Above image: Andy Gouveia, Down in Fall, mixed media, 24" x 20", 2007

Fellow (past and present) Phantom / KALEID artists Ema, Andy and Lucy are featured artists in this upcoming exhibit. We'll see you there!

BackWater Arts Gallery Presents: Self-Referential

This exhibition highlights how we, as artists, see ourselves both singularly and in context of a multi-fasceted shared experience of contemporary society. Works featured include: photography, ceramic sculpture, cast metal, lithographic prints, drawings and paintings.

Artists Featured include: Jason Adkins, Colin King-Bailey*, Kim Cook, Lucy Liew, Andy Gouveia, Sharona Oshana*, Julie Jacobson, Eugene Rodriguez, Erin Emiko Kawamata, Ema Sintmarian-Harris, Susan Komar

* studio resident of BackWater Arts

Reception: January 5th, 6-10pm
Show Dates: January 5th – February 9th
Gallery Hours: Thursdays 1-7, Fridays 12-5, Saturdays 12-4
Gallery Location: 681 Quinn Ave, San Jose

Join us for First Friday January 4th, 7-9pm, at the Holiday Gallery of Gifts for its only sale of the year! 60 artists are participating in this 20% off sale which ends Sat., Jan. 5th at 5pm.

Featuring music by Seabright – live instrumentation (drums, guitars, synthesizers) with computer looping and real-time arranging. A balance of the electronic and the organic is achieved through the use of improvisational experimentation crossing over into the post rock, shoegaze, psych, and ambient genres.

Located inside KALEID gallery
88 South Fourth Street
downtown San Jose, CA

For full First Friday gallery event listings, visit: www.SouthFirstFridays.com

Avenue 1 is providing private figure drawing sessions with professional models from the guild on Wednesdays from 5pm to 8pm beginning this Wednesday, January 9th.
Cost is $30/session- Artists must provide their own supplies, this is an open workshop so no instruction.

Email Jin at jin@avenue-1.com or call 408.786.1066 for more information or to register.
114 E Santa Clara St, San Jose CA 95113

The Distributed Exhibition Call for Site-Specific Artwork

The Distributed Exhibition asks: What might happen when artwork is created for a particular person, family, or living situation? What if private residences became display spaces? What if the occupants became gallerists? What if the viewers became guests?

Create a new site-specific artwork in a private residence or local business as part of an exhibition by the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Artists should be interested in responding to the unique layout, architectural features, personal display, or social dynamics of the space.

Deadline for Submissions: February 1st, 2008, by 5:00 pm. Submissions may be hand delivered. Artists Notified: February 11th, 2008

For full description of submission requirements and project, visit:
http://borro.ws/distributed_ex/DistEx_artist_web.pdf
Or email: sara@borro.ws

A project initiated by Sara Thacher, hosted by the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) from March 28 – May 17, 2008.

Mail submissions to:
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
“The Distributed Exhibition”
560 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113

Mariana Barnes, PhD, Dragon, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 48"

Mariana Barnes is currently on view in the lobby of 28 North First Street with five large canvases from her Mosaic series. The inspiration for these paintings comes from the art of ancient civilizations combined with everyday patterns, explains Mariana.

Mariana is a self taught artist and has been painting for the last 20 years. As a scientist/engineer, my time is divided between my art and my work in aerospace. Being an artist makes me a better scientist and vice versa. Each pursuit feeds the other -art keeps me sane, science keeps me grounded. says Maria.

Originally from Argentina, Mariana has been exposed to a sophisticated Latin American culture, where art and music are highly regarded and are a normal part of everyday life. All of the color and energy of my Latin American background nourish the paintings I create.

The exhibit is on view Monday thru Fridays 9-5pm thru the end of March, 2008.

Backwater Arts is seeking donations and art submissions for their upcoming fundraiser and spring/summer exhibition schedule.

100/100- March 29-April 12th (silent auction)
100 works for $100 - a fund raiser to benefit upgrades and running costs of volunteer run backwater arts. To donate piece, send a jpeg of the donation piece and your current cv & artist statement by March 1st. Pieces must arrive by March 20th, 2008. No submission fee.

structures/shelters/sanctuaries - April 19th- May 18th
This show is about shelters and hopes to provoke the questions of: Where we hide, dwell, or find solace. Are they buildings, houses, shacks, temples, gardens . . . What are the spiritual implication applied to you imagery? Political? Cultural? For this show, we are looking for a small number of artists to each show about 5 works of art, so each artist applying should have a body of work from which to choose from regarding this theme. Send a cd with 5-10 images, a current cv & resume, and $25 application fee. Submission deadline is March 5th. Notifications made via email March 10th.

