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Saddo & Aitch Art Sale

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:59:06 -0800

art work by Saddo

art work by Aitch

We recently had the pleasure to exhibit Saddo & Aitch (Berlin) in our annual Fresh Produce show. The couple are having a fantastic sale on their work in the hopes of raising money to move to Lisbon. Art work is priced generously from 40- 500euros. View all the available works here

Art of Zines duJour

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:34:10 -0800

Anno Domini's ART of ZINES 2010 exhibit is featured on Daily duJour (thanks to Michael Hsiung)! Check it out by clicking here.

Zines on the Scene by Gary Singh, Metro News

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:30:02 -0800

BETTER THAN A BLOG: The tactile joys of zines
outweigh the speed of the web. Courtesy Anno Domini

A new show at Anno Domini showcases a dazzling and sometimes bewildering array of DIY publications by Gary Singh (published in Metro Newspapers on feb 18, 2010)

Read the article here.

Dr. Sketchy's San Jose launches this Thursday!

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:16:46 -0800

Calling All ART MONKEYS!

Anno Domini is proud to announce that we are an official chapter of DR. SKETCHY'S ANTI-ART SCHOOL!

Dr. Sketchy's is the world's premier alternative drawing movement. Every month, over 3,500 artists gather in nearly a hundred cities (including New York, Hollywood, Sao Paolo, London, Rome, Paris, Tokyo, and Melbourne) to sketch glamorous, subcultural models and compete in drawing contests in an atmosphere of artistic mayhem.

Dr. Sketchy's was started in December 2005 by a 22 year old art school dropout in a dive bar in Brooklyn (Miss Molly Crabapple). An artist and former model, Molly has created an alternative to the dull drawing classes she had posed for and now Dr. Sketchy's has exploded into an international phenomenon.

"If art class had been this cool growing up, 90 percent of Americans might be painters instead of lawyers and presidential candidates." ~New York Post

Join us for the inaugural launch of Dr. Sketchy's San Jose at Anno Domini Gallery!

Thursday, February 18th at 7pm. Come early as seating is limited!
$10.00/Door Bring your sketchy pads and favorite drawing materials.

Special thanks to Mistress Trina Merry & Master Drew Clark, our resident MCs!

Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
www.galleryAD.com 408.271.5155

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:38:08 -0800

SANER (March 2009 A.D. ) has some great new works at POW Gallery in London. View images here- http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/saner-mixes-it-up

The Mumlers "Coffin Factory"

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:52:30 -0800

We're big fans of The Mumlers. They live right here in the lovely city of San Jose just like us. If you're in the bay area later this month, head over to Cafe du Nord on Friday, February 26th kickin' off at 8pm to see them during Noise Pop.

"Take At Least This Burden From Me" by Know Hope

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:45:27 -0800

(a means to take un-necessary baggage and transform it into something that someone else can use.)

“thanks to nir for the amazing job on the video.” ~ Know Hope

(via blkriver.at)

BLOODWORK:SLEEVES tours JAPAN

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:33:11 -0800

Remember BLOODWORK:SLEEVES exhibition at Anno Domini? It just opened in Japan today kicking off its tour. First stop OSAKA on February 5th at Three Tides Gallery, then off to TOKYO for a booksigning at Tokyo Tower on February 13th and exhibition at The Last Gallery opening on February 14th. Watch for coverage on Analog Weather Report and some great behind the scenes posts on photographer, Max Dolberg's blog.

Here's a timelapse below from the Osaka setup posted on youtube.

Hand Over Fist at RVCA, SF

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:43:50 -0800

RVCA / VASF is delighted to present 'Hand Over Fist', a collection of new and recent work by 8 excellent emerging contemporary artists from around the west coast. Curated by Gabe Scott.

An opening reception will be held @ 6pm on February 4th with some of the artists in attendance. The exhibition will run from Thursday, February 4th - March 26th.

Featured artists in this exhibition are: Jason Jagel (San Francisco, CA), Ryan Bubnis (Portland, OR), Katy Horan (Austin, TX), Derek Albeck (Los Angeles, CA), Paul Urich (San Francisco, CA), Jessie Rose Vala (Portland, OR / Brooklyn, NY), Tahiti Pehrson (Nevada City, CA) and Marco Zamora (Los Angeles, CA).

RVCA / VASF 1485 Haight St. at the corner of Ashbury open 7 days a week, 11am-7pm.

