The South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk is a self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses featuring exhibitions and special performances.

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

  
  

  Art of Zines 2013 featuring hundreds of zines from basements, bedrooms and midnight copy shops from throughout the US and abroad. Come check out these 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.

  Several zine makers will be on site with their latest issues for sale:
  Tiny Splendor, Matt & Maria, Yumiko Miyagawa, Matthew Denning, Seeing Things Gallery and Blunt Letters

  

  Currently on view in galleryONE: Death Will Tear Us Apart
  Mike Egan (Pittsburgh, PA) solo exhibition

  MUSIC: KSCU’s DJ camouflage

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

  
  Ice Tea Pitcher by Cindy Percival

  Steeped in Tradition
  

  As with all rituals, presentation is as important as procedure and method! For May we present a plethora of tea-related tableware, from the perfect steaming hot cup to the more chilled-out summertime glass of iced tea. Indulge in hand-made tea-bowls, teapots, pitchers and tumblers crafted by local artisans plus a gallery spotlight on works by master potters, George Dymesich and Hsin-Chuen Lin.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  Join us for two new feature exhibitions at KALEID Gallery:

  
  

  The Weird and The Wonderful new works by Murphy Adams and Christine Benjamin

  Worlds collide when Christine Benjamin’s funky characters meet Murphy Adams’ quirky human narratives. Robots & monsters, housewives & dreamers, The Weird and the Wonderful come together to tell their own tales.

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

  
  Daniella A. Rascón, Legs, c-print, 2011

  Latino Art Now, MACLA’s 15th Annual Latino Art Auction

  In MACLA’s Gallery: View the very best of contemporary Latino art from the Bay Area and beyond. Over 50 Latino artists represented through paintings, prints, photographs and mixed-media.

  In MACLA’s Castellano Playhouse, special guest performances starting at 8pm.

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

  San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles presents two exhibitions: Milestones: Textiles of Transition and Threads of Love: Baby Carriers from China’s Minority Nationalities

  
  Erica Spitzer Rasmussen, Red Hot, 2005, 25’ x 12” x 11”
  Cast hand–made paper. Cotton, acrylics, gold leaf, wax, metal, rubber, matchstitcks
  photo credit: Petronella Ytsma

  Milestones: Textiles of Transition explores how historic and contemporary textiles have been created for and continue to signify moments of transition—birth, marriage, and death, among others—and the unique bond these textiles have with our universal human experience. As material objects these textiles play an important role in all of our life passages, either as utilitarian objects, or as ceremonial and symbolic pieces.

  

  Zhuang Minority Nationality, Yunnan province, Dimensions (WxH): 35″ x 30 1/2″
  Indigo dyed cotton, silk embroidery, applique, and metallic ribbon

  Threads of Love: Baby Carriers from China’s Minority Nationalities, presents the rich folk art tradition of hand-embroidered baby carriers from the minority nationalities of southwestern China. The exhibit highlights the symbolic decorations traditionally used to embellish these otherwise utilitarian, though lovingly made textiles. Auspicious symbols connote good luck, good fortune, happy marriage, and longevity. This selection of baby carriers is drawn from the Miao (known as Hmong in their native language), Zhuang, Yao, and Shui nationalities from China’s southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, They are on loan from the private collection of Mr. Yu Yawan, of Nanning, China.

  Fiber Salon: Victorian Hair Work with Even Howard

  Hair jewelry has honored friendships and family since Shakespeare’s time and came to a height of popularity during the Victorian era.

  Delicate craftsmanship combined with the intrinsic value of treasured memories come together in these small but intricate works and appealed to the decorative sensibilities of the time.

  Join us in May for our kick-off Fiber Salon with support from the Etsy Meet & Make program. Learn more: etsy.me/etsyevents Instructor Even Howard will guide us through the techniques of table woven hair work to create cards or small accessories using floss threads in place of hair.

• San Jose Stage Company Courtyard – 490 South First St. map

  
  

  Freya Seeburger

  Since moving to San Jose, California in 2010, Freya Seeburger has started a busy career in both classical ensembles and rock bands. In 2011 Freya began backing singer/songwriter Maryam Qudus of Doe Eye, playing on San Francisco’s Live 105 premier of Qudus’ album “Run, Run, Run” for their Soundcheck series. In May 2012, Freya played at the Joint in Las Vegas, when Doe Eye was selected as a competitor in Billboard’s Battle of the Bands. Freya has recorded with producer John Vanderslice and the Magik*Magik Orchestra and she was also featured on the album “All My Love in Half Light” by San Jose musician, Lady Lazarus, whose album was given a 7.8 review by Pitchfork.com. This past year, Freya began coursework at San Francisco State University for the Masters Program in Cello Performance, studying with Alexander Walsh-Wilson of the Alexander String Quartet. Freya plays an 1885 Czech cello as well as a Luis & Clarke carbon fiber cello.

• Seeing Things Gallery – 30 North Third St. map

  
  

  The Out of Towners

  Once upon a time Jason Arnold, Michael Hsiung and Andrew Mecum lived in Downtown San Jose. Once upon a time they also left Downtown San Jose. Everyone has there reasons for leaving San Jose, but if and when you do leave, more than likely San Jose will never leave you. If you knew them when they were here, then you will not be surprised (or maybe you will) to see that they have become these impressive artists each in there own right. Seeing Things Gallery presents to you, The Out of Towners. Jason is a graphic designer at NHS (Santa Cruz Skateboards) Michael is a freelance artist as well as the online content editor for The Vans Art blog & Andrew works at Deluxe DistrIbution ( Real, Krooked and Anti Hero Skateboards).

• Works San Jose – 365 South Market St. map

  
  artwork by Cody Gramstad

  From Pencils to Pixels: Art and Science for the Screen

  Producing art for the screen demands both technical and creative proficiency. From Pencils to Pixels is the product of this dynamic union. Included is preliminary work for film, games, and television, as well as an e-book project sponsored by Adobe, and a trailer for a newly released novel by Isabel Allende.

• ZERO1 Garage – 439 South First St. map

  
  

  Cooperative Gaming Coop: Arcade Cabinet Maker meets Video Game Maker by James Morgan and John Bruneau

  The Cooperative Gaming Coop looks both backwards and forwards, into the legacy of gaming and its possible future. The Golden Age of Video Games provided us with this public social space in which to interact, debate, commune and compete with friends and strangers alike. Come learn how the arcade cabinet became the interface, the context, and the marketing agent for the games contained within it. Explore these curated cabinets that bring together interesting works from a variety of sources including the Game Developers Club from SJSU. Learn about the tools used to build the arcade cabinets and play some fun quirky games. Additionally we invite people of all ages to visit the “Coop Swap” where you can trade games, both old and new, bring the games you made to trade, and even those old much loved titles. Engage your neighbors, share stories.

• Cafe Stritch – 374 South First St. map

  

  On view: Art by Erin Salazar

  Live Music: The Eulipions, the new house band for Cafe Stritch, this great jazz sextet will be performing from 7pm-11pm, featuring Andoni Bundros on Piano, Daniel Gerz on Upright Bass, Daniel Owens on Trombone, and more!

• Caffé Frascati – 315 South First St. map

  First Fridays is Caffe Frascati Opera Night presented by First Street Singers, with the Bay Area’s finest opera singers performing your very favorite classical arias and duets live in the cafe!

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  
  
  The exhibit at the Downtown Yoga Shala this month represents a collaboration between Schallenberger School and the Montalvo Arts Center. The fourth grade students of Binh Le Hererra, Jessica Martin-Moss, Ursula Goodwin and Kim Cox have been working with artist Claudia Stevens of Montalvo exploring a variety of media including ceramics and painting. In addition to studying various drawing, painting and ceramic techniques they have tried their hands at imitating the style of various artists including Georgia O’Keeffe. The students are pleased to share the fruits of this collaboration with the public.

• Eco Monster – 30 North Third St. map

  
  

  Big Fish Little Fish In A Dirty Small Pond by Nak Bou

  Nak Bou is a graphic and multi-media artist based in Southern California. He is a graduate of UCLA’s Design I Media Arts program. A multidisciplinary artist working with graphics to motion, from web and branding to illustrative drawings. In addition to his work as a graphic designer, he is currently working on art that combines themes of nostalgia, historical events, and modern urban life.

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

  

  Phantom Galleries presents From Chaos new original works by Dylan Kelly // Chaos938 Studios at Good Karma Vegan Cafe.

  From Chaos is a collection of brand new artwork by South Bay artist Dylan Kelly, painting under the alias Chaos938 since 2003. Using reclaimed wooden panels, spray paint & acrylics He creates a vibrancy and texture with each piece that is very unique.

  This colorful show embodies new paintings, with limited edition screen prints, and a photo retrospective of the many aerosol murals created this year in the bay area by the Artist. All prints are signed and numbered collectables.

• LGBTQ Youth Space – 452 South First St. map

  

  Hot Mess by John Doe

  The Hairstyle Themed Gallery

  The LGBTQ Youth Space has decided to show its fascination with Hair! Thats right HAIR IN THIS SPACE AND IN YO FACE. Hair of all kinds: Long Hair, Short Hair, Spiky Hair, Curly Hair, Beard Hair, No Hair…Armpit Hair. This gallery is going to be SHEAR awesome. Be Hair or be Square.

• The Metro Gallery – 550 South First St. map

  No exhibition in May.

• Pho69 – 321 South First St. map

  
  Neverwhere, oil on paper, 2012

  Phantom Galleries presents artist Roan Victor at Pho69 Restaurant.

  The California natives symbolize, with conscious effort, the natural growth of imagination and inspiration from mundane things around us. In some of the work I also tried to personify the plants according to their characteristics. ~Roan Victor

• Psycho Donuts – 288 South Second St. map

  
  art by Michael Foley

  Psycho Donuts in downtown San Jose is a quirky donut shop and art gallery. The gallery displays top local artists and has an ongoing exhibit featuring the work of John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, Michelle Waters, John Hageman and Robert McColley!

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

  
  

  In the exhibition Before Us, After Us, a group of five San Francisco Bay Area artists express their view of where they came from, their personal experience and their surroundings as it relates to their vision of what is to come.

  Participating artists: Efren Alvarez, Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, Rick Moreno, Melina Alexa Ramirez and Cesareo Vega.

• Studio Climbing Gym – 396 South First St. map

  
  

  The Studio Rock Gym presents an exhibition by Ajay Fay, a commercial photographer and fine artist.

  The exhibition includes a body of work that Fay shot while traveling for jobs along the west coast. They are landscapes, and they are the first reason Fay started photography. After going to school and receiving a BFA in Photography, Fay realized he wanted to work with people and explore ways of communication. Forcing people to see differently. The other set of images on view are from a series called somewhere between here and there, personal work about Fay’s struggle to find his place in the race that is life here in the city..

• TechShop San Jose – 300 South Second St. map

  

  Check out the TechShop San Jose lobby where we will be hosting the gallery opening of Darius B’Alexander, our first Resident Artist! TechShop members will also be setting up their tables in the conference room to sell their DIY work!

• Umpqua Bank – 225 West Santa Clara St. map

  

  Rare Candy: A Pokemon Gallery for Charity

  San Jose State University art students Peter Le and Amy Kim had a small idea to create a fun art gallery to the original 151 Pokemon that that had grown up with. After some time and with the help of many friends in the Animation and Illustration program at SJSU, the small idea turned into a much bigger endeavor. The exhibition is also a charitable auction where 100% of the proceeds will be given to “Canines for Disabled Kids” , a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of deaf and physically disabled children by partnering them up trained service dogs. All Pokemon were assigned randomly to participating artists and all will be auctioned off through a silent bid process until May 17th on location at Umpqua Bank in downtown San Jose during normal business hours. Live music by Super Soul Bros.

• Art Ark Gallery – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  
  

  San Jose State University MFA Graduates Thesis Exhibition
  Opening Reception: Friday, May 3rd 6-9pm

  Nineteen San Jose State University Master of Fine Art candidates graduating this spring will show their thesis art projects at Art Ark Gallery. Designed by independent curator and art writer Christian L. Frock, the exhibit illustrates the depth and breath of the university’s art and art history program.

  Graduating students represent the Pictorial Art, Spatial Art, Photography and Digital Media Art programs in the Department of Art and Art History. The artists are A R A, Armine Sargsyan, Avery Palmer, Barbara Boissevain, David Kempken, Elena Polanco, Esteban Salazar, Gloria Huet, Jacqueline Donecho, Jeffrey Opp, Jen, Jonathan Huang, Kat McKinnon (KGM), Lan Liu, Marianne Lettieri, Meiru Huang, Sieglinde Van Damme, Wesley Wright, and Yvonne Escalante.

The South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk is a self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses featuring exhibitions and special performances.

