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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

Uknown EXHIBITION Spellings of Gravitas Jeff Alan West DATES: FEB 1 - OCT 11 YEAR: 2020 Previously on view in the Uknown < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. Previous Next

Cheers to 60 Years! In 2025, the Triton Museum of Art will celebrate 60 years of providing quality art exhibitions and art education programs for children, youth, and adults. The year will be marked by major exhibitions, lectures and art education programs exploring the intersection of art, science, and technology, that is vital in this region, as well as special events of celebration. We invite you to join us for our 60th Diamond Anniversary Gala on May 3rd, 2025, from 6:00PM-9:00PM. The jubilee evening will be a standing flow reception with delicious food stations, drinks and cocktails, musical performances, and a stellar silent auction of fine art, gifts, and experiences - all to support the museum's exhibitions and art education programs for our community for years to come. Gala Information WHEN: May 3rd, 2025 WHERE: Triton Museum of Art DRESS CODE: Formal PRICE: $160 per individual ticket (see Gala Sponsorships below for ticket packages) The jubilee evening will be a standing flow reception with: Delicious dinner options Passed hors d'ouevres Drinks and cocktails Musical performances Silent Auction Tickets and Sponsorships For individual tickets, please purchase through our Eventbrite page below. Gala Sponsorships are our ticket packages for this event! Look through our Sponsorship tiers below and reach out if you would like to become one of our Gala sponsors. All ticket sales and Sponsorships will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Brandenburg Family Foundation. The Triton Museum of Art extends our thanks and appreciation to the Brandenburg Family Foundation for their generosity. Tickets Gala Sponsorship Tiers For information on Gala Sponsorships, please contact Preston Metcalf, Executive Director, at pmetcalf@tritonmuseum.org or Olivia Osborn, Rentals and Event Administrator, at rentals@tritonmuseum.org Group of 8 Sponsor: $1,200 This sponsorship level includes: 8 Gala Tickets Discount on individual ticket price Sponsor recognition in the event program, on the Triton website, and in all Gala marketing promotions Recognition during the Gala on all in-gallery monitors Diamond Sponsor: $2,500 This sponsorship level includes: All of the above benefits Sponsor/Museum Supporter in-gallery recognition at the museum and on the Triton website for an entire year A Triton logo tote bag for each of your party members Jubilee Sponsor: $5,000 This sponsorship level includes: All of the above benefits One (1) complimentary facility use of the Historic Jamison-Brown House for your company meeting, private celebration, or social event for up to 40 people in the following year. (Contingent on scheduling availability) The Diamond Gala's Featured Cocktail Presenting the signature cocktail of the 60th Anniversary Diamond Gala: The Black Diamond Margarita Served chilled with a smoked salt rim (salt rim optional) Musical Performances Flamenco Guitarist and Composer Chris Cucuzza Chris Cucuzza majored in music at University of California at Berkeley, and later studied in Flamenco in Malaga and Sevilla, Spain. Cucuzza has performed in numerous venues in the past 20 years, with many flamenco artists, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Montreal, Canada. In 2015 and 2016, he performed at the prestigious Montreal Jazz Festival, with percussionist Miguel Medina. Jazz Pianist and Composer Kevin McCullough Kevin is an award-winning pianist, arranger, and educator from the Bay Area, specializing in jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, and salsa, along with rock, soul, funk, and more. With over 40 years of experience on piano and 20 years on drums, he has taught college master classes, coached jazz bands, and led sessions at various jazz camps, including one alongside members of Beyoncé’s original band. He currently teaches elementary school music in the Oak Grove School District, where he has received multiple awards for his contributions to arts education, including the 2024 Arts Leadership Award. Gala Silent Auction Part of the evening's program is our Silent Auction where you can place bids on a variety of items, art pieces, bundles, and experiences! The proceeds from our silent auction will help to: Continue nurturing a space for local artists and 40,000 annual visitors through our exhibitions Educate students of all ages through affordable art programs (lectures, workshops, classes, etc.) Support the Salon at the Triton: 2D Art Competition and Exhibition, annually showcasing 100+ California artists Below are just a few examples of what we will be auctioning off! Great America VIP Package We are auctioning off a VIP package that includes 4 admission tickets, 1 parking, 4 meal vouchers, and 4 fast lane passes Winery Tour & Tasting A Winery Tour and Tasting for 10 people is available for auction by Byington Vineyard & Winery of Los Gatos Complimentary Hotel Stays We are auctioning off complimentary 2-night stays at multiple hotel locations in the Silicon Valley Interested in donating to our silent auction? Fill out our form and we'll get back to you with all the details. We appreciate your interest! 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< Back Hana Lock SEP 14 - JAN 5 Anatomica Hana Lock is the Best of Show winner for the 2023 Salon at the Triton. Her work is an intriguing mix of bizarre and sublime, depicting in great detail our delicate anatomy alongside or combined with other wonderful creatures such as rabbits, frogs, mice, snakes, wolves, beautiful plants and flowers - our connection to the natural world. Her work displays our vulnerability and forces us to confront what is inevitable - that, along with all over living beings, we will all die and decompose. However, this fate is not portrayed as something to be feared, but rather embraced as part of the natural rhythm of life and death. This exhibition will include a selection of 2D works by the artist. Artist Statement: Anatomica is a collection of paintings and drawings that draw inspiration from my love of anatomy and fascination with the transience of life, the inevitability of death, and the mystery of what lies beyond. My work offers a holistic view of the body by highlighting the beauty of its internal structures without shying from the grotesque. Referencing visual and philosophical concepts from Buddhism and European medieval funerary art, my art often features anatomized bodies being strewn across the composition as their viscera intertwines with flora and fauna. In my practice, I primarily use ballpoint pen, watercolor, and acrylic to create intricate and precise line work and vibrant, flat colors reminiscent of Japanese woodblock prints and Art Nouveau. I strive for precision and detail, and I believe that in addressing the formal and conceptual qualities inherent in line, I am effectively capturing the delicate intricacies of the natural and imaginative world. Previous Next

Unknown EXHIBITION A Recipe for Brown Skin Rupy C. Tut DATES: MAR 5 -MAY 1 YEAR: 2022 Previously on view in the Unknown < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Previous Next

Rotunda Gallery EXHIBITION Social Realism in California Warren Chang DATES: MAY 22 - AUG 29 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

< 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

< 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 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

Warburton Gallery EXHIBITION Spirit in Bloom: May Shei's Ink and Watercolor Worlds May Shei DATES: SEPT 9 - DEC 30 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. “Take time today to look unto the hill, to walk in ways where quiet waters flow; to see the beauty that all nature fills... take time today just to be still and know.” - Take Time , by David Ogletree Although my Hakka grandparents and dad and my Taiwanese mom never read this poem, I learned many of the same principles from them when I was a child. I was very lucky to be raised in the town of Meinong, where the Hakka culture was and is alive and well, and to be raised in our old family home near a National Park. As a result, I grew up immersed in very traditional culture and beautiful nature scenery. "For a deep and true appreciation of art one must educate the eye.” - Helen Keller I believe in painting people you love so much, painting antiques from grandparents, dad and mom, and lovely kids' gifts. The process is a joyful ceremony, painting how I feel and what I care about. "Take one bright star to guide your path.” - Take A Bright Star , by Georgia B. Adams I am so grateful for the many bright stars in my life in art, they helped me a lot, and allowed me to stay strong on the windy path. “Keep a green bough in your heart, and the singing bird will come.” - Chinese Proverb I believe all kinds of beautiful artworks are a universal language. Thanks to my family fully supporting me, I learned watercolor, calligraphy, ink, and Chinese paintings. An artist is similar to a gardener, because without hard work, there are no beautiful flowers, butterflies, or birds. “Beauty seen is never lost.” - John Greenleaf Whittier Most of the time it is true, if we can put the painting in the document, we can frame it and enjoy it year by year. My solo show paintings are a sketch book of my path - either pure, transparent, or ink and watercolor, or opaque mixed media, I tried every possibility for my artwork, to try and find the richness of values, texture and the tone, no matter if they are black and white or color. My family and I would like to thank the Triton Museum of Art for this solo show, which is a golden opportunity and every artist's dream come true, and we appreciate that. May Shei at Lucky Cloud Art Studio www.mayshei.com May Shei 2023 "Time Goes By" Previous Next

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