Organization

Hive - Video Installation and Exhibition

Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art

January 8-January 31, 2012

Ruth Eckland's video installation, Hive, projects video onto a succession of scrims to the accompaniment of music composed by Matt DiFonzo. Eckland's most recent exhibitions were in Nakkas Cistern Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Stir Art Gallery in Shanghai, China. Matt DiFonzo is a composer/producer living in Los Angeles, CA. His work can be heard on the TV shows Survivor, Fear Factor, Average Joe, The Restaurant, and The Assistant.

Alexander Nepote - Exhibition

Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art

September 25-December 18, 2011

Six years ago, the Peninsula Museum of Art honored six “Local Legends”, eminent San Mateo County artists. Alexander Nepote was one of the six, a watercolorist and mixed-media painter with roots in the plein-air movement of the ‘30s.

In the ‘50s, he switched to oils and mixed media, and later acrylic, as he explored abstract expressionism in the form of richly textured landscapes. He became highly influential as a professor, first at California College of Arts

Collectively Alone by Sherry Karver

Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art

July 10-September 4, 2011

Collectively Alone, an exhibition of recent photo-based oil paintings by East Bay artist Sherry Karver, opens at The Peninsula Museum of Art on July 10. Being born and raised in Chicago, Karver's work is informed by city life and the multitude of issues we encounter: loneliness and alienation, personal identity and the loss of it, the individual as part of a crowd, the passage of time, and finding our own voice. Karver mounts her black and white images on top of very large, thick wood

Toys for Tots? Or Not... - Exhibition

Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art

July 10-September 4, 2011

Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Toy Story, Sin City, Godzilla, The Golden Compass, and many more.... Kim McCool Nelson’s collection of “action figures” from movies, especially Disney movies, probably totals more than a thousand. Some are displayed in “the room” at home; more are stored away.

Nelson has been collecting action figure toys since childhood. When she was five or six, her grandfather bought her The Flintstones, Jetsons,

Perspectives

Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art

April 16-June 26, 2011

What do Museum Board members collect – personally? Come see when Perspectives: Selections from the Personal Collections of the Museum's Governing Board opens in the Peninsula Museum of Art on April 17. Already there are plans for a section – or maybe the whole Collections Room – for the display of masks owned by members of the Governing Board. Huge masks from Papua New Guinea, carved stone from central Mexico, de-commissioned (meaning worn out) masks from the