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

  
  

  Artist’s Reception: Death Will Tear Us Apart, Mike Egan (Pittsburgh, PA) solo exhibition

  Death can find us in many forms through our lives. Whether it’s the death of a friendship, a marriage, a relationship or the physical death of someone close to us. Death can come to us as a skeleton, a devil or even a blood thirsty wolf. In his newest body of work, Egan shares his story about these characters who may be heart broken, filled with rage, spitting out lies or happy to have friends nearby for support. He has seen the many faces of death and has found the strength to come back to life.

  Mike Egan received his BFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Shortly after he went on to receive a diploma in funeral directing and embalming from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science. While working in funeral homes for five years, Egan developed his own style of painting. Although he is no longer working in funeral homes, his time spent working as a funeral director/embalmer still greatly influences his paintings today.

  
  Little Accusations, charcoal on paper, 40″ x 48″

  Currently on view in galleryONE: Deciphering the Ash of Effigies
  Joseph Loughborough (UK) solo exhibition

  MUSIC: Comfort Slacks

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

  
  

  Inspired Clay A juried exhibit of 28 sculptural works by 24 artists of the Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild, including prize-winning pieces by Lisa LaRocca, Nancy Niles, and Doris Fischer-Colbrie.

  Show debut and reception for the artists in conjunction with South FIRST FRIDAYS Art Walk, 7-11pm Friday April 5th!

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  Join us for two new feature exhibitions at KALEID Gallery:

  
  

  CHILD-SIGHT new works by Leah Jay

  There is a magic in the vision of children: puddles are lakes with glinting mermaids, dancing spirits rise from the boles of trees, and a hint of magic clouds the world … As adults the innocence of “child-sight” often dims, but we can rekindle it – through the medium of our dreams and by setting our imaginations free.

  As an artist I explore those worlds, bringing you back to a land of timeless, innocent joy. By pouring wet paint on a surface, I allow an unpredictable flow to inspire my hand. Eddies of paint free my imagination – to recall and realize magical landscapes and creatures in this mass of color. Over this fertile ground I can choose from every tool in my toolbox – brush, chalk, pencil, pen or charcoal – always striving to channel pure emotion and energy from my work.

  I’m inspired by childhood memories; fairy tales; nature in all its forms; line and color; faces and music; the lighthearted and the fantastic. My influences are those whose own visions rekindle childlike delight and wonderment: Sulamith Wulfing, Brian Froud, Alphonse Mucha, Susan Seddon Boulet, Tove Jansson and Kay Nielsen.

  

  Light and Soul Experiences in Natural and Cultural Landscapes
  solo exhibition by LAuruS Myth

  Ancient temples have been left behind almost like a dormant seed which can help us to understand our potential. Even today, the modern temples are places where people can form a community and celebrate spiritual culture. Anything from nurturing the earth through gardening, appreciation of connections, and the care and concern for others’ and their spiritual path, are all practices of spirituality. All of these actions represent the feminine energy that has been dormant in past centuries. This series depicts the fusion of sacred spaces, temples, and earth technologies. I hope to plant the seed of fertility through my work exploring spiritual connection to the earth.

  About the Artist: Patterns, symbols, vibrations and experiences from the realms of nature, technology and spirituality are celebrated elements of LAuruS Myth’s work. Born in 1987, in San Jose’s Silicon Valley, LAuruS is a prolific emerging artist who expresses the constant search inward and outward for a collective power. She graduated in 2009 with a BFA and was presented with an Award for Excellence in the Arts. Her inspiration comes from world travels and intimate interactions with other cultures. Finding a deep connection to every culture she permeates, LAuruS celebrates the varieties of culture through her paintings and hopes to evoke a worldly sense of unity.

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

  
  Jose ArenasKeepsake, acrylic on wood, 2012

  We are pleased to present Latino Art Now, MACLA’s 15th Annual Latino Art Auction.

  In MACLA’s Gallery: View the very best of contemporary Latino art from the Bay Area and beyond. Over 50 Latino artists represented through paintings, prints, photographs and mixed-media. In MACLA’s Castellano Playhouse, special guest performances starting at 8pm.

• San Jose Jazz at Pagoda Restaurant & Bamboo Lounge – 170 S Market St. map

  Fairmont Hotel, S 1st Street side, at the Hotel’s back entrance
  8:30pm Free Admission

  
  

  The Shotgun Wedding Quintet

  Formed in 2003, The Shotgun Wedding Quintet has worked to create an illicit blend of hip-hop and jazz that’s rooted in tradition, but is ever looking forward. Each member of the band is a multi-instrumentalist, making use of samplers and looping-techniques to create a wall of sound as band members shift from instrument to instrument, building continuous layers of music and rhythm. As a result, this 5-piece ensemble creates the sound of a 10-piece group equal parts big-band and boom-bap.

  The Shotgun Wedding Quintet is comprised of Dublin (emcee), Adam Theis (bass, synth bass, trombone, tuba), Joe Cohen (sax, organ, synthesizer, piano), and pDubL (on drums, sampler). The group’s newest album Tales From The Barbary Coast is currently available. This collective was a hit performance at Summer Fest 2011.

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

  
  Chamba Rumal, showing the Raas Lila – the dance of the cowherd Lord Krishna with the gopis or cow girl herders 20th Century Chamba. Cotton, silk embroidery, 21.5″ x 21.5″

  
  Junco Sato Pollack, Kesa Study Series -Kinhin # 5, metallic threads on pieced, layered polyester fabric, 2012

  On view: Folk Indian Textiles from the Collection of Carol Summers and Meditation in Space and Time: Junco Sato Pollack Sutra Chant Hangings and Stitched Mandalas

  

  Performance: Abhinaya student Ishani Joshi performs The Thillana. A joyous piece containing intricate rhythmic patterns and sculputuresque poses. The concluding lyric of this vivacious finale praises the Goddess Bhuvaneshwari, the universal mother, who resides everywhere in the form of Om, and grants auspiciousness to all.

  Fiber Salon activity: Marginal Embroidery – Who says you need an embroidery pattern to make something awesome? Just like scribbling on a notepad during a phone call, embroidery can be off-the-cuff and lackadaisical. Use your scribble-skills to create a unique fabric accent for pillows, tote bags, or for a wall decoration. All you need is the will to doodle and some simple embroidery skills.

• San Jose Stage Company Courtyard – 490 South First St. map

  
  

  Billy Sheen is an electro-Indie Synth pop trio based out of San Francisco Bay Area consisting of local artists Jesse Huelsenkamp aka G.Willikers(of Rebelskamp), Justin Huelsenkamp aka Tributaries (of Rebelskamp), Benji Renard aka Box and tone/Benji the not, and of course the legendary iconic Billy Sheen of Iceland. A mixture of electronic, tongue and cheek, gothic, melancholy, pop-eighties sound done in a modern mystique of class and style.

• Seeing Things Gallery – 30 North Third St. map

  
  

  Seeing Things Gallery is proud to announce its South First Friday Art walk show for April 5th is Friendly Fire.

  The event features collaborative art pieces by Jason Adams and: Chet Childress, Bigfoot, Jai Tanju, Russ Pope, Duane Peters, Joe Brook, Josie Perez-Romandetta, Sid Enck Jr., Dan Drehobl and Noah Olmstead of Vintage Letter Press

• Works San Jose – 365 South Market St. map

  
  artwork by Jay Rudland

  Residues of Time

  Each image in this group photography exhibition confronts the transformative nature of time and its impact on human perspective. Yesterday’s villain can become today’s hero as assuredly as last night’s scraps become this evening’s delicacy. The opposite is also true, as beauty inevitably decays.

• ZERO1 Garage – 439 South First St. map

  
  

  Experience research in action as the ZERO1 Fellows take over the ZERO1 Garage for April’s South FIRST FRIDAY. Learn more about socially engaged artistic practice through a video screening organized by ZERO1 Fellow Cecilia Galiena. Participate in collaborative storytelling exercises with Fellow Daniela Steinsapir, and explore place-to-place networked communication with Fellow Paula Levine. The ZERO1 Fellowship is a platform for artistic experimentation that recognizes the artist as the ultimate provocateur, risk-taker, and untapped resource of innovation. Working in collaboration with partner companies, cultural institutions, and academic research centers, ZERO1 Fellows are charged with developing lines of artistic research and cultural production in response to a specific innovation challenge. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet the ZERO1 Fellows and participate in artistic experimentation and creative problem solving first hand.

• Cafe Stritch – 374 South First St. map

  

  featuring art by Erin Salazar

  “The art that I make is rooted in the balance and juxtaposition of the accidental and the intentional. I came from a dirt town riddled with drugs and poverty and it is my intention to elevate the necessity of DIY customization and integrate that into the learned, academic, fine arts world. Visually, I allude to the fine line work of custom pin-striping commonly found on the hoods and side-panels of hot-rod cars. In a second body of work, I heavily employ the use of more “feminine” tactics, using lace, buttons, and thread as a vehicle to uplift my modest upbringing. This work is almost always on flat black, because “Primer Is Finer”, baby.”

  I graduated SJSU in Year 10 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, emphasis in Drawing and Painting. I am the Owner, Manager, & Sole Proprietor of Wreck Creation Studios, with which I re-purpose clothing, paint skateboard decks, and paint murals with a “fine arts” emphasis.”

  

  Music by Plantain

  Plantain is the musical vessel of James Fenwicke (Mumlers, Continuous Peasant), Andy Paul (Mumlers), Robert Eck and Brad Pejack. Part summer fun, part winter hibernation odes, Plantain began in San Jose in 2008 and released their debut album “Fall of a Candy Empire” on vinyl record last July. They play loosely concise, eclectic folk songs that incorporate many instruments from banjo, trumpet, and marxophone and bring to mind the Velvet Underground, Candlebox, and Real Estate.

  Also Jeff Brummett from Doctor Nurse/ Dinners will be DJing for the night.

• Caffé Frascati – 315 South First St. map

  First Fridays is Caffe Frascati Opera Night presented by First Street Singers, with the Bay Area’s finest opera singers performing your very favorite classical arias and duets live in the cafe!

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  
  

  Join us after Candlelight Yoga (5:30-6:45pm), as we open our doors to the downtown community and art patrons starting 7pm, for the South First Fridays Art Walk, a self-guided nighttime tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses featuring eclectic art exhibitions and special performances. All art venues are FREE & open to the public.

  Downtown Yoga Shala is proud to be one of the venues on the art walk. We are happy to feature the artwork of one of our members, Tracey Ariga! Don’t miss the special live musical performance by Cado starting at 7:30pm. You won’t want to miss this!

  Anthony Trayer and Tracey Ariga come together for the first time to mesh two styles of painting for the Mind, Body, Soul exhibit.

  Anthony was born and raised in the South Bay, where he has been surrounded by and has embraced the cultural diversity. He is an artist that exudes passion and captures this and his cultural surroundings in the various styles of his work. In the late 90′s those who had an appreciation for Graffiti in the South Bay all knew Anthony’s work. It started with simple written words that turned into elaborate wall paintings. Where there was and still is a lot of controversy around Graffiti, this was a way for Anthony to express himself freely. His past and current experiences with life have led to the creations we see today.

  Tracey captures the essence of the feminine in her work. Her paintings are meant to evoke an emotion, more importantly than the content itself. Her work is inspired by nature and the energy force found within all of us.

  “The challenge is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else”.

• Eco Monster – 30 North Third St. map

  
  

  EcoMonster participates in the South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk with the Fruits and Vegetables Art exhibit by Géraldine Adams.

  Géraldine Adams, a San Jose based French Artist and illustrator, is passionate about food and Kitchen Art. The Fruits and Vegetables Art series is a botanical, retro style looking collection, inspired by vintage educational French school posters. It offers a large selection of original hand drawn illustration reproductions featuring seasonal fruits, vegetables, plants and herbs posters in different sizes. The show presents for the first time in San Jose her handmade, archival quality, signed giclée prints.

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

  

  Phantom Galleries presents From Chaos new original works by Dylan Kelly // Chaos938 Studios at Good Karma Vegan Cafe.

  From Chaos is a collection of brand new artwork by South Bay artist Dylan Kelly, painting under the alias Chaos938 since 2003. Using reclaimed wooden panels, spray paint & acrylics He creates a vibrancy and texture with each piece that is very unique.

  This colorful show embodies new paintings, with limited edition screen prints, and a photo retrospective of the many aerosol murals created this year in the bay area by the Artist. All prints are signed and numbered collectables.

• LGBTQ Youth Space – 452 South First St. map

  

  All I See, Are Trees, That Will Be, displayed for the last month of this themed gallery… We will be displaying our appreciation for trees for the last time in April’s South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk. Trees are apart of our everyday lives, they help us breathe in times of need. One of our community’s own Artist Pikachu created From Hardships to Acceptance, a clay piece that describes the negative and positive experiences that queer youth face. All made out of flour clay, tempura paint and paper this is A MUST SEE piece.

