States at the age of 17. After graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Fashion Marketing and Management, Yunan worked at a well-known leather handbag company, where she mastered leather weaving techniques. Throughout the work experience, Yunan was fascinated about weaving and knitting subjects and discovered her passion in this field. To pursue her interest, she returned to school. In 2018, Yunan graduated from Academy of Art University with a MFA in Knitwear Design, where she was mentored by the famous knitwear designer Midori Sergent. Yunan was the only knitwear designer to attend the New York Fashion Week graduation runway; in addition, she was selected for 2018 CFDA+ Design Graduates Program. In the same year, the first pieces of Yunan Ma Fiber Art was created in her living room in San Francisco Bay Area with leftover materials from the knitwear collection. Yunan Ma Fiber Art is executed with the finest natural fibers including merino wool, alpaca wool, mohair, silk, cotton, and novelty accent, that are carefully selected from top yarn mills around the world. With a fine arts and knitwear design background, Yunan believes fiber art is more than beautiful textures and exquisite craftsmanships. Every piece depicts a storytelling experience by interpreting energy and emotion in a cheerful way. A complex universe can be discovered inside of her fiber creatures, big or small, quiet or loud. Through the vision in her art, unlimited enthusiasm shines through from the creative manipulation of materials and techniques. In “An Ode to Planets”, Yunan invites you to embark on a sensory odyssey inspired by the ethereal beauty of the galaxy, creating an immersive environment where the boundaries between the celestial and the terrestrial blur. The installation in this exhibit is crafted with an intentional embrace of organic forms, as well as playing the contrast between the organic warmth of matte wool and the cool sophistication of sleek surfaces. The swirling textures on the circular pieces tribute to the planets that have ceaseless activity in the universe. The reflective surfaces interact to form a dynamic composition that invite flow and exploration. This contrasting illustrates the harmonious coexistence of busy constellations and empty space. It is a visual metaphor for the dualities inherent in the cosmos. “Blossom in the Moonlight” captures the essence of growth, transformation, and the undiscovered excitement in the universe. It depicts delicate flowers bloom in the vast expanse of space during the enigmatic hours, and evokes a sense of wonder and elegance. It unfolds a transition between the phases of day and night, vitality and stillness. All of the elements in “An Ode to Planets” encapsulates the reverence admiration for the space and human emotions. Yunan invites you to this visual dialogue thread the rhythmic oscillation of vibrancy and calm, and allows yourself to gallivant around the planets and the space, to feel the interplay of lights and shadows, and to embrace the roaming imagination. Yunan Ma, Blossom in the Moonlight 9, 2023, merino wool, copper hoop. Previous Next

Unknown EXHIBITION Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection Various Artists DATES: JAN 22 - MAY 1 YEAR: 2022 Previously on view in the Unknown < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Previous Next

Warburton Gallery EXHIBITION Works on Paper David Einstein DATES: JAN 14 - MAY 7 YEAR: 2023 Previously on view in the Warburton Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. "Untitled" Previous Next

< Back Jacqueline Boberg JAN 24 - APR 19 Edge of Silence Artist Statement: 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…. Previous Next