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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

Unknown EXHIBITION Paintings Bing Zhang DATES: JAN 29 - MAY 7 YEAR: 2022 Previously on view in the Unknown < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION "I tend to paint people in moments of introspection or concentration. I want to capture moments when people show their real character and mood which are normally hidden behind the mask they put on in public. My painting is also about story telling. I try to tell stories that show the hidden truth which reflects people's relationship, their living condition, their mental state, their interests, and other aspects of their disposition in the world. My goal is to search out the humanity within these situations." Bing Zhang Previous Next

Permanent Gallery EXHIBITION Tall Tales John Cerney DATES: SEPT 9 - JAN 14 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 meant for an audience that is not prepared to view art, or who may not even have an opinion about art, but people who are held captive in their cars while heading someplace. It doesn’t matter to me that they know who created the pieces or have any notion of how it came to be. I’m satisfied that for a few miles down the road they are left with some wonderment. In the rare event of showing my work in the confines of a gallery, I’m able to create little stories that invite a slower pondering of what’s taking place. I tend towards the theatrical, and I consider my pieces one act plays. I’m grateful for the generous size of the gallery so I can fill up the space with my oversized ‘actors’. John Cerney 2023 "Dance" Previous Next

< Back Phillip Hua SEP 28 - JAN 12 You Can Never Go Home Again Phillip Hua is a South Bay Area native whose art speaks of the delicate relationship between nature and commerce. As someone familiar with the ever-changing landscape of the Silicon Valley, Hua visualizes this shift in his art using unique processes that combine creative digital and traditional techniques. His work presents a call to be aware of how we're affecting the world around us and to question what our priorities are. This exhibition will include a selection of the artist's 2D works. About the Artist: When I was growing up in San Jose, fields, orchards and wild, undeveloped lots were abundant. In the house that I spent most of my adolescent years in, there was a small personal farm behind our backyard. I could hear crickets when I went to bed. Today, that small farm is now replaced by new housing. The nights are mostly silent. The fields and orchards that I remembered are now office parks and commercial spaces. Where the change has been an economic boon to the Bay Area, I question what was replaced. The tide of redevelopment fueled by the relentless march of tech washed away so much of the beauty of nature. My memories of San Jose no longer align with what it is today. My artistic process is a blend of traditional and digital techniques, revolving around creating photo composites that I print, rework, scan, and digitally rework again. I incorporate dots to represent printing, ink bleeds to represent painting, and squares to represent pixels, influenced by our blended digital and corporeal lives. I draw inspiration from Asian brush painting, technology, and nature. While political, my goal is to always lure the viewer with beauty and color to provoke contemplation. This exhibition draws from over 17 years of work, ranging from portraits that invoke nostalgia and childhood to works that portray the intersection of the environment with the economy. Previous Next

Permanent Collection and Rotunda Gallery EXHIBITION Salon at the Triton: A 2D Art Competition and Exhibition Various Artists DATES: MAY 25 - SEP 8 YEAR: 2024 Previously on view in the Permanent Collection 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. NA Salon at the Triton Museum, 2023 Previous Next

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Beyond the Enhance Button: An iPhone Photography Workshop with Fine Artist Ron Dell'Aquila Ron Dell'Aquila Sunday, October 8th from 11:00am to 2:00pm Go beyond the enhance button and master the camera app on your iPhone with guidance from Fine Art Photographer, Ron Dell'Aquila. About the Instructor: Ron Dell'Aquila Raised in the high-tech environment of Santa Clara Valley, Ron Dell’Aquila has been influenced by both its natural beauty and the electronics industry of Silicon Valley. Ron attended San Francisco State University to study Fine Art Photography and Computer Science and has had a multi-faceted career in the arts and technology ever since. As a Commercial Photographer, Ron worked at Macy’s photo-advertising studio in California and later started his own studio specializing in high-end audio and computer product photography. As a Fine Art Photographer, Ron’s current body of work, Organic Landscapes, combines a strong sense of design, with an appreciation of light and textures. His work as database designer for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, especially the Livermore landscapes, also has inspired and grown his artistic portfolio. Exhibitions: Ron has exhibited his work at the Triton Museum of Art, Pacific Art League Gallery, Intel Corp., Krause Center Gallery, Saratoga Rotary Art Show and Photo Central Gallery. BACK

Warburton Gallery EXHIBITION Under the Californian Sun Theodore Wores DATES: MAR 13 - JUN 6 YEAR: 2021 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. 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

< Back The Secret Life of Sea Creatures Price Members: $155, General: $175 Location Linn Studio Dates Wednesdays, September 16, 23, 30, and October 14, 21, 28 from 3:30PM-5:00PM Duration 6 Weeks Enroll About the Course For ages 6-12 only Location: Linn Studio behind Triton Museum of Art All materials included The Secret Life of Sea Creatures Art Camp is a 6-week sculpture and drawing camp program that combines imaginative sculpture building with observational drawing inspired by the mysteries of ocean life. During the first, third, and fifth weeks, students will construct imaginative sea creatures using paper, cardboard, recycled materials, and other fun sculptural media, learning how to build form, texture, and three dimensional structure through hands on experimentation. In the following weeks, students will use their own handmade sea creatures as artistic models for drawing lessons, developing important skills such as gesture drawing, proportion, shading, pattern design, and perspective. Through this creative process, students experience the connection between three dimensional construction and two dimensional drawing, gaining a deeper understanding of form, movement, and artistic observation. Inspired by the sea creatures, students will create a portfolio of imaginative artworks that celebrate both the beauty of marine life and the power of artistic drawing skills. Your Instructor Mei-Ying Dell'Aquila Mei-Ying Dell’Aquila is a Taiwanese American award-winning artist residing in California. Primarily working in oils, her work has been exhibited in solo and juried shows in museums and galleries throughout the US, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA and the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon. Mei-Ying holds a Master of Arts degree from San Francisco State University and is the former owner and teacher at My Art School, an afterschool art program she ran for 25 years in Cupertino. As an educator, she encourages students to become the best they can be through promoting “self-empowerment to take charge and change the world for the better”. This legacy can be seen in her own paintings, which depict strong, confident figures and dynamism. Website: https://meiyingdellaquila.org/