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Peninsula Museum of Art

The Peninsula Museum of Art occupies half of the main floor of the Twin Pines Art Center. The other main floor occupants are the Belmont Arts Council Gallery and the office of ARTshare of San Mateo County. Artists rent the upstairs rooms for their working studios. The Twin Pines Art Center site includes one formal gallery, a reference library and a museum store.

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    Peninsula Museum of Art

    10 Twin Pines Lane
    Belmont, CA 94002

    Phone: 650-654-4068

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    07/18/10- 09/26/10

    Cork Marcheschi Retrospective - Constructed Sculpture of Light and Energy Peninsula Museum of Art Cork Marcheschi Retrospective - Constructed Sculpture of Light and Energy Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art July 18-September 26, 2010 Cork Marcheschi grew up in San Mateo, graduated from Burlingame High School, attended College of San Mateo, and now is known internationally for his architectural-scale public sculpture. The Museum will present a retrospective, culled from his Pacifica studio, of Marcheschi’s explorations and development of sculpture that flashes, glows, sparks, and interacts.

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    09/19/10

    Cork Marcheschi - Sunday Seminar Peninsula Museum of Art Cork Marcheschi - Sunday Seminar Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art September 19, 2010 Peninsula Art Museum features a Sunday Seminar with Cork Marcheschi, who will discuss his sculpture, methods, and theories and answer questions. Cork has an art exhibition, Constructed Sculpture of Light and Energy currently on display at the museum - scupltural artworks that flashes, grows, sparks, and interacts.

    10/17/10- 12/24/10

    Visions, The Imagined Universe - Paintings and Original Prints by Jesse Allen Peninsula Museum of Art Visions, The Imagined Universe - Paintings and Original Prints by Jesse Allen Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art October 17-December 24, 2010 Jesse Allen’s paintings and original prints are incredibly alive, filled with plants and animals that may (or may not) relate to the “real” world. Reality doesn’t matter, line, pattern, and colors do, with an intensity and complexity that demands the viewer’s attention. Visions opens with a reception on Sunday, Oct. 17 (1pm to 4pm). Exhibition dates are Oct. 17 through Dec. 24. “When I paint a picture, I am creating a secret place”...

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    04/18/10- 06/27/10	The Divine Comedy - Paintings and Sculpture by Harriet Moore Peninsula Museum of Art The Divine Comedy - Paintings and Sculpture by Harriet Moore Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art April 18-June 27, 2010 Avg. Event Rating (5.0 Stars): Harriet Grannis Moore, well-known San Francisco sculptor and instructor in stone and clay, created a series of paintings inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy in the '70's and early '80's. The paintings, measuring nine feet high by four feet, will be accompanied by related ceramic sculpture.
    01/17/10- 03/28/10	Machines of Memory - Sculpture and Works on Paper by Joseph Zirker Peninsula Museum of Art Machines of Memory - Sculpture and Works on Paper by Joseph Zirker Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art January 17-March 28, 2010 The boom and rumble of giant machines in the noisy gloom of night shift in a foundry merged and emerged from the distant past in Joseph Zirker’s monotypes as imagined mechanical devices. These images, mostly black and white, are accompanied by playful Calder-esque sculptures constructed of paper that “represent in three dimensions a dual need to both translate and objectify the feelings and ideas that have preoccupied my printmaking in two dimensions” according to...
    01/06/10- 02/14/10	Nepotes and Nutcrackers Peninsula Museum of Art Nepotes and Nutcrackers Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art January 6-February 14, 2010 Nepote & Nutcrackers opens in the Collections Room of the Peninsula Art Museum in Belmont. The exhibit showcases five Alexander Nepote oil paintings recently donated to the museum by Dr. Robert Kraft. Kraft, now retired, was co-chair of pathology for Mills-Peninsula Hospital. The artwork was collected by his late wife, Robby Lee Kraft. Nepote, who died in 1986, was known for his mixed-media abstractions. He served as dean of the faculty at the California College of Arts...
    10/11/09- 12/31/09	Ebb & Flow Peninsula Museum of Art Ebb & Flow Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art October 11-December 31, 2009 The Peninsula Art Museum presents Ebb & Flow, an exhibit featuring paintings by Claudia Chapline and Jone Manoogian, with sculpture by Tyler James Hoare.
    09/13/09- 11/22/09	Box, Hole, & Film Peninsula Museum of Art Box, Hole, & Film Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art September 13-November 22, 2009 The Peninsula Art Museum presents Box, Hole, & Film, an exhibit featuring cameras and photographs from the collection of Judith Hoffman. One of the pieces exhibited is Judith's brass pinhole camera, Tyrannosaurus photoventris, 6.75 inches high, made of brass and fabricated plastic dinosaur. The pinhole camera uses paper film with the lens cap on a ball chain. This camera takes "photos of dinosaurs, mostly in the late Cretaceous."
    07/12/09- 09/20/09	Crab Orchard Cemetery Revisited Peninsula Museum of Art Crab Orchard Cemetery Revisited Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art July 12-September 20, 2009 Jo Hanson (San Francisco, 1918 - 2007), left two major legacies to the art world. One was the encouragement of environmental art, and the other was the single best known of Hanson's works, the Crab Orchard Cemetery. The Peninsula Art Museum acquired most of the original works in "Crab Orchard Cemetery" from Hanson's estate and plans to reinstall them as Crab Orchard Cemetery Revisited. The exhibition opens July 12 and closes Sept. 20. The original Crab...
    03/28/09- 04/30/09	Ultimate Eye Foundation Competition 2009 - Signs and Revelations Peninsula Museum of Art Ultimate Eye Foundation Competition 2009 - Signs and Revelations Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art March 28-April 30, 2009 This spring the Peninsula Arts Museum will present the 2009 winners and finalists in the annual international competition sponsored by the Ultimate Eye Foundation. The exhibition opens with a reception on Saturday, March 28. UEF founders James and Kathryn Daugherty have awarded $5,000 each to the two winners: one in Innovative Figure Photography, and one in Digital Art Based in Photography. Each year they review hundreds of images, searching for exceptional work in the two genres. See the...
    01/11/09- 03/15/09	Xpresiones! - Monotypes and Constructions by Gustavo Ramos Rivera Peninsula Museum of Art Xpresiones! - Monotypes and Constructions by Gustavo Ramos Rivera Presented by Peninsula Museum of Art at Peninsula Museum of Art January 11-March 15, 2009 Xpresiones! Monotypes and Constructions by Gustavo Ramos Rivera features thirteen new monotypes and four very large constructions by San Francisco artist Gustavo Ramos Rivera. According to Jerry Emanuel, exhibition coordinator, "Rivera's art reveals radiant visual flavors which form the purist fruits of Modern Mexican Aesthetics." Guest Curator Melissa Behravesh (Smith Andersen Editions) describes Rivera's new images as "gestural, personal, and open." obert Flynn...

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    • Event Name: The Divine Comedy - Paintings and Sculpture by Harriet Moore
      "truly captivating"
      Review posted by: Justin from San Carlos, CA, Apr 16, 2010
      

      I was fortunate to catch a sneak peek at this upcoming exhibit consisting of a series of oil paintings as well as selected sculptures and they are absolutely marvelous! I literally spent hours... Expand

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      I was fortunate to catch a sneak peek at this upcoming exhibit consisting of a series of oil paintings as well as selected sculptures and they are absolutely marvelous! I literally spent hours examining each panel as the story of Dante's "Divine Comedy" came to life! Above all it's free! Please take advantage of this opportunity ;) Collapse

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