Provenance/Progeny-July 12-August 9th
This exhibition hopes to ask the questions: where do we come from? What is our cultural clan? What socio-political issues are involved with our cultural clan? What is coming after we ourselves no longer exist?
For this show, we are looking for a small number of artists to each show about 5 works of art, so each artist applying should have a body of work from which to choose from regarding this theme. Send a cd with 5-10 images, a current cv & resume, and $25 application fee. Submission deadline is June 1st. Notifications made via email June 10th.

BackWater Arts Gallery
681 Quinn Ave, San Jose CA 95112

sara@bwa-gallery.com or 408 401 8269

mailing address:
po box 21802, san jose ca 95151-1802

Artseen 3 Call For Entries: Emerging Artists Competition - All Media
The Submission Deadline: January 15, 2008

The Jury:
Howard Fox- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
David Gere - UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, Associate Professor AIDS/Arts Activism
Rebecca Morse – Museum of Contemporary Art, Assistant Curator
John Murdoch – The Huntington, Hannah and Russel Kully Director of Art Collections
Catherine Opie – UCLA Department of Art, Professor of Photography
Glenn Phillips – The Getty Research Institute, Consulting Curator in Contemporary Programs and Research

Exhibition Runs: April 28, 2008 – May 3, 2008 at locations throughout Los Angeles. Various events include: Opening Night Party, Auction Gala and Finalist Gathering

The Goods: Thirty-five selected Emerging Artists will have their artwork exhibited alongside internationally known artists in one of Southern California’s most exciting art events.

First place prize: The selected winner receives a $1000 art supply gift certificate, and six hours web-page consultation (valued at $500).
Second place prizes: Two second place winners will receive a $500 art supply gift certificate.

Eligibility: The competition is opened to all artists without gallery representation and who have not had a solo gallery show outside of an academic setting. Entries must be recent work, created within the last three years.

Media: All media, 2D and 3D including painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, collage, functional, installation, digital process art and photography is acceptable. *For video: please send 1/2” VHS, NTSC or DVD. And make sure tape is cued.

Fees: There is no fee to participate.

All artwork accepted by the Jury will be donated to AIDS Research Alliance, and will be exhibited and auctioned to benefit the search for a cure to AIDS.

For complete competition details and to generate an on-line entry form, please logon to: http://www.aidsresearch.org/artseen/artist.html

Aids Research Alliance
Contact: Vincent Cummings at artseen@aidsresearch.org

Taking My Nap, Geri McGilvray

Current KALEID artist Geri McGilvray was asked to submit a work for a juried art show at the Triton Museum of Art. A painting of her beloved dog ?Sebelius? was accepted. This is a statewide painting competition and exhibition held once every two years.

The art reception for the exhibit is Friday, Jan. 18, from 7-9pm, the exhibit is on view through March 21, 2008.

Location: The Triton Museum of Art, 1505 Warburton Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95050. Museum phone: 408-247-3754.

The Djerassi Resident Artists Program invites Santa Clara County-based and San Mateo County-based artists working in the primary disciplines of the visual arts, new media/new genre, literature, choreography and music composition to apply for two Residency Fellowships for the 2009 residency season. Made possible in part by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, each Fellowship is comprised of a one-month residency at the Program's SMIP Ranch in rural Woodside and a $1500 unrestricted stipend.

Due to the Program's recent grant award for these two geographically specific Fellowships, the postmark deadline to submit applications for these Fellowships only is March 15, 2009. All other artists applying for the 2009 residency season must comply with the established February 15, 2009 postmark deadline. Application guidelines and forms are available at www.djerassi.org
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All artists' applications, including those qualifying for the Fellowships, will be reviewed together in the spring.

The Djerassi Resident Artists Program core residency season in 2009 runs from mid-March through mid-November. The Program covers all direct expenses of an artist's one-month residency, including studio space, housing, all meals, administrative and technical support, local transportation and many personal amenities. Each year, drawn from an applicant pool of 600 artists worldwide, 60 artists who meet a high standard of excellence are awarded a coveted Djerassi residency. Artists are selected through rigorous review by discipline-specific panels made up of professional artists and arts administrators.

