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You Can Never Go Home Again Phillip Hua Through January 12th Now on View in the Warburton Gallery Plan Your Visit < Back Overview 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. Artist Statement 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. Artist Biography: Born in San Jose, California in 1979, Phillip Hua was raised in the city that would eventually become the heart of Silicon Valley. The child of Vietnamese immigrants, he spent his childhood days exploring the many fields and creeks now replaced with redevelopment fueled by the tech industry. In 2003, he received his BFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art College (now University), where he taught Digital Media from 2009-2021. He currently lives and works in San Francisco. Hua's art has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs nationally and internationally. His public art commissions can be seen in the Southeast Community Center in San Francisco, 19th Street Oakland BART station, Sunnyvale City Hall, and the cities of San Francisco, San Mateo, Dublin, David, and Palo Alto. This is his first solo museum exhibition. Marquee: Phillip Hua, Missed Opportunities, no date, pigmented ink and packaging tape on the Wall Street Journal newspaper, mounted on Dibond. Exhibition Images Previous Next

Nathan Oliveira: Variations on Form Nathan Oliveira Marquee: Nathan Oliveira, Figure #4, bronze JAN 11 - APR 19 Will be on View in the Rotunda and Cowell Galleries < Back 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). Overview 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. The artist created his work in the abstract expressionist style and is widely recognized for his solitary figures. Aside from this subject, the artist also depicted animals, notably birds of prey, nudes, masks, and faces. Oliveira created his artwork in various mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. The Triton Museum of Art is pleased to present a collection of the late artist's works, curated by his son Joseph Oliveira, for view in two of our exhibition spaces. This selection of artwork will include works on canvas and paper as well as sculptures. The Triton Museum of Art would like to extend its thanks and appreciation to Joseph Oliveira for making this exhibition possible. 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

EXHIBITION Saffron, Saint of Spices Pantea Karimi DATES: JAN 14 - APR 30 YEAR: 2023 Previously on view in the Permanent Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION "Saffron, Saint of Spices" Previous Next

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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 Previous Next

EXHIBITION Expression of an Inner Life Susan Krough DATES: SEP 3 - DEC 23 YEAR: 2022 Previously on view in the Cowell Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION "Justice - Tribute to Ahmaud" Previous Next

EXHIBITION Beyond 2D: Sculptures from the Permanent Collection Various Artists DATES: JAN 25 - FEB 20 YEAR: 2022 Previously on view in the Unknown < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Previous Next

EXHIBITION A Celebration of Paintings Diane Brandenburg DATES: MAY 13 - JUN 18 YEAR: 2023 Previously on view in the Warburton Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION "Art is one of the languages from our souls" (author unknown) The above statement resonates between my heart and my brain as I pick up a brush, dip it into water and then my palette and then onto the paper or canvas before me. Inspirational music flows in the background, awakening my senses and then I begin... So much of my art comes from past experiences. When I was younger, I climbed most of the High Sierra Peaks in Yosemite. As a result, a lifelong interest and passion was developed, to study the formations and paint the summits of many of the mountain ranges on our planet. We have a home near the ocean. So again, I am able to study the changing moods of the ocean and the cliffs that provide the boundaries for the waves to reach their destinations and dissipate. Flowers are another subject I love to study. Their shapes and sizes, their breathtaking beauty and what about the colors and shadings of their petals, that nature has created? Simply amazing! Young children, especially my grand-babies, are so fresh and innocent, when you catch them in their curious poses. Abstract art fascinates me. I love to explore colors and shapes and some of my outcomes have been exciting. However, there have also been disasters, which I accept as a learning process. In summation, I have been fortunate to study abroad and here in the United States with acknowledged and prize-winning artists: Tom Nichols, Robbie Laird, Jane Hofstetter, Dales Laitinen, Stephen Quiller and Gerald Brommer, to name a few. They encouraged and supported me through all my amateurish struggles, to become what I wanted to be. Diane Miriam Brandenburg "Perfection is an enemy to creativity..." D.M.B. Diane Brandenburg, Sapphire Glacier, Date Unknown, Watercolor. Previous Next

Anatomica Hana Lock Through January 5th Now on View in the Rotunda Gallery Plan Your Visit < Back Overview 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. Artist Biography: Hana Lock is an Asian American artist who resides and works in the Bay Area. She graduated in 2022 with a BFA in Pictorial Arts from San José State University and has since exhibited work in local galleries and museums such as Chopsticks Alley and New Museum Los Gatos. Her vibrant and illustrative works explore the beautiful and grotesque nature of anatomy and the cycle of life and death. She approaches these topics through both a scientific and spiritual lens - connecting the physical anatomy of the body to the spirituality of its soul. Marquee: Hana Lock, Basara , 2024, ballpoint pen, watercolor, and acrylic. Exhibition Images Previous Next

EXHIBITION EDRC's 2024 Be-You-tiful Contest and Exhibit Various Artists DATES: MAY 25 - SEP 8 YEAR: 2024 Previously on view in the Digital Gallery < Back OVERVIEW ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information, please visit: https://edrcsv.org/ EDRC logo. Previous Next

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