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Rotunda Gallery EXHIBITION Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Gallery Doug Glovaski DATES: JAN 7 - APR 23 YEAR: 2023 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. "Modernism Senses the End" Previous Next

The Museum offers a learning environment in which curiosity, experimentation, and spirited dialogue are encouraged. Our aim is for each visitor, regardless of age, background or ability, to experience the museum with enthusiasm and success, empowered by new perspectives and ideas. LEARN WITH US The Museum offers a learning environment in which curiosity, experimentation, and spirited dialogue are encouraged. Our aim is for each visitor, regardless of age, background or ability, to experience the museum with enthusiasm and success, empowered by new perspectives and ideas. Child looks at an exhibition in the Permanent Collection Gallery. Image Courtesy the Triton Museum of Art. For Adults Monthly Book Club Learn More We invite you to read selected novels about art or famous artists before we meet, for an art history presentation about that month’s novel, the portrayed artist, and related art, Learn how the novel does — or doesn’t — comport to the actual history of its subject, and hear more about the artwork and the artists. Art Talks & Lectures Learn More Learn more about the artworks within the Triton Museum of Art from showcasing artists through artist talks. In addition to our Artist Talks, learn more about general art history and art through lectures. Art Courses & Workshops Learn More Develop and grow your drawing skills through the Triton Museum of Art's art courses and workshops. We provide a variety of art courses and workshops that are for a variety of age ranges. Whether you are a novice or an experienced artist, these courses offer something for everyone, so check it out! For Young Adults & Students Sketch at the Triton Learn More Sketch away at the Triton Museum of Art! Contact education@tritonmuseum.org for any inquiries or with the front desk attendant. Career Internships, & Volunteer at the Triton Learn More Interested in a career in the Museum world? Need some volunteer hours? Contact cdelacruz@tritonmuseum.org or check out our careers page for more information! For Kids and Families Kid's Art Classes Learn More Develop and grow your drawing skills through the Triton Museum of Art's after school classes. We provide a variety of after school courses that are for a variety of age ranges, typically for elementary through high school ages. For Educators K-12 School Visits Learn More Are you a k-12 educator in the Bay area looking for field trip ideas? Come visit the Triton Museum for a self-guided experience with your class! Admission is free for the general public. Teachers are welcome to visit the museum before their field trip to visualize their experience. Contact Us Please contact education@tritonmuseum.org for inquiries.

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< Back Priyanka Rana AUG 30 - JAN 11 Our Stories Live Underground Born in India in 1980 and now based in San Francisco's Bay Area, I established my full-time sculpture practice in 2018 after serving as Vice President in the exhibitions industry and working as a market research consultant. My practice centers on an intimate dialogue with wood—specifically naturally felled trunks that I transform into abstract sculptures exploring ecology, memory, and cross-cultural connection. Largely self-taught, I have developed a distinctive sculptural language through direct experimentation with materials, allowing me to create techniques that emerge organically from the wood itself rather than from prescribed methodologies. My technical approach lies in a unique process I have developed with fire. Drawing from my Indian heritage, where fire represents sacred transformation, I use controlled charring to "paint" wooden surfaces, revealing the hidden architecture of growth rings and grain. This technique—exemplified in my redwood sculptures—involves expanding the wood's surface area threefold through careful carving, then applying fire to create rich, textured finishes that speak to cycles of destruction and renewal. The resulting works transform solid mass into something ethereal, making visible the temporal layers embedded within the material. Beyond wood, I incorporate culturally significant textiles—saris and lungis from my multicultural community, as well as individual sari threads that I weave into carved surfaces—that bridge themes of migration and intimate history with larger environmental narratives. Recent explorations have expanded into aluminum, metal casting of wood forms, and 3D printing, maintaining my focus on the intersection of traditional craft and contemporary concerns. My work has been widely exhibited across California, featured in prominent arts festivals, and realized through public art commissions that engage directly with local communities. I hold degrees in Mathematics and Economics and an MBA. Artist Statement: It took me a long time to own that I am an artist. Beginning my sculpture practice late in life, I discovered in wood a collaborative partner willing to tell stories—both mine and its own. The title of this exhibition, borrowed from Terry Tempest Williams' "When Women Were Birds," speaks to the hidden narratives that live beneath the surface, waiting for the right conditions to emerge. This exhibition spans several series from my practice, exploring themes of memory, nostalgia, and destiny while reflecting on healing, human behavior, and our relationships with the natural world. It bridges the cultural heritage of my Indian origins with the multicultural fabric of my Bay Area home. In our increasingly disconnected world, trees offer profound lessons about interdependence—their underground networks remind us that isolation is an illusion, that we are constantly in relationships through unseen connections. As you encounter these works, I invite you to pause and reflect: Which of your own stories live underground? What narratives are waiting to be revealed? These sculptures ask for slower looking, deeper listening, reminding us that the most profound stories—like the most resilient forests—grow their strongest connections underground, in the dark, patient spaces where transformation quietly takes root. Previous Next

