Aimee Wright

Tuesday nights are a great way to see what San Jose University art students are up to. From 6-8pm student galleries are open in the Art Building, many are receptions with the artist present and refreshments served.

This coming Tuesday, February 12th Aimee Wright, a senior art student, will be having a reception and exhibition of her works in Gallery 3. If you can't make the reception, Gallery hours are Mon - Thurs, 10am - 4pm.

On the Corner Music asks those of you passionate about record collecting to put your mark on a blank white 12" sleeve (or use another sleeve if you like) that represents your enjoyment/love/lust/etc for vinyl – paint on it, draw, paste, scribble, screen-print, collage.

Deadline is February 15th with an exhibition to happen February 22nd/23rd.

For more info email Jeff Evans at drumdemon@hotmail.com or call 408-871-0305

Send sleeves to or drop off at:
On The Corner Music
530 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell, CA. 95008

You're invited to an evening of champagne, caviar, chocolate and great art. Several local artists will be displaying and selling their work during this delightful gathering in Menlo Park.

Many Phantom & KALEID artists are participating including Julie Goodenough (fiber art & jewelry), Cindy Stokes (photography), Jen Norton (painter & illustrator), as well as Lise Poulson (fiber art), Christine Oliver (watercolor), and Thomas Flink (Swedish antiques).

Friday, February 8, 7:00PM to 9:30PM
For location info and to RSVP, email Julie at:onlythebestis@yahoo.com

Doghood & Worthless have installed new Phantom exhibits entitled: IlluminOpArt - The Dance of Light.

Doghood is an electronic artist, his computer programmed lighting, coupled with the optical illusions created by graphic artist Worthless, create a hypnotic experience of kinetic art after dark.

There are two installations (two addresses at the opposite ends of the same building):
455 South First Street & 460 South Market Street in the SoFA district of downtown San Jose.

Do you like to talk with people? Are you interested in art and life? Do you like to explore?

From March 28th to May 17th, 2008, the San Jose ICA will present This Show Needs You, a participatory group exhibition. Michael Smit, one of the artists in this show, is looking for volunteers for his dialogue project: How have you been an artist today?

As a volunteer you will actively participate in and contribute to this exciting project by talking with visitors at the ICA, as well as with people in the public space in San Jose. Your name will appear in project credits.

These conversations will investigate the possibility of an overlap between art and daily life.

2007 Computer Animation / Film/ VFX winner
Codehunters by Ben Hibon / BlinkInk Productions

For the 22nd time, Prix Ars Electronica, the foremost international prize for computer-based art, calls for entries in the categories Computer Animation / Film / VFX, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art, Digital Communities, Digital Musics, the Media.Art.Research Award and u19 ? freestyle computing, Austrian?s largest youth computer competition.

More than 3,300 submissions in 2007 have further enhanced the Prix Ars Electronica?s reputation as an internationally representative competition honoring outstanding works in the cyberarts. This year, six Golden Nicas, twelve Awards of Distinction and approximately 70 Honorary Mentions as well as the Media.Art.Research Award are presented to participants. The 2008 winners will receive a total of 115,000 euros in prize money.

For a detailed description of the competition, please consult our website Prix Ars Electronica

The deadline for submissions is March 7, 2008.

Graphic Storytelling as Activism
Euphrat Museum at Deanza College

Artists include: Seyed Alavi, Oliver Chin, Charisse Domingo and De-Bug, Sharon Hing, Keith Knight, Lingshan, America Meredith, Favianna Rodriguez, Shorty Fatz

Graphic Storytelling as Activism presents a variety of art forms, including cartoons, political posters, digital art, book art, and more to explore a range of imagery with an activist bent. It began with graphic storyteller Keith Knight, who sees comics and cartooning as a powerful tool for social change. They have been “communicating information, concepts, and ideas since the days of hieroglyphics. They can transcend language, class, and race. Knowing the tools and concepts of cartooning allows anyone to be a mass communicator… You don’t need a million dollars. Just a pen and a piece of paper.”

In this exhibition we took Knight’s ideas a bit farther, adding other tools to enable one to build communities through community-based arts, to address issues of the day, locally and globally, and to tell the personal story with the larger context, historically and culturally.

Exhibit dates February 11 - April 17, 2008
Thurs., Feb. 21st, 2:30pm Multi-media presentation in Classroom S-32 with an artists' reception to follow at 4pm at the Euphrat Museum.