"Exit Through the Gift Shop" a Banksy film

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:55:25 -0800

2010 Sundance Film Festival: Exit Through The Gift Shop

In the late 1990s, a hybrid form of graffiti began appearing in cities around the world. Enlisting stickers, stencils, posters, and sculpture and spread by the burgeoning Internet, it would be labeled "street art" and establish itself as the most significant counterculture movement of a generation. Los Angeles-based filmmaker Terry Guetta set out to record this secretive world in all its thrilling detail. For more than eight years, he traveled with the pack, roaming the streets of America and Europe, the stealthy witness of the world's most infamous vandals. But after meeting the British stencil artist known only as "Banksy," things took a bizarre turn.

Sundance has shown films by unknown artists but never an anonymous one. Banksy turns the tables on the only man who has ever filmed him, creating a remarkable documentary that is part personal journey and part an exposé of the art world with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype. In the end, Exit Through the Gift Shop is an amazing ride, a cautionary modern fairy tale . . . with bolt cutters.

San Jose Comics Fest II

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:12:34 -0800

The San Jose Comics Fest is sponsored by SLG Publishing, America's Coolest Comic Book Publisher.

A quarterly mini-convention, Comics Fest celebrates independent comics, DIY culture and everything cool and good in life.

Produced by the founders of the Alternative Press Expo (APE) Comics Fest hopes to bring the worlds of independent and alternative comics to a general audience.

The first show of the year showcases mostly local talent and mainly SLG creators including: Jamaica Dyer (Weird Fishes), Tom Hodges (Clone Wars web comic), Mel Smith (Gumby) and Vernon White (Birdhouse).

Eric Searlman (VIZ Comics) and Dan Vado (SLG Publishing) will be on hand to review portfolios.

Saturday January 16th, 12pm - 5pm Admission is FREE

SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery 577 S. Market Street San Jose, CA 95113 408-971-8929 www.sjcomicsfest.com

L.A.'s HeSaidNoNoNo blogger Elad

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:54:26 -0800

Elad (http://hesaidnonono.blogspot.com/) & Shonna drove all night up from Los Angeles just to come and check out Fresh Produce for the day. Elad visits Israel about once a year and loves the street art there so was excited to see Know Hope, Zero Cents, Foma <3 and Klone representin' Tel Aviv urban art.

DustTag (Graffiti Analysis iPhone Edition)

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:14:42 -0800

Released in the iPhone App Store on JAN 5th!!!

A pocket sized digital graffiti blackbook designed for recording more than just ink.

DustTag is an iPhone application designed for graffiti writers that visualizes the motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share 3-D animated representations of their hand styles. All tags created in DustTag are saved as Graffiti Markup Language (GML) files, a new digital standard used by other popular graffiti applications such as Laser Tag and EyeWriter. DustTag is fully compatible with the Graffiti Analysis 2.0 software suite, which is available online for free at graffitianalysis.com and can be used to playback DustTag creations from the iPhone on your OSX, Windows or Linux desktop systems.

DustTag was created by artist and Graffiti Research Lab co-founder Evan Roth, and artist and openFrameworks guru Chris Sugrue. Graffiti Analysis is an open source initiative built in openFrameworks and is available online for free at graffitianalysis.com

Call for Zines for Exhibit at A.D.

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:25:41 -0800

We at Anno Domini are resurrecting our ART of ZINES exhibition (a former annual event) and we are still in need of great zines. We believe zines are one of the last frontiers for freedom of speech and self expression and we need it now more than ever.

We are especially interested in art, music, poetry, photography and other creative disciplines but are open to all zines in any format and content. Current and past issues are accepted, one copy of each is adequate. (If you choose, you may send zine multiples and/or promo cards and we'll put it out on the counter for the taking.)

Our audience is very diverse at our openings, we typically expect 800+ people to come through and the exhibit will run for approximately 6 weeks.

The opening is on First Friday February 5th, 8pm 'til late. We'll have live bands and zine makers in the area are invited to be present to sell their zines (please let us know if you'd like to sell at the opening, there are no vendor fees nor commission on sales, but all spaces must be reserved.)

Fresh Produce on the METRO Cover

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:27:26 -0800

We're very happy that the METRO liked the Fresh Produce art by Danielle Duer from Nashville so much they put it on the cover of this week's issue!