The San Jose Public Art Program invites you to participate in this discussion to plan for a permanently situated aviation-themed artwork that will be part of the Mineta San José International Airport Public Art Program.

Community input is vital to the planning process, and will help shape the vision for this project. Please join us for a fun evening to learn more about the project, discuss site opportunities for public artwork, and share your ideas, visions and stories.

Monday, August 20, 2007, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

San Jose City Hall - Council Wing
200 E. Santa Clara Street, Room CW 120
(Parking validation will be provided for the City Hall garage, entrance on 6th Street)

For more information contact: Public Art Project Manager, Mary Rubin
408 277-5144 ext 16 or mary.rubin@sanjoseca.gov

above sculpture by Harry Nakamoto

The ceramics exhibit, WOOD FIRE CONNECTIONS, opens September 7, 2007 at the Artobject Gallery, 592 N 5th Street, San Jose, California.

The exhibit features the wood-fired work of six potters from Oregon and California: Hiroshi Ogawa, Harry Nakamoto, Samuel Hoffman, Diane Levinson, Jennifer Long Klein, and Tim Steele.

There will be an opening night reception as a part of San Jose’s First Friday Gallery Walk on September 7th from 7 PM to 9 PM. All the artists will be present to discuss and answer questions about their work.

Image: Mitra Fabian, Ventilation series, 2006-7, Paper and glue, Dimensions variable.
Courtesy of the Artist and Bandini Art, Los Angeles.

Mitra Fabian (Phantom Galleries 2006) will be having her first bay area solo exhibit with an opening reception this Friday, 8/10, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.

(from the ICA website:) Using everyday household materials, Mitra Fabian transforms scotch tape, glue and paper into sprawling floor works and topographies that confound scale. From a distance, the artwork resembles urban developments flowing into the contours of the land. At a microscopic level, the work might be seen as proliferating spores or an aberrant growth, indefinitely spreading.

Fabian's installation and sculptural works straddle the line between exquisite and grotesque. The objects can be beautiful and benign; made from innocuous materials into sculpture more sublime than threatening. Yet simultaneously, the enigmatic forms seem to be in the process of unchecked growth and glue and tape become disturbingly epidermal.

The Bay Area Book Artists and Foothill College present:

The 6th Annual Book Arts Jam at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California
Saturday, October 20, 2007, 10am to 4pm.

The Annual Book Arts Jam at Foothill College provides an inside look at the world of artists' books and the book arts. The Book Arts Jam is a one-day celebration at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California at which you can view one-of-a-kind handmade artist books, zines, letterpress books and broadsides, mailart, calligraphy, fine art prints, handmade paper and multiples by over 50 exhibitors who are book artists, craftspeople, and workers in the allied fields of letterpress printing, papermaking, printmaking, photography, collage, and paper decoration.

The intent of the Book Arts Jam is to bring together book artists and audiences interested in the book arts to create a forum for artists to show and sell their work, and for visitors of all kinds-including book arts fans and artists as well as audiences new to book arts-to see the work of others and learn about the book arts.

The event is free. ($2.00 charge for parking at Foothill College-bring quarters!)

Nancy Ann Rice, From the Deep, acrylic on canvas 30" x 36"

Chris Hogan has opened the Gregory Kate Gallery (named after his two children) on The Alameda in San Jose. (from their website:) "Our intent is to display an ever-changing variety of art and photographs for your viewing pleasure. We hope to surprise you with different artistic styles and expose you to different mediums of expression."

GK's next exhibit is Nancy Ann Rice, an acrylic surrealistic painter and local teacher of painting.
The artist's reception is Weds., Aug. 22nd from 5-7pm.
Location: 925 The Alameda # 101, San Jose (near HP Pavillion)

Devon Holzwarth, A Gondola Ride Through Venice mural

A long time friend to Phantom Galleries (both as exhibiting artist and muralist) Devon Holzwarth has quite an empire brewing. Her multi talents required multi business personas and she has two new blogs so you can keep an eye on her accomplishments: murals are at www.muralstudio.blogspot.com and her art and artsy products at www.devonindustry.blogspot.com.

Congratulations to Mary Medrano (Phantom & KALEID artist since the beginning!) for her new endeavor!

Mary invites you to the opening celebration:
Join the party from 7-9pm at my new studio and gallery space in historic downtown Campbell. I will be exhibiting my figurative paintings, some new florals inspired by being in Campbell, and three sculptures of Helen Bellaver. Her work is made from a combination of found objects and the painting process. She combines the two with a creative voice; one that speaks of renewal and reinvention. She is guided by intuition and the joy of making art.

Mary Medrano Gallery
305 E. Campbell Avenue
Campbell, CA 95008
408.250.2732

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Friday: 12 - 7 pm
Most weekends: 11 - 3 pm

Celebration: Friday, September 7, 2007, 7-9 pm

presented by the San Francisco Foundation Center; free!

7pm Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Works San Jose
451 So. First St., downtown San Jose

This workshop is intended for individuals involved in the arts and looking to fund any type of arts-related project, such as: to complete a project, mount an exhibition, put on a performance, or conduct research.

Participants will learn how to identify funders in the arts, explore fiscal sponsorship, and create a step-by-step plan to find funding for your needs as an individual grantseeker.