• The Metro Gallery – 550 South First St. map

  

  Seven Trees photography by Daniel Valencia

  Born in San Jose, CA, Daniel Valencia is a photographer that has had a camera in his hands since he was eight. He has photographed literally everything, and I know that many people say that they photograph everything but this guy really has photographed everything and I don’t mean that in a good way. For a while he hadn’t found a style or consistent subject matter, he was unstable and unsure. Nevertheless I have watched his work evolve and mature, from skateboarding to street photography, from capturing the human condition to journalistic work. This body of work though is about his home, his neighborhood, Seven Trees. The socio-economic status of the area and the socio-psychological effects on its inhabitants. This is his work and with this work he will one day innovate photography, if he already hasn’t. ~Edgar Godinez

• Pho69 – 321 South First St. map

  
  Neverwhere, oil on paper, 2012

  Phantom Galleries presents artist Roan Victor at Pho69 Restaurant.

  The California natives symbolize, with conscious effort, the natural growth of imagination and inspiration from mundane things around us. In some of the work I also tried to personify the plants according to their characteristics. ~Roan Victor

• Psycho Donuts – 288 South Second St. map

  
  art by Kori Thompson

  Psycho Donuts in downtown San Jose is a quirky donut shop and art gallery. The gallery displays top local artists and has an ongoing exhibit featuring the work of John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, Michelle Waters, John Hageman and Robert McColley!

• Studio Climbing Gym – 396 South First St. map

  
  

  The Studio Rock Climbing Gym presents new works by Terenia Offenbacker.

  “Art for me is a constant search for new ways of expressing my self and the core of my being.”

  My creative part was dormant for over 25 years after very serious injury in car accident. I never worked with collage or mixed media before but these mediums brought me closer to express my self with out worry about fine lines, also helped me build a confidence to use brushes again. Trough out the years I drifted from papers to recycled die cuts, all forms of old hardware and found objects. My main goal is to recycle anything is discarded and make art of it, its feel good to recycle.

  I balance my mixed media work with oil paintings mostly of my family members and friends. My figurative work is base on my admiration for Amadeo Modigliani. I love his simplicity and I try work in similar style with my own mixed media twist.

• TechShop San Jose – 300 South Second St. map

  

  Check out the TechShop San Jose lobby where we will be hosting the gallery opening of Darius B’Alexander, our first Resident Artist! TechShop members will also be setting up their tables in the conference room to sell their DIY work!

• Art Ark Gallery – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  
  Image: , by Tara Odorizzi

  Glyph an exhibition that explores the relationship of text and art across a wide variety of media, from painting to installation to book arts.

  Opening Art Reception Friday, April 5th 6-9pm, with live music by Mark Davis on keyboard and Julian Borrego on bass

The South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk is a self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses featuring exhibitions and special performances.

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

  
  Little Accusations, charcoal on paper, 40″ x 28″

  Artist’s Reception: Deciphering the Ash of Effigies, Joseph Loughborough (UK) solo exhibition

  Honesty, expressionism and possibly exorcism can be read from Loughborough’s impulsive and intuitive rapid-fire mark making, which strive to grasp a comprehension of the human condition.

  Joseph Loughborough (b. 1981) spent his formative years exploring the derelict boatyards and creeks of Portsmouth, on the south coast of the UK. After graduating from Portsmouth University he pursued interests in art, philosophy and skateboarding culture, living in London, Paris and currently Berlin.

  
  The Chase, mixed media collage on paper, 28″ x 28″

  Currently on view in galleryONE: The Moment (When the World Stopped Turning) by KLONE (Tel Aviv, Israel)

  MUSIC: tba

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

  
  

  Modern Mata Ortiz

  Jerardo Tena was awarded the annual Concurso de Ceramica de Mata Ortiz in the Most Innovative category. Selected works by Tena and other Mata Ortiz potters are on display this March. Tena will also be teaching a hands-on workshop later this month hosted by Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild at Higher Fire, stop by for more information.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  Join us for two new feature exhibitions at KALEID Gallery:

  
  

  Crime Seen by Julie Bilyeu

  A true killer doesn’t just want to kill you, he wants to see you die.

  Most of us would be horrified to come upon a crime scene. Yet there are many shows on t.v./internet, including our beloved news, that show us close-up after close-up, telling us detail after detail of brutal crimes committed every day. I am exploring the idea of when a scene becomes a crime scene, the emotions we may hold towards that image are instantly changed. Is it the blood? I don t think so. It’s more than that. It’s the blanks our minds fill in. The emotions we instantly attach to the scene make it ugly. This series proposes to give a unique perspective on criminally deviant behavior. A killer’s eye view. Enjoy.

  

  Left Frontal Lobe Slowing by René Lorraine

  Rene Lorraine’s work strongly focuses on the human figure, however the theme of each series varies. She is currently embarking on a new body of work that focuses entirely on vision loss associated with migraines and abnormal brain functions.

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

  
  left: Samuel Rodriguez, Fractions, mixed media, 2012.
  right: Tessie Barrera-Scharaga, Coffee: The Malady of Third World Dreaming, (detail), installation, 2011.

  Join us at MACLA for exhibiting artist talk and interactive performances!

  In MACLA’s Gallery: Assembling the Pieces: Reconstructing Memory & Hybrid Identity. Recent work by Tessie Barrera-Scharaga and Samuel Rodriguez. Artists talk at 7pm and special guest performances at 8pm in MACLA’s Castellano Playhouse.

• Phantom Galleries – art exhibits in vacant storefronts and alternative spaces

  376 So. First Street
  In Memory of My Father, Evolving “journals” on canvas by Gianfranco Paolozzi
  
  

  Camera 12 Cinemas 201 So. Second Street
  Cinequest Live Art Contest “UNLEASH”

  

  Phantom Galleries is proud to be partnering with Cinequest again this year for their Cinequest 23 Film Festival! This is the 4th year that PG & CQ has worked together to bring this live painting event to the amazing audiences of this maverick film festival.

  Stop by during the South FIRST FRIDAYS’ art walk and meet this year’s artists: André Hart, Melanie Sharr and Jeff Hemming and see their in progress interpretations of the festival’s theme “UNLEASH.”

• San Jose Jazz at Pagoda Restaurant & Bamboo Lounge – 170 S Market St. map

  Fairmont Hotel, S 1st Street side, at the Hotel’s back entrance
  8:30pm Free Admission

  
  

  John Worley Tribute to Miles Davis

  If you ask any San Jose musician to name an accomplished, world-traveled music educator and performer, John Worley would be it. This versatile trumpet, flugelhorn, and post horn player has played with the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, and toured internationally with Pete Escovedo, Quincy Jones, Louie Bellson and countless other legends.

  For this performance, Worley will recreate the Miles Davis studio album Kind of Blue. Jean Bartlett of Mercury News says of the performance, “Released on Columbia Records in 1959, Kind of Blue is not only considered the legendary jazz musician’s greatest record, but the ‘triple platinum’ is also considered by many critics to be the greatest jazz record of all time.” Worley will be joined by saxophonist Kristen Strom (tributing Cannonball Adderley), saxophonist Tod Dickow (tributing John Coltrane), Murray Low on piano, Ken Okada on bass and Wally Schnalle on drums.

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

  
  Chamba Rumal, showing the Raas Lila – the dance of the cowherd Lord Krishna with the gopis or cow girl herders 20th Century Chamba. Cotton, silk embroidery, 21.5″ x 21.5″

  
  Junco Sato Pollack, Kesa Study Series -Kinhin # 5, metallic threads on pieced, layered polyester fabric, 2012

  Folk Indian Textiles from the Collection of Carol Summers and Meditation in Space and Time: Junco Sato Pollack Sutra Chant Hangings and Stitched Mandalas

  Fiber Salon activity: Indian Shadow Puppets

• San Jose Stage Company Courtyard – 490 South First St. map

  
  

  Containher and the Star People pairs together the beat driven dynamism of David West and the melodic core of Containher (April G) in crystalline synth web of utopian vision. Containher’s unique vocals shimmer and glide, from airy dream to folksy salt. Writing tunes with a haunting, dreamy, and yet danceable quality, comparisons stretch from Blondie to The Knife, Bjork, Depeche Mode, Portishead and New Order. The duo created an album featured on iTunes called “The Starchitects” and will perform a long set comprised of old tunes, new tunes, and spontaneous eruptions of music created on the spot.

• Seeing Things Gallery – 30 North Third St. map

  
  

  Seeing Things Gallery is proud to present:

  Possessed
  photography by: Bryce Kanights, Joe Brook, Dave Chami, Rhino, Jon Humphries, Kyle Camarillo, Wes Tonascia, Chris Patton, Jai Tanju & Brendan Klein

  Possessed is a skateboard photography show by both local and internationally know photographers who have traveled the globe with some of the best skateboarder in the world documenting their every move for magazines such as magazines such as Thrasher, Transworld Skateboarding, Color, Slap, Uno, SB Journal and Skateboarder magazine. These well respected lensmen captured in a 1/250th of a second moments in skateboard history that are then seen by millions of people and inspire them to ride there skateboards or even shoot photographs! There will also be a short Video presentation by Justin Albert.

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

  
  

  Stay Classy South First Fridays

  The Art Boutiki participates in our last SoFF with the return of the ever-popular Do It Yourself Art Show. We will be lining the wall with paper and littering the gallery with art supplies and letting people create their own special something for the world (or at least the world that comes to the Art Boutiki) to see.

  Music provided by a virtual all-star group of people from almost every First Friday performance, including Grooveyard Shift and Scribe Sayer.

  So, stay classy SFF people, come wish us well.

• Works San Jose – 365 South Market St. map

  
  Image credit: Man and His Toolbox by Eileen Fitz-Faulkner

  Beyond GagaA juried exhibition of fun, sexy, provocative, and deliberately unsettling sculpture and installation art. The call to artists from curator Lynne Todaro was to be shocking, awesome, sublime, and outrageous. The results include bronze bacon, cloth crab claws, and interactive masculine fantasies.

  First Friday performance at 8pm. Presented by Works in collaboration with The Pacific Rim Sculptors Group.
  Juried by Lauren Baines and DeWitt Cheng.

• ZERO1 Garage – 439 South First St. map

  
  

  ZERO1 will be open late hosting a special event in iLOUNGE, QRspace+DJspace, showcasing Michael Joaquin Grey’s Umwelt Belt and the ZOOB Zone. Come and interact, build and explore.

  QRspace+DJspace QRspace is a responsive virtual environment that allows visitors from the iLOUNGE to apply material surfaces to the topography of the public space via QR code applications and activations. Visitors are able to manipulate the public space through digital projections and audio components.

  Umwelt Belt by Michael Joaquin Grey, a large-scale computational cinema installation featuring a collection of monotone objects that flow in space to create a stream of history from our cultural fossil record. ZOOB Zone: Grey’s artistic exploration also led to the invention of ZOOB, an award-winning building and creativity tool that is part of the permanent design collection at MoMA New York. The “ZOOB Zone” is an interactive ZOOB workshop area featuring over 10,000 ZOOB units where visitors can participate in a series of playful prototyping events, and contribute to a growing archive of creations.

• Caffé Frascati – 315 South First St. map

  First Fridays is Caffe Frascati Opera Night presented by First Street Singers, with the Bay Area’s finest opera singers performing your very favorite classical arias and duets live in the cafe!

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  
  

  Always have your iPhone with you, by Nadia Matta-Toledo

  This exhibit captures the precision of the iPhone 4S camera and our two beautiful girls, Chelsea and Penelope. These images were captured with my phone and modified using free apps and paid apps like CameraBag, Hipstamatic, Aviary and Pic Stitch. Most photographers will explain that good photography involves composition, light and form. The iPhone enables one to free up our minds without having to mess with any camera settings or gear. Instead it becomes about the basics, capturing life’s precious and timeless moments, rather than creating pictures. My photographs capture and document our girl’s lives. From the day we picked them up from the airport to the moments when they are being their silly selves. They are snapshots that capture a glimpse into their personalities.

  “Dogs are the most amazing creatures. They give unconditional love and they listen to you when you talk about yourself and keep an appearance of being interested in the conversation.”

• Eco Monster – 30 North Third St. map

  
  

  Animal Catalogue by Jordan Maliksi

  A collection of paintings depicting animal imagery with a naturalist’s eye fused with a modern urban aesthetic. In this exhibit an animal’s innocence and fragile nature is rendered in charcoal and paint to reflect one’s own fragility. Blending and splashing painting and drawing to create a catalogue of animals.

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

  

  Phantom Galleries presents new works by Joe Perea at Good Karma Vegan Cafe.

  ENANTIODROMIA is the process by which something is transformed into or revealed as being the same as its opposite. Perea’s hyper detailed monochromatic drawings reveal the chaos and order that can be found in all things in the above and the below. The future of quantum healing is here.

• LGBTQ Youth Space – 452 South First St. map

  tba

• The Metro Gallery – 550 South First St. map

  Closed this month.

• Pho69 – 321 South First St. map

  
  

  Phantom Galleries presents Color by Ken Brenner at Pho69.

