JOIN US for the next South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk on SEPT 3rd with STREET MRKT!
It all kicks off at 7pm! — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public
SoFA District (So. First Street between San Carlos and E. Reed streets)

• Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design – 366 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Estates of the Splendrous and Secret Alex McLeod (Canada) solo exhibition

  Alex McLeod constructs three-dimensional environments that investigate the tension between illusionary and physical space. His CGI prints of diorama-like environments are hallucinogenic visions projected into utopian realms, thus addressing and exploring issues of ecology, sustainability, and connectivity. Weaving together scientific theory with fantasy, folklore, and notions of the Romantic, McLeod generates images that are at once as seductive and lustrous as they are urgent and vital.

  Also on view in galleryONE: Pangea Fernando Chamarelli (Brazil) solo exhibition

  Sound Art by Matt Davignon.

• Art Glass Center of San Jose – 465 South First St. map

  

  Join us at the San Jose Art Glass Center for live demos throughout the evening in our workshop and visit the gallery featuring beautiful works by regional glass artists.

• Higher Fire Clayspace & Gallery – 499 South Market St. map

  
  The Leaky Roof by Presley Martin.

  Higher Fire Clayspace & Gallery presents “Water Works,” featuring new creations by clay artists Presley Martin and Phyllis Lee. Martin’s use of porcelain slip leaves a lasting mark — his work captures impressions left by liquid clay as it is poured over paper or fabric. Phyllis Lee creates intricately textured and painted pieces that reflect coastal imagery – inlaid vases, sandcastle sculpture and “beach” balls.

  Step beyond the gallery and tour Higher Fire’s newly renovated studio; browse a mini-show of functional and decorative pottery by studio staff; watch demonstrations of wheel-throwing and hand-building throughout the evening.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  7-9pm Opening Reception: Featured exhibitions by René Lorraine, Ras Lowe

  
  watercolour by René Lorraine

  Coexist & Bisect Two new manifestations by René Lorraine
  René Lorraine’s latest work is a fascinating take on man coexisting with unfamiliar species, ideals, and life styles that one may find on this earth.

  Coexist deals with embracing differences between souls and the shells they reside in, and is an unbeatable experience involving a harmonious dance between crisp clean line, and free-flowing watercolor pigments.

  Bisect is about the challenges one person may have desiring two very different life styles. The delicate graphite mimic’s the fine line of having balance and not.

  
  collage by Ras Lowe

  Shadows of Light, from the Hidden Sun: a vision of the Authentic self. An exhibition of new collages by Ras Lowe

  This Art message is about deep personal inner visions, a progressive transmission of sacred information for the 21st century, from the ancient temples of Egypt, to the jungles of Holy Peru. Remembering every moment in Life is a gift, and is precious, not to be wasted.

• MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 South First St. map

  
  Tanya Aguiniga, Felt Chairs, 2010

  Join MACLA for a preview of Lineas: New Modes of Contemporary Urbanism featuring recent work by Tanya Aguíñiga and Teddy Cruz.

• Phantom Galleries – temporary exhibits in vacant storefronts

  

  386 South First St: Freedom. Experience Reality. by abstract artist Nathan Belomy

  
  Skull by Paolo Fachinetti

  388 So. First Street: The Skull Series (part of the Timbri Collection) by Paolo Fachinetti (Italy).

• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 South First St. map

  
  Holding it In by Noel Paloma-Lovinski.

  On view: The premier International TECHstyle Art Biennial (ITAB): this juried exhibition showcases the work of artists combining fiber media with new technologies in their artistic processes, in the content of their work and as a means of artistic expression. ITAB 2010 includes 40 works by 28 artists from six countries and includes digital Jacquard tapestries and garments, videos, interactive works, and even a piece with hand-woven fiber optic cable that with patterning driven by real time Twitter feeds and airline flight data from the Internet.

• SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery – 577 South Market St. map

  

  It was hell on earth, some of us made it, some of us didn’t and for some of us that kindly old aunt who used to give us donuts on Sunday is now a burned-up, formerly reanimated corpse sitting in the corner with a double-tap going through its skull.

  So, for those of us who remain, the SLG Art Boutiki presents THE ART OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. Disgusting visages of the walking dead will adorn the Boutiki walls featuring work by Jef Bambas, James Brunner, Bea Adams, Jon “Bean” Hastings and many more.

  Who says comic books are not high art?

  Also, if you missed Zombie-O-Rama on August 25th you can still donate a canned food item to Second Harvest by bringing it to the Boutiki.

• Works San Jose – 451 South First St. map

  
  

  On view: Painting the Town: the Murals of Silicon Valley

  This exhibition continues with collaborative, individual, and documentation of past and proposed murals, and with murals from Works’ own WordsPaintingMusic and Left Coast Live, as well as pieces that have been in process throughout the exhibition. Even murals YOU may have worked on during the last South First Friday will be included in this evolving exhibition. Dozens of artists including Ben Alexy, Francesca Lovecchio, Teya Beradze, Paul J. Gonzales, and Gianfranco Paolozzi are participants in this community project.

• Caffé Trieste – 315 South First St. map

  

  Opening reception of Gravity by artist Valerie Runningwolf

  New encaustic works as well as mixed-media pieces that are of traditional and contemporary ideas that awaken and encourage exploration.

  First Fridays are Opera Night at Caffé Trieste with some of the Bay Area’s best opera singers performing your favorite arias and duets.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  

  Join us after Candlelight Yoga (6:15-7:45 pm) on Friday as we welcome Art Walk patrons and mingle with new yogi friends and the downtown community. The current exhibition is by one of our own yoga teachers, Emily Lounsbury.

  Emily Lounsbury’s current works take a look at modern women becoming empowered and expressing themselves through the digital self-portrait. Emily is an artist with a love for the figure, portraits, and anatomy. Her current works include ink washes and mixed media on paper and canvas. She explores what it means to be a modern woman in the twenty-first century; the era of internet social networking sites that create a place where people express and expose themselves on the internet. A new form of voyeurism arises from being able to peer into people’s lives without them knowing, and so much is captured by taking the camera in their own hands and see instant results. Since it’s easier than ever to document the human experience, Emily’s art seeks to bring back a human element of expression to the images and present them with transparent layers and more vibrant colors that bring the characters to life.

• Good Karma Vegan Café – 37 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Scrap Facet by Sandi Billingsley

  A collection of distinctive monochrome portraiture on rescued & re purposed material.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  The First St Photo Collective and Metro are proud to present WHATEVER #2 (when nothing is a good theme you gotta do it twice!)

• South First Billiards & Lounge – 420 South First St. map

  

  Cukui & Friends ImagiNatives: The 2nd Gathering

  Here is another chance to enjoy the art at South First Billiards from the Cukui crew and their talented friends.
  Added New Artwork, Live Painting Session, Special Live Musical Guests, Clothing and Goods Market, Free Giveaways

• Ball Stacking Event at Gore Park – South First & William streets map

  

  Come join Bill Gould at Gore Park and try your hand at stacking concrete balls in creative ways. Compete for highest stack, most number of balls, creativity and difficulty level. There will be a novice area for our younger ball stackers. All you need is patience and a steady hand! Come enjoy friendly competition and listen to the Jimmy Dewrance Blues Band.

• Art Ark – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  

  6pm–10pm Opening Reception: Fictions, The process of creating a new world new photography and videos by Alejandro A. Oliva

  How the process of creating a new atmosphere and characters can be as important as the final image.

  Live music by Contain Her and The Star People

JOIN US for the next South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk on August 6th with STREET MRKT!
8pm ’til LATE — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public
SoFA District (So. First Street between San Carlos and E. Reed streets)

• Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design – 366 South First St. map

  

  Pangea by Fernando Chamarelli (São Paulo, Brazil)

  Chamarelli lives in a multicultural country of contrasts. This environment reveals itself in his paintings through his use of mosaic, geometric elements, organic forms and harmonic lines connecting symbols, legends, philosophies, religions and the customs of ancient and modern civilizations.

  Music by DJ Basura

• Art Glass Center of San Jose – 465 South First St. map

  

  Lionel Chapital and Lori Peterson are collaborating live on the torches at the Art Glass Center this Friday. They will be making the flowers of your choosing in a vase blown on the spot for $45. Preorders available: call us at (408) 971-1530.

• Higher Fire Clayspace & Gallery – 499 South Market St. map

  
  Dan Dermer, Ash-Glazed Bowl, white stoneware with
  multiple sprayed ash and crystalline matte glazes.

  Higher Fire Clayspace & Gallery opens its doors for a sneak peek. Instructional Designs is a pre-opening show featuring the ceramic art work of studio staff, and the studio itself! No, we’re not really open yet… We’re renovating the old S&G annex building at 499 S. Market Street, making it a little more 21st-century friendly. Check out our progress, meet the big Bailey Shuttle Kiln, and browse a mini-show of locally made ceramic artwork by owner Dan Dermer and friends Jill Getzan, Cristina Chang and Matt Hoogland. Test drive a new pottery wheel, or just watch the demonstrations.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  [7-9pm] Opening Reception: Featured Exhibitions by Lucy Liew, Nora Schwaller

  
  art by Lucy Liew

  Floral Fantasy by Lucy Liew
  In this series of paintings, you are invited into a lush garden of floral fantasies that are a fusion of the real and the fantastic.

  
  sculpture by Nora Schwaller

  Portraits by Nora Schwaller
  A bird stripped of its body is left unable to take flight. This series of work seeks to capture moments of loss. A feeling that is visually altered by the portraits fanciful nature.

• MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 South First St. map

  
  Hip Hop is Love, Leslie Lopez & Jesus Barraza
  Screenprint, 2010

  The Art of Politics: Three Generations of Political Printmaking in the Bay Areafeaturing Juan Fuentes, Melanie Cervantes, Jesus Barraza, Leslie Lopez and Natalia Garcia Pasmanick. Join us for a gallery walk through and an engaging conversation about their work on Friday, August 6, @ 7pm.

• Phantom Galleries – temporary exhibits in vacant storefronts

  
  photography by Abe Menor

  386 South First St: STREET SWAG Photos by Abe Menor.

  Abraham Menor is a community organizer/worker and photographer based in San Jose, California. When he is not working as a “at-risk” youth case manager, he is armed with his camera, ready to capture the next fleeting moment. With a background in sociology and a love for photography, Menor realized that he can combine the two together. The result is photography that analyzes and examines human social behavior and society. This exhibition features portraits of festival goers shot on location at the 2nd Annual SubZERO Festival (2009) in his STREET SWAG Photo Booth.

  
  Skull by Paolo Fachinetti

  388 So. First Street: The Skull Series (part of the Timbri Collection) by Paolo Fachinetti (Italy).

  The explosion, the division, the breaking of the figure and of the human being is symbolic of the fragility of Man, of our being and not being a part of the cosmos. Man is seen not as something singular, but as made up of many small uncertainties, doubts and anguish. Images from the Timbri (Stamps) series can be recognized as impressionism works.

  When observed at a close distance, monochromatic black seems to explode from white. From a farther distance, the image takes shape and acquires an identity, definition. The image isn’t there. The subject is created by the eye of the observer by compensating for what isn’t there.

• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 South First St. map

  
  Monstera dress by Alfred Shaheen; 1950s.

  On view in the main galleries is Hawaii’s Alfred Shaheen: Fabric to Fashion, an exhibit that celebrates the legacy of the textile and fashion designer credited with popularizing the Hawaiian print and the ‘fusion fashion’ aesthetic it spawned. The galleries are filled with examples of his Hawaiian and Asian-inspired fashions and fabrics from the 1940s-1980s. Also on view: Wendeanne Ke’aka Stitt: Contemporary Kapa, a contemporary interpretation of a traditional Hawaiian textile form and Grand Appliqué: Hawaiian Quilts, a selection of outstanding quilts in the familiar Hawaiian style by master quilter Carol Kamaile and her students.

  Special event: A celebreation of Hawaiian culture with a hula performance by Halau Napuaokamokihana’ohaikapolioluana at 8 pm. Also, artist Wendeanne Ke’aka Stitt will demonstrate the making of Hawaiian kapa cloth.

• SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery – 577 South Market St. map

  

  SLG Art Boutiki proudly presents THE ART OF THE GEEKS. Acclaimed graphic novel creator Gene Luen Yang will be showing art from his acclaimed body of work. On display will be art from American Born Chinese, the graphic novel which was the winner of the Michael L. Printz award for young adult literature, a first for ANY graphic novel and was also the first graphic novel to ever be nominated for a National Book Award. Gene will be on hand to sign his newest book Animal Crackers, which collects his first two books Gordon Yamamoto King of the Geeks and Loyola Chin and the San Pelligran Order both of which were originally published by SLG Publishing.

• Works San Jose – 451 South First St. map

  
  photo of Artist/Musician Sarah Jane by Brande Barrett

  Walls Of Silicon Valley; Past, Present, Future A group show at Works focusing on the concept of murals on or in the walls of Silicon Valley.

  A live Mural will be in process during First Friday, August. Murals from Left Coast Live and WordsPaintingMusic created by community members, signature murals and mural documentations of existing murals will also be included. Ben Alexy, Paul J Gonzales, Francesca Lovecchio, Vanesa O’Hanlon, David and Lisa Mejia, Teya Beradze, Gianfranco Paolozzi, Stephanie Battle , Reuben Rutledge plus many members of the artist community will be partaking in this exciting venture!

• Caffé Trieste – 315 South First St. map

  

  On View: Are you Normal Enough? by Michael Foley is a collection of oddities. Selected paintings and photography that show the eccentricities that surround us on a daily basis.

  First Fridays are Opera Night at Caffé Trieste with some of the Bay Area’s best opera singers performing your favorite arias and duets.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  

  Join us after Candlelight Yoga (6:15-7:45 pm) on Friday as we welcome Art Walk patrons and mingle with new yogi friends and the downtown community. For the month of August, our exhibition is by one of our own yoga teachers, Emily Lounsbury.

  Emily Lounsbury’s current works take a look at modern women becoming empowered and expressing themselves through the digital self-portrait. Emily is an artist with a love for the figure, portraits, and anatomy. Her current works include ink washes and mixed media on paper and canvas. She explores what it means to be a modern woman in the twenty-first century; the era of internet social networking sites that create a place where people express and expose themselves on the internet. A new form of voyeurism arises from being able to peer into people’s lives without them knowing, and so much is captured by taking the camera in their own hands and see instant results. Since it’s easier than ever to document the human experience, Emily’s art seeks to bring back a human element of expression to the images and present them with transparent layers and more vibrant colors that bring the characters to life.

• Good Karma Vegan Café – 37 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: A Little Bird Told Me by Christine Benjamin, Sid Enck, Jr.

  A fun and wacky art show featuring the art of Christine Benjamin and Sid Enck Jr. Christine and Sid create their own characters and tell their own stories. Also featuring collaborative pieces from Christine and Sid.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  The First St. Photo Collective presents: (Whatever) Sometimes no theme is a good theme.
  Music by Talky Tina & Dirty Pillows

• South First Billiards & Lounge – 420 South First St. map

  

  ImagiNATIVES group show featuring HB Crew, Sean Boyles, Cukui, Dee Jae Pa’este & NOA

  Music by: Rome (Forever Hungry) Troy Curtis (SJ)

  Clothing market by Cukui, Konscious Klothing, Sean Boyles & INVS

• Art Ark – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  

  6-10pm Opening Reception: Where I’m From

  What does this statement mean to you? Does it signify where you were born and raised? Does it conjure up an image of a location where you lived an important part of your life? Or does it remind you of a single moment that changed your life forever? What if the truth of this question does not lie within a location at all but instead is found within the folds of our life experiences? And what does that reveal about ourselves?

  Twenty-three artists disclose their personal response to these questions in the show, “Where I’m From.” Artists include: Bryson Ahlstrom, James Allison, Adam Bannister, Philip Bordallo, Randy Bricco, Tracy Burk, Pat Carrington, Ryan Carrington, Wendy Crockett, Steve Davis, Jessica Eastburn, Teresa Hanson, Matt Harris, Andrew Hedges, Evan Hobart , Melody Kennedy, Presley Martin, Ryan Meyers, Valerie Raps, Doug Rassier, Nancy Sevier, Anthony Teixeira, Gabe Toci

JOIN US for the next South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk on June 4th with the 3rd Annual SubZERO Festival!
8pm ’til LATE — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public
SoFA District (So. First Street between San Carlos and E. Reed streets)

Visit subZEROfestival.com for full artists, performance and stage listings.

• Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design – 366 South First St. map

  

  Special to SubZERO: My Only Desire by Joey Syta (Brooklyn, NY)
  My Only Desire is a one third scale sculpture adaptation of a 15th century tapestry from The Lady and the Unicorn series made from approximately 55,000 Lite-Brite pegs affixed to 36 pegboards and glue (a two year endeavor). The original tapestry hangs along with it’s five counterparts at le Musee de Cluny in Paris which are popularly regarded as representing the five basic senses along with the sixth sense of love. My Only Desire will be installed in the gallery entrance for viewing during the SubZERO Festival.

  On view in galleryONE: Cloud Empire by Dimitri Drjuchin

  On view in galleryTWO: RE:BOB by Barron Storey

  Live performances in the gallery: SubZERO’s Looping Lounge hosted by Rick Walker of the Y2K-X International Live Looping Festival. Featured sets by Nadia Shihab, Jhameel, Bill Walker and Rick Walker. Visuals provided by Tim Thompson, David Tristram and Rick Walker. Performances begin at 8pm.

• Art Glass Center of San Jose – 465 South First St. map

  The Art Glass Center is currently closed but will resume its regular gallery hours (Monday-Friday 1:00 pm -9:00 pm, Sat/urday and Sunday 11am-5pm) on June 10, 2010.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  [7-9pm] Opening Reception: Featured Exhibitions by Murphy Adams & Chris DeRemer

  
  art by Murphy Adams

  see here by Murphy Adams

  see here: An exhibition of mixed media paintings, sculpture, clay and mosaic. See here, it’s about the things your think about but never say, what your actions say and not your words, it’s about what you said but wish you hadn’t. See here, a look inside, outside of your senses.

  
  art by Charis DeRemer

  Darndest Daydreams an exhibition of paintings by Charis DeRemer that asks the viewer to make up the story behind each in his or her own mind. The paintings are of dreamers, both literal and figurative, captured in ephemeral moments of human emotion and inspiration.

• MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 South First St. map

  
  Brown and Proud, Melanie Cervantes & Jesus Barraza
  screenprint, 2010

  Opening Reception: The Art of Politics: Three Generations of Political Printmaking in the Bay Area
  Juan Fuentes, Melanie Cervantes, Jesus Barraza, Leslie Lopez and Natalia Garcia Pasmanick

  The Art of Politics explores the tradition of printmaking as a political and artistic movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Three generations of printmakers demonstrate the powerful and engaging nature of printmaking. Community, immigration, social activism and international issues are explored in this group exhibition.

• Phantom Galleries – temporary exhibits in vacant storefronts

  
  photography by Abe Menor

  386 South First St: STREET SWAG Photos by Abe Menor.

  Abraham Menor is a community organizer/worker and photographer based in San Jose, California. When he is not working as a “at-risk” youth case manager, he is armed with his camera, ready to capture the next fleeting moment. With a background in sociology and a love for photography, Menor realized that he can combine the two together. The result is photography that analyzes and examines human social behavior and society. This exhibition features portraits of festival goers shot on location at the 2nd Annual SubZERO Festival (2009) in his STREET SWAG Photo Booth.