This workshop is presented by the Foundation Center, the nation’s leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. admission is free but please register by clicking here.

photo by Michael Denning

Heart of Chaos presents the 2nd of 3 installments of San Jose’s First Annual Chalk Art Festival.

The festival brings an explosion of color, vitality and a sense of community to the park as Heart of Chaos artists demonstrate the many varieties of chalk art and invite the children and adults in the neighborhood to create their own art using chalk provided by Heart of Chaos.

This is a FREE event so bring the family and invite the whole neighborhood out for some fun in the sun and take advantage of this opportunity to let loose and create some fun art!

Camden Community Center
3369 Union Avenue, San Jose, 95124
10am-2pm / FREE

Please join us First Friday September 7th at KALEID gallery for two new featured artists exhibitions by Shannon Amidon and Lucy Liew.

Introspections is a series of acrylic on canvas artworks by Lucy Liew that were inspired by a series of personal events that led to her introspection into both the past and present when faced with life’s challenges and emerging as a stronger and more complete person.

Into Pieces is a mixed media series of insect portrait puzzles by Shannon Amidon, an exploration into the world of insects and what it means to relate aesthetically with these terrestrial creatures that both inspire and repel us.

Also on view are 70 San Jose artists showcasing their fine art and sculpture, limited editions and unique gift items.

Friday, Sept 7th, 7pm - 9pm, free and open to the public
Live music by Astronout performing live downtempo and minimal techno.

KALEID gallery
88 South Fourth Street (at San Fernando)
Downtown San Jose

From Erin Cizan (Works' ED):

Over 200 of our community members welcomed Works/San Jose to its new site by participating in our opening event "Body of Works: a community collaborative mosaic". The Board of Directors and myself were overwhelmed by the amazing response, the diversity of submissions, and the generosity of the participants to donate their artwork to be auctioned for the benefit of Works/San Jose.

Now that the Auction is up on eBay, I realize that this is more than an auction for the support of Works/San Jose it is an opportunity for the community to acknowledge, support, and validate individual creative expression. Will you please make a bid today not just for the benefit of Works/San Jose, but in support all of the Artists who experimented, exhibited, and engaged. Thank you!

Bidding begins here!

On the spot caricature artist Big Al will have artwork in the Pin-ups and Pinstripes show along with pinstriping by Terry "TBonez" Bell, Kellie "KandyStripes" Mitrovich and Joanna Crawshaw among others.

Artists' Reception: Friday, Aug. 24th, 6-8pm
On view through Sept. 22, 2007
Worthington Gallery West
739 Main Street, Pleasanton, CA

Donna Orme has two new Cast Acrylic Monotypes on view at Gallery 2611 Sept. 1 thru Sept. 30th.
Reception: Friday, September 7, 6-9 p.m., coinciding with Friday Art Walk.
Gallery 2611, 2611 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063

Martha has recently returned from a 2 week workshop with Mitch Lyons at the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, in Greece! She has loads of new ideas and techniques to share with you, including a NEW non-toxic, no fumes final varnish...the technique just gets safer, and better!

“2-Day +” Workshop: September 14, 15, 16
Friday evening 7-9, Saturday & Sunday, 10-4
A unique and innovative monotype process; non-toxic, hand tools only, no press required! No experience necessary. Limited class size, lots of personal attention. $245 for first time students, including materials

NEW: 1 Day Introductory Workshop: Saturday, September 29, 9:30am-4pm
Small class size insures you will get the most out of this introduction to clayprinting.
$125, including materials.

Register online @ https://www.marthacastillo.net or call (650) 493-7763

Martha's work will also be in 1st Annual Juried Exhibition at Gallery 2611 in Redwood City with an artist's reception on September 7th, 7-9pm.

Image: Max Ernst With Pet Snail, David Larimore

Elizabeth Parashis invites you all to this BYOB potluck, art viewing and poetry night featuring artist David Larimore. (Elizabeth will also be exhibiting her 2D work as well as 3D by Bea Garth.) The featured reader is award winning Evelyn A. So, who is interested in negotiating between the elegiac and the comic, the seemingly familiar and the not yet known, the spaces where literary and oral traditions meet and mingle. Open Mic follows.

The whole evening takes place on Thursday, September 13th from 5-10pm in the Florentine Village Estate at 42 Central Avenue, Los Gatos. Contact Elizabeth at artpages[at]earthlink.net for more information.

Dear knitting community,

My name is Elizabeth Gómez and I am a visual artist living in Redwood City. I am writing to invite you to knit one flower or one bird from leftover yarn you may have. The birds and flowers will be part of an installation that will be at the Oakland Museum of Art this coming fall.

My artistic proposal is related to the idea of solving community problems, including our environmental impact, collectively. One flower, one bird at a time, we can all collaborate to improve our neighborhoods.

If you are interested, please send me an e-mail: elizabeth@hexabus.com
Thank you!

Brian has placed a convenient "Add to Google" button to the side bar on the right for those of you that may use iGoogle as your homepage when you open your browser. Clicking on this button will automatically add the Phantom Galleries' feed gadget so you can see the three latest posts whenever you're on your Google homepage!