  Ken started painting in his early 20’s experimenting with acrylics and watercolors. At that time, he was teaching young children in Berkeley. With marriage and a growing family, his occupation changed directions. He entered the banking industry and has successfully developed his career over the past 35 years. He is currently President of Avidbank in Palo Alto. Only recently was he encouraged to take up art again. Ken has found the medium of oil painting an inspiring way to stimulate the mind and bring the beauty of the world around us to life. Painting has allowed him to develop a passion for creative expression.

  In our world, color embodies a wide spectrum of feelings and emotions. It is used to convey power, joy, intellect, royalty, and purity among others. Each color represents its own purpose and meaning. In nature, color has evolved to communicate different messages. Poison-arrow frogs have bright, flamboyant colors to stand out as a warning signal to predators. The male peacock has extravagant colors in its eye-spotted tail, which are used for courtship. Other animals like the chameleon use color for camouflage, which enables them to remain hidden from potential threats. For Ken, color is an intense underlying theme throughout his work that allows him to truly express himself. The colors in his work give dimension, depth, and most importantly life to the canvas. It is Ken’s unparalleled eye for color that brings a unique quality and distinctive feel to each piece.

• Psycho Donuts – 288 South Second St. map

  
  art by Kori Thompson

  Psycho Donuts in downtown San Jose is a quirky donut shop and art gallery. The gallery displays top local artists and has an ongoing exhibit featuring the work of John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, Michelle Waters, John Hageman and Robert McColley!

• Studio Climbing Gym – 396 South First St. map

  
  

  Japaints on Studio Parade by Jason Bove

  Building from ones own factory of the mind, Japaints provides you with the visual conceptions & commission artwork of Doctor Bove. These one-of-a-kind original paintings are made to compliment your decor and enhance your personal environment.

  Doctor Bove was born Jason Bove, in the gorgeous midwest sector of the United States. He has presently found an even more pristine setting on the West side to reside. Moving to California in 1998, Doctor Bove may now be your neighbor and friend.

• TechShop San Jose – 300 South Second St. map

  

  Check out the TechShop San Jose lobby where we will be hosting the gallery opening of Darius B’Alexander, our first Resident Artist! TechShop members will also be setting up their tables in the conference room to sell their DIY work!

• Art Ark Gallery – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  
  Image courtesy of the artist, Rachel Lazo

  Cross Pollination

  An Art Exhibition featuring the work of Art Faculty & Staff from Silicon Valley’s Six Community Colleges: Evergreen Valley College, San Jose City College, Mission College, West Valley College, De Anza College & Foothill College

  Participating Artists: Jason Adkins, Kathy Arnold, Gary Barten, Judith Bell, Virginia Bowen, Ingrid Brook-Kothlow, Heidi Brueckner, Jason Challas, Lei Chi, Kimberly Cook, Mark Engel, Amir Esfahani, Vera Fainshtein, Ema Harris-Sintamarian, Andrew Hedges, Bill Heiderich, Dave Kempken, Rachel Lazo , Kristin Lindseth, Kent Manske, Masako Miki, G Dan Mitchell, Patricia Moran, Michael Pauker, Diane Pierce, Andy Ruble, Yori Seeger, Cynthia Siegel, Lynne Todaro, Gary Tolomei

  Live music by: Andy Dela Cruz

The South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk is a self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses featuring exhibitions and special performances.

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

  
  

  The Moment (When the World Stopped Turning) by KLONE (Tel Aviv, Israel)

  A visual documentation of life. The dreams we have, the days we live, the politics, the unnecessary battles, the necessary struggles, the poor and the rich, the tired and the restless. There’s place for everybody and place for no one. This is daydreaming of what could be and what won’t ever return.

  

  MUSIC: Special performances by HALO BETWEEN music from guts of toys.

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

  
  

  Loving Cups

  This February, we celebrate Valentine’s Day with an exhibit of cups — the most intimate objects that potters make! Loving Cups will feature mugs, teabowls, tumblers and other vessels made for drinking in the love…or beverage of your choice! Drop by for a look at lips, rims, feet, and lovely handles — perhaps you will fall in love with a new favorite cup!

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  Join us for two new feature exhibitions at KALEID Gallery:

  
  

  Location Location Location by Jeff Hemming

  Recently completed works examining environments, landscapes, and the flux of chaos, harmony and change ever present in our surroundings. I draw upon several sources of influence from abstract expressionism to post pop surrealism, figurative art and traditional landscape painters like Cole and Church. My work has a maximal approach through out the painting process. The finished work becomes a source of stimulation, an explosion for the senses. Instead of reducing the elements in a painting, I am always intrigued and challenged by including more into a work. The concepts behind the painting come from our associations with things being constructed or neglected including physical elements such like buildings, strip malls, and freeways, to the more enigmatic such as cultural traditions, memory, social structure, and environmental issues. Our environment today is a swirl of technology, abundance, and waste all at once. These paintings take an expressive look at where we are and the current state of location.

  

  Houses in My Dreams by Melanie Sharr

  Common yet unique, the house is constructed to contain our lives. For some a sordid monument and for others an endearing symbol of comfort. The flawed house is a testament to use with its chipping paint and creaking floorboards. The house that stands vacant alludes to impermanence and the darkness of loss. This new series by Sharr brings about the union of our memory to the hallucinatory with her dreamlike residential imagery.

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

  
  artwork by: Samuel Rodriguez, Tessie Barrera-Scharaga

  South FIRST FRIDAYS at MACLA!

  In MACLA’s Gallery: Assembling the Pieces: Reconstructing Memory & Hybrid Identity. Recent work by Tessie Barrera-Scharaga and Samuel Rodriguez. In the Castellano Playhouse: MACLA presents interactive performances by instructors for our upcoming adult classes.

• Phantom Galleries – art exhibits in vacant storefronts and alternative spaces

  
  

  95 South Market St: Ballerinas new series of paintings by Al Preciado

• San Jose Jazz at Pagoda Restaurant & Bamboo Lounge – 170 S Market St. map

  Fairmont Hotel, S 1st Street side, at the Hotel’s back entrance
  8:30pm Free Admission

  
  

  San Jose Jazz presents: The Vandivier Trio featuring the music of Wayne Shorter

  
Rick Vandivier is a guitarist who has found inspiration in influences that stretch from Andres Segovia and Pat Metheny to Jimi Hendrix. His enthusiastic performances are daring, soulful, evocative and contagious.

For this special Friday performance, the trio Vandivier will feature the music of jazz luminary, saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Selections will be chosen from Mr. Shorter’s five decades of prolific writing and innovative performance including his stints with Miles Davis and Weather Report. The trio looks forward to digging in to the many moods and grooves that this music presents. One of the few stones that Shorter has left unturned is the use of guitar in small groups, giving Vandivier the opportunity to bring a different perspective to the compositions.

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

  
  

  Collecting Treasures: Celebrating 35 Years

  Celebrating our 35-year history, Collecting Treasures: Celebrating 35 Years showcases our collection of important early and historic quilts, plus contemporary fiber art, costume, and ethnic textiles.

  

  Salon Activity: Make your own Felt Mola!

  Molas are brightly colored applique panels made by the Kuna Indians of Panama. The term Mola can mean “cloth,” “clothing,” or “blouse.” They are the Kuna Indian’s traditional costume and are a proud, colorful expression of their Kuna identity. Come join us Feb 1st and make your own felt Mola! Fun for all ages!

• San Jose Stage Company Courtyard – 490 South First St. map

  
  
  Rebelskamp is a San Jose native band that plays a wide range of sounds from psychedelic avante garde to down-tempo funk to gritty street blues to electronic experimental ambiance to indie-alternative krautrock. They explore all boundaries by breaking the genre barriers, and bending the rules of standard song writing….Thus being and living up to the name rebels… Kamping out @ The San Jose Stage on Feb 1 for the South FIRST FRIDAY Art Walk.

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

  
  

  The Art Boutiki welcomes all young lovers with a Valentines Day themed show. Art from a number of artists including Des Taylor and Jef Bambas. Live music supplied by the Art Boutiki Jazz Quartet and an opening featuring a Reader’s Theater reading celebrating Black History month. Plus LOTS of free comics.

• Works San Jose – 365 South Market St. map

  
  Image credit: Six Visions by Pamela Blotner

  Beyond Gaga

  Named for the spectacularly outrageous performer, Beyond Gaga is a juried exhibition of fun, sexy, provocative, and deliberately unsettling sculpture and installation art. The call to artists, from curator Lynne Todaro, was to be shocking, awesome, sublime, and outrageous—to push their imaginations to the edge and beyond. Presented in collaboration with The Pacific Rim Sculptors Group. Juried by DeWitt Cheng and Lauren Baines.

• Caffé Frascati – 315 South First St. map

  

  Special First Friday performance: The sexy samba and bossa nova of Brazilian superstar Cado, with special guests

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  
  

  Yoga Inspired Art Series III: Yoga Philosophy, Universal Concepts, & Inspirational Quotes by Angeles Moreno

  Simplicity, vivid colors, and geometric compositions define Angeles’ art along with influences from her graphic design work. Yoga came to her in its own time. Consistent yoga practice gave a more profound significance and a fresh inspiration to her artwork. Seeking a deeper understanding the core yogic principles, Angeles completed the Ashtanga Yoga Teachers’ Training Program at Mount Madonna in 2008. The center was founded 35 years ago by the silent Guru, Baba Hari Dass.

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

  

  Phantom Galleries presents new works by Joe Perea at Good Karma Vegan Cafe.

  ENANTIODROMIA is the process by which something is transformed into or revealed as being the same as its opposite. Perea’s hyper detailed monochromatic drawings reveal the chaos and order that can be found in all things in the above and the below. The future of quantum healing is here.

• LGBTQ Youth Space – 452 South First St. map

  

  The Theme is Trees a group exhibit of many artists skilled in all talents.

  “I love twisted tree trunks and branches; they make me feel like I can hide away from everything underneath the overlapping embraces of growing roots.” – Jester, participating artist. Trees are apart of our everyday lives, they help us breathe in times of need. Our community has decided to show our appreciation for the love of trees.

• The Metro Gallery – 550 South First St. map

  

  Dynamics in Color by Robert Zuchowski

  Artist Robert Zuchowski. Created a series of Dynamics in Color Abstract Art, through spontaneous personal expression, with freedom from traditional artistic standards, different surface qualities of paint, and the act of painting itself. With its importance on spontaneous, subconscious creation, in the emotional dynamics of color. You are first drawn to his art almost purely by the predominate colors. Then you start the process of immersion. Your mind may embrace or reject the various elements but at some point your emotions take over and the art starts a dialogue with the viewer, through visual energy of the senses, promoting the feeling and essence of engagement.

  The majority of his work revolves around the emotions of the senses; with large amounts of glorious color – mixed together to form compelling works of emotionally charged art, through the psychological reflexes that bring personality to the surface. Thus only creating art that is absolutely non-representational, free of realistic imagery, or contain messages within them. This frees him to delve deeper into the psyche of the mind in order to create and explore the choices of color, and the different ways of expressing the abstract ideas of thought, emotion, and mood, realizing he is a piece of living, breathing, abstract artwork, within himself, for all abstract is a piece, with multiple facets of personalities, with layers of identity, to promoting the feeling of freedom, for the stereotypical sense of normality.

  “Without color…there is no life. It’s the ethereal element that creates pleasure to our most precious gift…vision”. The immeasurable intensity of color and its impact on our lives is most profoundly demonstrated in the natural world or the world of all art. That is why the colors touch and resonate through the emotional core within the viewer”

• Pho69 – 321 South First St. map

  
  

  Phantom Galleries presents Color by Ken Brenner at Pho69.

  Ken started painting in his early 20’s experimenting with acrylics and watercolors. At that time, he was teaching young children in Berkeley. With marriage and a growing family, his occupation changed directions. He entered the banking industry and has successfully developed his career over the past 35 years. He is currently President of Avidbank in Palo Alto. Only recently was he encouraged to take up art again. Ken has found the medium of oil painting an inspiring way to stimulate the mind and bring the beauty of the world around us to life. Painting has allowed him to develop a passion for creative expression.

  In our world, color embodies a wide spectrum of feelings and emotions. It is used to convey power, joy, intellect, royalty, and purity among others. Each color represents its own purpose and meaning. In nature, color has evolved to communicate different messages. Poison-arrow frogs have bright, flamboyant colors to stand out as a warning signal to predators. The male peacock has extravagant colors in its eye-spotted tail, which are used for courtship. Other animals like the chameleon use color for camouflage, which enables them to remain hidden from potential threats. For Ken, color is an intense underlying theme throughout his work that allows him to truly express himself. The colors in his work give dimension, depth, and most importantly life to the canvas. It is Ken’s unparalleled eye for color that brings a unique quality and distinctive feel to each piece.

