Selected Exhibitions
GROW
Palo Alto Art Center: September 20, 2024 - December 15, 2024
Thousands of years ago our ancestors began growing things intentionally for food and cultivated natural resources to provide what was needed and desired. Over time, these planned horticultural spaces diversified into gardens, becoming showplaces of wealth and power, settings for political negotiation, areas for recreation and respite, and sources of inspiration for spiritual and artistic growth.
In Feast or Famine
Palo Alto Art Center: January 20, 2024 – April 7, 2024
We think about food every day; it is necessary for life and central to our daily routines, commerce, and culture. Throughout history, communities have worked together to forage, hunt, and grow food. In good times and bad, feast or famine, food connects people. It is no wonder that food continues to be a prominent subject in art.
Common Thread
Santa Clara University: November 13, 2023 – February 2, 2024
Threads in common, threads in conversation, threads as keepers of identity, history, and memory. Common Thread features artists Alice Beasley, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, and Michelle Kingdom.
The Hiking Club
New Museum Los Gatos: October 13, 2023 – February 4, 2023
Through evocative drawings, etchings, and paintings, Linda Simmel explores personal and cultural connections between landscape, memory, and history. The Hiking Club: A Vocabulary of Yearning intertwines the story of being the daughter of an immigrant, with the sublime in nature.
Terra Firma
New Museum Los Gatos: October 21, 2022 – March 19, 2023
Terra Firma explores our relationship with the land and presents unique interpretations of meaning and connection.
To Hear and Be Heard
Santa Clara University: October 16, 2020 – January 22, 2021
To Hear and Be Heard considers civility, our life in community, what divides us and what unites us.
31 Women
Whitney Modern Gallery: March 1, 2020 – April 30, 2020
31 Women celebrates the work of 31 female artists in honor of Women’s History Month 2020. Women’s History Month annually commemorates women’s contributions to history, culture, and society throughout the United States.
Waterlines
New Museum Los Gatos: October 6, 2017 – March 18, 2018
In California we often think and talk about water. Both in its abundance and scarcity, this essential natural resource is part of our collective consciousness.
Power of the Page
New Museum Los Gatos: May 4, 2017 – October 8, 2017
Power of the Page: Artist Books as Agents for Change is an exhibition that celebrates artist made books as agents for change and social awareness. The book has played a vital role in the realization of our modern freedoms.
Abstracts From Life
New Museum Los Gatos: March 24, 2017 – September 10, 2017
Artists have explored the human figure throughout the ages. One regional expression of this practice is Bay Area Figurative, an art movement that emerged from California mid-20th century abstraction and continues as an enduring tradition.
A Call to Collect
New Museum Los Gatos: January 26, 2017 – June 8, 2017
A Call to Collect is an exhibition that celebrates the pursuit of collecting art, featuring prized works from three highly regarded Los Gatos collectors. These locally connected women with globally relevant art collections have unique stories to share.
Making Contact
New Museum Los Gatos: October 28, 2016 – March 5, 2017
Making Contact: SETI Artists in Residence, is a group exhibition featuring artists from the SETI Artist in Residence (AIR) program, including Dany Bazo, George Bolster, Charles Lindsay, Marko Peljhan, Rachel Sussman, Martin Wilner and Karl Yerkes.
In the Heart of the Wild
New Museum Los Gatos: July 14, 2016 – January 8, 2017
Born in 1869, Ann Brigman moved to Los Gatos when she was 16 years old. She first studied painting, but soon gravitated to photography. Brigman’s lens focused on the rugged landscapes of California and the female body, which resulted in new ways to explore feminine identity.
Marc D’Estout
New Museum Los Gatos: January 21, 2016 – March 27, 2016
Marc D’Estout: Open Investigation aims to explore the artist’s process and decipher the enigmas in D’Estout’s minimalist sculpture. While engaging subconscious surrealist imagery, his sculptures often reveal humor or uncanny associations, addressing fears, personal (mis)communication, social nuance, or pop humor.
More Than Your Selfie
New Museum Los Gatos: January 21, 2016 – May 15, 2016
More Than Your Selfie is an exhibit about the genre and practice of self-portraiture featuring works in a range of media.
Rick Guidice
New Museum Los Gatos: September 17, 2015 – February 14, 2016
The space settlement paintings were created almost forty years ago by Rick Guidice to illustrate studies and publications of research by NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University on designing and building living communities in space.
Hot Spot
The Museums of Los Gatos: June 8, 2014 – October 5, 2014
Hot Spot: Bay Area Studio Glass, honors the Bay Area’s continued prominence as a center for studio glass. With a focus on place and practice, the exhibit features work by Marvin Lipofsky, Mary B. White, Johnathon Turner, David Ruth, Susan Longini, and Liz Strickland.
Backward is Forward
The Museums of Los Gatos: September 26, 2013 – January 12, 2014
Artists have been using printmaking for centuries to create thought provoking and accessible works of art, but the process is often a mystery to viewers. Backward is Forward: Layer and Impact in Printmaking, brings together the work of nineteen artists with the objective of explaining relief, intaglio and planographic printmaking processes.
Storytelling in Pictures
The Museums of Los Gatos: January 17, 2013 – February 24, 2013
Some of our first experiences with art occur on the pages of books. From fairytales to science lessons, the images within children’s books nourish our young intellect and imagination. Storytelling in Pictures: From Idea to Art, highlights the work and process of contemporary Bay Area children’s book illustrators.