  
  Skull by Paolo Fachinetti

  388 So. First Street: The Skull Series (part of the Timbri Collection) by Paolo Fachinetti (Italy).

  The explosion, the division, the breaking of the figure and of the human being is symbolic of the fragility of Man, of our being and not being a part of the cosmos. Man is seen not as something singular, but as made up of many small uncertainties, doubts and anguish. Images from the Timbri (Stamps) series can be recognized as impressionism works.

  When observed at a close distance, monochromatic black seems to explode from white. From a farther distance, the image takes shape and acquires an identity, definition. The image isn’t there. The subject is created by the eye of the observer by compensating for what isn’t there.

• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 South First St. map

  
  Tahitian Girl Dress by Alfred Shahee

  On view in the main galleries is Hawaii’s Alfred Shaheen: Fabric to Fashion, an exhibit that celebrates the legacy of the textile and fashion designer credited with popularizing the Hawaiian print and the ‘fusion fashion’ aesthetic it spawned. The galleries are filled with examples of his Hawaiian and Asian-inspired fashions and fabrics from the 1940s-1980s.

  Also on view: Wendeanne Ke’aka Stitt: Contemporary Kapa, a contemporary interpretation of a traditional Hawaiian textile form and Grand Appliqué: Hawaiian Quilts, a selection of outstanding quilts in the familiar Hawaiian style by master quilter Carol Kamaile and her students.

  Special Events:
  Get involved in fusionwear sv by wearing garb that represents Silicon Valley to you (is it techie? ethnic? both? neither?) or by bringing objects that represent the Valley to you. We will be photographing the garb and objects to add to the Silicon Valley visual vocabulary we are creating.

  Get creative with a free Digital Textile Design Lab with artist Corinne Okada Takara from 6:30-8:30pm. Have you ever wanted to design your own fabrics? For one evening, come play, be inspired and experiment in our digital textile design lab where we’ll be using both computers and pen and paper to create textile designs.

• SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery – 577 South Market St. map

  

  ROBOT ATTACK!! – Proving the old axiom that one man’s junk is another man’s cyborg Paul Loughridge returns to the SLG Art Boutiki with a showing of his robots made from common household items. Also in the Boutiki will be select pieces left over from several of our past shows, kind of a “best of” collection. Plus TIE DYE!!! Home made designs by our own tie dye artisans.

  Live music will be provided by Bacchus Joint as they premiere songs from their new album.

• Works San Jose – 451 South First St. map

  
  art by Jeremiah Kille, Are More Birds What We Can Expect from You in the Future?, 2010

  On view: Out of State, the debut exhibition of San José State University’s 2010 BFA graduates in pictorial art: Ginger Burrell, Matthew Campbell, Jose Estrada, Gloria Gardner, Onna Hui, Minal Jeswani, Jeremiah Kille, Colin King-Bailey, Gabriela Lujan, Craig Anthony Mele, William Muir, Kristin Shinoda, Kate Stewart, and Sebastian Vido. With a wide range of media and fresh points of view, this is the exciting first appearance of the Out of State collaboration between Works and SJSU since 2002!

• Caffé Trieste – 315 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Interior Shifts by Judy Hurley
  Each decade of my life was a radically different stage of metamorphisis. This series of paintings reflects and celebrates those evolutions.

  First Fridays are Opera Night at Caffe Trieste with some of the Bay Area’s best opera singers performing your favorite arias and duets.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  

  Join us after Candlelight Yoga (6:15-7:45 pm) as we welcome Art Walk patrons and mingle with new yogi friends and the downtown community. For the month of June, Downtown Yoga Shala is proud to feature watercolor artist Made’ Sukerti Berg.

  Made was born and raised in Bali, Indonesia, a place that has captured the imagination of people around the world based upon its beauty and exotic culture. From the time she was a young girl she was involved in the arts. She was a star dancer in her village, and continued to perform and teach dance in the United States for many years. In the early 1990’s she began taking art classes and painting watercolors. It is not surprising that her main subject matter from the outset has been flowers. In Bali flowers are considered holy, and people pray with flowers between their fingers. Made’ is also a serious gardener whose garden and home are filled with flowers.

  Made’s background with Bali, the arts, and flowers all come together in this solo show of her watercolors. You see and feel her love and respect for the flowers she paints. The vibrant colors remind one of the tropics. Her perspective evokes the orient and the exotic. Many of the works were actually painted in Bali and others were conceived there. A portion of the proceeds of all sales will be donated to support educational opportunities for underprivileged Balinese children.

• Good Karma Vegan Café – 37 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Invisible Targets by Guy Brookshire

  Invisible Targets are Book Art Collages made by destroying History, Science, and Art publications. They illustrate the writings of Guy Benjamin Brookshire, requiring no knowledge of his work to be enjoyed.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  (τεχνολογία) the current state of humanity’s knowledge is this month’s photography theme presented by the First St. Photo Collective.

• South First Billiards & Lounge – 420 South First St. map

  
  art by Michael Foley

  In the realm of arts we are consistently challenged to evolve. Michael Foley’s piece amplifies our ability to be taken by our Dark side and destroyed by our faults. This event is a symbolic means for expressing the inevitable break through from our shortcomings. Set loose by our raw energy we channel into a new freedom. Heart of Chaos introduces Cryptic Artistry.

  All ages until 10pm / 21+ venue after 10pm

In addition to the South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk, South First Street in the SoFA District will be shut down from 6pm-midnight for the 3rd Annual SubZERO Festival a diy, artistically bent, hi/lo-techno mashup where street meets geek.

This highly anticipated event is the only of its kind in the region featuring 100 artists, performers and musicians of the subculture genre that thrives in Silicon Valley.

For more information on all of the art projects, indie creative vendors and live music on the outdoor stage, visit http://www.SubZEROfestival.com. You can also follow us on Twitter for instant updates @SubZEROfestival

JOIN US for the next South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk on May 7th!
8pm ’til LATE — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public
SoFA District (So. First Street between San Carlos and E. Reed streets)

• Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design – 366 South First St. map

  

  Artist’s Reception: RE:BOB solo exhibition of new paintings by Barron Storey

  An illustrator, graphic novelist, and noted educator, Barron Storey has created award-winning artworks for the covers and pages of Time, National Geographic, Saturday Review, and The Sandman: Endless Nights among many others. The artist’s paintings are held in the collections of the National Air and Space Museum, the American Museum of Natural History and the National Portrait Gallery. For Storey’s fourth solo exhibit at Anno Domini he has created a new body of work inspired by the lyrics and music of Bob Dylan.

  Special performances by: Troy Curtis, DeatHat, Lisa Dewey, Ben Henderson

• Art Glass Center of San Jose – 465 South First St. map

  
  Flower Beads by Lori Peterson

  Celebrate Mother’s Day weekend with an all-glass all-flowers exhibit and sale at the Art Glass Center. Local artists have embraced Spring and created functional and sculptural pieces with their own interpretation of a flower show. Lionel Chapital and Lori Peterson will give live demonstrations of making hot glass flowers on the torch starting at 8pm.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  [7-9pm] Opening Reception: Featured Exhibitions by Shannon Amidon, Centa Schumacher

  
  art by Shannon Amidon

  Efflorescence by Shannon Amidon

  Efflorescence is a series of lumen prints by Shannon Amidon inspired by her interest in blending artistic renderings of nature and old world photographic techniques. Camera-less images are created by exposing botanical specimens and photographic paper to varying levels of sunlight, time, and temperature, creating unique and ethereal images that transcend the specimens’ natural color, shape, and form.

  A companion ambient sound installation by Compartment organically interprets pieces of Shannon Amidon’s Efflorescence series resulting in musical vignettes that are sometimes alarming, sometimes whimsical. Compartment will be present opening night performing a live musical installation.

  
  art by Centa Schumacher

  Preconscious a photographic exhibition by Centa Schumacher. This work explores what is just beneath our awareness using the body as an intermediary between the conscious mind and the subconscious. By turning the camera onto herself, Centa Schumacher shows that the separation between the physical self and the mind is nearly non-existent.

• MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 South First St. map

  
  Image credit: Elizabeth Gomez, Titmouse with Pom-Poms,
  Mixed media, acrylic and glitter, 2010. Photo: Robertino Ragazza

  Auction Reception: MACLA’s 12th Annual Latino Art Auction View the very best of contemporary Latino art from the Bay Area and beyond. Over 60 artists have generously donated a vast array of paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture available for purchase. Auction proceeds support MACLA’s programs in the visual arts, performing & literary arts, youth arts education and community development through the arts, which reach over 30,000 people annually. Live Auction: Saturday, May 15th @ 7:00pm

• Phantom Galleries – temporary exhibits in vacant storefronts

  
  art by Miguel Machuca

  386 South First St: Silent Conversations by San Jose artist Miguel Machuca.

  Art has the power to loosen the tight grasp of the conscious mind, permitting unknown moods and images to arise. It is a gateway to an archetypal reality where all aspects of the self reside, owned or not. Machuca is an emerging artist lifting the veil and allowing others a glimpse of disturbing and yet infinite richness of the shadow realm. The shadow substances in his paintings have been actively hunted and retrieved inviting the viewer to work with material. Shadow work means hearing the messages from hidden parts of our selves and listening to the voices that have been silenced.

  
  art by Andy Gouveia

  388 So. First Street: Fault-lines an installation by Bay Area artist Andy Gouveia.

  A spray can and house paint mural painted live in Golden Gate park as part of the Indy Arts Fest 2009. This exhibition also hosts an array of his smaller paintings dealing with the myth and mystery of the ancient world.

• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 South First St. map

  
  No Sky in Manhattan by Joan Schulze

  In the Main Galleries: Poetic License: The Art of Joan Schulze is a retrospective of the prolific 40-year career of innovative Bay Area collage artist Joan Schulze.

  Special event: 2nd Annual May Day Market. Don’t miss this HUGE benefit sale of textile treasures, including: stylish, fun and funky vintage clothing from the 1920s +, ethnic clothes and textiles, fiber art, sumptuous fabrics of all kinds, historical and contemporary quilts, and lots of miscellaneous items at unbeatable prices.

• SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery – 577 South Market St. map

  

  Karl Christian Krumpholz turns his attention from boozers and famous drunks to some of lifes stranger characters with a fresh set of portraits. Weirdos, Porn Stars and Other Eccentrics brings character studies of such famous anti-heroes as Linda Lovelace, Charles Tesla and many others.

  Also in gallery B we will be showing the best of last month’s Giant Monster pieces. Live music, free comics and loads of fun the SLG way.

• Works San Jose – 451 South First St. map

  
  art by Lacey Bryant, Minutes Disappear When You’re Not Looking, oil pastel, 2010

  Preview Reception: Works’ Benefit Auction The South Bay’s most accessible art auction moves to Spring! The work of almost 100 regional artists including Lacey Bryant, Tony Castro, Christopher Elliman, Diane Levinson, Francesca Lovecchio, Ken Matsumoto, Tony May, Therese May, Angelica Muro, Carlos Perez, Valerie Raps, Fanny Retsek, and Joe Saxe, to name just a few of the array of outstanding donating artists, will be on view to preview the May 22 auction. Support your community art and performance center and experience the wide range of art from our region.

• Caffé Trieste – 315 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: WHAT IS HAPPENING? We were growing fruits and nuts. Now the valley is growing something else. On the surface it seems to be tech: WWW, email, VoIP, Facebook, Twitter, iPad… But what is it really? If we are the neurons, then connections are being made at a furious rate. We’ve gone from nothing to what? Fast. Bad? Good? Does overhauling the entire eco system of the earth matter? Or should we bask in the glorious wonder of our part in creating and BEING part of a new biological entity?

  These are the questions behind Matthew Seigel’s current scroll paintings which are a reinvention of Japanese tatemono (standing scrolls) in modern materials. Introduced to Japan during the Heian Period (794 to 1185), hung scrolls were “primarily for displaying Buddhist images for religious veneration, or as a vehicle to display calligraphy or poetry.” With Matthew’s scrolls, they are more messages discerning inter-connectivity and interactivity.

  First Fridays are Opera Night at Caffe Trieste with some of the Bay Area’s best opera singers performing your favorite arias and duets.

  Drop in via Ustream

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  

  Join us after Candlelight Yoga (6:15-8 pm) as we welcome Art Walk patrons and mingle with new yogi friends and the downtown community. For the month of April Downtown Yoga Shala will be featuring one of our members, Joella Kermit and her husband Jonathan. ReArrangements is the first joint show for husband and wife, Jonathan and Joella Kermit. Joella explores color and pattern by recombining hand-dyed fabric scraps from previous pieces into new creations. Jonathan gathers bits of rusty wire, urban flotsam, and other environmental detritus. He then alters and combines them into something altogether different.

• Good Karma Vegan Café – 37 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Iconic Urbanity-symbols of a concrete culture paintings by Blaise Rosenthal

  Blaise Rosenthal’s heavily textured paintings aesthetically evoke and capture the emotion and vibrancy of metropolitan existence from the perspective of his New York origins and skateboarding cultural roots.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  Hunger Happens? is the theme for this month’s exhibition by the First St. Photo Collective.

• South First Billiards & Lounge – 420 South First St. map

  

  South First Billiards is throwing a mucho Cinco de Mayo Celebration with a showcase of Latin American artists, Latin rock, live painting, and more… Artist John Cloud (Calaveras/ Dia de los Muertos) will be painting live while the bands perform. Also showing, Lina Ruelas (photography), Mike Kjolhaug (street art), and featuring the live music of Sweet Psychosis, Frail Soul, and Bautsta.

  All ages until 10pm / 21+ venue after 10pm

• Art Ark – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  
  image by Jackie Ngo, Type as Space, digital print, 2009

  6-9pm Opening Reception: un-titled San José State University BFA Graphic Design Exhibition 2010

  Twenty one graduating students from the rigorous and highly selective BFA Graphic Design Program at SJSU exhibit all manner of communication design, from print, to packaging, product design, typography, and information design, to time-based media.

JOIN US for the next South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk on April 2nd!
8pm ’til LATE — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public
SoFA District (So. First Street between San Carlos and E. Reed streets)

• Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design – 366 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Cloud Empire solo exhibition of Dimitri Drjuchin (NYC)

  Drjuchin’s art is a hyperdimensional machine that invokes creatures who come bounding forward with affection and recklessness. These are not the Icons of the Byzantine Church—they are the new Incarnated Symbols of the Multiverse. Drjuchin allows us a glimpse into a fractulated moment of cultural hypnagogic modality and an opportunity to alter our perspectives of reality.

  Featuring live music: Jhameel presents a blend of orchestral instruments, makeshift percussion, pop vocal melodies, and ambient synthesizers that creates an unfamiliar yet warm atmosphere. At live performances, he utilizes violin, trumpet, glockenspiel, percussion, guitar, and vocals to create intricate arrangements through a loop station.

  Drop in via Ustream

• Art Glass Center of San Jose – 465 South First St. map

  

  Lionel Chapital explores the experience of African women in his live torchworking demonstrations during the art walk at the Art Glass Center of San Jose. Kisima carries a vessel of water, held precious and valuable in the dry areas of that continent. Lori Peterson will create various flowers in soft glass as a preview to the Glass Flower Show coming in May.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  [7-9pm] Opening Reception: Featured Exhibitions by Kurtis Rykovich, Kate Saturday

  
  art by Kurtis Rykovich

  WANDA new paintings by Kurtis Rykovich

  This show is a tribute to Breast Cancer survivors and casualties. Each piece represents a battle in search for a cure, they emanate hope that a future is not far in the distance.

  
  art by Kate Saturday

  Speaking Lines stories about people and their places by Kate Saturday.
  A chair, table and drawing materials will be provided. To read a story is to tell a story.

• MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 South First St. map

  
  Image credit: Indira Báez

  The gallery is closed for installation of the 12th Annual Latino Art Auction opening April 14, 2010. Check out the black box for free MACLA performances.

  I’m Still Jenny from the Block: A tribute to Latina pop stars featuring TurboMex video party, resident drag queen Donna Persona and sidewalk fire eater Ram Shackle Nicolas.

• Phantom Galleries – temporary exhibits in vacant storefronts

  386 South First St: Miguel Machuca — TBA

  
  Andy Gouveia

  388 So. First Street: Fault-lines an installation by Bay Area artist Andy Gouveia.

  A spray can and house paint mural painted live in Golden Gate park as part of the Indy Arts Fest 2009. This exhibition also hosts an array of his smaller paintings dealing with the myth and mystery of the ancient world.

• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 South First St. map

  
  Dinner at Eight by Joan Schulze
  2008, 48” x 91”, Silk, paper, Collage, glue transfer process, machine quilted.

  In the Main Galleries: Poetic License: The Art of Joan Schulze is a retrospective of the prolific 40-year career of innovative Bay Area collage artist Joan Schulze. Also on view: Navajo Weaving in the Present Tense: The Art of Lucy and Ellen Begay, a rare collection of a remarkable body of work by two contemporary Navajo weavers, a mother and daughter, whose work is deeply rooted in the traditional lifestyle they still lead.

  Special event: Reading of original poetry by featured artist Joan Schulze, 8-9pm.

• SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery – 577 South Market St. map

  

  GIANT MONSTERS!!!!! — SLG presents artwork from one of it’s newest graphic novels, Doris Danger: Giant Monster Adventures. Artist/author/creator Chris Wisnia will be on hand to sign books, draw monsters and otherwise talk about the coolness that is (are) GIANT MONSTERS. Artist featured in the show include Wisnia, Simon Bisley, Neal Adams, Mike Allred and a whole lot more.

  Live music featuring Boozewackers. Doors open at 8:00 for the always fun and interesting Art Boutiki.

• Works San Jose – 451 South First St. map

  
  art by Dennis Champion

  Artist’s Reception in P2 Gallery — Image and Abstraction by Dennis Champion reflects the translation of unconscious thought and image into 2D abstracts. Some pieces are a combination of figurative images of unconscious origin and of totally abstract renderings of “thoughts unknown.”

  On view in the main gallery—Female Found Mixed Media Contemporary Art, curated by Terenia Offenbacker, presents the work of eight women that create art together through weekly sessions for the past seven years.

• Caffé Trieste – 315 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Venice Squared A Photographic Comparison of Venice, Italy and Venice, California by John Eric Paulson, Master Photographer. Photography has been both John’s passion and profession for the past 34 years. He has a B.A. degree in Art from San Jose State University and has been awarded both the Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees from the Professional Photographers of America.

  In 1997 John began pursuing digital images in his work. John’s current works have evolved from his travels in the Mediterranean. Capturing the basic beauty of the land and enhancing it’s drama is what he enjoys best.

  First Fridays are Opera Night at Caffe Trieste, with some of the Bay Area’s best opera singers performing your favorite arias and duets.