• Psycho Donuts – 288 South Second St. map

  
  art by: Christine Benjamin

  Psycho Donuts in downtown San Jose is a quirky donut shop and art gallery. The gallery displays top local artists and has an ongoing exhibit featuring the work of John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, Michelle Waters, John Hageman and Robert McColley!

• Seeing Things Gallery – 30 North Third St. map

  
  

  Zine Buffet New zines by photographers and artists from San Jose and around the USA such as Sam Milianta, Shawn Whisenant, Jerry Hsu, Jai Tanju, VaGiant, Lost in San Jose, Bryan Lopez, Sid Enck, City One, & Uni

  Seeing Things has also invited Hamburger Eyes who is a bay Area photography group of loosely-knit photographers’ started by Ray Potes in 2001. Hamburger Eyes began as a small xeroxed zine, turned into a magazine, and has now evolved into a publisher. With a headquarters in San Francisco is fully equipped for producing zines, magazines, and books, they are able to produce seemingly hundreds of titles a year. Their facility also houses a professional darkroom for printing editions of silver gelatin black and white prints and full color chromegenic prints. Hamburger Eyes will have a full spread of zines along with their EYELAND EDITIONS prints available and a wall of hand printed silver granulated photographic prints for sale.

  Well if that isn’t enough for you Seeing Things Gallery is also setting up a zine library with its own personal stash of zine’s from the last 10 years of collecting them.

• Studio Climbing Gym – 396 South First St. map

  
  

  Japaints on Studio Parade by Jason Bove

  Building from ones own factory of the mind, Japaints provides you with the visual conceptions & commission artwork of Doctor Bove. These one-of-a-kind original paintings are made to compliment your decor and enhance your personal environment.

  Doctor Bove was born Jason Bove, in the gorgeous midwest sector of the United States. He has presently found an even more pristine setting on the West side to reside. Moving to California in 1998, Doctor Bove may now be your neighbor and friend.

• TechShop San Jose – 300 South Second St. map

  

  Check out the TechShop San Jose lobby & gallery area, where we’ll be showing off what members have made. TechShop members will also be setting up their tables in the conference room to sell their DIY work!

• Art Ark Gallery – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  
  Image credit: Trina Merry, Metamorphosis, limited edition print

  Art Ark Gallery is pleased to present Tango and the Modern Nude

  A visual & performing arts exhibition celebrating the human form as both a reclining nude and a body in motion.

  Opening Art Reception: Friday, February 1st from 6-9pm Live music by Tango Trio (Gianfranco Paolozzi, Nancy Lane & Griff Derryberry)

SAVE THE DATE: February 1, 2013
It all kicks off at 7pm! — ART WALK venues are free and open to the public

The South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk is a self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses featuring exhibitions and special performances.

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

  
  Joseph Loughborough (UK)

  FRESH PRODUCE 12th Annual Invitational Group Exhibition & Affordable Art Sale

  30+ Artists from 14 countries have created hundreds of original works of art for this highly anticipated annual exhibition and affordable art sale. The artists were invited based on their unique artistic vision and contribution to urban contemporary arts and culture. Holiday cheer provided by DJ Boboso.

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

  
  

  Vintage Liz Crain

  Santa Cruz artist Liz Crain unleashes a tsunami of new ceramic artwork inspired by marvelous forms and surfaces of vintage metal containers whose banged-up appearance evokes imagined narratives from their working and playing lives. Crain’s goal is to artfully express the aspects of metal construction and finishing that are inherently different from pottery, in clay. Works by Crain are featured in a broader holiday show of numerous Silicon Valley clay artists and members at Higher Fire this December: Hsin-Chuen Lin, Bob & Sandy Kinzie, Christina Martin, Jo Killen, George Dymesich, Jonathan Huang, Dan Dermer, Jon Dunlavy, Doris Fischer-Colbrie, Jill Getzan, Phyllis Lee, Lee Middleman, Joy Munshower, Misako Kambe, Erik Nass, Corinna Mori, Hunter Westra, Shawn Felts, and many more!

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  
  

  HARK!

  Over 50 artists from KALEID Gallery plus additional artists from the greater South Bay area will be offering original works of art and creative gifts affordably priced for the holidays! Excellent time to purchase unique, locally created works by talented artists for holiday gifts or to add to your own collection!

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

  
  artwork by: Julio Cesar Morales

  Come join us at MACLA for an inspiring evening of art and special performances! In MACLA’s Gallery Power in Numbers an exhibition that explores immigrant routes and political movements that are currently building a new America. Recent work by Betty A. Davis, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Julio Cesar Morales and Julio Salgado. Artists talk @ 7pm and special guest performances @ 8pm in MACLA’s Castellano Playhouse.

  Video Installation on MACLA’s Facade on view from dusk till dawn. MOJADA is a performance based film series about borders, bodies and buoyancy. MOJADA includes five videos back to back, all in or based around water, and through different states of water. The site specific performances address issues of immigration, feminism and class difference

• Phantom Galleries – art exhibits in vacant storefronts and alternative spaces

  
  

  95 South Market St: Ballerinas new series of paintings by Al Preciado

• San Jose Jazz at Pagoda Restaurant & Bamboo Lounge – 170 S Market St. map

  Fairmont Hotel, S 1st Street side, at the Hotel’s back entrance
  8:30pm Free Admission

  
  

  Wally Schnalle’s latest project Idiot Fish combines a myriad of influences from his love of jazz and fusion to trends and sounds that emanate from the electronic dance music world. Genres like jungle, glitch, dub-step and IDM all have a hand in influencing the new compositions that fuel this new ensemble. His usual acoustic drum set is augmented by a host of electronic devices that allow him to embellish his usual percussive voice with electronic elements. Even more ground breaking is the fact that he plays much of the harmonic content of these compositions from the drum set as well.

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

  
  

  Collecting Treasures: Celebrating 35 Years

  Celebrating our 35-year history, Collecting Treasures: Celebrating 35 Years showcases our collection of important early and historic quilts, plus contemporary fiber art, costume, and ethnic textiles. FabMo Creative Activity: Quilted Photo Frames.

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

  
  Cathedral by James Turner

  Art Boutiki Third Anniversary Group Show.

  Celebrating three years of what-have-yous, the Art Boutiki showcases the work of some of the many comic book artists who have called SLG home including Jef Bambas, Stephen Coughlin, Crab Scrambly and many more. Plus live music and much fun in the grand Art Boutiki tradition.

• Works San Jose – 365 South Market St. map

  
  poster by Janelle Flores

  MAKE SHIFT is about discovery through process, and growth through change. After searching for innovative ways to tackle challenges, and striving to create something more relevant than the existing, 22 graduating BFA students turn Works into a space that challenges preconceptions of graphic design.

• Caffé Frascati – 315 South First St. map

  Caffe Frascati Opera Night! Your favorite arias and duets performed live by some of the Bay Area’s finest young opera singers!

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  
  

  Yoga Inspired Art Series III: Yoga Philosophy, Universal Concepts, & Inspirational Quotes
  by Angeles Moreno

  Simplicity, vivid colors, and geometric compositions define Angeles’ art along with influences from her graphic design work. Yoga came to her in its own time. Consistent yoga practice gave a more profound significance and a fresh inspiration to her artwork. Seeking a deeper understanding the core yogic principles, Angeles completed the Ashtanga Yoga Teachers’ Training Program at Mount Madonna in 2008. The center was founded 35 years ago by the silent Guru, Baba Hari Dass.

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

  

  Phantom Galleries presents new works by Sandra Caravalho at Good Karma Vegan Cafe.

  As a Californian, art lover and a believer in all that empowers women and the human race to a greater view of themselves through color, sensuality and acceptance of our final destination, I dedicate myself to making art that is both simple and yet complex in it’s message. The west coast is rich in Latin culture and possesses a promise of social acceptance and progress. I speak to the heart through my images. All of my art has been created using my gaming computer, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop with a pen tablet.

• LGBTQ Youth Space – 452 South First St. map

  

  On view: Moodhism by Muckers G. Mooderf

  Recycled materials ranging from cardboard pieces, to a reused guitar, to recycled canvases this series represents life and how we should recycle and reuse material once known as trash into pure mind stimulating treasures. Vibrant with lots of colors these pieces can be extremely appealing to the human eye. Positive vibes engulf this series and if colorful expressional art is your cup of tea then come on down to the LGBTQ Youth Space. Special performance from DJ Russel Slim performing ambient, funk and electronic music mixes.

• The Metro Gallery – 550 South First St. map

  

  Take Back the Land by Sid Enck Jr. little lost indian

  Born in San Jose, where he currently lives and works, Sid Enck Jr is a skateboader who currently runs his own screen printing and art collective called Tea Shack Project. Using various mediums such as wood, paper, found objects and sewing techniques, Sid expresses his passion for all things recycled and reusable. His work takes common objects and reclaims them into detailed observations of his Native American heritage, mixed with hints of his printmaking background. Composed entirely in his garage studio space, the meticulously put together mosaic of squares that comprise each piece tell a story of places lost and a land forgotten. Special performance by Liam Mountain and Friends.

• Pho69 – 321 South First St. map

  
  

  Phantom Galleries presents Writhing Against Environment new works by Andrew Wallace at Pho69.

  Andrew uses common materials such as ballpoint pen, marker, spray paint, oil paint, polyurethane and plywood medium . Inspired form early 19th century prints and photographs, Wallace, seeks a period free from the current or mainstream. Figures writhing against their environment, growing and expanding beyond themselves, or breaking down and dissolving into the surrounding space. Portrayed figures are in perpetual jeopardy yet capable of withstanding constant dismemberment, reorganization and reconstitution of their parts. His work strives to uncover the hidden human instinct and the wilder side of human behavior which dwells just below the surface of our everyday façade. His work is in the act of reclaiming images, transferring them transparently as to see the underlying natural wood grain.

• Psycho Donuts – 288 South Second St. map

  
  Image by: Christine Benjamin

  Psycho Donuts in downtown San Jose is a quirky donut shop and art gallery. The gallery displays top local artists and has an ongoing exhibit featuring the work of John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, Michelle Waters, John Hageman and Robert McColley!

• Seeing Things Gallery – 30 North Third St. map

  
  

  Home is where you park it! Photographs by Foster Huntington

  Oh to be young and carefree again? How about you leave your design job in New York and buy a VW van, then put 50000 miles driving around the west, surfing and camping. What kind of stories do you think you would tell, and how great would the photographs be? Well, for Foster Huntington this is the reality. He did quit his job and has been on the road ever since! His blog, A Restless Transplant, is updated weekly with epic images and exciting stories of his adventures.

• Studio Climbing Gym – 396 South First St. map

  
  

  Ancestor Art Stone Paintings by C. Buck Reynolds

  Before the written word, there was art. We can find meaning in some of the images in paleolithic cave art today—lions stalking prey, galloping horses, sparring bucks—but many other symbols have wide open meaning. Without a Rosetta stone of the ice age we’ll never know what stories the artists were telling. I try to commune with our pre-literate ancestors and assemble the animals and symbology that were so important to them in fresh ways. Some of my paintings are new compositions based on cave art, others attempt to make deteriorating images from actual caves in France and Spain look as they might freshly painted. All of the stones are carefully selected, shaped and weathered, and the art is made with the same techniques and pigments that paleolithic artists used. I have been creating and showing art throughout the bay area for over 30 years, and have been researching, and experimenting with cave art for the last 15 years.

• TechShop San Jose – 300 South Second St. map

  

  Members will be bringing in projects that they have made at TechShop. Come check out what projects you can make at TechShop!

• Art Ark Gallery – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  
  Image courtesy of the artist, Jenna Barjam

  The More the Merrier III Art Exhibition & Sale – Closing Reception

  This Salon-Style exhibition showcases the work of 48 bay area artists. This is a great place to start your holiday shopping. Most art is priced under $100! Live music by the Clifford Lamb Duo

The South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk is a self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses featuring exhibitions and special performances.

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

  
  Eyes Without a Face, Judith Supine
  Acrylic and ink on Archival Paper, Ltd Ed /20, 20 x 26.5, 2010

  RE:COLLECTION

  Selections from Anno Domini’s private collection of art that started with a rumor and a cross country trip to Pennville, Georgia to meet the legendary Reverend Howard Finster. Twenty-one years later the passion to collect art by some of the most important voices of our time continues and here we exhibit some of the highlights of that collection.

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

  
  

  Collaborative Clay

  Join us for an evening of clay plus a reception for the artists from 7-11pm. New works by Bob and Sandy Kinzie, the dynamic clay duo from Santa Cruz, resonate in our gallery this November. Bob Kinzie has been a professional potter since the 60’s. Over a decade ago, Sandy became interested in clay and now works alongside Bob in their studio.

  Their work is often a collaboration of Bob’s wheel generated textured slabs and Sandy’s hand-built teapots, vases, and drinking vessels. The Kinzies teach workshops and have been published in books and international magazines. Their work is in museums and private collections worldwide.

