EVENT DETAILS:
Date Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Time 12-2 PM
Location Cupertino, CA
Reserved for Circle Members (Join the Circle)*
Kristin Lindseth, Caught in Limbo
NUMU's Circle members are invited to join us at the Euphrat Museum to tour the invitational group show Invoke-History. We will hear from curator Diana Argabrite and exhibiting artists Kristin Lindseth, George Rivera, and Tony May.
Invoke-History, named for a software command used to retrieve or repeat past commands, is an exhibition of artwork drawn from lived, ancestral, and community stories that preserve and present history through the artists' creative lens. Artwork includes bronze, mixed-media, and found-object sculptures, paintings, textile art, airborne installations, and more, by artists Cynthia Brannvall, Caleb Dowdell, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Colleen Quen, Marlene Larson, Kristin Lindseth, Oscar Lopez, Tony May, George Rivera, Flo Oy Wong, and Bing Zhang.
More than a museum, the Euphrat creates an experiential environment for visual ideas and communication. Their comprehensive program of arts, education, public art programs and lectures stimulate creativity and interest in art among audiences of all ages.
This exclusive experience is offered to NUMU Circle Members and their guests—we hope you’ll join us for this art-filled adventure!
Join or renew today to take advantage of this new series, along with other circle benefits. For questions regarding membership in the Curator’s or Director's Circle email membership@numulosgatos.org. See you in the studios!
*Current NUMU Circle Members will receive an email invitation with all event details and a RSVP link
About the Artists
Kristin Lindseth
Kristin Lindseth is a sculptor and printmaker of Swedish/Norwegian ancestry who is known for her intensely felt sculptures of the interior human landscape. She has worked in clay and wax and cast unique bronze sculptures both figurative and symbolic or metaphoric, for 25 years. She also creates wood multimedia sculptures which are constructed of basswood and are carved and lit with small incandescent lights and which emit sound. The sculptures since 2011 have been focused on refugees and on the idea of home in a time when so many people are displaced and/or unhoused. She has also created a series of Shinto-based shrines which are seen as universal places of healing and purification found in nature.
Her sculptures include 20 years of cast bronze figurative and symbolic works, each one of a kind. During the past twelve years, her focus has widened to include the global refugee crisis through the forms of abandoned dwellings and boat forms in bronze and in wood multimedia sculptures.
An internationally exhibiting sculptor, printmaker, and educator, Lindseth lives and works in the South Bay Area, and her work has been represented in over 250 exhibitions, including more than a dozen solo museum shows. Her Sculptures and Intaglio Printmaking are found in private collections in the United States, Sweden, Germany, Spain, France, England, Greece, and the United Arab Emirates, in five museum collections:
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
New Museum Los Gatos NUMU, Los Gatos, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Fayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
San Luis Obispo Museum or Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Ciudad Acuna
Her work has been represented by Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, Vorpal Gallery, Palo Alto, Freedman Gallery, Palo Alto, The SFMOMA Rental Sales Gallery in San Francisco, the Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland, and Solo Gallery, Los Gatos. Her work can also be seen in publications such as the International Poetry Annual titled Red Wheelbarrow published by DeAnza College, Art of the Bay Area, published by Jen Tough Gallery, five Exhibition catalogs and Interviews on Canvas Rebel and several newspapers.
Lindseth is a college art instructor who teaches Sculpture, Digital Art and Drawing, Printmaking, and Life Drawing
George Rivera
As an artist, Rivera has been included in over 150 exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. Since 1974 his drawings, mixed media and paintings have been presented at art centers, galleries and museums. His work have been represented by art galleries including the Group 21 Gallery, Los Gatos; Freeman Gallery, Palo Alto; Branner-Spangenberg Gallery, Palo Alto; Sperling Gallery, San Jose; the Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz; Ebert Gallery, San Francisco; Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento; d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose; Washington Square/Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, and now currently with the Sandra Lee Art Gallery, San Francisco.