Sell your fine art or fine craft in downtown Redwood City at beautiful Courthouse Square. Art on the Square compliments Music on the Square, the popular and well-attended Friday evening summer concert series, Due to popular demand, we’ve added a fourth show!

Fri June 20, 5 – 8:30 pm, Fri July 18, 5 – 8:30 pm & Sat July 19, 10 am – 8 pm *, Fri Aug 1, 5 – 8:30 pm, Fri Sept 19, 5 – 8:30 pm & Sat Sept 20, 10 am – 8 pm **

10’x 10’ and 10’ x 20’ spaces available. All shows are juried. All items must be made by the artist/crafter. No buy and sell.

Download an application at www.redwoodcity.org/events or email for more info: ArtontheSquare@sbcglobal.net

Backwater Arts presents: delineated
Artists' reception February 16th, 6-10pm

From materials to process, this exhibition highlights a few Bay Area artists that have used the element of line in their work. These artists have experimented with insizing wax, carving wood, combining strips of parper and sowing organza in addition to traditional media, such as drawing, painting and photography.

Justin Amrhein, Sara Cole, Jason King, Norman Lee, Victoria May, Mike Oechsli, Fanny Retsek and Carla Turtirici.

Backwater Arts is also hosting a Collaging & Combining with Wax workshop on Sunday, March 2nd and Saturday March 8th. (clik "continue reading" for more info.)

681 Quinn Ave., San Jose

As a special project in conjunction with the Beyond Child's Play exhibit, featuring Pilar Agüero-Exparza & Juan Carlos, at MACLA, Pilar will be hosting Working with Ephemera: A hands-on workshop.
Saturday, March 15, 2008 10am-1pm
This mixed media workshop is for people interested in exploring ephemeral materials such as beeswax, paper, fibers and soap to make art.
$25 per person. Scholarships are available, call (408)998-2808 to reserve your space.

“If you can’t make it good, make it big, if you can’t make it big, make it red.”
~ Audrey Flack (from Art and Soul)

Big Red Shiny 2
Art reception & awards ceremony Saturday, February 16th, 6-9pm

Art Ark Community Gallery
1035 South 6th Street, San Jose

For more info email Valerie Raps at vraps@gmail.com or call 408-279-0844

The Bride, 12” x 19”, Stained glass and Millefiori

Kathleen Sartain will be exhibiting at the Mountain View Center for Performing Art's Bean Scene Café as part of the Los Altos Art Club exhibition program at various venues. Kathleen will be on view during the months of March and April, 2008.

Bean Scene Café
500 Castro Street, Mountain View
Email Kathleen for more information at justcreativeartink@sbcglobal.net

Broken Door Espresso will be hosting another art night featuring Alejandro A Oliva and A.Nat.Gee and live performances by Panthellion and Mr. Jameson.

Friday, February 15th from 8pm - late.
231 East Santa Clara, downtown San Jose (across from City Hall.)

The Souvenir & Urban Memory call for entries from last year is about to culminate in the form of an exhibition. More than 35 artists and designers (including a few fellow Phantom artists) re-imagine the Bay Area Souvenir. Beyond mini-cablecars and sno-globes,we present a tourist shop with an altogether unexpected inventory. Souvenirs both one-of-a-kind and mass produced will be available or purchase.

Artist's Reception Thursday, Feb. 21st, 6pm-9pm.
Exhibit on view through March 2, 2008
2773 24th Street at York, San Francisco
www.city-space.org

Many of you may know the incredibly prolific artist and entrepreneur Sonya Paz. She thought some of you would like to know of a loft space that's available. Sony's main headquarters is located in Santa Clara in one of the most unique historical buildings around. There is a large suite upstairs from her that she says would be optimal for graphic artists, visual artists (that can collaborate) or maybe an architect.

To view this fabulous space click here.

The Loft
1793 Lafayette Street, Suite 220
Santa Clara, CA 95050

The contact is Chad Ziemendorf, he can be located at (408) 987-4147 or chadz@ccarey.com

Learn about color theory in this hands-on workshop led by artist Mel Prest

Mel Prest's abstract paintings are currently exhibited in The Space Between at the ICA. Prest combines subtle variations of color and hue to create pulsating patterns requiring the viewer to focus and re-focus the eye in order to apprehend the full composition. Prest recieved her B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A. from Mills College.

Space is limited, call or email to reserve your spot:
Call Virginia at the ICA: 408.283.8155 or email virginia (at) sjica (dot) org

In addition to being a great painter, Andy Gouevia is a great dancer as this video that's spreading across the net captures in How to Impress Girls Vol. 3: Dancing. You can watch the video here.

