Rainbow on Los Gatos features 17 unique artworks of silk embroidered rainbows on found photographs and vintage postcards. Each piece is intended to remind the viewer of our connection to this place, its past and renew our commitment to its future. These time-worn images with their muted sepia tones and dog eared quality have survived over time and offer a window into the past, especially those with written notes. The luminous hand dyed silk in its pastel hues serve to subtly but magically contrast with the black and white and offer a sense of gratitude, wonder and hope and direct the viewer’s attention to various significant elements in the images that I wish to highlight - a blooming tree, a fabulous building, a bridge, a road, a creek - elements that have helped to build our town.
Director’s Circle
This limited edition series was created exclusively for NUMU Director’s Circle Members in appreciation of their unprecedented support of the museum. NUMU’s Circle Members are a philanthropic group of art, history, and culture enthusiasts who make a meaningful impact in the community through their support of New Museum Los Gatos. In appreciation, each year, Director’s Circle Members receive a limited edition artwork by an artist, commissioned specifically for them. Two pieces from the commission are also made for the museum: one stays in the Permanent Collection, and the other is used for fundraising. In this way, the Director’s Circle program not only supports personal collecting but also helps to build NUMU’s Permanent Art Collection.
This exhibition will be on view in the Michael & Alyce Parsons History Hall.
About Marie Cameron
Marie Cameron is an imaginative realist oil painter and mixed media assemblage artist working out of her dream studio Los Gatos, California. Focusing on the themes of hope and beauty in the face of loss regarding our relationship to the environment and to each other.
Born out of the pandemic, her #morerainbows! series of silk embroidered rainbows on vintage photographs and post cards were created out of a desire to reconnect with hope and a deep need to find the rainbow in herself, in one another and in the world once more.
Born in New York City, and raised in Maine and Nova Scotia, she earned her BFA with distinction at Mount Allison University, in Sackville, New Brunswick where she minored in sculpture and majored in painting. She was awarded a prestigious Canada Council Grant and worked in giftware design and children’s book illustration while maintaining her art practice. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late nineties, she became heavily involved in the local art community, exploring writing art and curating.
Her award-winning work has been exhibited and collected internationally and featured in many publications, galleries and museums, including the Museo Diocesano, Triton Museum of Art, Marin MOCA, SOMArts, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, Santa Clara University Dowd Gallery, Las Laguna Gallery, Sanchez Art Center, Vargas Gallery, NUMU, Whitney Modern, Arc Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Curated, de Young Museum of Art, Cabrillo Gallery, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Jen Tough Gallery, Blue Line Arts, ICA San José, Euphrat Museum of Art and Luna Gallery.
Marie has exhibited at NUMU on numerous occasions, both in group shows (GBAO, Waterlines, Art in the Time of Corona, Boundaries) and as a solo artist in Critical Masses, A Very Low Tide.