Now in its 29th year, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program is internationally recognized as one the eminent residency programs in the United States. Since its founding, the Program has welcomed more than 1,700 artists from around the world to its rural ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and is open to local, national, and international artists of all disciplines and career levels. The mission of the Djerassi Program, which is a nonprofit organization, is "to support and enhance the creativity of artists by providing uninterrupted time for work, reflection, and collegial interaction in a setting of great natural beauty, and to preserve the land upon which the Program is situated."

For more information about the residency program, go to www.djerassi.org or telephone (650) 747-1250.

OPEN CALL FOR SHORT FILMS, VIDEOS, AND NEW MEDIA SCREEN-BASED WORKS Under 10 minutes in length.
Deadline: February 28, 2008 (postmark)
No fee, no pay
Curators: Bill Basquin & Nomi Talisman
http://may2008.artintervention.org/exhibitions.php

Thematic considerations: We are looking for submissions under 10 minutes in length that relate to the theme of INTERVENTION. This film program will be screened as a part of the Interrupt, Intervene! Art as Social Change Festival hosted by UC Santa Cruz. There will be a conference at UCSC and exhibitions and screenings in the
cities of San Francisco, Santa Cruz and San Jose and on campus at UC Santa Cruz throughout May 2008. (For more information about the conference and events visit the website: http://may2008.artintervention.org )

Art as intervention is an emerging field of contemporary art practice, and artists frequently use humour, surprise, or unusual associations to overturn assumptions about the world, invite political engagement, create collaborations and relationships, examine the everyday or map hidden systems, allowing the audience to think in new ways.

KALEID gallery enters its second year with over 60 artists and featured exhibits by Cindy Stokes and Wendy Lowengrub.

Artists' reception: Feb. 1, 2008, 7pm -9pm. Featuring Isoscelles a classic jazz paino trio with definite leanings toward Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock et alia, playing new and vintage standards.

Exhibit on view through Feb. 22, 2008

Abstract painter Wendy Lowengrub and photographer Cindy Stokes provides complimentary views of form and pattern of nature through their respective mediums.

Cindy Stokes, Burn II, Dynamic Form series, gelatin silver print, 2007. Dynamic Form book will also be available.

The black-and-white photographs in Dynamic Form reflect my visual attraction to pattern and form in both natural and manmade materials. This interest is intensified by some knowledge of the underlying physics and biology from my engineering and science background. Why naturally occurring structures so often wind up visually alluring remains a mystery. Some forms are clearly functional and display principles of efficiency, while others seem purely serendipitous, although that idea may simply reflect my lack of understanding. Emergent patterns reveal fortuitous combinations of geometry and chance; paradoxically, very similar patterns occur on widely differing scales and arise from surprisingly different phenomena. The forms seem universal while the media are irrelevant, left to our imagination. ~Cindy Stokes

Wendy Lowengrub, Glaciology, mixed media on canvas, 2007

The Glaciology exhibit is a series of paintings inspired by a trip to the Souther Patagonian Ice Fields in Chile and Argentina. Deep glacial crevasses and the undersides of icebergs that calve off glaciers reveal ice that is a beautiful, surreal and indescribably blue. This ice may be hundreds, if not thousands, of years old. The ice absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum with the exception of blue, which it transmits. These paintings are about the search for this color and form. ~Wendy Lowengrub

Al Preciado will be reading from his Book of Yearnings and hosting an Open Mic afterwards on Monday Jan 21st at 7pm at Willow Glen Books.

Willow Glen Books
1338 LIncoln Ave.
Willow Glen, San Jose
408-476-1968

Therese May’s May Flower #3 (pictured above) will be on display at the Gregory Kate Gallery at 925 The Alameda # 101, San Jose until the end of January.

The exhibition features 20 different artists and their interpretation of the theme of LOVE. The gallery is encouraging you to visit and vote for your favorite artwork with cash prizes awarded to the winning artists.

For more information call 408-271-2626 or visit www.GregoryKateGallery.com

More of Therese's fine work is available at KALEID gallery at 88 South Fourth St.

The monthly Thursday Gig's Art & the Spoken Word happens this month on February 7th and features the art and poetry of Al Preciado.

6pm-9pm, Potluck/BYOB, open mic follows reading
Winter location: Chris Arcus's house at 15272 Charmeran, San Jose, CA
for more info email: Elizabeth Parashis artpages@earthlink.net