A Recipe for Brown Skin at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA, is a new solo exhibition from artist Rupy C. Tut. The solo show includes paintings and installations stemming out of Tut's work dissecting issues of gender, displacement, and generational trauma. The work is further informed by a personal layering of struggles and victories around motherhood, gender roles, privilege, traditional making and the challenges heightened by a pandemic. It runs March 5 to May 1, 2022.

On Saturday, March 19, 2022, Rupy C. Tut sits down with dear friend & collaborator Jason Wyman to share intimate stories about vulnerabilities, craft, and community developed during the creation of A Recipe for Brown Skin. In this raw moment with her audience, Rupy C. Tut talks about what it takes to lay bare one's self in materials (pigment, paint, and paper) and in craft while holding multiple identities.

Rupy C. Tut is an Oakland based painter dissecting historical and contemporary displacement narratives around identity, belonging, and gender. As a descendant of refugees and a first generation immigrant, Rupy’s family narrative of movement, loss, and resilience is foundational to her creative inquiries. Her work engages in strict practice of traditional materials and methodology associated with Indian miniature painting as she continues to add contemporary images and characters to a centuries old visual language.

Rupy’s work has recently been highlighted through an exhibition at the deYoung Open, deYoung Museum (San Francisco) in 2020 and at Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito) in 2021. Rupy's upcoming solo shows include the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara (March-May 2022) and at the Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (April-June 2022).

Jason Wyman is Queerly Complex, an anti-binary social practice artist living & creating on Yelamu, unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land or what colonizers named San Francisco. A mystical convener, Wyman creates spaces for comrades to explore & discover who they be individually & collectively. They work with dreams, value(s), structures, & equity to conjure forms of liberation & healing. Wyman’s art-making centers the messy, intangible, emotive, & esoteric bits that make us human. It’s resulted in a large-scale, participatory sticker mural with artists Celi Tamayo-Lee & Mary-Claire Amable for the Asian Art Museum, a national Youth Media Network co-produced with Myah Overstreet for the Alliance for Media Arts & Culture, and Queering Dreams, an intergenerational, cross-territorial network of artists, neighbors, & comrades dreaming & co-creating our liberation from systems of oppression and behaviors of domination, with Crystal Mason.