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< Back Devon Blood AUG 15 - JAN 17 Intrusive Thoughts At twenty-six, Devon Blood was on the cusp of change. A tattoo artist rising through the ranks of the Oakland, post-Y2K underground arts scene, a dedicated skateboarder, and devoted boyfriend. One fateful night in 2006, that was shattered when a botched home invasion and robbery left him with a near-fatal gunshot wound to the head. The cumulative result of that night resulted first in a series of medical miracles – Blood recovering inexplicably from a coma, managing severe hemiparesis and atrophy on the dominant side of his body, and continuing to suffer to this day from after-effects of the invading bullet resting on his brainstem. Then, a series of remarkable triumphs – Blood learning to tattoo and expand his artistic skills cultivating his left side, publishing a book (Keep Laughing) about his experiences, and developing an entirely new portfolio based on his newfound aesthetic. Today, Mr. Blood is the proud father of two, a featured story for Vans during their Pass the Bucket campaign, more recently the subject of a Hearst Television special featured on their subsidiary KCRA Channel 3 Sacramento, and a rising talent in the modern art world. About the Artist: My name is Devon Blood. Third generation San Franciscan. I grew up in a working-class family, with a strong, single mother, and seven siblings. Things were tough, but what made it tougher was my struggle with undiagnosed OCD. This condition is the framework of my whole life, during my highest highs and lowest lows. It's the one thing that's never left me, not when my best friend died, not when I survived a near-fatal shooting protecting my girlfriend, not when I learned how to tattoo and paint with the left side of my body after suffering hemiparesis. This exhibit is the culmination of my experiences, good times and bad, and of the journey through some of my greatest dreams and worst nightmares. It's a twisted tribute to my firm conviction in life that no matter who you are, or what you're going through, you have to stay up, stay strong, and above all else - keep laughing. This is the Intrusive Thoughts exhibit. It marks a particularly personal chapter in my life, and I hope you enjoy it, maybe even reflecting on your own experience through something that challenged you. Previous Next

< Back Emanuela Harris Sintamarian JAN 24 - APR 26 The Theater of Premature Truths Emanuela Iuliana Harris Sintamarian is an artist originally from Romania, but currently she lives and works in Oakland, CA. Her work is informed by the relationship between her identity to her sense of displacement, and the ways she has devised to reconcile those incongruous elements. She is interested in perception, memory and the mechanics of motion, their visual translation, and the dichotomies intrinsic to them. She explores the fluidity and tension generated by contradictions: organized chaos and uncontrolled order, machine-like generated imagery, and imperfections, organized chaos and logical absurd. Ema also tends to adulterate the boundaries between representative and abstract. She leverages marks, colors, shapes, and textures to construct an undefined world, rather than mirror reality. Ema's work has been shown in solo and group shows at Sunny Art Center, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Constanta, Romania; Museum of Art, Arad, Romania; Triton Museum in Santa Clara, CA; Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA; the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, DE; Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia; Niklas Belenius Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden; Institute of Contemporary Art, CA and Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY. She was the recipient of the Leigh Weimer Award, (2021), the Artist Award SVCreates, San Jose, CA (2020), the Golden Foundation Fellowship, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY (2018), the Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA (2013), ArtShift Award (2008) and the Silicon Valley Arts Council Award (2010). She is the finalist for the Sunny Art Award (2021), and has been nominated for SECA-SFMOMA-History Art Award, SF, CA Ema received her first MFA in printmaking from University of Delaware, and her second MFA in painting from San Jose State University. She is a Professor Associated at San Jose City College. About the Artist: While a name can be a cosmic prison, identity acts as its guardian. My practice emerges from this paradox. As a Romanian immigrant in the United States, my work is shaped by a continuous negotiation between belonging and estrangement—an evolving dialogue among memory, displacement, and the strategies I have developed to reconcile these incongruities. Each artwork begins as a search for home: an unstable geography constructed through dualism, migration, and the fragments carried forward. I inhabit the liminal space between worlds—one remembered, one lived, and one imagined. From this tension, I create hybrid cartographies that resist literal interpretation. Architecture, ornament, and anatomy converge to form layered visual vocabularies—maps not of territory, but of perception. These works chart absence, transformation, and the act of becoming. By juxtaposing fragmented cultural iconography with abstraction, I construct polyphonic images—fractured allegories of my physical, emotional, and intellectual journey. Loss, displacement, and containment become catalysts for ritualized acts of self-expropriation, transforming absence into generative force. My process is interdisciplinary, spanning painting, drawing, printmaking, three-dimensional works, and muralism. I allow each medium to inform the others, privileging process over predetermined outcomes. I work within a space of “not knowing,” letting questions, rather than answers, guide each decision. I tend to work in series, believing that ideas unfold and evolve through repetition, variation, and recontextualization. Within each series, I alternate large-scale works with more intimate ones, considering how the viewer’s body engages with each—immersed in expansive works, contemplative with smaller pieces. Together, they form a rhythm between immersion and introspection. My approach balances cultivated spontaneity with rigorous research: sketching Romanian textiles, architectural motifs, and anatomical structures, while also responding intuitively to the evolving surface. Through layering, repetition, and erasure, I condense visual information into dense, stratified compositions where control and chance converge. This visual density mirrors the navigation of multiple cultural identities, inviting viewers to engage with ambiguity and multiplicity. Although this series emphasizes smaller, intimate formats, it lays the groundwork for future large-scale, memory-driven pieces activated by the viewer’s movement through space. My ongoing inquiry weaves together two central threads: Memory vs. Perception and Fragmentation. In the gaps between remembrance and invention, I locate the architecture of the self—continuously reconstructed, suspended between belonging and becoming. While informed by personal experience and broader social and cultural contexts, my work is not didactic. I do not provide answers or prescribe interpretations; rather, I invite viewers to inhabit spaces of ambiguity, reflection, and multiplicity. My paintings, drawings, and installations operate as open-ended inquiries—encounters with absence, memory, and fragmentation that encourage contemplation rather than instruction. In this way, my practice embraces complexity and uncertainty, honoring the layered, evolving nature of identity and the ongoing dialogue between self, place, and perception. Previous Next

