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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

< 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

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.

Permanent Gallery EXHIBITION Salon at the Triton Museum Salon Recipients DATES: JUN 26 - SEP 12 YEAR: 2021 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. Previous Next

Unknown EXHIBITION City Views Various Artists DATES: MAR 13 - MAY 2 YEAR: 2021 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

< Back Qiuwen Li AUG 30 - JAN 11 Echoes in Color Born in China, Qiuwen Li moved to the United States to pursue her education in Design, earning a BFA in Graphic Design from St. Cloud State University and a MFA in Visual Studies with a concentration in Graphic Design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Now working as an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Santa Clara University, Li’s teaching and research focuses on the integration of typography, data visualization, and graphic design. Incorporating her knowledge and expertise into her art, Qiuwen Li seeks to delineate, deconstruct, and reconstruct the assumptions of multilingual communication and reframe them as more contingent on idiosyncratic understandings. Artist Statement: In my designs, graphic elements (shapes, colors, forms, and type) are constructed, deconstructed, and then reconstructed to create a richer experience and extend their meaning. As a designer, I understand the need for legibility, but I am more concerned with communicating something more visceral, expressive, and imaginative. My work engages viewers in a way that evokes playing games and figuring out puzzles; they simply can’t get enough of it, and that’s a good thing, because that’s the key to engagement. Previous Next

Sculpture Garden at the Triton Museum of Art Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Mark as Starred Horss, Cerey, Boye, Patricia Sascha S. Schnittman The Morgan Horse , 1966 Bronze Don Rich Untitled , 1994 Bronze Francis M. Sedwick The Sisters, 1948 Bronze Sheldon Schoneberg Untitled , No Date Aluminum Sheathed John Cerney Sunflowers for Vincent , 2022 Acrylic on MDO Plywood Thomas Walsh Atrium , 2000 Bronze Richard Murphy The Littlest Cowboy, 1982 Bronze Francis M. Sedgwick Horse and Rider , 1956 Bronze Harry Powers Boyne , 2004 Bronze Chris Sawyer Cooper’s Joy , 2016 Metal, Paint Harry Powers Vasari , 1983 Cast Concrete Patricia Bengton-Jones Symbol 1 R = Rune, 1990 Italian Marble Sharon Loper Female Figure, Male Figure, Wolf- Female, Wolf - Male , 2001 Bronze Sascha S. Schnittman Torso Fragment, 1946 Bronze Rich, Walsh, Sawyer, Loper Sistes, cowybo, vasari, torso pyrami, rider Download our Sculpture Garden Map Now! Download

< Back Jonathan Crow JAN 10 - MAY 3 Cul-de-sac 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. Artist Statement: 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. Previous Next

Permanent Gallery EXHIBITION Poetic Sentiment, Chan Spirit Chun-Hui Yu DATES: MAR 13 - JUN 6 YEAR: 2021 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. 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

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

Who We Are For 60 years, the Triton Museum of Art has been a destination for the community, providing a venue where local artists exhibit their work alongside regional and national artists and where students of all ages learn about art and the creative process. Located across the street from the Santa Clara Civic Center, the Triton Museum of Art collects and exhibits contemporary and historical works with an emphasis on artists of the Greater Bay Area. Our Roots The Triton Museum of Art was founded by rancher, lawyer, and art patron W. Robert Morgan and his wife June in San Jose, California, in 1965. It was the first non-university art museum in the county. Less than two years after its opening, the Triton Museum moved to its current location within the City of Santa Clara. Exhibitions and programs were held in four pavilions surrounded by a seven-acre park. Due to the tremendous economic and population growth of the Santa Clara Valley during the 1970s, a new facility was built to serve the changing needs of the community. Construction for the current facility was completed in October 1987. The 22,000-square-foot space features high ceilings, pyramidal skylights, and dramatic lighting. The spacious design of the building was created for versatile exhibition presentation as well as an aesthetically pleasing experience for museum visitors.