Palo Alto Art Center kicks off ‘RESTART’ exhibition with opening reception | News

The “RESTART” exhibition contains Sammy Koh’s Twilight – from darkness to light, 2022. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.

The Palo Alto Art Center is internet hosting its to start with juried exhibition in more than a 10 years with artwork centered about the concept of resilience, hope, and renewal. The exhibition opened on June 25.

The art center aims for the exhibition, titled “RESTART,” to aid a location to provide the neighborhood back with each other in the wake of the pandemic. The showcase will exhibit the art of 44 Northern California artists whose perform was selected by the exhibition’s juror and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Artwork curator, Patricia Hickson.

The “RESTART” exhibition consists of Charles Lee’s “Carol Rae,” 2022. Polymer print, pedestal. Courtesy of the artist.

“What a delight it has been to provide as the juror for Palo Alto Art Center’s RESTART exhibition, which has reconnected me to the Bay Area’s exclusive present-day art scene considering that performing at the San Jose Museum of Art twenty several years back,” Hickson reported in a press launch. “In addition, the show’s pertinent and timely theme — the transformative electricity of artwork during complicated periods — serves to illustrate humanity’s strength, link and engagement via the visual arts.”

To kick off the exhibition, the art heart is internet hosting an opening reception on July 1 with palms-on artwork experiences and options to satisfy the artists

The opening reception for RESTART takes put July 1, 6-8 p.m. at the Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto.