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JAN 24 - APR 26Emanuela 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. The Theater of Premature Truths Emanuela Harris Sintamarian JAN 24 - APR 26 Now on View in the Mathias Gallery Plan Your Visit < Back Marquee: Hora and how to construct a future: fools and scissors should be handled with care - Commedia dll'arte, 2024-2025, acrylic and gouache on hand cut wood panel Overview 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. About the Artist 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. Previous Next

JAN 10 - MAY 3Born 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. Cul-de-Sac Jonathan Crow JAN 10 - MAY 3 Now on View in the Cowell Room Gallery Plan Your Visit < Back Marquee: Woman and Five Cars, 2025, oil on canvas Overview 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. About the Artist 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. Previous Next

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

Discover unique corporate event venues at our Museum in Santa Clara. Plan your next corporate event with us for an unforgettable experience. CORPORATE EVENTS The Basics: 20% Off Rentals with Triton Museum Corporate Membership See membership information here for more details. Event Hours of Availability: 4:30PM to 11:00PM (Triton) 8:00AM to 11:00PM (Jamison-Brown House) Rental Hours of Availability: (Event hours + set up & breakdown)* 2:30PM (upon approval) - 12AM Jamison-Brown House events: Flexible depending on staff availability; inquire with Facility Rentals Coordinator *(Delegation of setup + breakdown is the responsibility of the rental party) Decorations: The Triton has specific guidelines for decorations to preserve the integrity of our artists' works. Please see full facility guidelines below for more information. Pricing: Pricing varies depending on the venue, duration, and any add-ons you choose. View full pricing options below. Non-Profit Organizations: Rental discounts are available for 501(c)3 non-profit organizations. City of Santa Clara Business Licenses: ( Required for all 3rd party vendors hired for any event) All 3rd party vendors hired to work the event must provide us with an up to date City of Santa Clara Business License number. For more information, visit: https://www.santaclaraca.gov/business-development/business-services/business-tax-license Certificate of Liability Insurance: We require renters to Renters provide a one day event liability insurance in the amount equal to at least $1,000,000.00. PRICING INCLUSIONS GUIDELINES PERMIT INFO FLOOR PLANS CONTACT US We want to know more about your event! Fill out our inquiry form and our Facility Rentals Administrator will get in touch with you. Stay in touch with our Socials to stay up-to-date on what we've got going on. INQUIRY FORM

< Back Treasure of Asian Art (Lecture Series) Price $80 for entire series, $25 for individual drop-in lectures Location Triton Museum of Art Dates Thursday evenings, March 26th through April 16th, from 7:00PM-8:30PM Duration 4 Weeks Enroll About the Course This March, please join Triton Museum of Art Executive Director, Preston Metcalf for a special Art History journey, surveying the rich heritage of Asian Art. Each presentation of this four week series will focus on a different region, all of which interplay with and complement one another. Week one will showcase the art of India, from the earliest portrayals in the Indus Valley to Modern day. Week two will cover the expansive sweep of the Art of China, from the Great Wall and beyond. In week three Preston will guide us through the historic arts of Japan. And in week four, we will look at the arts of other countries in Southeast Asia and Korea. In addition to his role as the Triton Museum’s Executive Director and resident Art Historian, Preston lived and taught in Japan, has curated exhibitions in Japan and Korea, and taught Asian Art History at Mission College and San Jose City College. He brings decades of study and research to this area of art which so greatly impacts our Western culture today. Your Instructor Preston Metcalf In addition to his role as the Triton Museum’s Executive Director and resident Art Historian, Preston lived and taught in Japan, has curated exhibitions in Japan and Korea, and taught Asian Art History at Mission College and San Jose City College. He brings decades of study and research to this area of art which so greatly impacts our Western culture today.