Last December we posted a call for entries for Ancient City the art of urban transformation. The exhibit is on now featuring 15 artists from the region.

There will be an Artist Panel Discussion on Friday, Feb 22, 6-8pm and a Closing Party on Friday, Feb 29, 7-10pm.

The exhibition is located at The Hayes Valley Market Gallery, 580 Hayes Street (@Laguna), San Francisco, 94102

John Renzel is exhibiting over a dozen paintings collectively entitled Fictitious Portraits at the recently opened DiModa Salon in the WG. DiModa plans on rotating exhibits every three months with hosted artists receptions.

DiModa is located at 1060 Lincoln Ave., San Jose and is open Tuesday thru Friday, 10am-7pm and Saturday 9am-4pm.

Taken with miPhone, Santa Cruz

The IPPA Competition-Every once in a while someone breaks the convention and changes the way we do things. That's what iPhone did. It changed the way we use the mobile phone. The "IPP Awards" (IPPA) celebrates the simplicity in design and promotes the appreciation of photography. The IPPA strives to discover emerging talent, and to introduce creativity of iPhone users to the design community.

Prize-All photographers compete for the top award, the IPPA Photographer of the Year and an iMac 20-inch, 2.0GHz computer. The work of the top winner and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Place Winners on each category will be publicized on IPPA online gallery and published in the IPPA Annual Book.

There is a small fee to enter and deadline is March 31st. Visit the IPPAwards.com website for complete details.

Santa Clara University Department of Art and Art History presents: Digital Analogy

Photographs by: Marco Zecchin, Susan Honda Eady and Barbara Kossy

Exhibit dates: February 18 – March 14, 2008
Opening Reception: Feb 20 5:00 - 7:00 PM

Art Department Gallery
Bellomy Street at The Alameda
Gallery Hours 9-5 M-F

On The Corner presents: We Love Music!

A 12x12 gallery featuring friends, customers, and local artists including Sean Boyles, Christine Benjamin, Steve Caballero, David Imlay, Mick Gray, Joe C. Fullerton, and more showing their appreciation for vinyl & music on a 12x12 record sleeve.

Friday, Feb. 22nd, 8pm-Midnight
On The Corner Music
530 E. Campbell Ave, downtown Campbell

While in a SJSU screenwriting class, Paul Encinas conceived and wrote Glory Boy Days and it's showing at the Cinequest Film Festival on March 7th & 8th.

It looks amazing and there's alot of favorable reviews for it's story, cinematography and writing....from the Cinequest site: The pain and ecstasy of being young glow like ember in Glory Boy Days, one of the most extraordinary debuts at Cinequest.

On the day he turns twenty-one, Lando takes stock of his life so far and looks ahead at what the future holds for him. He may be worried about going to college and standing up to his stepfather, but to his friends finding a good party is the concern of the day...

Local friends and former classmates make up the cast and crew, and local hangouts make cameo appearances as well. Glory Boy Days debuted at Slamdance Film Festival, one of only 29 films selected out of 1200. Congratulations Paul and to everyone involved!

View trailer here, and buy tickets here.

Anne Sconberg and Mark Henderson are hosting their second annual art party on March 1st and considering there are KALEID and Phantom Galleries artists in the show, you should go! But you do need an invite, so contact Sara Cole for all the details at sara@bwa-gallery.com.

The Art House Coop out of Atlanta, GA is putting together another Sketchbook Project with the theme "How To Save The World". They will provide 500 sketchbooks to artists to fill out and return by Aug. 1 for an exhibition on August 23, 08, but you have to request the sketchbook (and pay $13) by visiting the site here before they're gone.

Due to several inquiries, it's probably a good time to let everyone that is receiving this newsletter know that you are welcome to send us your exhibit news, calls for entry and other happenings that you are either involved in or aware of that you want to pass onto the Phantom Galleries community....we'll do our best to pass it on.

The best way to let us know is to send us an email: info (at) phantomgalleries.com or you can always just hit "reply" to the email newsletters you receive.

Christine Benjamin has a new exhibit at Riga's European Bakery and Cafe going on now through March 20th. Come by for her artist's reception on Saturday, March 15th (12noon - 2pm) to see Christine and get acquainted with this great bakery.

Riga's Eropean Bakery and Cafe
1338 The Alameda (next to Starbucks)
San Jose

Elisabeth Parashis and Dana Smith will be hosting monthly figure drawing sessions at Stone Griffin Gallery in Campbell beginning Thursday February 28th at 7pm - 9pm.

