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How can we restart and rebuild after the pandemic and the related personal and community crises? Now more than ever, we crave opportunities for healing, connection, and restoration. And we acknowledge the vital power of art as a tool for promoting resilience, hope, and renewal. 

RESTART showcases how art can promote healing and restoration. The first juried exhibition in more than a decade at the Palo Alto Art Center, this exhibition continues themes explored earlier in the year with the exhibition Creative Attention: Art and Community Restoration (on view January 21-May 21, 2022). The exhibition includes work in a wide range of media by artists from throughout Northern California. 

RESTART鈥檚 juror is Patricia Hickson, the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Hickson oversees the post-war and contemporary art collection and acquisitions, organizes special exhibitions, and leads the MATRIX program, a series of changing exhibitions of contemporary art. Her thirty-plus MATRIX projects鈥攖hree per year鈥攈ave featured an international roster of artists. Hickson reflects, 鈥淲hat a delight it has been to serve as the juror for Palo Alto Art Center鈥檚 RESTART exhibition, which has reconnected me to the Bay Area鈥檚 distinctive contemporary art scene since working at the San Jose Museum of Art twenty years ago. In addition, the show鈥檚 relevant and timely theme鈥攖he transformative power of art during challenging times鈥攕erves to illustrate humanity鈥檚 strength, connection, and engagement through the visual arts.鈥