Unknown EXHIBITION Pop, Funk, and Just Plain Fun! 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

The Triton Museum of Art provides high quality exhibitions and art education programs as a result of the generosity of our donors, patrons and volunteers. We thank you for all the support! WAYS TO DONATE AND SUPPORT The Triton Museum of Art provides high quality exhibitions and art education programs as a result of the generosity of our donors, patrons and volunteers. We thank you for all the support! DONATE NOW Gala In-House Auction Stay tuned for more details pertaining the Gala In-House Auction! Contact: rentals@tritonmuseum.org (rentals@tritonmuseum.org) How can I support the Triton Museum of Art through tile sponsorship? You can support the Triton Museum of Art by sponsoring a personalized tile. These tiles can be customized with your name, a message to loved ones, or as a permanent memory, and will be installed in the museum’s main entrance plaza. Your contribution helps pave the way for others to experience the joys and values of art in our community. For more details and to get your tile, visit (https://www.thatsmybrick.com/tritonmuseum)(https://www.thatsmybrick.com/tritonmuseum). How can I support and sponsor the Triton Museum of Art? The Triton Museum of Art thrives on the generosity of our donors and patrons. You can support us through donations, sponsorships, and volunteering. For more information on how to contribute, please visit our [Support and Sponsorship](https://www.tritonmuseum.org/support) page. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of our valued sponsors and donors who help us provide high-quality exhibitions and art education programs. Legacy Giving Leaving a legacy gift to the Triton Museum of Art will ensure it continues to make art and art education accessible to our community for generations to come. Make a lasting impact through your will or trust. By naming the Triton Museum as a beneficiary of 2% or more in your estate planning, you can make an enduring statement of the value of art and education in the quality of life for our region. Simply let us know you have included the Triton Museum in your estate plans, and you will become a Legacy Donor, with recognition at the museum, invitation to an annual Legacy Donor Art History Lecture & Champagne, and most of all, the gratitude of all who will benefit by your generosity. Please contact Preston Metcalf, Executive Director at pmetcalf@tritonmuseum.org (mailto:pmetcalf@tritonmuseum.org)for more information or to discuss your gift. Thank you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOPtMAUnCA Art Donations Please contact Vanessa Callanta, Curator, at vcallanta@tritonmuseum.org(mailto:pmetcalf@tritonmuseum.org) Make a Donation Make a One-Time monetary contribution to the Triton Museum of Art, or set up a recurring donation by using the following secure link. Thank you! Make a Donation(https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=a066ed) More Ways to Support Support the Triton through your Amazon shopping! (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/homepage?orig=%2F)Follow the link, set the Triton Museum as your charity of choice and then 0.5% of your eligible purchases will be donated to the Triton. Support the Triton Museum of Art today. DONATE NOW

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 Out of gallery "Dance" Previous Next

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Rotunda Gallery EXHIBITION Windows into the Soul Raja GuhaThakurta DATES: OCT 2 - JAN 16 YEAR: 2021 Previously on view in the Rotunda Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Out of gallery Previous Next

Permanent Collection Gallery EXHIBITION The Punctum Void: A Miha Sarani Retrospective Miha Sarani DATES: JAN 20 - MAY 12 YEAR: 2024 Previously on view in the Permanent Collection 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 explores, and responds to the elements of everyday life - particularly by framing our collective existence, individual experiences, voyeuristic responses, and the idea of duality. I find playing with the formal elements helps me better visually represent these objectives. While the intention is to bring about an exploration of a dialogue with the past, I commonly engage in current issues; addressing cyclical occurrences throughout history, but with contemporary challenges. My art practice aims to create a juxtaposition of conceptual art and aesthetic value; thus visually combining what I believe to be the essence of art making as a philosophical pursuit. For this reason, reading of my work often includes both arbitrary and conventional signs, personal assumptions mixed with stylistic representation of post-modern content. My theoretical framing is to move my work beyond the hyped contemporary referent and trendy aesthetic which pay less attention to the content and more to approximation. My practice is also profoundly informed by my studies as an art historian, so I look to the old masters as well as new for inspiration. Still, I find myself most often returning to the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Kippenberger, Anselm Kiefer, Philip Guston and Neo Rauch. Modern viewers, I believe, have become accustomed to having art dissected and served to them - which tends to devalue the work and the process. Although I enjoy contemporary art and admire many of its practitioners, I strive to create something with a deeper significance; a bridge between the ancient rituals and modern audience. Out of gallery Miha Sarani, One of My Turns, 2020, charcoal, coffee, acrylic, commercial paint on wood. Previous Next