Art Gallery
Main Library
55 W. Third Avenue, San Mateo, 94402
Art Gallery, 1st Floor
Linda Ann Watson, Watercolors
January 8, 2026 - February 25, 2026
San Mateo artist, Linda Ann Watson, has been painting for nearly thirty years. Leaving her nursing career, she studied art earning her BFA at the Academy of Art University in 1997. Travel is her artistic inspiration. Watson travels throughout the world exploring the richness of land, people and cultures. She paints small plein air watercolor sketches of her experiences, locking in the rich accuracy of color. Her studio paintings, the bulk of her portfolio, reflect a journey through natural and architectural elements that define special places. Her paintings have won local and international awards in juried competitions. https://lindawatsonart.com
Display Case, 2nd Floor
Anaiya Gupta and Shyla Gupta, Sculpture
January 6, 2026 - February 19, 2026
This body of work has been shaped by two pairs of hands, showing what’s possible when combining forces. Anaiya Gupta and Shyla Gupta create art from mud, combining clay with their ideas and techniques. They take inspiration from dream-created alternate versions of reality. All the pieces are hand-built layered coils smoothed on top of each other or an assembly of carefully cut slabs. Using hands, underglazes, glazes, metal tools, and other textures, they transform the clay, creating the illusion that it is some other material: wood, leather, glass, stone, iguana skin. But most importantly, their art has a purpose, and every piece has a function.