Explore the menace of America's suburbs in a new South Bay art exhibit

"And at Santa Clara's Triton Museum of Art, there's not one but four exhibits opening in January, ranging from slashed-and-bleached abstractions to uncanny paintings of suburbia that hearken to Edward Hopper and David Lynch. That latter show, opening Jan. 10, comes from South Bay artist Jonathan Crow who grew to fame with drawings of U.S. vice presidents wearing octopuses on their heads."

"Crow's latest exhibit, Cul-de-sac, explores the false utopia of suburban life, where divisive topics on race and gender often lurk below the surface. These eerie set pieces are designed to generate a sense of growing unease, the artists says, and suggest menace that looms just outside the frame. Opening on Jan. 17 is Seams by Berkeley's Cynthia Ona Innis, who forcefully manipulates various media into abstract expressions of the artistic process."

"Opening on Jan. 17 is Seams by Berkeley's Cynthia Ona Innis, who forcefully manipulates various media into abstract expressions of the artistic process. The museum explains: The dialogue between the pigments and the textiles are uncovered through the way they respond to each other; pigments poured directly onto the fabric, bleach used to remove color, materials cut, stitched, assembled and reassembled."

Four exhibits open at the Triton Museum of Art in January, offering diverse contemporary work across painting, textile-based abstraction, and mixed media. Jonathan Crow’s Cul-de-sac opens Jan. 10 and examines the false utopia of suburban life with eerie set pieces that evoke unease and suggest menace beyond the frame. Seams by Cynthia Ona Innis opens Jan. 17 and uses pigments poured onto fabric, bleach, cutting, stitching, and reassembly to reveal pigment-textile interactions. On Jan. 24 shows by Jacqueline Boberg and Emanuela Harris Sintamarian present design-influenced mixed media and polyphonic images. Admission is free; location and hours provided.

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