Museum of Contemporary Art 1st Friday of the Month
April 1, 2022 — Southward Kickoff FRIDAYS #ArtwalkSJ
Posted on March 25th, 2022
The Due south Outset FRIDAYS Art Walk invites you to a unique evening of great exhibitions in galleries, museums and art supporting businesses. ArtwalkSJ hours are v–9pm, free admission, all ages welcome, rain or shine.
APRIL EXHIBITIONS
ANNO DOMINI // the 2d coming of Fine art & Design – 366 S. First St. map
Opening reception in galleryONE:
"The Illustrious Barron Storey"solo exhibition
Barron Storey returns to Anno Domini for his 8th solo exhibition: "The Illustrious Barron Storey." This survey includes selected commercial illustrations created over a 40 year span besides as personal drawings and paintings from Barron's renowned journals.
Barron Storey (built-in 1940, Dallas, TX) is an American illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator. He is famous for his accomplishments every bit an illustrator and fine artist, every bit well as for his 30+ year career every bit a instructor.
He trained at Art Center in Los Angeles and under Robert Weaver at the School of Visual Arts in New York. A commercial illustrator since the 1960s, Storey's clients accept included major magazines such as "Boys' Life", "Reader's Digest", and "National Geographic." His cover portraits for "Time" of Howard Hughes and Yitzhak Rabin hang in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. His giant painting of the South American rain forest hangs in New York'south American Museum of Natural History, and a 1979 rendering of the space shuttle deputed by NASA, the commencement official painting ever done of it, hangs in the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall.
Equally a book illustrator he has washed cover illustrations for the Franklin Library classics, "War and Peace", "The Expert World "and "Stories by Sinclair Lewis"; besides as the covers of "Fahrenheit 451 "by Ray Bradbury for Del Rey / Ballantine; and, most famously, the 1980 reissue of "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.
Storey has also published many comics and graphic novels, including "The Marat/Sade Journals" (Tundra), which was nominated for an Eisner Award, Neil Gaiman'southward "The Sandman: Endless Nights" (DC/Vertigo) which won an Eisner, "Tales from the Border #ane-ten," Barron Storey'southward "WATCH Mag" (Vanguard), and "Life After Black" (Graphic Novel Art). Not but has he been the teacher of comic giants equally Kent Williams and George Pratt, just he was as well a key inspiration for artist/illustrators Dave McKean, Bill Sienkiewicz, David Mack and David Choe.
On view in galleryTWO:
Death, God, Love Mike Egan (OH) solo exhibition
Decease, God, and Love are three subjects that have haunted my life and artwork for many years now. Whether it was my curt career every bit an embalmer, growing up in the Catholic Church or marriages and heart pause. I wanted to do a show where each subject field could smooth on their own.
The Death paintings bargain with decease, dying, funerals, grim reapers and loss.
The God paintings deal with religious icons, devils and prayers, hell and halos.
Finally you have the Love paintings, which deal with true dear, hearts, togetherness and broken hearts.
Although the three subjects stand stiff on their ain, there is a dance where they all dance together throughout in the prove.
Expiry, God, Love is Egan'southward 4th solo exhibit at Anno Domini.
Fine art Ark Gallery – 1035 S. 6th St. map
Closing reception:
Pathways : an exhibition about mapping, navigation, wanderlust and borders
Curated by Nanette Wylde and featuring works in artist books, drinking glass, mixed media, painting, performance, printmaking, sculpture, audio, video, and installation by Afatasi The Artist (San Francisco), José Arenas (Davis), Carolina Cuevas (Mount View), Casey Jay Gardner (Berkeley), Caroline Landau (San Francisco), Kent Manske (Redwood Urban center), Neil Spud (Burlingame), Melissa West (Watsonville), and Minoosh Zomorodinia (Richmond).
FUSE presents at the Citadel Art Gallery- 199 Martha St. map
Speed Create featuring FUSE artists.
Speed Creates returns equally promised. All ages welcome to come paint with FUSE artists, We provide the media, you bring the creativity and together we will take some fun and create 5 paintings with everyone's input.
KALEID Gallery – 320 Due south. Offset St. map
KALEID Gallery is proud to present two new feature exhibitions with paintings by Julie Bovee, and mosaics by Xuan Ho for the month of April.
Opening reception:
"A Happier Identify" new works by resident artis t Julie Bovee.
