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March 31, 2008
Jai Tanju at Black & Brown Clothing April 5th
Jai Tanju will have an exhibit and book release entitled Just Keep Going. The exhibit is derived from his exhibit at No. 12 gallery in Tokyo last year.Music by: RS2 Solid Sound, Stars Misplaced, and Man Versus.
Saturday April 5th from 7-10pm
Black & Brown Clothing
1225 W. San Carlos St., San Jose
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March 30, 2008
The Big Sad: Barry McGee & Clare Rojas
The Big Sad: Barry McGee & Clare Rojas
Riverside Art Museum
Exhibition Dates: March 30 - May 17, 2008
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 30, 2008, 4-7pm
Barry McGee and Clare Rojas have long been associated with the "Mission School", a loose collection of artists inspired by the culture of the street, particularly in the Mission District of San Francisco. Their works are often shown clustered together, mixing handcrafted paintings with scraps scavenged from the street and with photographs and other artwork found at thrift stores.
Barry McGee is a giant in the graffiti world, an artist known as much for his technical skill as a "tagger" as for his inclusion of new material, technology and street culture in his installations. Although rooted in graffiti subculture, he references all forms of vernacular art, including comics, folk art, and hand painted signs. McGee's installations often involve images painted directly on the wall, loud animations, mechanical totems, drawings on paper, bright geometric patterns, and assemblage sculptures such as smashed cars and old signs. In addition to traditional paints, McGee uses pens, spray paint (including paint applied with pesticide sprayers) and screenprints on a variety of materials.
Clare Rojas' art simultaneously references hard edge geometric art and handmade folk styles, as well as traditional European fairytales and quilts. She works with gouache, acrylic and latex paint on paper, wood panels, and directly on gallery walls. Rojas depicts men, women, and animals in magical settings, and her narratives reverse sexual stereotypes. Men are portrayed nude in provocative poses. Cackling, old ladies with headscarves are shown wielding sharp objects. However, for all this menace and disruption, there is a delicate feel to the work, especially in Rojas' paintings of domestic life, animals in nature, or lonely individuals reinforced with a quiet power.
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March 29, 2008
New Phantom exhibits in SoFA
We're very pleased to announce we've acquired two new locations for the Phantom Galleries project in the SoFA District. We are grateful to the owners of the buildings for their participation which gives exhibit opportunities to our local artists and enlivens our district.
486 South First Street - Long time Duke of the Art Car brigade, Philo Northrup (pictured above) exhibits his personal assemblage artwork. On view through May, 2008.
480 South First Street - Lori Gordon's watercolor text paintings are part of the current exhibit This Show Needs You at SJICA. On view through April, 2008.
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March 20, 2008
Solve et Coagula by Bruno 9Li now available!
Anno Domini, in partnership with Sao Paulo's Choque Cultural, presents Bruno 9Li's first ever limited edition screen print. This 3 color, signed/numbered, visually reverberating print is an edition of 150, for $225. USD
We also have a new arrival of original artwork by Bruno from his Tormenta exhibit in Sao Paulo late last year.
Click here for images and info.
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"Final Warmup" by M Dot Strange and PNOK
Our good friend M Dot Strange is out wondering the streets of Tokyo searching for the perfect bowl of Udon. Thought we'd share a cool little music video he put together recently with PNOK so you could perfect your dance moves before the weekend.
STR8NIME Mayhem by M Dot Strange
Music by PNOK
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March 15, 2008
May we interest in some Pi?
Our friend Brad Isdrab shared this with us. Hope you enjoy it as well. Watch out Aronofsky!
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March 14, 2008
FERAL exhibit reception at The Luggage Store
"FERAL" a collaborative installation by SWOON & MONICA CANILAO, "tales of wicked women and wildish girls" opens on Friday, March 21, 2008 at The Luggage Store. The artist's reception is on the 21st from 6-8pm and the exhibit runs through April 26th. Make sure you get out to this one!