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We invite you to read selected novels about art or famous artists before we meet, and then join us on the first Wednesday morning of each month, for an art history presentation about that month’s novel, the portrayed artist, and related art, as presented by Triton Museum Executive Director Preston Metcalf and Triton Museum Associate Curator Vanessa Callanta. Book Club Monthly meetings on the first Wednesdays of each month 9:30 - 10:30 AM PST at the Triton Museum of Art. (doors open at 9:00 a.m. for coffee and donuts; presentation begins at 9:30 a.m.) We invite you to read selected novels about art or famous artists before we meet, and then join us on the first Wednesday morning of each month, for an art history presentation about that month’s novel, the portrayed artist, and related art, as presented by Triton Museum Executive Director Preston Metcalf and Triton Museum Associate Curator Vanessa Callanta. 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’ times in which they were created. Admission to the monthly book club art history lectures is free for Triton Museum of Art Members ($5 donation requested for non-members), and all are welcome, whether you have actually read the book or not. Coffee and pastries will be served. Discussions are held safely distanced & in person at the Triton Museum of Art Free for TMA members, $5 suggested donation for non-members Take a look at what we'll be reading for 2026! DOWNLOAD This Upcoming Month's Book: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury July 1st, 2026 “Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, like ants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they’re doing what they have to do . . . ” The Illustrated Man is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story. Throughout history and over many cultures, tattoos have told stories. Some speak of our place in societies, and others of significant personal identities. Please join Triton Curator Vanessa Callanta as she tours the history of tattoo art, from the ice age to the powerful islander manifestations of power to the secret lives of Japanese Yakuza, and into modern day personal artistic statements.

The Current Exhibitions currently on view at the Triton Museum of Art. Current Exhibitions UPCOMING PAST CURRENT EXHIBITION Carbon Sinks, Plastic Swims Stefie Gan MAY 16 - AUG 9 EXHIBITION The City of Santa Clara and the Triton Museum of Art presents: Fútbol: The Art of the Game Various Artists MAY 16 - AUG 2 EXHIBITION Visual Duets: The Art of Creating Together David Einstein and Judith Cook Era and Donald (Aldo) Farnsworth Ellen Konar and Steve Goldband Tandem Painting (Suzette McDonough and James Whitehouse) MAY 16 - AUG 16 EXHIBITION 2026 Salon at the Triton Exhibition Selected Artists MAY 2 - AUG 16

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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

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

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