Every bit a youth, I loved the vocal "Don't Worry, Be Happy," by Bobby McFerrin. I played that music video again while writing this synopsis, and it'south impossible to sentry that video, with Robin Williams dancing around beingness a complete dork, and not smile and forget all near my worries. When I sit in my art studio surrounded by all of my colorful blossom fields, a similar feeling envelops me.
2021 was a hard year for me, and for all of us. That rotten pandemic afflicted everyone, except maybe those rare few living in isolation atop a remote mountain. We're now seeing a possible light at the end of the COVID tunnel. Mask mandates are gone. Is information technology for real or volition a new variant plague usa a few months from now? Maybe, just for now, we tin can expect at pretty things and forget about the pandemic, and find ourselves in "A Happier Place." I'm thrilled to share these paintings with you, and promise that you'll enjoy their cheerful vibe.
About the Creative person:
Julie captures the diverse, untamed quality of our natural world in vibrant acrylic paint. She loves sharing the contrasting experiences of viewing her art from a distance versus close-up. From distant, her paintings announced as enticing impressionist-fashion bloom meadows or other scenes. Upon closer inspection, texture, depth, and intriguing details peek through the many layers, prompting further scrutiny and challenging the imagination to fill in what's existence represented.
Opening reception:
"The Swanmosic Drove" past resident artist Xuan Ho.
In this exhibition, Xuan includes her mosaic wall hangings and sculptures that represent the assortment of the styles she has developed over the by 22 years.
The inspiration for her creations comes from what she sees in her daily life and while traveling. Her dearest of animals, the beauty of both nature and cityscapes, equally well every bit drawings of womens' figures are translated, sometimes in the abstruse, in her works. She tries to invoke a story backside the subjects in her mosaics.
Xuan uses traditional mosaic materials of glass, ceramic, and tile, but also collects and adds many unique materials to give her pieces a 3-D look, making her piece of work different from other mosaic styles.
MACHU PICCHU Gallery of the Americas, Est 1974 – 199 Martha St. map
Opening reception:"Bird en Mi Vestido"/ Pajaro in My Dress
MOLA inspired, reverse appliqué technique and mitt stitched wearable fine art /dress featuring artists of The Gunas (Panama).
Mola is a textile art fabricated by the Guna (too known equally Cuna) ethnic grouping of Panama. They capture in their fine art the flora, animal and all the nature that surrounds them. Some are political statements or identity statements.
Molas are textiles sewn into panels with complex, multi-layered designs using a reverse appliqué (pattern) technique. Molas originated with the Guna women's tradition of painting their bodies with geometric designs, using available natural colors. After the Spanish colonization and subsequent contact with the missionaries, the Gunas began to transfer their traditional geometric designs onto fabrics, get-go by painting them directly, then using the reverse appliqué technique. It is not known with certainty when this technique was first used.
The oldest molas are assumed to exist between 150 and 170 years former. In addition to their geometric inspiration, the Kuna in the last l years began to create realistic and abstract designs of flowers, animals, birds and the body of water. Depending on the tradition of each Guna Yala island, Guna women start making molas when they reach puberty, some others much earlier. The women of this ethnic group who adopt to dress normally are a minority. The molas are of peachy importance to the Gunas, every bit they are ane of the primary works of fine art that identify their tradition and culture, too equally beingness a highly acquired souvenir by visitors to the isthmus.
Offset Friday April 1st 3–8pm
To enter, text 408 529 2296 or email MachuPicchuGallery@hotmail.com
MACLA Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana – 510 S. Outset St. map
Opening reception: MACLA's23rd Annual Latinx Fine art Now!Sale and Exhibition
View the very best in contemporary Latinx art from the Bay Area and across.
First Friday music past DJ Sin Amores of Chulita Vinyl Club
Establish of Gimmicky Fine art San Jose – 560 Southward. First St. map
Opening reception: Facing West Shadows:"The Endless Cease"
Facing Westward Shadows: The Endless Finish is a cinematic, sculptural installation created by Facing W Shadows at the Establish of Gimmicky Art San José. Facing West Shadows: The Countless Endilluminates the perpetuation of extinction and survival; the disrupted life cycles of native plants and animals, aquatic systems, and burn ecologies every bit affected by anthropogenic climate change. The viewer'due south attending is guided throughprojected moving images, hand-made animation, and cast shadows with a multi-dimensional soundscape.