  Drop in via Ustream

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  

  Downtown Yoga Shala is proud to feature native American artist Paul Rubio. A San Jose native, Paul’s sculpture and pottery is both contemporary and original, not connected to any one culture or historic period. Each piece speaks of the inherent magic in life intuited by our primitive ancestors, and the value in our efforts to understand our deep bond with nature. Join us in celebration of our One Year Anniversary for a special Candlelight Yoga class at 6-8pm followed by a Private Artist viewing from 8:00-8:15pm, before we open our doors to the art patrons and downtown community for the South First Fridays Art Walk from 8:15pm till late.

• Good Karma Vegan Café – 37 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Biomechanical Works Recent paintings, sculptures, prints and apparel by Ron Earhart (Analog Tattoo)

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: oooohhh Dios mio photos by the First St. Photo Collective

• South First Billiards & Lounge – 420 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Bringing Back the Color! featuring: John Cloud, Mike Kjolhaug, Nicolas Caesar, Lina Ruelas

  A group art exhibit celebrating color. showcasing four artists who know how to use color to its full potential. They will show you how beautiful color can be. This exhibit is sure to lift your spirits and open your mind. Live art and live music by: Frail Soul, INFM, and Ghost Town Hangmen.

• Art Ark – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  

  6-9pm Opening Reception: Live From the ARKives This group exhibition is comprised of twenty local artists working in a variety of mediums; some of which have chosen to exhibit works from their archives while others have reached into the recesses of their memories to create new works that address the concept of stored content.

JOIN US for the next South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk on March 5th!
8pm ’til LATE — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public
SoFA District (So. First Street between San Carlos and E. Reed streets)

• Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design – 366 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Indoctrination debut solo exhibition of Dante Horoiwa

  Under the skin of his everyday life in Brazil lies Horoiwa’s Japanese heritage. His paintings portray the spiritually lost and lonely. Through his work, from life-size paintings in São Paulo to the side of a 4 story building in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Horoiwa is able to cope with his want to hide from the world and his need to be a part of it.

  Music: tba

• Art Glass Center of San Jose – 465 South First St. map

  

  The SJGAA invites you to get a special sneak peek at their new fine art gallery extension as they expand the Art Glass Center of San Jose. Lionel Chapital and Lori Peterson will be on the torches creating precious little works of art just in time for Easter.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  [7-9pm] Opening Reception: The Sketch Book Show

  
  art by Lacey Bryant

  The Sketchbook Show

  Take a rare peak into the twisted minds of 29 artists! Peer into the depths of their sketchbooks and see what makes them tick. Step into their brain space and enjoy by DJ Coco, catering by Fundamental Gourmet, coffee by Red Berry Coffee Bar and conversation with the sketchers themselves!

• MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 South First St. map

  
  Mariana Garibay, Tangle Weed, monotype, collage, acrylic and string mounted on wood, 2009.

  Currently on view Conceptual Landscapes: recent work by Castillo and Mariana Garibay. Ancestry, nature and form are reflected in this two person show featuring site specific installation and works on paper.

  Join us for the Artist Talk on Friday, March 5 at 7:30pm for a gallery walk through and an engaging conversation about their work

• Phantom Galleries – temporary exhibits in vacant storefronts

  
  Guy Brookshire

  386 South First St: Illustrations from the Book of Dreams are book art collages, created with precision blades and glue by destroying reference, art, history, and science publications. They illustrate uncanny narratives of which no knowledge is required. The universe they describe is the work of Guy Benjamin Brookshire.

  
  Andy Gouveia

  388 So. First Street: Fault-lines an installation by Bay Area artist Andy Gouveia.

  A spray can and house paint mural painted live in Golden Gate park as part of the Indy Arts Fest 2009. This exhibition also hosts an array of his smaller paintings dealing with the myth and mystery of the ancient world.

• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 South First St. map

  
  The Angel Equation by Joan Schulze

  In the Main Galleries: Poetic License: The Art of Joan Schulze is a retrospective of the prolific 40-year career of innovative Bay Area collage artist Joan Schulze. Also on view: Navajo Weaving in the Present Tense: The Art of Lucy and Ellen Begay, a rare collection of a remarkable body of work by two contemporary Navajo weavers, a mother and daughter, whose work is deeply rooted in the traditional lifestyle they still lead.

  Special event 8-9pm: Reading of original poerty by Joan Schulze.

• SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery – 577 South Market St. map

  

  Web comics are all the rage these days and SLG presents artwork from one of the most popular webcomics on the internet as artist Ethan Nicolle shows of his work from AXE COP. For the uninitiated Axe Cop is the web comic created by Ethan and his five-year-old brother. Have you ever read something and said to yourself “Was this written by a five year old?” Well, Axe Cop IS written by a five year old and it’s one of the funniest thing on the web. Entertainment Weekly and NPR agree and we are sure you will too.

  Also, the Andy Ristaino Escape from Dullsville show continues. Live music by Jazz Trio Quasimodal.

• Works San Jose – 451 South First St. map

  
  Blue Canyons by Terenia Offenbacker

  Female Found Mixed Media Contemporary Art, curated by Terenia Offenbacker, presents the work of eight women that create art together through weekly sessions for the past seven years. The materials used are common: paper, sand, metals, textiles, etc., but each artist works in a different creative way. Featured artists: Rosine Ferber, Ann Gordon, Camille Ball, Ricky Gumbrecht, Shuang Zhang, Sheryl Tealdi, Annette Legallet and Terenia Offenbacker.

• Caffé Trieste – 315 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Venezia Revisited is a collection of paintings made by San Jose artist Eileen Graham after a 2007 trip to Italy.

  Live music by Opera San José, featuring your favorite arias and duets starting at 8:30pm.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: “Yoga Inspired Art” by Angeles Moreno

  Simplicity, harmony, color, and strong outlines define her art, influenced by her life’s work as a graphic designer. Yoga came to her at its own time. It was in discovering consistent yoga practice that revealed a more profound significance and a fresh inspiration for her artwork.

  Seeking a deeper understanding of the disciplines at the core yogic principles, Angeles completed the Ashtanga Teacher Training at Mount Madonna, founded 35 years ago by the silent Guru, Baba Hari Dass.

  To capture and (re)express the many universal, positive messages from this ancient philosophy, the canvases began to fill with the Spirit of Yoga, compassion – balance – harmony.

  Angeles Moreno is a yoga teacher at Downtown Yoga Shala. To see more of Angeles’ work, please join us after Candlelight Yoga (6:15-8pm) as we open our doors to the art patrons and the downtown community for an Artist Reception beginning at 8pm.

• Good Karma Vegan Café – 37 South First St. map

  
  art by Wendy Neff

  Opening Reception: Group exhibit by Good Karma Staff
  A mixed media, mixed artist show to celebrate the creative bunch that work at Good Karma. Featuring: Tony Buccino, Julia Lang, Otessa Crandell, Sarah Cade, and Wendy Neff.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  I’m With the Band? photos by the First St. Photo Collective

• South First Billiards & Lounge – 420 South First St. map

  

  Group Show by Illuskrate

  Illuskrate is an art blog started and contributed to by Dion Bello and Anabella Pinon. The blog is an exhibit symbolizing work created after the day job some artists have to maintain to be able create the pieces displayed in these galleries.

  The show is a collection of very talented South Bay artists that include; Anabella Pinon, Dee Jae Pa’este, Noel Huh, Nicole Terzic, Mike Borja, Daniel Valadez, Kristine Taormino, Kim Christman and Dion Bello.

  Live musical performances by Fake Public and Can’t Find a Villain.

  South First Billiards is now an ALL AGES venue.

• Art Ark – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  

  The Art of Truth, Compassion, Tolerance curated by David Zhang

  This traveling exhibition has been shown in more than 40 countries and over 200 cities worldwide. Last year a preview was held at the San Jose City Hall Rotunda. The show features oil paintings by 12 artists including: Kunlun Zhang, Xiaoping Chen, Yuan Li, Kathleen Gillis, and Xiqiang Dong whose art portrays the experiences, visions, and hope of Falun Dafa followers as they attempt to safeguard justice and peace while upholding their values in truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

  Free shuttle service from South First Street to the Art Ark Gallery every 15 minutes between 5:45 – 9:15pm in front of the Miami Beach Club

JOIN US for the next South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk on February 5th!
8pm ’til LATE — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public
SoFA District (So. First Street between San Carlos and E. Reed streets)

• Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design – 366 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: ART OF ZINES 2010 featuring hundreds of zines from basements, bedrooms and midnight copy shops throughout the U.S. and abroad.

  We love zines… those little diy, cut-and-paste, copied-on-the-cheap, hand-folded, self-distributed gems that continue to surface because someone, somewhere feels the need to express themselves. It’s that simple. Zines exist and fleurish outside the mainstream with no particular interest whether you’re paying attention or not. According to Chip Rowe, creator of Chip’s Closet Cleaner, “They’re Tinkertoys for malcontents. They’re obsessed with obsession. They’re extraordinary and ordinary. They’re about strangeness but since it’s usually happening somewhere else you’re kind of relieved.”

  Featured Zine sellers: Marc Arsenault, John Bobst, Silvia Chenault, Michael Foley, Ben Henderson, Chris Kardambikis, M Undead, Yumiko Miyagawa, Tomas Moniz, Kyle Pellet, Mahoney Perkins, Louis Schmidt, Matthew Seigel, Kate Steward & Meagan Zupanci

  Music: Adam Lynn, Zoe Boekbinder (Vermillion LIes), Corpus Callosum

• Art Glass Center of San Jose – 465 South First St. map

  

  Bring your Valentine and enjoy live demonstrations by Lionel Chapital and our new instructor Lori Peterson at the torch. No doubt they will take inspiration from the holiday to create one-of-a-kind blown glass sculptures and beads that will warm your heart. Hearts and flowers from 20 other artists spread the love throughout the entire studio.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  [7-9pm] Opening Reception for featured exhibitions by Sandi Billingsley and Mark Damrel with live music by INFM, Tyler Boyd

  
  art by Sandi Billingsley

  Transfiguration is a collection of three dimensional art is an expression of Sandi Billingsley’s faith that “we humans can live in luxury while being environmentally responsible.” Transfiguration is essentially the art of changing the properties of an object. In this case it refers to the changing of garbage into art.