  The Kinzie’s will be on hand to demonstrate and discuss their current work beginning at 7:30pm, Friday, Nov 2nd! Don’t miss exciting new work in our Holiday Gift Shop made by members, faculty, staff, and local ceramic superstars!”.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  Opening Reception for two new feature exhibitions by KALEID Gallery artists Michele Guieu, and Karen Carlo Salinger

  
  

  Let’s Fight Till Six And Then Have Dinner new drawings and video by Michele Guieu

  This installation of drawings and videos is about childhood and its fleeting moments. Everything passes, hence the title, which also refers to the fact that the show opens just a few days before presidential election day. It puts the urge to argue and the hunger for peace in (a childish) perspective.

  The drawings hung on the backdrop of the giant leaf are made from pages of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. I see the world Alice visits – and creates at the same time – as a response to the complicated world we live in. In the series of short videos, I watch my two boys as they grow: the way they see the world, the creatures and the monsters they imagine.

  
  

  Creature Comforts drawings and sculpture by Karen Carlo Salinger

  Suspended animation, medical curiosities, scientific illustrations and biological specimens. Improbable creatures in impossible situations. These are some of the ideas that I incorporate into my drawings, sculpture, and other artwork. I call them my creatures, because that is what they are – unknown organisms that take shape in my mind, the roots of which come from a lifelong interest in strange biology, microscopic life, the human body, and basically anything else ooey, gooey, creepy, strange or unusual.

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

  
  artwork by: Julio Cesar Morales

  Join MACLA for an evening of art and community! In MACLA’s Gallery: Power in Numbers an exhibition that explores immigration routes and political movements that are currently building a new America. Recent work by Betty A. Davis, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Julio Cesar Morales, Dulce Pizon and Julio Salgado.

• Phantom Galleries – art exhibits in vacant storefronts and alternative spaces

  
  Human Motorcycle—Sport Bike

  95 South Market St:ART ALIVE GALLERY
  Bodypainted human canvas installation and live bodypainting.

• San Jose Jazz at Pagoda Restaurant & Bamboo Lounge – 170 South Market St. map

  Fairmont Hotel, S 1st Street side, at the Hotel’s back entrance
  8:30pm Free Admission

  
  

  Mads Tolling — A Tribute to Jean-Luc Ponty

  France’s own Jean-Luc Ponty has been at the forefront of jazz violin for decades. He has singlehandedly brought the electric violin and the European tradition of great jazz-violin playing to the U.S. Ponty met Danish violinist Mads Tolling at Berklee College of Music and recommended Mads to Stanley Clarke, where Mads has been a five-year member in the Stanley Clarke Band. Tolling and Ponty remain in contact with a mutual goal: The Evolution Of The Violin In Modern Music. The Mads Tolling Quartet will present a musical journey in jazz, jazz fusion and progressive rock. This tribute to Jean-Luc Ponty will include fresh takes on Ponty’s recordings from Enigmatic Ocean to Imaginary Voyage.

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

  
  Square #53, Erin Wilson
  Hand-dyed cotton fabric, batting, thread, plywood, wool felt, 5 x 5

  Last days of the High Fiber Benefit Art Exhibition & Sale

  See the 5th Annual High Fiber Benefit Art Exhibition and Sale (ends 11/4)! Purchase fiber art under $500 to support both textile artists and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Creative activity: “From the Heart: Fun Fabric Ornaments”

• South Bay Circus Arts Collective at San Jose Stage Company Courtyard – 490 South First St. map

  
  

  South Bay Circus Arts Collective is dedicated to spreading the love of circus arts throughout the South Bay. We host outdoor circus jams and skill shares where people can come play, learn, and exchange circus skills. We include people of all skill levels from the newest beginners to seasoned performers, and they will perform fire dancing, eating and other circus acts in the courtyard of San Jose Stage company, starting at 7 pm!

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

  
  

  Art Boutiki Presents The World of Genevieve Santos

  Cute is the new cute, or at least we say it is (and we mean cute with a Capital “C”). Nothing cuter than the a world occupied by artist Genevieve Santos. Showing a ixture of originals and prints, Santo’s has a way of touching the inner warm-and-fuzzy in all of us. Live music courtesy of Grooveyard Shift and plenty of free comic books for all.

• Works San Jose – 365 South Market St. map

  
  Maite (from club Lido Series), Angelica Muro
  gold leaf, acrylic & pencil on archival pigment print, 2012

  Works, the South Bay area’s most inclusive and eclectic visual arts organization, celebrates 35 years of surviving and thriving in San José with the non-juried member exhibition “Optimism, Pessimism, Nihilism, Works!” Ranging from the most established area artists to the newest of newcomers, this exhibition will display the intense range of our art community.

• Caffé Frascati – 315 South First St. map

  

  Caffé Frascati presents an evening with San Jose’s very finest singer/songwriters, including Adira Shark, Chris Landon and Cado, with special guest Ben Henderson in his final Bay Area performance before his East Coast tour!

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  
  

  The Ghosts of Storytellers by Megan Eckman

  Megan Eckman, a quirky illustrator, shows off a new collection of pen and ink portraits that depicts some of the most famous storytellers. From Scheherazade to Sarah Bernhardt, these illustrations combine ink, acrylic paint, and found book pages. These portraits celebrate the power of stories and the human imagination.

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

  

  Phantom Galleries presents Lonesome Town new works by Kori Thompson at Good Karma Vegan Cafe.

  Everyone has a story. A story of why they are the way are. Every story leads up to when you cross paths or interact with that person. Whether its a person you talk to for a few minutes or a life long friend you see everyday. Our biggest contribution to one another is inspiration. It’s something that is not fake or phony, it can not be bought or sold. It’s a real feeling. These paintings represent the impression people I’ve met have left on me. ~Kori Thompson

• LGBTQ Youth Space – 452 South First St. map

  

  New to the SoFA District and the South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk, the LGBTQ Youth Space is a Non-Profit Drop-in center and mental health program for local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Ally-Youth ages 13-25 living in Santa Clara County.

  Our gallery displays works of local creative enthusiast Muckers G. Mooderf, a young aspiring artist who’s style reflects a sub-conscious dream state in which the mind is free to roam in every depth of reality. Acrylics with vibrant colors that stimulates the eyes to keep on looking. All the works of art are recycled on cardboard, reused canvases, particle board…and much more.

• The Metro Gallery – 550 South First St. map

  

  A Retrospective Of an Underground Artist
  Paintings by Joseph Demaree (1991-2012)

  Artist to perform acoustic set and project film for opening night.

• Pho69 – 321 South First St. map

  
  

  Phantom Galleries presents Writhing Against Environment new works by Andrew Wallace at Pho69.

  Andrew uses common materials such as ballpoint pen, marker, spray paint, oil paint, polyurethane and plywood medium . Inspired form early 19th century prints and photographs, Wallace, seeks a period free from the current or mainstream. Figures writhing against their environment, growing and expanding beyond themselves, or breaking down and dissolving into the surrounding space. Portrayed figures are in perpetual jeopardy yet capable of withstanding constant dismemberment, reorganization and reconstitution of their parts. His work strives to uncover the hidden human instinct and the wilder side of human behavior which dwells just below the surface of our everyday façade. His work is in the act of reclaiming images, transferring them transparently as to see the underlying natural wood grain.

• Psycho Donuts – 288 South Second St. map

  
  

  Psycho Donuts in downtown San Jose is a quirky donut shop and art gallery. The gallery displays top local artists and has an ongoing exhibit featuring the work of John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, Michelle Waters, John Hageman and Robert McColley!

• Studio Climbing Gym – 396 South First St. map

  
  

  Dimensions by award winning landscape and nature photographer Michael R. Reynolds

  What is it that makes a compelling landscape? Is it the sheer scale of the scene, or the grandeur of the colors of natural formations that attract the eye? Perhaps its in the little details we find in a close up of an unexpected natural scene. When I began assembling images for this show, I found myself drawn to scenes that varied from dramatic rock formations in Yosemite, to colorful sandstone textures in the slot canyons of Utah. Yet each image had a common inspiration: contrasting shapes and size that make up the elusive details of an intimate landscape.

• TechShop San Jose – 300 South Second St. map

  

  Members will be bringing in projects that they have made at TechShop. Come check out what projects you can make at TechShop!

• Art Ark Gallery – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  
  Image courtesy of the artist, Courtney Thiesen

  The More the Merrier III

  This Salon-Style Holiday Art Exhibition and Sale showcases the work of 48 bay area artists. The show is intended to dazzle the eyes and stimulate sales. All work priced under $200. Opening Art Reception Friday, Nov. 2 from 6-9pm with live music by David Lowe.

The South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk is a self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses featuring exhibitions and special performances.

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

  
  Artwork by Hera (circa 2008)

  RE:COLLECTION

  A private collection of art that started with a rumor and a cross country trip to Pennville, Georgia to meet the legendary Reverend Howard Finster. Twenty-one years later the passion to collect art by some of the most important voices of our time continues and here we exhibit some of the highlights of that collection.

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

  
  

  Tanzanian Ceramics: The Spirit of the Potters and their Pots

  Sixteen years ago, Dr. Barbara Thompson, art historian and curator at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, began researching the sacred art of healing in the northeast highland cultures of Tanzania. Her studies took her to pottery villages in the West Usambara Mountains, where she documented the production of earthenware vessels and other art forms used as symbolic containers for spirit beings in healing rites and medicine dances. After her initial introduction to Tanzanian coil-built and wood-fired ceramics, Thompson continued to study the relationship between African pottery forms and symbolic systems, which now inform her own work in wheel-thrown vessels.

  Join us for October South First Fridays, beginning at 7:30pm on October 5th, for a slideshow and discussion with Dr. Barbara Thompson on the process of making and firing Tanzanian folk pottery. Dr. Thompson will discuss her experiences as a potter visiting the region and getting immersed in local ways of clay-making; she will also share pieces from her own personal collection of African pottery and discuss their influences on her own work.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  Opening Reception for two new feature exhibitions with live music by J-Squared + Case in Theory

  
  

  Space to Grow new works by Michael Borja

  A visual connection into a colorful corner of space, growing with wild plants, curious tigers, floating fishes, and animal portals.

  
  

  Keeping Up With Appearances new works by Michael Foley

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

  
  Ana Teresa Fernandez, MOJADA

  The MACLA Gallery will be closed due to PLACAS: The Most Dangerous Tattoo, a play by Paul S. Flores , developed and directed by Michael John Garcés of Cornerstone Theatre and starring Ricardo Salinas of Culture Clash but, join us for the Ana Teresa Fernandez MOJADA video installation on the MACLA façade.

• Phantom Galleries – art exhibits in vacant storefronts and alternative spaces

  

  95 South Market St:ART ALIVE GALLERY
  Opening Reception & San Francisco Series Release Party
  Body-painted human canvas installation and live body-painting.

• San Jose Jazz at Pagoda Restaurant & Bamboo Lounge – 170 South Market St. map

  
  

  Mark VW — A Tribute to Jaco Pastorius

  A exceptional jazz bass player pays tribute to a true legend. Marc van Wageningen (pictured on the left) was born and raised in Amsterdam, Holland. He started playing bass guitar at the age of 16, and he moved to the Bay Area in 1980 and found himself playing with jazz greats Eddie Marshall, George Marshall, Larry Schneider and Mel Martin. Over the years, Marc has had the opportunity to play with numerous musicians including: Pete Escovedo, Mark Murphy, Francisco Aquabella, Keiko Matsui, Luis Conte, George Duke, and many more.

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

  
  Sea Foam Patterns by Dan Olfe 2011, 36″ x 59″

  2nd International TECHstyle Art Biennial (ITAB) and AIDS Quilt Interactive: Touching 1.3 Million Square Miles

  ITAB includes traditional hand-work plus high-tech pieces of quilted binary code, QR code, and HTML. AIDS Quilt Interactive is an interactive touchscreen table with three hanging panels of the Aids Memorial Quilt. Also: “From the Heart: Fun Fabric Ornaments.”

• Cardboard Box Theatre Project at San Jose Stage Company Courtyard – 490 South First St. map

  
  

  The Cardboard Box Theatre Project is excited to present 3 Woman, 1 Woman Show (with three women), as well as several other scenes, sketches, and musical interludes. 3 Woman is written and performed by three Cardboard Box favorites: Hayley Lovgren, Maren Lovgren and Kristin Schmitz. These three amazingly talented and extremely funny women guide the audience through a whirlwind tour of “womanhood” that explores everything from budding sexuality to gender roles to downright competition. Their one-woman show (with three women) will leave you laughing as you are introduced to the many facets of Femor (female humor).

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

  
  

  Local Music Seen

  No, we did not spell that wrong. The Art Boutiki has become something of a small hub for emerging local bands and along with that we have become a magnet for people with cameras. This month Art Boutiki is proud to present a showing of the concert and band pictures of Anna Larina (Skeleton Key Photography) as she displays photos taken at a number of bay area venues. Chances are if you have been to a show locally you may have been brutally pushed aside by Anna as she searches for that perfect shot, and now that perfect shot may be hanging on our wall.