Join the ICA in celebrating the opening of Facing Westward Shadows: The Endless End, a cinematic, sculptural installation opening Friday, April 1st at 5pm for South Outset FRIDAYS ArtWalk SJ. Dive into this collaborative and immersive project and let your attention be guided through projected moving images, hand-made blitheness, and bandage shadows with a multi-dimensional soundscape. By weaving multiple moving images of Bay Area ecosystems, artist collective, Facing West Shadows, takes the viewer on a fourth dimension-based and immersive journey through cycles of ecological and species extinction and sometimes, survival.
In celebration of Facing West Shadows opening dark, the ICA volition take a hands-on shadow puppet making activity. This event is Complimentary and open to the public.
On view: Soo Sunny Park:"Viewing Filter (Veil of Vision)"
For "Viewing Filter (Veil of Vision)", Soo Sunny Park investigates visual perception through the use of reflective surfaces, grids, and variable light weather. Her large-scale, immersive installation volition be congenital out of retro-reflective paint and nylon netting, stretched into drapery-like forms. Layers of accumulated drawings, on differentlayers of the netting, will create a sense of amplified depth in a 3-dimensional floating infinite. Visitors will walk through the gallery and be able to interact with the infinite using their camera flashes and phone flashlights.
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – 520 S. Get-go St. map
On view:
45th Anniversary Exhibition: New Directions
Join united states for Starting time Friday, to experience our new prove: 45th Anniversary Exhibition: New Directions. This special anniversary exhibition highlights recent acquisitions at San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in a series of thematic installations spanning three galleries. New Directions also prominently features recent artwork from SJMQT'due south Artist in Residence plan.
Nosotros are also pleased to innovate our new Artist in Residence Olivia Ronan. Olivia is an interdisciplinary visual creative person and creative mender. She completed her BFA at University of California, Santa Cruz and currently teaches fiber arts and hand sewn repair in Aptos, California. She'll be in her studio during First Friday to talk about her process and her projects during her residency. Pictured artwork: Etsuko Takahashi, Waves #4, 1998
On view: "Coming together – A Quilt for Healing"SJMQT and the Kids & Art Foundation celebrate their first collaboration inspired by the historic Gee's Bend Quilts featured in author Tangular A. Irby's children's volume "Pearl and her Gee'southward Curve Quilts". The Kids & Fine art community project, "Coming together, a Quilt for Healing," spotlights quilt squares created by pediatric cancer patients during an online fine art workshop lead by artist Caroline Robins and Tangular Irby. Volunteers and donors likewise contributed quilt squares as part of the customs project in support of the Kids & Art mission to bring the healing power of art to children and families confronting babyhood cancer.
About Kids & Art Foundation
The Kids & Art Foundation is a national nonprofit system that provides specialized, hands-on creative arts experiences for children with cancer and their families to assistance ease the stress, feet, and trauma experienced from diagnosis and treatment. Kids & Art programs are provided directly to pediatric patients and families in person and online, besides every bit through hospitals and treatment centers.
Spring Artist in Residence: Gregory Climer
Gregory Climer'southward piece of work explores queer identity and focuses on how traditional crafts can be transformed by new technologies in a way that maintains the warmth and value of the handmade.
Climer is the chair of the fashion program at California Higher of the Arts. He received his MFA in Pattern + Technology from Parsons School of Blueprint. His textile work has been shown in the Museum of Art and Design (NYC), The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Fine art (NYC), The DeYoung Museum (San Francisco, CA), The Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte, NC), Muskegon Museum of Art (Muskegon, MI), and many galleries. He currently lives in San Francisco.
SoFA Market – 387 S. First St. map
Nostalgia by A Kid At Eye
These pieces were created to not but capture a painting but too to tell a story.
Works San Jose – 365 S. Market St. map
Bleeding Edge: Works at 45
Since its founding by local artists in 1977, Works has skilful diverse forms of radical inclusion—from sponsoring artists' own concepts for exhibitions to open telephone call shows where any and every artist is included. "Bleeding Border" volition expect back at creative risks Works has taken in the past and volition look forward to the bold new partnership ahead in Open San José. Augmented copies of "Works/San José: the Outset Quarter Century" volition exist available free while they last with a xv yr Bleeding Edge insert. New mini-murals by 18 local artists will be featured forth the forepart of Works. Masks are required while indoors at Works and are available free at the entrance.
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