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January 31, 2006
South FIRST FRIDAYS begin Feb. 3rd
UPDATE: a few choice words -
Todd Inoue's pick, Sal Pizarro's column
and Jack Fischer's column
an eclectic evening of arts and culture in downtown San Jose's SoFA District every First Friday of the month
Each venue has a unique personality and place of importance in San Jose's art and cultural scene; together we hope to expand the art going public's experience by providing a casual, easy access flow between all the venues.
All venues are free and open to the public, 8pm til late.
Participating art venues include; Anno Domini, MACLA, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles.
Anno Domini// the second coming of Art & Design- 366 South First Street
Artist's Reception: Flies in the Buttermilk a debut solo exhibit by Jennybird Alcantara
Featuring music by NUI and Frances.
MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana- 510 South First Street
Featuring DJ Chatos 1013 spinning contemporary Latin & Afro-Cuban grooves.
Current exhibit: Traces/Rastos: Recent Work by Maria Magadalena Campos-Pons
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art- 451 South First Street
Open late with 5 new exhibitions: Hair Raising, an exhibition featuring art made of and about human hair; Inside Out and we just telling stories, 2 exhibitions investigating the subject of incarceration; and two new Night Moves: And Everything in Between on First Street, and Happy Hour on Market Street.
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles- 520 South First Street
Featuring stand-up comedian Preeva Tramiel, a.k.a. DIS-WOMAN-----DISgruntled, DISplaced, and DISgusted and performance artist Jane Przybysz, a.k.a. JANE DOE
Current exhibit on view: Jean Ray Laury: A Life By Design
For more information, please email: rEvolution[at]galleryAD.com or call: 408-271-5155
Media sponsor: Metro Newspapers
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January 30, 2006
San Jose Appreciation Week
As part of Live 105's "San Jose Appreciation Week" they'll be hosting a free local band showcase this Tuesday, January 31st, at The Blank Club. The lineup features: Day One Symphony, The Entertainment Committee, & Delta Activity (all from San Jose).
Madden broadcasting LIVE from 6pm-10pm
The Blank Club
44 S. Almaden Ave, San Jose (map)
doors 6pm, 21+ up, free
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January 27, 2006
Phantom Reception Tonight!
Santa Clara University Visual Arts Society presents
PREFACE: A Present Perspective - Group Exhibit
South Bay Student Artists and art historians represent the nascent pulse surging through their dynamic creative community and finding expression through a variety of visual mediums.
Opening Reception Friday, Jan. 27, 6-9pm, free
55 South First Street (at the corner of Post St.)
downtown San Jose
Artists include University students from Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, San Jose Community College, and Evergreen Valley College.
Exhbiting Artists:
Garry Belinsky: gelatin silver print
Brittany Bowers: photography
Megan Diddie: acrylic
Kelly Greenwalt: acrylic
Eduardo Juarez jr.: Charcoal drawing
Kristen Lueders: photography
Gustavo Martinez: ceramic
Emmanuel Mendoza: photography and acrylic
Anton Orlov:photography
Elizabeth Ribera: acrylic
Alicia Rice: photography and mixed media
Dasha Sakharova: acrylic
Kathryn Womack: acrylic
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January 26, 2006
Critical Mass - Last Fridays, San Jose!
Next one: Friday, January 27th, 2006
Where: Meet downtown in Cesar Chavez Park at 6:30 p.m.
For information: critical_mass@yahoo.com
See more photos from the first gathering back in September, 2005.
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January 13, 2006
The 9th Annual Bringing the Noise for Dr. MLK Jr.
Youth Speaks presents
The 9th Annual Bringing the Noise for Dr. MLK Jr.
Monday, January 16, 7 PM
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater
700 Howard Street(at 3rd Street), San Francisco
$12 general, $5 under 20 & over 65
Tickets at www.ybca.org or 415.978.ARTS
Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW for The 9th Annual Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Festival. Our celebration for Dr. King, which has sold out every year, outgrew the YBCA Forum and we’re now at the spacious Yerba Buena Center for the Arts THEATER. This is the Youth Speaks event everyone talks about. As Dr. King shook the world with his legendary oratory, so the youth speak, reviving the tradition of questioning, affirming, and inspiring the listener to action. Featuring Kirya Traber, Panama, Susanna Myrseth, Dominique Jones, Meilani Clay, Emiliano Bourgois-Chacon, Dalia Yedidia, Rafael Casal, Ill-Literacy and many more, with MC Ise Lyfe and DJ Funklor, this is the event that launches 2006 in motion.