Locally his drawings and paintings have been presented at the San Jose Museum of Art; the De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University; the Art Museum of Los Gatos; the Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino; the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara; National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA.; Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga; Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont; Union Art Gallery San Jose State University, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose; WORKS/San Jose, MACLA San Jose, the San Jose Art Center, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, among others.
In 2012 there was a 30 year survey of his paintings and drawings at the Art Museum of Los Gatos. This solo exhibition featured a publication with an introduction and essays by art historians Preston Metcalf and Helayna Thickpenny and by Curator of Art Catherine Politopulus of the Art Museum of Los Gatos.
In 2013 Rivera was in multiple two person exhibitions with his wife Kristin Lindseth Rivera at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA. and the Sandra Lee Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Rivera and his wife, Kristin, contribute works of art to art auctions, fundraisers, and gallery/museum events throughout the year in support of community art programs throughout the Greater Bay Area. Since 1978, he has produced numerous commissioned portraits of many of this region’s community leaders as well as general portraits and commissioned work.
Rivera has been a recipient of numerous awards in the field of art, art education, curating, arts administration, and community service, including annual recognition in the 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 26th and current editions of Who’s Who in American Art, and in 2005 was selected annually into Who’s Who in America 60th and 61st editions. Twice, he has been nominated by peers and colleagues for the prestigious Fleishhacker Foundation Artist Award.
In 2013, Rivera was honored with the 2013 Legacy Laureate Award from the Arts Council Silicon Valley. He also received a Proclamation from the City of Santa Clara in recognition of this award.
As an arts write,r his works have been published throughout the Bay Area including museum/gallery publications, catalogs, and brochures, and he was an art reviewer and contributing editor for Artistwriter publication.
Rivera also served as a host of INSIDE ART! A South Bay televised art program produced by award-winning and exhibiting artist Sandra Beard that was presented on public television community access channels throughout the area, focusing the art of the South Bay Area region. This program featured artists, alternative art spaces, and art programs from throughout the South Bay Area.
Rivera currently teaches Studio Art and Art History at Ohlone College Mission College and UC Berkeley Extension. He resides in San Jose with his wife, Kristin Lindseth who is an International award-winning and exhibiting artist in sculpture, drawing and printmaking. She teaches art at Mission College.
Tony May
Tony May was born in Mineral Point, Wisconsin in 1942. He grew up on his family’s farm and learned carpentry and metalworking from his father. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966, where he was a classmate of Bruce Nauman, and ultimately moved to California in 1967. May lives and works in San Jose, CA where he was a professor of fine arts at San Jose State for over thirty years until his retirement in 2005.
May’s work is simultaneously conceptual and whimsical; by using functional, recycled materials such as books, household items and found objects he constructs site-responsive or interactive sculptures and installations. Rooted in craftsmanship, May’s sculptures are calculated and precise, painstakingly created and finished by hand. His photo-realist paintings boast the same exacting quality, serving as a form of documentation for the events, projects and objects that he deems significant. Though collectively his work is elaborate in concept, the results are formally modest. His sculptures and their accompanying containers, custom-made and usually part of the work itself, are made of scrap wood or re-purposed furniture with very little decoration. Similarly, his documentary paintings have the uniform finish and practicality of hand-painted signs, complete with block-lettered captions. May’s site-specific installations and projects encompass the many conceptual yet functional qualities of his art. For instance, his own home is an ongoing art project and an on-going series of Home Improvement paintings document the various repairs and improvements he has made over the past 30-plus years. Another such project is the T. House, a two-story glass and wood structure modeled after a traditional Japanese teahouse, which stands in May’s backyard.
May has exhibited across the United States and internationally. The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art organized a major retrospective of his work in 2010, spanning 40 years of his career. He has been commissioned to make several large-scale installations, including for the city of San Jose, an installation at the Capp Street Project, and an installation for the atrium of the San Jose Museum of Art titled Variable Book Construction (Bookmobile).
