Explore the menace of America’s suburbs in a new South Bay art exhibit

A new year means new museum shows. And at Santa Clara’s Triton Museum of Art, there’s not one but four exhibits opening in January, ranging from slashed-and-bleached abstractions to uncanny paintings of suburbia that hearken to Edward Hopper and David Lynch.

That latter show, opening Jan. 10, comes from South Bay artist Jonathan Crow who grew to fame with drawings of U.S. vice presidents wearing octopuses on their heads. Crow’s latest exhibit, “Cul-de-sac,” explores the false utopia of suburban life...