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Sucker Punch tonight in SF
SUCKER PUNCH
featuring artwork from Sean Boyles, Ben Kretovics, Dee Jae Paeste, Mitsy Avila Ovalles and Ricardo Rodrigues
January 13th, 2006
5-10 p.m.
Red Ink Studios
989 Market Street in San Francisco
Music by Cutso and Nui
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January 05, 2006
Ray Ashley's passion for art
WORKS/SAN JOSE Presents
"Ray's World: an overwhelming look at Ray Ashley's passion for art "
January 5 - January 28, 2006
Works/San Jose 30 North 3rd Street
San Jose, CA (408) 295-8378
Reception: Friday January 6th from 7-9pm
Special Event Thursday, January 12, 5:30-7pm, casual talk by local museum and gallery staff on Ashley's collection, or individual artworks from the collection
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WORKS/SAN JOSE
Presents "Ray’s World: an overwhelming look at Ray Ashley’s passion for art "
Opening January 5 - January 28, 2006
Works/San Jose 30 North 3rd Street
San Jose, CA (408) 295-8378
Reception: 7 to 9pm, Friday January 6th
Special Event Thursday, January 12, 5:30-7pm, casual talk by local museum and gallery staff on Ashley's collection, or individual artworks from the collection
Artists have always collected the works of other artists, acquiring them sometimes through purchase, sometimes though trades. Art that we live with helps us learn as well. Matisse and Picasso traded and scrutinized each other's work and thereby goaded each other into innovation. Gustave Caillebotte and Paul Gauguin both collected Impressionist work as they commenced their own careers.
Rarely, however, does the collecting bug succeed on such a scale as it has with Ray Ashley, a Bay Area artist and disabled Vietnam War vet, who has become a kind of patron saint to his fellow South Bay artists. Living frugally, driving an old car and wearing old clothes, Ashley has purchased thousands of artworks at auctions — including Works' annual fund-raiser — sometimes at bargain prices. "If you see something you want, get it no matter what," he advises. Over the past twenty-five years he has amassed a huge collection which now covers "every possible surface" of his San José home, and then some "so much art that he cannot see most of it," says Curator Sarah Puckitt. Along with Monica Tucker, her colleague at History San José, she has taken on the daunting tasks of cataloguing the collection and preparing this exhibition numbering approximately one hundred fifty pieces selected from the collection. "A veritable who's who in the South Bay art scene," it's a tribute as well to a local hero, a collector of conviction who has unwaveringly followed his aesthetic passion: "Only get what you really want and enjoy. Buy it forever." Whatever the collection's current financial valuation — Ashley is famously indifferent to the numbers — we are all the richer for his enthusiasm and generosity.
The artists include, among many others:
Tony Bustamonte
Prentiss Cole
Kathryn Dunlevie
Robert Eads
David Gilhooley
Erin Goodwin-Guerrero
Gronk
Wayne Jiang
Katherine Levin-Lau
Will Nelson
Eve Page-Mathais
Lee Petty
Lisa Ramirez
Robert Rauschenberg
Kim Rifreds
George Rivera
Glen Rogers
Joe Saxe
Randy Shiroma
Contact: Sarah Puckitt, Curator
408-286-6172
puckitt@sbcglobal.net
(photos available)
DeWitt Cheng, Works Publicity Coordinator
415-412-8499 (cell)
acdcmr@earthlink.net
Jennifer Levy, Works Gallery Coordinator 408-295-8378
works_sj@yahoo.com
Established in 1977, Works/San José is a non-profit, volunteer-run contemporary art and performance center dedicated to providing a venue for artists, ideas, and images that expand the scope of cultural and artistic experience.
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January 04, 2006
Where Are You?
So we've had a few inquiries as to where Anno Domini had picked up and moved off to, so... thought we'd take this opportunity to provide you with a visual of our new location at 366 South First Street in the downtown core of San Jose; courtesy of Big Brother, of course.
Drop in and visit us between Noon and 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday or call the gallery directly at 408.271.5155. For you fellow IM geeks feel free to message us with any inquiries during open hours via annodomini [at] mac dot com.
We look forward to another inspired year with all of you! Peace.
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the Unbelievable Truth
Black&Brown present
the Unbelievable Truth
artists: Manny Silva, Kara Burke and Yoni Kifle
music: Sarai's Spine, the Displaced and DJ Entreat
January 14th, 2006 from 7-10pm
Black and Brown
(408) 298-1970
1225 W San Carlos St
San Jose, CA 95126
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