  This series is made entirely from rescued materials. The core is made of Styrofoam collected from shipping packages, friends and dumpsters. Sandi then applies a combination of old paint clothes, junk mail, phone books — basically anything with natural fibers headed for the trash. Dipping these flexible materials in non-toxic glue gives them strength to hold interesting shapes. Finally, the piece is finished with “Aqua Brand” textures and paint which are non-toxic. The result is an environmentally friendly piece of art.

  
  art by Mark Damrel

  Relative Matter is a series of paintings by Mark Damrel inspired by the hardships he encountered on his journey into fatherhood. “Years went by with little to no hope. I started to get used to the fact that I would never have a family, and then it happened.”

  In groupings of mixed media paintings on wood and paper he explores the themes of childhood memories, despair, hope and joy.

• MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 South First St. map

  
  Castillo, Brown Sugar (detail), giclee, burlap bags, chain, 2009

  Opening reception of Conceptual Landscapes: recent work by Castillo and Mariana Garibay. Ancestry, nature and form are reflected in this two person show featuring site specific installation and works on paper.

• Phantom Galleries – temporary exhibits in vacant storefronts

  
  Guy Brookshire

  386 South First St: Illustrations from the Book of Dreams are book art collages, created with precision blades and glue by destroying reference, art, history, and science publications. They illustrate uncanny narratives of which no knowledge is required. The universe they describe is the work of Guy Benjamin Brookshire.

  
  Kate Stewart

  388 So. First Street: We Are Not From Here/ here we are an exhibit of large oil paintings by Kate Stewart

  Every city has a personality that both shapes and is shaped by the people who live there. People reflect the city as they build it. People fade into the city and embody it. The city learns its own nature by watching. The city and the individual enter a collaboration. Five paintings by Kate Stewart tell the city stories about itself.

• SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery – 577 South Market St. map

  

  ESCAPE FROM DULLSVILLE – Life is anything but dull in the SLG Boutiki & Gallery, and our first show of the year is no exception. First, artist and writer Andy Ristaino returns presenting artwork from his insanely crazy book Escape from Dullsville. See Andy’s high energy vision and find out for yourself why he was featured in HIgh Fructose magazine.

  Also, local author Dianne Sweeney will be on hand signing copies of her new book Kissing Frogs in Cyberspace.

  Live music by Assemblehead and all the things you have come to expect from an SLG event on South FIRST FRIDAY!

• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 South First St. map

  
  Pineapple Variation or Windmill Blades, Unknown quilt maker, Circa 1890

  Exhibits on view: Still Crazy mines the Museum’s permanent collection to explore the glorious Victorian crazy quilt, a purely decorative object that presaged modernists’ use of abstraction and collage techniques and was a forerunner of the contemporary art quilt.

  Also on view: Reincarnation: The Crazy Collage Aesthetic of India & Japan explores how different cultures have interpreted the ‘crazy collage aesthetic’ with c. 1920-1950 Japanese kimonos from the collection of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture and contemporary Indian crazy quilts from the collection of Shobha Imports.

• Works San Jose – 451 South First St. map

  

  Give a little tough love to Works/San Jose and get some back! Come see the (anti)Valentine’s Silent Auction and Exhibition! Preview artworks 12-4pm February 4th and join us First Friday when bidding opens from 12-10pm ~ or buy instantly! Entry to exhibit is free! Bidders pay just $5.

  Installation in Paulette Peterson space by local artist Maynard Edwards

• Caffé Trieste – 315 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: All But Purple, paintings by Tamar Belson.

  “Despite my love for the red and blue colors, in this series I did not combine them to create the purple color. I used other basic color and their combinations to create a play of contrasts. Warm and cold colors, lines and shapes on colorful surfaces and circles on squares – being some of them. I am always attracted by the powerful interaction between those contrasts and offer the viewer the surprising and vivid fine balanced outcome.” ~Tamar Belson

  Back at Caffe Trieste for 2010, Opera San José, featuring your favorite arias and duets starting at 8:30pm.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: photography by Nadia Nasiri

  Downtown Yoga Shala is proud to present featured artist Nadia Nasiri, a promising young self-taught photographer and avid yoga practitioner. She shares her love of nature and yoga through her lens. Nadia holds a masters degree in recreation with a focus on international tourism management from San Jose State University. It is her intention and desire to work for a non-profit that does eco trips abroad. Nadia believes in the transformation that is possible through travel and would like to promote travel that is beneficial to the community and the environment. Nadia is fascinated by social change, spirituality, the environment, and the importance of leisure.

• Good Karma Vegan Café – 37 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Both Before & After by Benjamin Caprile

  Born in Grenoble France, but raised in the Silicon Valley, Benjamin creates surreal landscapes that combine the familiar with the unknown, the mundane with the monumental. Sometimes grotesque and other times serene, the artwork balances opposites through a variety of mediums.

  Live DJ sets by Richard Gutierrez and Claude Cardenas.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  Heart Show photos by the First St. Photo Collective

• South First Billiards & Lounge – 420 South First St. map

  

  On view: Heart Of Chaos Uproar sale closes end of February! Please stop by and place a bid on your favorite art piece.

  South First Billiards is now an ALL AGES venue.

JOIN US for the next South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk on December 4th!
8pm ’til LATE — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public
SoFA District (So. First Street between San Carlos and E. Reed streets)

• Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design – 366 South First St. map

  

  Opening reception: FRESH PRODUCE 9th Annual Invitational Group Exhibit and Art Sale!
  50 artists from around the world have created hundreds of works of art for this highly anticipated annual exhibition and sale. These artists were invited based on their unique artistic vision and contribution to urban/contemporary arts and culture. Each artist has submitted up to 10 works of original art, all affordably priced at $250 or less. All sales are on a first come, first serve basis so don’t be late!

• Art Glass Center of San Jose – 465 South First St. (map)

  

  Break out the Santa suit and pour a glass of nog! The Art Glass Center is ready for the holiday season with an amazing collection of new and affordable original works by over 30 local artists.

  Lionel Chapital will be demonstrating blown glass ornaments starting at 8:00 p.m. The public is invited to participate in a “hands on” experience making a fused glass ornament (minimal fee required).

• Caffé Trieste – 315 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Gary Coleman will be exhibiting samples of both his abstract and landscape paintings, showing that an artist does not have to limit himself to one genre in producing his body of work.

  Live Music: Opera San José performing your favorite arias and duets.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Glimpses of India by Andrea Ewald.

  Join us after Candlelight Yoga (6:45pm-8pm) as we open our doors to welcome the Art Walk patrons and the downtown community.After 8pm, the Main Studio will be open to the public for an AcroYoga (acrobatics meet yoga) Demo repeat performance, free for all to watch and enjoy.

  In our Art Studio, the featured artist is photographer, yoga practitioner and curious traveler from Santa Clara, Andrea Ewald. Travel with Andrea to colorful Rajasthan, follow her to century-old palaces and temples and down dusty streets and catch glimpses of people going about their daily lives. Take in the vibrant colors of fabrics and the textures of buildings. Be transported to the streets of Bundi, where life moves at a slower pace and wonder about the unexpected juxtaposition of motor rickshaws and pigeons in a Jaisalmer parking lot.

• MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 South First St. map

  
  Jaime Guerrero, Birth Goddess, glass, 12” x 20” 2008

  Currently on view, Cultural Disjuncture, featuring contemporary nomads, cultural disparity and invisible labor explored in this group exhibition which features sculpture, works on paper and installation. Artists include Monica Canilao, Diana Cristales-David, Betty A. Davis, Jaime Guerrero, Alejandro Oliva, Mitsy Ávila Ovalles, and Rio Yañez in collaboration with Maya Escobar. Join us for the Artist Talk at 7pm for a gallery walk through and an engaging conversation with the artists.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  (All in the Family) photos by the First St. Photo Collective
  Participating photographers include: Carlos Da Silva, Abe Menor, Trish Leeper, Tanya Angeli , Anabella Pinon, Nancy h. Ahn, Chris Patton, Felipe Buitrago, Yumiko Miyagawa, Vu Nguyen, Jennifer Ahn, Jason Duffany, Michelle Budziak, Jen Anderson, Amber Chavez, Jai Tanju, Mario Guel, Murray Bowles, Sid Enck jr, Phil Ritti, Page Traeger, Kristine Taormino

• Phantom Galleries – temporary exhibits in vacant storefronts

  
  Kyle Pellet

  386 South First St.: Everybody’s Happy Nowadays by Kyle Pellet
  If you’ve ever:
  1.) stood up somebody for a date,
  2.) eaten a hamburger at 2 in the morning and lived to regret it,
  3.) smelled something wholeheartedly unpleasant, and took a second and maybe third sniff
  4.) cried about something dumb,
  5.) given yourself a bad haircut,
  6.) gone to a birthday party of someone you hated,
  7.) wished bad things on somebody, had them happen, and then wished bad things on other people,
  then this installation is for you. Enjoy! ”

  
  Kate Stewart

  388 So. First Street: We Are Not From Here/ here we are an exhibit of large oil paintings by Kate Stewart

  Every city has a personality that both shapes and is shaped by the people who live there. People reflect the city as they build it. People fade into the city and embody it. The city learns its own nature by watching. The city and the individual enter a collaboration. Five paintings by Kate Stewart tell the city stories about itself.

• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art – 560 South First St. map

  

  Afterlife: Main Gallery through January 23rd. A group exhibition presenting the work of artists who transform collected and recycled materials into works of art. Guest curated by Kathryn Funk. Theodora Varnay Jones: Manifold: Focus Gallery and Cardinale Project Room through February 20th. A solo exhibition by postminimalist sculptor and installation artist Theodora Varnay Jones. The two-and-three dimensional works on view represent the artist’s exploration and interpretation of form, space and repetition. Night Moves, after dark programming in the ICA’s front windows presents video work by Claudia Borgna through January 23rd.

• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 South First St. map

  
  Detail from a Victorian crazy quilt, collection of the Museum

  Exhibits on view: Still Crazy mines the Museum’s permanent collection to explore the glorious Victorian crazy quilt, a purely decorative object that presaged modernists’ use of abstraction and collage techniques and was a forerunner of the contemporary art quilt. Also on view: Reincarnation: The Crazy Collage Aesthetic of India & Japan explores how different cultures have interpreted the ‘crazy collage aesthetic’ with c. 1920-1950 Japanese kimonos from the collection of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture and contemporary Indian crazy quilts from the collection of Shobha Imports.

  Special event this month: Come for a unique opportunity to buy beautiful Indian embroidered textiles from Shobha Textiles. You will find a gorgeous selection of fabulous wall hangings, pillows, embroidered silk scarves and silk fabrics for quilting. Don’t miss this chance to find one-of-a-kind holiday gifts for the textile lovers in your life.

• SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery – 577 South Market St. map

  

  The Boutiki celebrates its first anniversary with a show called The Signs of the Holidays. Seasonal themed signs by Scott Saavedra will dot the gallery as well as pieces from some of the last year’s worth of shows including Famous Drunkards, Zombies (of course), Haunted Mansion and work by Andy Ristaino, Karl Krumpholz and many others.

  Live music by C-List

• South First Billiards & Lounge – 420 South First St. map

  

  Heart of Chaos Holiday Art Sale Continues. Also, join the celebration to raise funds for San Jose State’s Chicano Commencement tradition.

  Live music, live art, auction.

  21+ venue

• Works San Jose – 451 South First St. map

  noon2noon is a 24 hour art marathon to raise money to support your community art center! 8pm is one third of the way into Works 24 hour marathon, stop by when you start your evening to see artist teams compete to raise money marathon style. The entire event will be broadcast live to the internet at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/works-live and open at Works until Saturday at noon. You can pledge in person or online at www.workssanjose.org

  Come to Works at midnight for our First Friday Afterparty when we celebrate the halfway mark with music and refreshments. Support an artist team, have fun, and play in our art community. Purchase a work of art for yourself or a gift for the holidays! Artwork will be on display and for sale at the event through December 10.

On South Fourth Street…

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  

  [7-9pm] Opening Reception for the 2nd Annual Glass Ornament Show presented by the San Jose Glass Artists Alliance

  Experience a unique array of hand made one-of-a-kind glass ornaments that span a 60 foot wall at the KALEID Gallery through the end of December. This installation by SJGAA President, Janett Peace, showcases hundreds of individually blown, torchworked, fused and stained glass ornaments (sans the traditional trees). All ornaments are for sale and will be re-stocked throughout the month.

  Also on view and available for purchase is original works of art and creative gifts by over 60 regional artists.

JOIN US for the next South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk on November 6th!
8pm ’til LATE — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public
SoFA District (So. First Street between San Carlos and E. Reed streets)

• Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design – 366 South First St. map

  

  Public Reception & Book Signing: BLOODWORK: SLEEVES 30 Tattooers 67 Sleeves is a collaborative project produced by the Analog Tattoo Arts Kolectiv (ATAK). The stated goal is to document, exhibit and publish a comprehensive collection of sleeves by the WTC (World Tattoo Community: abstract concept). Tattooers & collectors from around the globe graciously contributed to this complex collective undertaking.

  The extensive range of work within the BLOODWORK: SLEEVES photographic exhibition and tandem publication aspires to provide a broad view of the efforts of contemporary tattooers working today. The ultimate purpose is to compile an unparalleled historical document for review by this and future generations.

• Art Glass Center of San Jose – 465 South First St. (map)

  

  Take one last stroll through the glass pumpkin patch by 15 artists at The Art Glass Center. Work from over 30 local glass artists will also be on display.

• Caffé Trieste – 315 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Genre Variations by Cynthia DeBenedetti
  Being a painter of outdoor scenes as well as still life and figure provides Cynthia occasions to paint many subjects in different ways. This exhibit focuses on different subject matter within the realm of oil painting. Among the many different types of genres (subjects) in painting, shown here are four: landscape, still life, figure, and portrait.

  Live Music: Opera San José performing your favorite arias and duets.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  

  Opening reception: Shimmer by Melissa Kreisa
  Join us after Candlelight Yoga (6:45-8:15) as we open our doors to welcome the Art Walk patrons and the downtown community. Our featured artist is a painter, mother, yoga practitioner and volunteer who helps new refugees adjust to life in the Bay Area.

  For Melissa, painting is her chance to breathe. It forces her to slow down and find beauty in the smallest spaces. In this show called, Shimmer she invites you into a moment of reflection. Her work reminds us that nature continues to go about its beautiful and mysterious business, even when we are not paying attention. All proceeds from this show will benefit Refugee Transitions (and are tax deductable).

• MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 South First St. map

  

  Join us for the opening reception for Cultural Disjuncture featuring contemporary nomads, cultural disparity and invisible labor explored in this group exhibition which features sculpture, works on paper and installation. This exhibition includes work by Monica Canilao, Diana Cristales-David, Betty A. Davis, Jaime Guerrero, Alejandro Oliva, Mitsy Ávila Ovalles and Rio Yañez. Exhibition open through January 2, 2010.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  The Last Good Dive Bar photos by the First St. Photo Collective
  Participating photographers include: Carlos Da Silva, Abe Menor, Trish Leeper, Tanya Angeli , Anabella Pinon, Nancy h. Ahn, Chris Patton, Felipe Buritrago, Yumiko Miyagawa, Vu Nguyen, Jennifer Ahn, Jason Duffany, Michelle Budziak, Jen Anderson, Amber Chavez, Jai Tanju, Mario Guel, Trent Still, Murray Bowles

• Phantom Galleries – temporary exhibits in vacant storefronts

  

  386 South First St.: Everybody’s Happy Nowadays by Kyle Pellet
  If you’ve ever:
  1.) stood up somebody for a date,
  2.) eaten a hamburger at 2 in the morning and lived to regret it,
  3.) smelled something wholeheartedly unpleasant, and took a second and maybe third sniff
  4.) cried about something dumb,
  5.) given yourself a bad haircut,
  6.) gone to a birthday party of someone you hated,
  7.) wished bad things on somebody, had them happen, and then wished bad things on other people,
  then this installation is for you. Enjoy! ”

  

  388 So. First Street: Nature Of The Beast by Tyson Johnston

  Strange things go bump in the night…. Oftentimes, dreams are reflections of phobias and dismay that we encounter in our daily lives. Usually, the underlying messages can be extremely cryptic. My aim is to decipher these nightmares into a meaningful message. I use animals and creatures to mirror human emotion, and as symbols. In the end, I hope to use these images and techniques to transfer the negative emotions from my nightmares into a positive release.

• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art – 560 South First St. map

  

  Afterlife: Main Gallery through January 23rd. A group exhibition presenting the work of artists who transform collected and recycled materials into works of art. Guest curated by Kathryn Funk. Theodora Varnay Jones: Manifold: Focus Gallery and Cardinale Project Room through February 20th. A solo exhibition by postminimalist sculptor and installation artist Theodora Varnay Jones. The two-and-three dimensional works on view represent the artist’s exploration and interpretation of form, space and repetition. Night Moves, after dark programming in the ICA’s front windows presents video work by Claudia Borgna through January 23rd.

• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 South First St. map

  

  The 2nd annual High Fiber Under Five benefit art sale will be in full swing. This invitational sale features world class fiber art by nationally and internationally known artists, including jewelry, sculpture, wearable art and wall pieces, all for $500 or less.

• SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery – 577 South Market St. map

  

  SLG Publishing is proud to present the work of Jamiaca Dyer as we celebrate the release of her first graphic novel Weird Fishes. A Santa Cruz native and San Jose State University graduate with an MFA in art, Dyer’s work will be familiar to people who have seen her paintings on the cover of the San Jose Metro. Also on display will be work from Drew Rausch, Bee Adams and several others.

  Live music by Quasimodal

• South First Billiards & Lounge – 420 South First St. map

  

  Heart of Chaos and South First Billiards present our 3rd annual Uproar event, one of the largest art events in San Jose. Live Music, Belly Dance, Live Painting and Art Exhibits. Art priced to sell!

  21+ venue

• Works San Jose – 451 South First St. map

  In the Main Gallery: See the Works/San Jose 2009 Member Exhibition All For One!…, —No judge, No jury—just our wide and varied community of artists from the South Bay! In the Paulette Peterson Space experience the exhibit A Portrait of Hip Hop. Also, see live painting on human canvases by artist Trina Merry!

• Agenda Restaurant – 399 South First St. map

  

  Special one night only exhibition and wine tasting event featuring Images From a Beautiful World by LIsa Amato

  A collection of fine art photography that pairs well with fine wine, food and music. Having moved to the Bay Area in her early years, Lisa has been “witness to this area’s ability to traverse both the minute wonder of a ladybug resting on a sunflower petal to the overwhelming expanse of a Pacific sunset. Everywhere I go, an opportunity to capture a truly breathtaking moment presents itself; whether it be the rugged peaks of the Sierras, the almost surreal Northern California shore, or the opulent colors of the wine country.”

  Live Music by Tyler Boyd.

