"A new year means new museum shows. 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."
The Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara opens four exhibitions in January featuring varied contemporary practices. Jonathan Crow's Cul-de-sac (opening Jan. 10) depicts suburban false utopias and explores race and gender tensions beneath placid domestic scenes, using eerie set pieces to evoke growing unease and an implied menace beyond the frame. Cynthia Ona Innis's Seams (opening Jan. 17) manipulates pigments and textiles through pouring, bleaching, cutting, stitching, and reassembly to reveal the artistic process. On Jan. 24 Jacqueline Boberg and Emanuela Harris Sintamarian present design-influenced mixed media and works described as polyphonic images. The museum is open Tuesday–Sunday 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; admission is free.
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