About this Event
Please join us on Saturday, December 5th, starting at 1:00 pm for an in-depth artist talk and gallery tour by Triton Museum exhibiting artist Rose Sellery.
Rose Sellery is drawn to the space where beauty and brutality coexist, where fragility becomes a form of strength, and where humor can carry the weight of difficult truths. Through sculpture, conceptual garments, and photography, she explores the complexities of our lives – how we are shaped, constrained, celebrated, and, at times, erased.
Humor and irony are essential tools in her process. They create an entry point, disarming the viewer just enough to engage with subjects that can be uncomfortable or confrontational. Beneath that surface, her work addresses issues of gender bias, societal pressure, resilience, and survival. She is interested in the stories we inherit, the roles we are asked to perform, and the quiet or radical ways we resist them.
Ultimately, her practice is about holding space: for vulnerability and power, for grief and humor, for anger and tenderness. It is an ongoing act of witnessing and reimagining—an attempt to make visible what is often overlooked, and to honor the complexity of lived experience.
This event gives you the opportunity to meet the artist and learn more about her and her work, while viewing the artist’s current exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art.
This event is free and open to the public (including free parking).
Artist Biography:
Rose Sellery is a multidisciplinary, self-taught artist whose work navigates the charged terrain between beauty and brutality, fragility and strength, and tradition and rebellion. Through humor, irony, and unflinching confrontation, she explores themes of innocence and loss, societal pressure, resilience, and survival – inviting viewers to reflect on how lives, particularly women’s lives, are shaped, constrained, celebrated, and discarded.Raised in Venice, California, Sellery now lives and works in the mountains of Santa Cruz. Her creative path includes years in the ceramics industry, woodworking and jewelry, experiences that continue to inform her tactile, materially driven practice. She has also played a significant role in the local arts community, serving as Program Coordinator at the Cabrillo Gallery and as a driving force behind FashionArt Santa Cruz, later co-founding Pivot: The Art of Fashion. Rose is currently co-owner and curator at MK Contemporary Art in downtown Santa Cruz and the founder of the Ripple Effect Arts Festival.
Event venue & nearby stays
Triton Museum of Art, 1505 Warburton Avenue, Santa Clara, United States
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