Warburton Gallery EXHIBITION Painter, Poet, & Pacificist Lawrence Ferlinghetti DATES: SEP 17 - DEC 30 YEAR: 2022 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. "Boat People" Previous Next

< Back Laurus Myth JAN 25 - APR 27 Portals & Passages: An evolution of paintings, sculptures, and social magic Local artist Laurus Myth debuts Portals and Passages, her first solo exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art, 1505 Warburton Ave. (January 25 - April 27, 2025.) Portals and Passages is a reflection point, weaving together Laurus’ portfolio of work across disciplines. From vivid colors, patterns, and layered paintings evolving into sculptural forms, Myth leans into art to tell stories of connection and relationship. Myth’s visual language is influenced by nature, technology, and intuition as they use symbols to decode their experience. Portals and Passages transforms Triton’s Warburton Gallery with works that draw viewers through moments of connection. This expansive body of work bridges dualities: technology-nature, movement-stillness, internal-external, and day-night. Artist Statement: Laurus Myth is an Asian-American interdisciplinary artist raised in Silicon Valley. A born innovator, Myth follows a creative and intuitive path as she fabricates and curates intentional spaces. Drawn to sacred architecture and mental landscapes, her work is colorful, symbolic, and deeply immersive. Myth’s experiential practices birthed several installations she calls “Social Magic.” Visually drawing– these playful and often temporary installations invite us to connect with our narratives and become part of a larger story. The artist turns the museum's gallery into a spatial story with codes and keys leading us to places unseen. Portals and Passages distill the last decade of Social Magic into new queries, forms, paintings, and sculptures. Previous Next

< Back Mark Engel AUG 16 - JAN 4 Shifting Terrain Mark Engel is a figurative painter whose practice investigates the body as a site of transformation, perception, and psychological depth. Drawing on themes of connection, involution, and the fluid nature of selfhood, Engel constructs layered compositions that merge the figure with elements of landscape, gesture, and abstraction. His paintings explore the tension between form and dissolution, using fragmentation and distortion to reflect transitional states and the porous boundaries between interior and exterior experience. Engel’s approach is rooted in process and intuition. Each composition unfolds through cycles of addition and subtraction, allowing unconscious associations and emotional resonance to emerge. By balancing structure with flux, his work invites reflection on the instability of identity in a world shaped by constant change and relational complexity. He has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions, including Shapeshifters at Know Future Gallery, Constellations at Vargas Gallery, and group shows at Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art, Limner Gallery in New York, and 33 Contemporary Gallery in Chicago. His work has been featured in Create! Magazine, Artsin Square, and Curatory Magazine. Engel is a professor at Mission College in Santa Clara, California, and has contributed to arts education through teaching residencies and faculty exhibitions. His ongoing exploration of the figure offers a visual language for the complexities of becoming. Artist Statement: I use the human figure as a central motif to explore themes of connection, transformation, and involution. My work revolves around the ever-changing motion of selfhood and explores the dynamic interplay between external forces and internal experiences. Process is an essential component in my work, and I build compositions that combine the figure with landscape, fragmentation, distortion, and gesture to reflect transitional states. Relying heavily on intuition, I feel my way through each composition by adding and subtracting elements to arrive at an image that is broader than my conscious awareness and infuses the work with a deeper level of meaning. I strive to find a balance between retaining form and dissolving into abstraction to capture the fluid nature of becoming and soften the boundaries between self and other. Previous Next

Permanent Gallery EXHIBITION Recuerdos Don Fritz DATES: MAY 20 - AUG 27 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 rooted in the experience of growing up in the 50s in Germany and the United States. This was a time of innocence, faith in the future and an underlying anxiety of nuclear annihilation. A time when fairy tales and old-world myth intermingled with the promise of magic of science, with its rocket ships and the power of the atom. I select images and icons from the 50s and place them in juxtapositions that resonate with the duality of innocence and malevolent power. Children's books, toys, and other artifacts from my past are an inspiration and resource for my symbology. My experiences in Japan have also been important in shaping my current work. I love the way text is applied to image in strange, and often random ways there -- particularly when the image has been appropriated from Western culture. The duality of ancient and modern life coexisting produces startling content. One of the cornerstones of my work is the layering of images. The finished pieces have a tactile quality that makes them seem as if they were constructed out of velvet or felt. This is achieved through layering and painting out, or erasing, images to create depth -- both literally and conceptually. This often unconscious process of selecting and deleting images produces a palimpsest like surface. Beneath this surface lie the sometimes sinister, sometimes comical clues needed to unravel secret codes of content within the work. There are hidden images that both confirm and contradict assumptions we have made about interpretation. These artworks function as a reminder of the world we were promised as children, and a visual record of my search for understanding in that world as an adult. "Gravity" Previous Next