  Speaking of Photography, the Art Boutiki will be rolling out a new South First Friday feature with our green screen photo booth. Get a picture of yourself on the cover of a magazine, or in front of some exotic place that we concocted just for this occasion. Since it is Halloween month (and yes Halloween lasts all month at the Art Boutiki) look for some custom spooky backgrounds done by our resident designers. Prices start at $10.00

  All that plus live music by Quasimodal and all the free comic books you can eat courtesy of SLG Publishing.

• Works San Jose – 365 South Market St. map

  
  

  Cooperative Gaming Co-op

  Curators James Morgan and John Bruneau have created a community “play” space built around the arcade cabinet as platform for interactive experiences. The arcade has been an important social gathering space and a place to experience new technologies through games. This exhibition brings together threads of community play, digital video game design and art, into a community arcade and lounge environment, serving as a platform and pivot point for dialog around the place of games in the lives of our communities, industries, artists, and designers. Organized in collaboration with CADRE laboratories at SJSU and presented by Works as part of the ZERO1 biennial.

• Caffé Frascati – 315 South First St. map

  Caffe Frascati Opera Night! presented by First Street Singers. All your favorite arias and duets performed live by some of the Bay Area’s best opera singers.

• Circle A at Emile’s parking lot – 530 South First St. map

  

  Paintings by Joe Demaree and custom car show.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  
  left: Jonathan Kermit, right: Joella Kermit

  This is the third exhibit at Downtown Yoga Shala for Jonathan and Joella Kermit. Jonathan continues to work with recycled wire and glazed paper to create his at once simple but intricate sculptures. Joella’s hand-dyed textiles reflect her continuing exploration of meditative layers.

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

  

  Phantom Galleries presents Lonesome Town new works by Kori Thompson at Good Karma Vegan Cafe.

  Everyone has a story. A story of why they are the way are. Every story leads up to when you cross paths or interact with that person. Whether its a person you talk to for a few minutes or a life long friend you see everyday. Our biggest contribution to one another is inspiration. It’s something that is not fake or phony, it can not be bought or sold. It’s a real feeling. These paintings represent the impression people I’ve met have left on me. ~Kori Thompson

• LGBTQ Youth Space – 452 South First St. map

  

  New to the SoFA District and the South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk, the LGBTQ Youth Space is a Non-Profit Drop-in center and mental health program for local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Ally-Youth ages 13-25 living in Santa Clara County.

  Our gallery displays works of local creative enthusiast Muckers G. Mooderf, a young aspiring artist who’s style reflects a sub-conscious dream state in which the mind is free to roam in every depth of reality. Acrylics with vibrant colors that stimulates the eyes to keep on looking. All the works of art are recycled on cardboard, reused canvases, particle board…and much more.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  Lost and Found artwork by Jason Adams

• Pho69 – 321 South First St. map

  
  

  Phantom Galleries presents Year of the Dragon 2012 by Curt Schauer at Pho69.

  Dragons are powerful mythical creatures that symbolize strength, health, harmony, intellectuality and luck. In Year Of The Dragon. 2012 Curt explores Asian influences in his artwork. Monotype, contact print and calligraphic collage are the media represented in this exhibit, all based in Eastern philosophy, beliefs and current affairs.

• Psycho Donuts – 288 South Second St. map

  
  

  Psycho Donuts in downtown San Jose is a quirky donut shop and art gallery. The gallery displays top local artists and has an ongoing exhibit featuring the work of John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, Michelle Waters, John Hageman and Robert McColley!

• TechShop San Jose – 300 South Second St. map

  

  Members will be bringing in projects that they have made at TechShop. Come check out what projects you can make at TechShop!

• Art Ark Gallery – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  
  Unlikely Friends by Sally Sherwood

  SCI-FI-FANTASY Opening Reception, 6–9pm

  A thematic exhibition exploring the genre of science fiction / fantasy art.
  Live music by Soy Sauce Control

In addition to wonderful restaurants and cafés in the district, we’ll have gourmet food trucks in the parking lot next to Anno Domini Gallery.

The South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk is a self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses featuring exhibitions and special performances. In addition to the monthly art walk, September 7th features the nighttime urban faire, STREET MRKT, with 40 artists, creative vendors a live music stage out on South First Street (between San Carlos and San Salvador) and Cielo Vertical Arts performance on the side of 300 S 1st Street.

It all kicks off at 7pm! All art venues and the STREET MRKT are FREE and open to the public.

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  STREET MRKT is a nighttime DIY urban faire that brings together local artists, creative indie vendors and a live music stage with performances by Ferocious Few, Drop Dead Sixty and Dirty Pillows out on South First Street between San Carlos and San Salvador streets. Free and open to the public.

  Cielo Vertical Arts returns South 1st Street to bring our Summer outdoor season to close. Don’t miss their performance high above on the walls of 300 S 1st Street where they’ll turn the vertical into the seemingly horizontal. Performance time coming shortly. Stay tuned!

  Participating artists / creatives:
  17jewels, 57-33 Clothing, Anointed Apparel, Becca’s Studio, Betwixt, Sandi Billingsley, Blue Dream Project, Boombotix, Mchael Borja, Bugs & Monsters, Keith Bunnell, Buttons by Maria, David Canavese, Cielo Vertical Arts, Crossroads Trading, Death Before Dishonor, Devil Rose Vintage, Michael Foley, Francisco Franco, Galactic Romance Clothing, Emo Gonzales, GoodLifeRoots, Ike Greca, Cynthia Gonzales, Andre Hart, Jumbo Jibbles, Matt Lopez, Luna Chalk Arts Fest, Frances Marin, Mejia Arts, LAuruS Myth, Jose Nunez, Old Souls Clothing, Out of Print Vintage, Poetry Center San Jose, Al Preciado, Steven Reece, Rock N The Trend, Matthew Bailey Seigel SLG/Art Boutiki, Social Villains, Tacti Design-Montana Shrader, TechShop SJ, Visual Confections, Wadl and Zatoon Clothing

  In addition to wonderful restaurants and cafés in the SoFA district, the Grilled Cheese Bandits, MoGo BBQ, O Mi Ninja, Quick Dog, Scoopy SJ and the WoW Truck will be on site in the parking lot next to Anno Domini Gallery.

  http://www.southfirstfridays.com/street-mrkt/

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

  
  

  This Snow Rising Faring Purth solo exhibition

  Faring Purth moves from the open air canvas of the streets to gallery exhibition at Anno Domini for her debut solo show. Her hard upbringing, aggressive youth and her years of work in caring for the dying is permeated through the layers of meaning in her loose figurative visual imagery. The initial reaction upon viewing Purth’s paintings may be to think it grotesque in nature but that feeling quickly washes away as the beauty and dignity of these subjects surface when looking into their soulful eyes.

  Featuring live music by Shovelman.

  
  Shovelman is a junkyard beatnik, a shovel guitar wielding surrealist folk superhero. Armed with a collection of pawnshop effects pedals and an old barn-shovel turned slide-guitar, Shovelman plays ol’ fashioned folktronica-grooves looped straight out of the ground. The sounds of Mississippi deltablues from the electro-psychedelic future, collide with the antiquated rubble of lyrical one-man-band hoboetry.

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

  
  art work by Jonathan Huang

  “Higher Learning II” – Higher Fire presents its 2nd Annual MFA Exhibit with work by emerging clay artists from San Jose State’s MFA program. Participating artists include Jonathan Huang, Malia Landis, Avery Palmer, Wesley Wright, Kat MacKinnon, Elise Putnam, Demetra Messoloras and others. Join us September 7th, 7-11pm, for a reception for all the artists plus an evening of pottery wheel demonstrations and interactive clay activities inside the clay space.

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  
  Photo by Deborah Mills Thackrey

  Artists’ Reception for the San Jose Creatives One Year Anniversary Group Exhibit

  San Jose Creatives celebrates their one year anniversary. Over the past year they have interviewed over 40 of San Jose’s most talented, including artists, musicians, writers, designers, filmmakers, and creative entrepreneurs. Live music performances by dream house, Paul Kimball, Toaster , and Troy Joseph Curtis

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

  Cruce de Caminos (Crossroads), polychrome aluminum boxes with text
  on stainless steel post, 2010

  Join MACLA for an evening of art and performance! In MACLA’s Gallery: City Portraits: (Retratos De Cuidad) by Marcos Ramirez ERRE examines the social, economic and cultural borders within the Valley of Heart’s Delight (Silicon Valley). ERRE’s work encourages the audience to look closer at the dynamics and roots that have made Silicon Valley a successful epicenter.

• Phantom Galleries – art exhibits in vacant storefronts and alternative spaces

   

  95 South Market St: Cambrian Artists League Group Exhibit

• San Jose Jazz at Pagoda Restaurant & Bamboo Lounge – 170 South Market St. map

  
  

  Oscar Pangilinan for San Jose Jazz

  Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, saxophonist Oscar Pangilinan is emerging as one of the youngest and in demand musicians in the South Bay. Oscar currently serves as the woodwind instructor for the Alum Rock Jazz Band in the Alum Rock Union School District. His style and approach to jazz is greatly influenced by legendary jazz artists Coleman Hawkins, Cannonball Adderley, Dexter Gordon, and Sonny Rollins as well as contemporary artists Joshua Redman and John Ellis. His love for New Orleans Jazz, funk, and blues can also be heard in his playing as he draws in audiences with his smooth tone, lyrical lines, and complex rhythmic ideas.

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

  
  Sea Foam Patterns by Dan Olfe 2011, 36″ x 59″

  2nd International TECHstyle Art Biennial (ITAB) and AIDS Quilt Interactive: Touching 1.3 Million Square Miles

  With art that will appeal to both the traditional quilter, and the technophile alike, ITAB includes traditional hand-work as well as high-tech pieces of quilted binary code, QR code, and HTML; and many kinds of digital processing. AIDS Quilt Interactive is a 42-inch interactive touchscreen tabletop that allows users to search through and examine detailed individual images from the 1.3 million square feet of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The exhibition also includes three 12 X 12 hanging panels of the Aids Memorial Quilt. Visitors will also learn ‘Weaving with Recycled Materials” to create a trivet or coaster out of recycled fabrics and aluminum foil.

• Tahira: The Pure Dance Theatre at San Jose Stage Company Courtyard – 490 South First St. map

  
  

  Tahira: The Pure Dance Theatre is a contemporary modern dance company located here in the San Jose Bay Area. Tahira PDT produces a wide variety of conscious art using dance as an avenue for education and awareness of injustices. Artistic Director, Imani Tahira Hopkins believes that art is a universal language. It shatters paradigms, transcends through culture and cuts right to the heart.

  Tahira PDT is not new to First Fridays. Making their debut at SubZero Festival 2011, Tahira PDT partnered with Trina Merry’s Art Alive Gallery. Since then, Tahira PDT has enjoyed the interconnected art community of San Jose while continuing to expound on new ideas and ventures. First Friday September, come by The Stage to get an exclusive preview of Tahira PDT’s upcoming new work ‘Ek’Ha(h) set to premiere early Winter.

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

  
  

  The Zombie invasion of downtown San Jose is over, who knew they just wanted to leave behind some art for us all to enjoy. This month come and see the Art From A Zombie Apocalypse Show features pieces inspired by zombies and other undead craziness.

  

  No First Friday would be complete without a healthy dose of live music and other fun and we have lots of that too as Grooveyard Shift, fresh off their performance at the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest brings their table-infused jazz to our gallery once more.

  All that plus FREE comics…

• Works San Jose – 365 South Market St. map

  
  photo by John Brunea

  Cooperative Gaming Co-op

  Curators James Morgan and John Bruneau have created a community “play” space built around the arcade cabinet as platform for interactive experiences. The arcade has been an important social gathering space and a place to experience new technologies through games. This exhibition brings together threads of community play, digital video game design and art, into a community arcade and lounge environment, serving as a platform and pivot point for dialog around the place of games in the lives of our communities, industries, artists, and designers. Organized in collaboration with CADRE laboratories at SJSU and presented by Works as part of the ZERO1 biennial.

• Caffé Frascati – 315 South First St. map

  Caffe Frascati Opera Night! presented by First Street Singers. All your favorite arias and duets performed live by some of the Bay Area’s best opera singers.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  
  

  Join us after Candlelight Yoga (5:30-6:45pm) as we open our doors at 7pm to welcome the downtown community and art patrons of the South First Fridays Art Walk. We are proud to feature a local artist from Morgan Hill, Demi Bamber, with her exhibit “Serenity”. There will also be performances from a local San Jose dance troupe, Jewel of Opar, at 8pm, followed by a musical performance by our very own Sarah Jaye Quinley.