  6pm-8pm: $10 Wine Tasting, $25 Special Pre Fixe Dinner (includes Wine Tasting)
  Call 408-287-3991 or email info@agendalounge.com for reservations or further details

On South Fourth Street…

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  [7-9pm] Artists’ Reception for featured exhibits by Lacey Bryant, Jen Renzel

  

  Fragile Things new paintings and curiosities by Lacey Bryant

  Lacey has always been fascinated at how so many fragile things are able to exist in our chaotic, messy world. “Tiny, delicate things often seem to thrive in the most hostile environments. Fragility makes things precious to us, things are more beautiful because they will not last. So many things are fragile when you stop to think about it. Insect wings, shells, glass, children, hearts, dreams, the list is endless. On the surface, vulnerability seems to unite these things but the deeper thing that all of these fragile things have in common is a hidden strength. An egg shell is easily broken, but the shape of an egg is such that it can support a massive amount of weight for it’s size and thickness, protecting it’s delicate contents. An insect may be crushed without a thought but can easily survive a fall that would kill a human being, not to mention the strength of their numbers. Children are amazingly resilient and can survive the most horrible of circumstances. It is the balance between weak and strong and the often contradictory duality of things that interests me. ”

  

  The Carnival of Lost Souls assemblages by Jen Renzel

  Little sideshow oddities, dark dreams, and mystical beings. Broken dolls, old toys, antique hardware, collaged images, and imagination are the ingredients for these shadow boxes. “The broken down treasure at the bottom of a moldy box can be the cornerstone of a new creation. In fact, that’s often how the idea for a piece starts — with one broken doll, toy, or image that sparks the imagination> The rest is a continual trial and error process of finding which pieces fit together, then figuring out how to connect them, which can be challenging when working with oftentimes crumbling, frail and damaged materials and parts. Something tells me when a piece is finished. Some pieces come together quickly, and some take forever and are a struggle. In either case, I can lose hours and hours in the workshop, and the results sometimes surprise even me.”

JOIN US for South FIRST FRIDAYS — October 2nd!
8pm ’til LATE — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public
SoFA District (So. First Street between San Carlos and E. Reed streets)

• Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design – 366 South First St. map

  

  On view in galleryONE: Walking in the White by PJOTA (São Paulo, Brazil)
  
  For his exhibition at Anno Domini, Pjota has created large canvases that are, according to him, “predominantly white” symbolizing his lone journey to California. One might conclude that the nearly miniature entities in his paintings are a result of his feeling “small” when thinking about traveling alone to unfamiliar territory. However, the gritty daily experiences of São Paulo, one of the most populated cities in the world, find their way onto the canvases bringing with them a density of texture, color, grids and hand-lettered scrawl…the canvases can hardly be considered “predominantly white” anymore. As with any environment, be it within a city or a painting, it is rich with discovery should you take the time to explore its depths.

  On view in galleryTWO: Exsitu Insitu by Sam3 (Granada, Spain)
  
  Sam3 created a new animation and new canvas works entirely on site at Anno Domini in late August and early September. The 5 minute animation consists of 2136 hand painted frames which were created on the main exhibition walls. The sound and musical score is by Endika of San Jose’s nu class jazz group Panthelion. 12 oversized canvases in Sam’s signature style of “shadows” are also on view.

  Music by Deathat.

• Art Glass Center of San Jose – 465 South First St. (map)

  

  The Art Glass Center will showcase Lionel Chapital and Shirley Cook in live glass blowing demonstrations. They’ll be creating glass pumpkins and fall botanicals until 10pm. Work from over 30 local glass artists will also be on display.

• Caffé Trieste – 315 South First St. map

  

  Opening Reception: Fragments… by Beth Redmond
  Things seen and experienced become the fragments that create the kaleidoscope of life. “For me, photography is less a representation of fact than a flight on imagination.” says Redmond. “The big picture is made of many fragments any one of which may capture the attention to become the picture. What we see is determined by how we look and also by how we think. What a photograph shows is determined by the imagination of the photographer.”

  Live Music: Opera San José performing your favorite arias and duets.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  

  Join us after Candlelight Yoga (6:45-8:15pm) as we open our doors to welcome SoFF art patrons and the downtown community. Our featured artist is one of Downtown Yoga Shala’s yoga instructors, Emily Lounsbury.

  Emily is a painter who’s driven by a love of the human figure and an obsession with anatomy. She considers the human form to be a work of art; and therefore seeks ways to do it justice. After graduating with her BFA in Fine Art Painting and Drawing she has participated in several solo and group shows in San Francisco and San Jose in addition to being hired to do portrait commissions.

• MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 South First St. map

  

  Currently on view La Reconquesta, new work by Einar and Jamex de la Torre commissioned in celebration of MACLA’s 20th Anniversary! From the Aztecs and the Spaniards to the prevalence of dollar stores and Mexican food, this exhibition features two unique installations that simultaneously explore historical and contemporary ideas of conquest. Join Einar and Jamex for a gallery walk-thru and an engaging conversation about their work on Thursday, October, 15 at 7:pm. Exhibition open through October 24.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  The Metro Photo Exhibit is a photography gallery based on a monthly theme showcasing local Bay Area photographers of all levels. Visit the artists and their work, also participate in voting on the piece that best represents the given theme of the month.

  This month’s theme: No finer place for sure – portraits of Downtown by Carlos Da Silva, Abe Menor, Trish Leeper, Tanya Angeli, Anabella Pinon, Nancy H. Ahn, Chris Patton, Felipe Buritrago, Yumiko Miyagawa, Vu Nguyen, Jennifer Ahn, Jason Duffany, Michelle Budziak, Jen Anderson, Amber Chavez, Jai Tanju and Mario Guel.

  Music by RS2 Solid Sound

• Phantom Galleries – temporary exhibits in vacant storefronts

  

  386 South First St.: Everybody’s Happy Nowadays by Kyle Pellet
  If you’ve ever:
  1.) stood up somebody for a date,
  2.) eaten a hamburger at 2 in the morning and lived to regret it,
  3.) smelled something wholeheartedly unpleasant, and took a second and maybe third sniff
  4.) cried about something dumb,
  5.) given yourself a bad haircut,
  6.) gone to a birthday party of someone you hated,
  7.) wished bad things on somebody, had them happen, and then wished bad things on other people,
  then this installation is for you. Enjoy! “

  

  388 So. First Street: Nature Of The Beast by Tyson Johnston

  Strange things go bump in the night…. Oftentimes, dreams are reflections of phobias and dismay that we encounter in our daily lives. Usually, the underlying messages can be extremely cryptic. My aim is to decipher these nightmares into a meaningful message. I use animals and creatures to mirror human emotion, and as symbols. In the end, I hope to use these images and techniques to transfer the negative emotions from my nightmares into a positive release.

• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art – 560 South First St. map

  

  The 29th Annual Fall Art Exhibition and Live Auction featuring works by more than 150 Bay Area contemporary artists in the Main and Focus Galleries. An Exhibition Opening Reception will be held on First Friday, October 2nd at 6pm. The Auction will be held on Saturday, October 24th. Doors open at 6pm and the auction begins promptly at 7pm. Tickets are $40 each if purchase by October 24; $50 each at the door. This year’s auction features complimentary wines and gourmet cocktail fare from the area’s finest restaurants and wineries. Call 408.283.8155 or email lis@sjica.org to purchase tickets. View the online auction gallery at www.sjica.org. All auction proceeds support the ICA’s exhibitions and programs.

• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 South First St. map

  

  On view: Fabric Tattoos: The Spirit of the Mola will transport you to the Kuna peoples’ world of winding snakes, birds, plants and myths. These designs were originally realized as tattoos and body painting. Now evolved into a sophisticated textile technique called ‘molas,’ these bold geometric shapes and vivid colors are surprising and stunning.

  On view in the main galleries: The World According to Joyce Gross: Quilts from the Dolph Briscoe Center, important historical quilts collected by one of the first quilt scholars.

  Special event this month: Sneak preview of just some of the art to be available in the High Fiber Under Five benefit sale of fine fiber art to be held November 3-8.

• SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery – 577 South Market St. map

  

  The SLG Boutiki & Gallery holds a spooky/swinging release party to celebrate the publication of Winchester #1, the comic book series about San Jose’s own mysterious architect Sarah Winchester. The gallery will feature a display of artwork from the series by Drew Rausch as well as work from the Haunted Mansion series also published by SLG.

  Live music provided by A Bacchus Joint

• South First Billiards & Lounge – 420 South First St. map

  

  Group exhibit: Michael Denning recycles media into statements about life, love, politics, and spirituality through collage. Al Preciado utilizes paint, mixed media and sculpture to create emotive and expressive figurative art based on religion, sports and mythology. Mike Kjolhaug’s (3.5) work spans different mediums but black bic ink pens are his favorite.

  21+ venue

• Space 47 – 47 East William Street map

• Works San Jose – 451 South First St. map

  In the Main Gallery: the Works/San Jose 2009 Member Exhibition All For One!…, –No judge, No jury–just our wide and varied community of artists from the South Bay! In the Paulette Peterson Space experience Failure, a mixed media installation by artist Lisa Noble.

On South Fourth Street…

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  [7-9pm] Artists’ Reception for featured exhibits by Julie Bilyeu and Drew Clark

  

  Anxiety new drawings by Julie Bilyeu
  Julie’s love for art has helped her cope with a severe anxiety disorder. Drawing has become a necessity for her and she is currently inspired by these anxieties and panic attacks which manifests as dark and dramatic charcoal drawings of her experiences.

  

  From the Rubble new paintings by Drew Clark
  Drawings on cave walls and old temples have always depicted the end of the world and the collapse of civilization. The Modern Age is no different; visions of recession, biblical apocalypse, climate change and environmental destruction by industry. These new paintings explore the symbolism of the End Times.