< Back Katherine Young MAY 3 - AUG 3 What Do You Treasure? Katherine B. Young, MD, MFA fell in love with the ocean when she was a small child. She spent a lot of time on the water before going to medical school to train in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. After working for 10 years as a plastic surgeon in San Francisco, she fulfilled her dream of becoming a full time artist. She specializes in drawing and painting vast spaces of ocean and sky. Her work has won numerous awards and has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States. She is currently creating an exhibition for the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA which addresses the ocean plastic pollution problem. The following galleries represent her artwork: HANG ART in San Francisco, Claire Carino Contemporary in Boston, and The Gallery at Tree’s Place in Cape Cod. She maintains a studio at 1890 Bryant Street in San Francisco, and lives in the city with her husband and daughter. Her artwork and creative process are featured in creativity expert Tina Seelig’s book, Insight Out. Artist Statement: My connection to the ocean and art-making began in childhood, growing up in the Tidewater region of Virginia near the Atlantic. Though I initially pursued science—studying engineering and medicine at Duke University and training as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Stanford—I ultimately returned to my artistic roots. After a decade of surgical practice in San Francisco, I earned an MFA and committed to a full-time career as an artist. The ocean is both majestic and meditative, a force of awe and tranquility. My paintings and drawings capture its vastness, immersing viewers in its beauty. However, my relationship with the ocean was profoundly altered when I learned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—an immense collection of plastic waste polluting the waters I love. This realization compelled me to confront this crisis through my art. 'What Do You Treasure?" emerged from my reflections on our paradoxical relationship with nature. We revere the ocean and its life, yet contribute to its degradation through rampant plastic consumption. This exhibition invites you to examine this contradiction and reconsider the choices we make daily. The paintings and drawings lining the walls evoke the ocean’s sublime power. Many incorporate genuine gold, referencing early Renaissance religious icons and illuminated manuscripts—symbols of reverence and contemplation. The sculptures interspersed throughout the space, however, disrupt this serenity. Cast from discarded plastic and gilded in gold, they serve as objects of reflection, mimicking sacred artifacts yet exposing the false idol of consumerism. These pieces also nod to the economic forces that sustain our dependence on plastic, making change feel daunting but necessary. As you move through the exhibition, allow yourself to experience the ocean’s grandeur, then confront the unsettling reality embedded in the sculptures. What do you treasure most—nature or convenience? The answer to this question carries weight beyond this space. If you choose nature, let that commitment extend into action. Even small steps—reducing plastic use, supporting sustainable initiatives, advocating for systemic change—can have a profound impact. This exhibition is not just a reflection; it is a call to action. The choice is yours. Previous Next

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Warburton and Rotunda Gallery EXHIBITION 2023 Salon at the Triton Museum Salon Recipients DATES: JUL 9 - AUG 20 YEAR: 2023 Previously on view in the Warburton and Rotunda Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. Best of Show: Hana Lock, Guren , 2022, Ballpoint Pen, Acrylic, Watercolor, Ink and Gold Foil on Wood Panels, 24" x 72" First Place Painting: Cathy Locke, Tea Leaves , 2022, Oil, 25" x 31" Second Place Painting: Julie Kavanagh, Girl with Dahlias , 2021, Oil on Panel, 28" x 24" Third Place Painting: Robert Semans, Anne McNally , 2018, Oil on Panel, 27" x 33" Honorable Mention Painting: Jung Han Kim, Kearny Street, 2020, Oil on Canvas, 36" x 48" First Place Drawing: Tiffany Wan, Serenity , 2023, Graphite, 20" x 26.25" Second Place Drawing: Youming Cate, Girl with Pearl Necklace , 2023, Pastel on Paper, 27.5" x 21.5" Third Place Drawing: Denise Howard, All That I Once Was Is Lost , 2021, Colored Pencil, 30.5" x 22.5" Honorable Mention Drawing: Sharon Pomales Tousey, Best Friends , 2022, Pastel on Panel, 40" x 28" First Place Photography: Elaine Heron, Mongolian Hunter and His Eagle, 2022, Photography, 20" x 24" Second Place Photography: Ron Dell'Aquila, Storefront Conversation, 2023, Photography, 20" x 30" Third Place Photography: Stanislava Chening, Sonya, 2022, Photography, 24" x 36" Honorable Mention Photography: Manse Zimmermann, Memories of a Time , 2022, Photography, 18" x 24" First Place Mixed Media/Printmaking: Peter Baczek, Flying Buttress , 2022, Etching, 25" x 21" Second Place Mixed Media/Printmaking: Brenda York, A Conspiracy of Happenstance and Moondust , 2023, Mixed Media on Canvas, 30" x 48" Third Place Mixed Media/Printmaking: Pat Moseuk, Perpetual Motion , 2022, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 40" x 40" Honorable Mention Mixed Media/Photography: Jaya King, Starr , Mixed Media, 48" x 72" 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" Curator's Choice (Vanessa Callanta, Curator): Stanislava Chening, Sonya, 2022, Photography, 24" x 36" Curator's Choice (Bryan Callanta, Curator of Digital Programming): Chieko Shimizu, AMAVI , Acrylic & Glass on Wood, 36" x 48" 2023 Salon Previous Next