The cost is $10/evening (no instruction). Bring your own easel and paper to place beneath for chalk dust.

Contact Elizabeth at 408.410.2313 for more info.

Stone Griffin Gallery (inside the "Art Framing" shop)
416 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell
408.374.5200

We've had the utmost pleasure of working with Tamara Alvarado at MACLA for the past five years and we are sad to see her go. The good news is she will still be in town, and involved with the arts through her new position at 1st ACT.

Come share a toast to Tamara and her accomplishments at MACLA on Friday February 29th, 5pm - 7pm with District 3 Coucilman Sam Liccardo.
510 South First Street
Downtown San Jose
(408) 998-2808

Photography, one of the most important visual media of our lives, has been surprisingly uncelebrated, particularly in the US. New York City, home to the most influential commercial and fine art photography community, has lacked—until now—a large-scale event dedicated to photography.

Announcing the debut of the New York Photo Awards, the official awards of the New York Photo Festival. Honoring talented photographers from all over the world whose work breaks new grounds visually, intellectually, and aesthetically, the New York Photo Awards is a celebration of outstanding achievements in the world of contemporary photography.

New York Photo Awards – Evening Ceremony, May 16th, 2008
This spring, the inaugural NYPHA ceremony will take place during the New York Photo Festival. Sixteen category Winners and 32 Honorable Mentions, selected by the Juries of the NYPA, will have their works projected and be publicly recognized before an audience of peers and industry luminaries.

Most importantly, the New York Photo Awards will grant its participants with massive exposure. All category Winners and Honorable Mentions will be eligible for inclusion in the New York Photo Awards Annual, a beautifully produced series to be published by powerHouse Books.

The New York Photo Awards promises to provide an unprecedented platform of exposure to the top talent in the creative, editorial, fine art, and fashion spheres of influence in the photo capital of the world; make your mark today. Submissions accepted until April 14, 2008.

KALEID gallery presents featured exhibits by Michelle Waters and Gianfranco Paolozzi March 7th - 28th.

Artists' Reception First Friday March 7th, 7pm-9pm, music by DJ Overflo
This reception is part of the South First Fridays art walk and is free and open to the public.

Animal Insurrection by Michelle Waters
Michelle Waters paintings’ use sardonic humor to portray what might occur if animals were able to reclaim their despoiled habitat from industrial civilization. Scenes depicted include Arctic wildlife laying waste to a Hummer dealership, a mountain lion with an acetylene torch decommissioning a bulldozer and animals tearing down billboards for housing developments.

Michelle will also be participating in Yelling at Your Environment at Harrington Arts at 870 Market St., #1049, San Francisco, March 1st through mid April.

Roundels by Gianfranco Paolozzi
I was looking in the recycle container full of paper from flexo presses.
That's when I felt the passion again: round surfaces screaming to be used.
I looked at them changing on the floor of my studio.
I had to use my marks, my moments on the surfaces as a sign of me being there.
That's when the roundels were born.

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

Create a unique bird house and support hands-on, discovery-based science and nature education for local schoolchildren from San Mateo to south San Jose.

Your donated birdhouse will be judged for various awards and sold to the highest bidder at the Environmental Volunteers’ first annual “Birds & Blooms” Birdhouse Auction and Garden Party in Atherton on June 1, 2008. Over 300 people are expected along with local press, radio and TV coverage. Come and meet our donors, sponsors, volunteer docents and extended circle of friends. Your bio and contact information will be included in the event program, and your signage will be displayed with your birdhouse.

Birdhouses are due May 30th. To sign up, please contact Sandy Watkins at (408) 867-6063 or slwatkins@pacbell.net or visit: www.evols.org.

Artists are often, very often, asked to donate their time, talent and finished art products to help raise money for non-profit museums, institutions, galleries, community centers, etc, etc, etc.

As it stands now, artists are only allowed the actual price of their materials when giving to a 501c3. Collectors on the other hand, can write off the fair market value. We encourage you to support this bipartisan legislation that will allow fairness to artists donating their work.

Legislation Bill S. 548 or H.R.1524, would allow artists to take a fair-market value deduction for works given to and retained by nonprofit institutions. The U.S. tax system accords unequal treatment to creators and collectors who donate tangible works (e.g., paintings or manuscripts) to museums, libraries, educational or other collecting institutions. A collector may take a tax deduction for the fair-market value of the work, but creators may deduct only their "basis" value—essentially the cost of materials such as paint and canvas.

It takes just two minutes to support this bill....click here.