Past Exhibitions
The Cañada College Art Gallery presents exhibitions to the public, focuses on an interdisciplinary interpretation of art and culture, and serves the public of San Mateo County, the college community, and beyond.
Bill Morales - Fall 2024
The Cañada College Art Department is presenting “Bill Morales: Recent Works”. The exhibition includes 16 recent paintings.
Bill was Professor of Studio Art at Cañada College from 1992-2022. He taught drawing, painting, watercolor, life drawing, 2D design and color theory classes. Bill has exhibited his work widely, including two solo exhibitions in New York City and many group exhibitions in New York, California and Oregon.
Jenny Wantuch - Fall 2023
The Cañada College Art Department is presenting "Harmony in Hues: exploring landscapes through perception, imagination and memory", an exhibition of paintings by the Bay Area artist Jenny Wantuch.
Wantuch is showing 17 paintings in total. Nine of these paintings were commissioned for Cañada College in 2021 and were completed in 2022. The commissioned paintings are 8x8 inch oil paintings inspired by repeating patterns and architectural elements that frames the beautiful vistas seen at Cañada College Campus. Wantuch is a former student at Cañada College and completed an AA degree in Multimedia Art and Technology in 2013. View Exhibition Catalog.
Anna Valdez - Fall 2017
The Cañada College Art Department is presenting "Through Observation", an exhibition of painting by the Bay Area artist Anna Valdez.
Valdez is showing nine still lifes, all completed in the last two years. Painted in a manner that at times may appear simple, these works are beautiful orchestrations of objects and spaces in her studio, featuring her collection of plants, books, fabric, and works of art. The large scale of some of the paintings, up to six feet across, can bring the viewers into that world of the studio. The familiarity of the objects combines with vibrant color, a freshness of paint application, and a feel for abstraction create a wonderful dual reality.
Michael Ryan - Spring 2016
The Cañada College Art Department is presenting "Empty Promises", an exhibition of painting by the artist Michael J. Ryan.
The present exhibition consists of nine oil paintings representing plastic packaging that at times can be seen as both eerie and beautiful. The artist thus takes this mundane symbol of our throw-away consumerist culture, and causes the viewer to see the beauty in these forms.
Donna Cehrs - Fall 2014
The Cañada College Art Department is proud to present "Portraits - an Exhibition of Paintings by Donna Cehrs" at the College Gallery in Building Nine.
Cehrs, who studied art at UC Santa Cruz, is known primarily as a painter of still-life. Her paintings concentrate on an intense scrutiny of her subject, which she paints with a determined realism. The last few years she has turned her attention to painting portraits, primarily of children and young adults. This present show at Cañada College consists of 28 portraits, all painted in oil on linen.