  Demi Bamber is a local Morgan Hill artist, originally from the Great Northwest. Growing up between the San Juan Islands and the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, art has been a passion since a very young age and her Grandmother Betty helped her to explore many forms of it. Eventually she found herself in acrylics on canvas with heavy mediums. Many of the mediums used are things collected from nature such as bark, sand, dried flowers, among others. Many inspirations drive her art, such as people, their reactions and emotions. Creating pieces that can alter or change a mood in a positive way is one of the motives behind her art. She is inspired by things that move with grace such as vines or fish. Always feeling a connection with nature and lifestyles of native tribes, the tribal women she typically paints are portrayals of what she felt or saw while dreaming. A way of bringing the art to life is by using metallics and textures to create a depth that changes in every light. Currently she has been expanding her skills with various custom pieces and is constantly taking on new projects and growing as an artist.

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

  

  Phantom Galleries presents Haley Goodlett at Good Karma Vegan Cafe.

  Working in a variety of exploding color, Haley Goodlett brings you her most recent inspirations from the sea. From acrylic paintings to seashell jewelry, and decorative boxes, Haley’s art is all about texture. As a legally blind artist, she is always curiously excited about new tactile methods of expression. Don’t miss this chance to check out some good color at Good Karma.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  Live and Loud by Aron Cooperman

  Everyday, all around us we hear things… some of it is talk, some is noise, some of it is music.

  Music has the ability to make us dance, scream, or sing along. It can has the power to go deep inside our emotions and break us down or build us up, songs of sadness can unite us, tell us “we are not alone.”

  In every song, there is a story and in every performance, there is a storyteller. In every image, that story and storyteller… their pain, their joy, it’s all captured… for all of us to see “Live and Loud.”

• Pho69 – 321 South First St. map

  
  

  Phantom Galleries presents Year of the Dragon 2012 by Curt Schauer at Pho69.

  Dragons are powerful mythical creatures that symbolize strength, health, harmony, intellectuality and luck. In Year Of The Dragon. 2012 Curt explores Asian influences in his artwork. Monotype, contact print and calligraphic collage are the media represented in this exhibit, all based in Eastern philosophy, beliefs and current affairs.

• Psycho Donuts – 288 South Second St. map

  
  Kori Thompson

  Psycho Donuts in downtown San Jose is a quirky donut shop and art gallery. The gallery displays top local artists and has an ongoing exhibit featuring the work of John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, Michelle Waters, John Hageman and Robert McColley!

• TechShop San Jose – 300 South Second St. map

  

  Members will be bringing in projects that they have made at TechShop. Come check out what projects you can make at TechShop!

• Art Ark Gallery – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  
  

  6–9pm From the Back Alleys to the Gallery an exhibition of art, music and poetry.

  From the Back Alleys to the Gallery presents a premiere install by Mick Trackside, creator of faded glory magazine which focuses primarily on a traditional form of graffiti known as box car art. The event features live poetry performances by many known and respected artists, poets, and musicians; with a special guest performance by the synth-pop indie icon Billy Sheen. Bringing the streets to the canvas!

The South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk is a self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses featuring exhibitions and special performances. In addition to the monthly art walk, August 3rd features the nighttime urban faire, STREET MRKT, with 40 artists, creative vendors and a live music stage out on South First Street (between San Carlos and San Salvador).

It all kicks off at 7pm! All art venues and the STREET MRKT are FREE & open to the public.

• STREET MRKT
  A nighttime DIY urban faire that brings together local artists, creative indie vendors and a live music stage with performances by Benjamin Henderson, The Wild Reeds and Mad Noiseout on South First Street between San Carlos and San Salvador streets. Free and open to the public.

  Participating artists / creatives:
  17jewels, Anointed Apparel, Becca’s Studio, Sandi Billingsley, Blue Dream Project, Boombotix, Mchael Borja, Bugs & Monsters, Keith Bunnell, David Canavese, Crossroads Trading, Death Before Dishonor, Fora & Fauna, Francisco Franco, Galactic Romance Clothing, Emo Gonzales, Ike Greca, Andre Hart, iMINUSd, Jumbo Jibbles, Matt Lopez, Luna Chalk Art Festival, Mejia Arts, LAuruS Myth, Jose Nunez, Old Souls Clothing, Out of Print Vintage, Al Preciado, Steven Reece=, Rock N The Trend, SLG/ArtBoutiki, Social Villains, Tacti Design, Trading Tortoise by Souther Salazar & Monica Choy, Visual Confections, Wadl, Zatoon Clothing

  http://www.southfirstfridays.com/street-mrkt/

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

  
  

  Artist’s Reception: This Snow Rising Faring Purth solo exhibition

  Faring Purth moves from the open air canvas of the streets to gallery exhibition at Anno Domini for her debut solo show. Her hard upbringing, aggressive youth and her years of work in caring for the dying is permeated through the layers of meaning in her loose figurative visual imagery. The initial reaction upon viewing Purth’s paintings may be to think it grotesque in nature but that feeling quickly washes away as the beauty and dignity of these subjects surface when looking into their soulful eyes.

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

  
  

  Hunter Westra’s work combines medieval influence with whimsical flourish to produce gorgeous chalices, goblets, and jars. Westra uses both wheel-thrown and coil-building techniques to realize a subtle, textured surface with gorgeous glazes adorning the exteriors of pieces. Westra will demonstrate his unique coil-building construction techniques during the August First Friday evening!

• KALEID gallery – 88 South Fourth St. map

  Opening reception for two new solo exhibitions by KALEID Gallery artists Steven Borelli and Zoya Scholis featuring live cello music by Freya.

  
  

  Creatively Maladjusted new works by Steven Borelli

  Emerging from a six year creative block, I find myself finally back in the flow. The works of art in this show are the visions of that return. No theme. No connection. The works are not a product of thought, but of feeling. Each individual. Each immersive. Every meaning correct. Exhilarating. Terrifying. Inspiring. There is no safety in art. Jump in.

  
  

  POLYGONS new works on paper by Zoya Scholis

  One is reminded of Japanese box kites and Op-art. These are not flat paintings, but in a playful move, watercolor polygons folded convexly to tease 3-D possibilities with their linen lines and irregular geometry. Cold press watercolor paper is covered with wild calligraphic brush stokes and splatter refined by a pattern of circles and random panels of translucent acrylic washes. Hanging them about half an inch from the wall, gives them space to breathe and makes possible shadows that dramatize their appeal. They are arranged to suggest flight and merriment, but take note: some are shaped like coffins.

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

  Efren Álvarez, The Game of Hope, 63 oil on canvas paintings, 2011

  Come join us at MACLA for an engaging evening of art and performances! In MACLA’s Gallery: Even the Smallest Change Can Be Profound exhibition. Artist talk @ 7pm and come play The Game of Hope with artist Efren Álvarez @ 8pm. MACLA’s Castellano Playhouse: Free Flamenco dance lessons and performance by the artists of The Flamenco Society of San José.

• Phantom Galleries – art exhibits in vacant storefronts and alternative spaces

   

  95 South Market St: Cambrian Artists League Group Exhibit

• San Jose Jazz at Pagoda Restaurant & Bamboo Lounge – 170 South Market St. map

  
  

  Doug Ellington Trio for San Jose Jazz

  San Francisco Bay Area local Doug Ellington fuses Jazz, Hip-Hop and R&B into a wild, yet smooth groove. All About Jazz notes that, for Ellington, “music [pulses] through his bloodstream.” This trumpet player, composer, and bandleader is talented beyond the likes of his grand uncle, The Duke himself. Ellington’s most recent CD Life debuted in 2005, with his group the New Urban Groove. Bandmates include Chazz Alley on reeds, Nate Paese on bass, Ricky Carter on percussion, and Jacob Smolowe on keys.

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

  
  

  2nd International TECHstyle Art Biennial (ITAB)

  With art that will appeal to both the traditional quilter, and the technophile alike, the exhibition includes pieces that feature traditional hand-work (such as locally hand-made Kapa cloth) as well as high-tech pieces of quilted binary code, QR code, and HTML; digital processes including machine embroidery, jacquard weaving, and printing; 3-D rendering; laser engraving; and much more. Quilt enthusiasts will particularly delight in the wide range of quilts that make use of digital imagery and digital printing. The work featured in this exhibition is sculptural, clever, and transformative.

• Cardboard Box Theatre Project at San Jose Stage Company Courtyard – 490 South First St. map

  
  

  Cardboard Box Theatre Project is a South Bay company dedicated to the creation of new works and the presentation of old works in new ways.

  Throughout the evening, they will present a series of unique and rather strange characters who will cause you to question – and enjoy – the blurred line between reality and a surreal vision of reality. Be prepared to be surprised as the person standing next to you may be more than they first appear.

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

  
  

  The Art Boutiki celebrates the steamy summer with a show called Steampunk Visions featuring the art of San Jose artist Dorothy Whitman. Sculpture, jewelry and the like will be on display.

  Live music by Grooveyard Shift will keep jazz fans feeling cool in the hot month of August.

• Works San Jose – 365 South Market St. map

  
  Bill Gould

  Benefit Auction Exhibition

  A myriad of up-and-coming to established regional artists have donated work to benefit Works—your nonprofit community art and performance center. This First Friday is the opening reception and start of the preview exhibition leading up the the Benefit Auction on August 18. Join us at Works as dozens of artists put on display both their talent and their support for our community!

• Caffé Frascati – 315 South First St. map

  Caffe Frascati Opera Night! presented by First Street Singers. All your favorite arias and duets performed live by some of the Bay Area’s best opera singers.

• Downtown Yoga Shala – 450 South First St. map

  
  Marcia Rendon, Sunset on the Malecon in La Paz, watercolor on Fabriano paper, 2011

  Join us after Candlelight Yoga (5:30-6:45pm) as Downtown Yoga Shala opens its doors to welcome art patrons and the downtown community. We are proud to feature artists Marcia Rendon and Miguel Moreno, with their exhibit, LA BAJA SUR.

  Marcia Rendon, architect, expresses her passion for Baja California Sur, with this collection of watercolor landscapes; an outburst of color and poetry. Miguel Moreno, architect, studies the façades resulting from the interplay between Mexico and Spain. Windows, doors and balconies become the symbols of a heritage, a melange of genes and histories.

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

  

  Phantom Galleries presents Haley Goodlett at Good Karma Vegan Cafe.

  Working in a variety of exploding color, Haley Goodlett brings you her most recent inspirations from the sea. From acrylic paintings to seashell jewelry, and decorative boxes, Haley’s art is all about texture. As a legally blind artist, she is always curiously excited about new tactile methods of expression. Don’t miss this chance to check out some good color at Good Karma.

• METRO Photo Exhibit – 550 South First St. map

  

  The Desert Has a Human Problem by Alex Stover

  The desert is an empty place, yet full of impossible distances and clear hot skies.

  Despite the sand and the oppressive heat, we feel the need to fill this emptiness. We create, we build, we live, we play, we pray, only to later recede like the absent tide on this waterless beach. What is left behind never moves. Yet, it all still eventually finds itself lost, returned to the sand, the heat, and the slow passage of time.

• Pho69 – 321 South First St. map

  
  

  Phantom Galleries presents Year of the Dragon 2012 by Curt Schauer at Pho69.

  Dragons are powerful mythical creatures that symbolize strength, health, harmony, intellectuality and luck. In Year Of The Dragon. 2012 Curt explores Asian influences in his artwork. Monotype, contact print and calligraphic collage are the media represented in this exhibit, all based in Eastern philosophy, beliefs and current affairs.

• Psycho Donuts – 288 South Second St. map

  
  Christine Benjamin

  Psycho Donuts in downtown San Jose is a quirky donut shop and art gallery. The gallery displays top local artists and has an ongoing exhibit featuring the work of John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, Michelle Waters, John Hageman and Robert McColley!

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

  
  Dylan Kelly

  Live and original art by: reyes, one five seven, mike 3.5, dylan kelly, and delski. Music, kao,mr.grey and dj shyamroc, yeshua & the hightones, blank manuscript, and djmystik.

• TechShop San Jose – 300 South Second St. map

  

  Members will be bringing in projects that they have made at TechShop. Come check out what projects you can make at TechShop!

• Art Ark Gallery – 1035 South Sixth St. map

  
  

  6–9pm Genesis: paintings and drawings by Jason Adkins

  The violence and turmoil of creation and apocalypse are embraced with mutual celebration in these recent works by Jason Adkins. Abstract yet suggestive forms wreath and twist in a (often) gluttonous display across the canvas threatening to overwhelm with visual chaos. There is much and more to look at and the longer you stare the more you see. Of this work Jason states “In this age of complexity, myth and reality seem more synonymous than antonymous—so intellectually I toy with the layered mythos of my reality; religious upbringing, sexual deviation, evolution, genetics and human environmental crisis. Yet all thoughts remain subservient to ambiguities of pictorial form.”

  With live music by Folk Atrocity