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March 10, 2008
Monkey Business in San Jose
Black Rock Arts Foundation is working to bring Homouroboros by Peter Hudson to San Jose for a month long exhibit beginning mid May, 2008. At 24 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter, Homouroboros is one of the largest, most ambitious zoetropes ever created, and public exhibition of the piece will establish a new level of interactivity for public art.
A community event featuring the artist will be held here at Anno Domini gallery on Thursday, March 20th from 6:30pm - 9pm. Admission is a $10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds to benefit the Homouroboros project. ($28,000 has already been raised toward their goal of $40,000.)
Volunteers are also needed to support this amazing outdoor, interactive exhibition. If you would like to lend your hands or mind to this project, feel free to attend this event for more informaiton, or visit their site here.
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Ben Henderson at Brokendoor Espresso
Ben Henderson, an amazing singer/songwriter is performing live at Brokendoor Espresso on Friday, March 14th at 8pm.
Ben just released his new CD Dirty Birdies which is fantastic, it'll be a real treat to see Ben in this up close and intimate venue. Free and open to all ages. (Awesome flyer by Pellet.)
Brokendoor Espresso
231 E. Santa Clara (across from City Hall)
Downtown San Jose
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LISTEN/VISION 02
Overlap.org and VOLUME present:
LISTEN/VISION 02
Friday, March 21st. 2008, 7-9pm
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut St. San Francisco, CA 94133
LISTEN/VISION is a unique series exploring the art of perception. It is a place and time for a shared experience of sound and light and space. Volume and Overlap.org have partnered to commission new and unreleased sound and video works from an international pool of acclaimed contemporary artists. These exclusive pieces, not to be found anywhere on the web or a CD, are presented in a collective listening environment. Links: Overlap.org Volumeprojects.org
Featured Artists:
GREGG KOWALSKY – “Rosebud for Red Magus” – 2006 – 18:17 min. Kowalsky’s compositions range from drone and noise pieces to the psychedelic, which are highly influenced by the thick, humid air of South Florida where Gregg lived for most of his life. He is interested in filling the spaces his music occupies through dense, live mixes. He has composed for film, dance, acoustic ensembles and sound installations. Gregg’s debut full-length album, Through The Cardial Window was released on the Kranky label in Spring 2006. http://ossobucco.net
DAVID KWAN - SOLARIS - 2006 - 10:07 min. Sound-generated video projections; dimensions and running time variable; video projection with sound. David Kwan composes soundscapes using live radio signals and feeds them into a customized video imaging system to reveal visual patterning and to electromagnetically alter their dimensions. The end result is an electronic form of painting that is constructed from sound but manifested as light. http://www.meridiangallery.org/davidkwan2003.html
CHIKA and I8U - Infinity02 - 2008 - 30:38 min. Unlimited or unmeasurable in extent of space, duration of time: the infinite nature of the fabric of space. CHiKA uses minimal objects in two-dimensional space to create a video work invoking the feeling of the unlimited possibilities, approaching the unmeasureable nature of the infinite. I8u’s soundscapes inspired by the concept of string theory mirror our limited understanding and imagination of these strings as they slip in and out of the dimensions we are aware of. The audio and visual moves from a closed world with perspective as its corresponding symbolic form. http://www.i8u.com http://www.imagima.com
SAWAKO – “untitled” – 2006 – 15:18 min. Sawako is a Tokyo/NYC-based sound sculptor who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. After beginning in video art, Sawako shifted her focus from the video camera to sound. Once through the processor named Sawako, sounds in everyday life - field recordings, instruments, voice and electronic sounds - float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. Her unique sonic world has been called “post romantic sound” by Boston’s Weekly Dig. http://www.12k.com/sawako.html
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March 09, 2008
"Glory Boy Days" crew at Cinequest in San Jose
"Glory Boy Days" crew at Cinequest in San Jose
Congratulations to the local crew behind the making of "Glory Boy Days" that debuted at Cinequest this weekend. We really enjoyed seeing our peeps up on the big screen last night!
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