A collection of art based on a 1970's late night TV show that showcased classic monster movies from the era. Monster art & sno cones!

Exhibiting artists: Steve Caballero, Christine Benjamin, Mr. Wim, 3 sheets, Sid Enck Jr.

Reception: Saturday July 3rd 6-10PM

diModa Salon
1060 lincoln ave.
San Jose, CA 95125
408.277.0400

STROKE ALERT! Benefit Studio Art Show/Sale

August 14th 6pm - 10pm
Sara Cole Fine Art Studio
592 north 5th Street, San Jose, CA 95112

Artist Sara Cole is hosting a benefit studio art show/art sale for her mother, Margaret Cole, who has recently undergone several strokes in the past 18 months.

She is trying to raise money for her long-term care along with raising funds for the Stroke Awareness Association and raising stroke awareness in general.

Come and enjoy the art, donate to the cause, and enjoy the community event. Several bay area artists have generously donated their art to be sold for the fundraising event.

The Stroke Awareness Association executive director will be on hand with stroke awareness information. There will be live-action painting and live music too!.

TO DONATE ART:
please email sara [at] saravcole.com
Drop off of wok can happen any day at the above mentioned address with pre-approved set up time. Please be prepared to fill out small section of paperwork about your art work.

Munio-Ink, San Jose Fashion Art Music (SJ FAM), and KALEID Gallery present SeaSkin.

Featured artist, Sandy Munio-Sanjurjo will showcase unique, contemporary artwork inspired by the beauty of the Sea. From mixed media pieces to portraits of body painted subjects, Sandy expresses her oceanic passion with a sexy new twist.

Sandy has chosen Oceana as the beneficiary of this exciting art showcase. Oceana’s vision “seeks to make our oceans as rich, healthy and abundant as they once were.”

Proceeds for the charity will come from the auction, donations, and the $10 admission fee.

We invite all to join us on this special night of art and music. This is a great way to support local artists and enjoy a beautiful evening, while giving back to a worthwhile cause.

Artist's Reception & Fundraiser- Saturday, July 17, 2010, 6-9pm
$10 donation at the door

Exhibit on view through Friday, July 23, 2010.

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street
Downtown San Jose
www.KALEIDgallery.com
408.947.1785

Parking: street metered parking (free after 6pm) or 4th St. Garage (@San Fernando) $3 after 6pm.

For more information, or to donate directly, please visit: http://sites.google.com/site/munioinkseaskin/home

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About Oceana:
Oceana, founded in 2001, is the largest international organization focused solely on ocean conservation. With offices in North America, Central America, South America and Europe, Oceana builds strategic and directed campaigns that will help return our oceans to former levels of abundance. They believe in the importance of science in identifying problems and solutions. Their scientists work closely with their teams of economists, lawyers and advocates to achieve tangible results for the oceans.

About Sandy:
"I'm not a "tree-hugger". I'm not a radical environmentalist. I'm just a person who paints. My art is inspired by a world that is desperately in need of our guardianship. I am compelled, I am determined and I am inspired."

Find Your Muse at the Eclectic & Quirky Two Buck Tuesday
A bodypainter creates timely work about our relationship to oceans, A production company stays in San Jose instead of moving to LA, A performer dances for peace, and a local professor rediscovers artistic inspiration at KALEID Gallery’s monthly Two Buck Tuesday July 20th.

TWO BUCK Tuesdays is an inspired event hosted by a crew of very dedicated artists at KALEID Gallery on the Third Tuesday of the month. Artists and audience alike are invited to attend, contribute and share in this unique event all free of charge.

The Two Buck Tuesday Crew organizes artistic, creative speakers, live demos, performances and live music jammed into three hours for a hyper shot of inspiration that you'll carry with you all month long until the next one.

“One thing all these speakers and performers have in common is passion and inspiration. They’ve all found their muse and want to share it,” says July curator Trina Merry.

On July 20th from 7-10pm the public can see and speak with many amazing artists, performers and musicians and purchase $2 art (starting at noon.)

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street
Downtown San Jose
www.KALEIDgallery.com
408.947.1785

365 Self Portraits by Beau Roulette

The wicked mind of Beau Roulette I will never understand....but his work is something out of a comic book. A reality comic, funny, twisted, and well executed. His sharp images and cutting edge creativity is coming to our art scene this Second Friday, July 9th.

Empire Seven Studios is proud to host such a prolific photographer and it's a pleasure to have him here in our city. Beau has done work for many big name (peeps). Since I don't like name dropping, all I'm going to do is let you see for yourselves by coming to the next big show.

Bring your friends and family for a night of art, music, food and fun....we hope to see you this Friday!!! ~ Empire Seven

Opening Reception: Friday, July 9th, 8pm til midnight
Live music by DJ K-VON

Exhibit on view through July 31, 2010

Empire Seven
525 No. 7th Street
San Jose, CA 95112
www.empiresevenstudios.com

Part Feast. Part Art. Part You.
Only at the 2010 01SJ Biennial.

This epicurean feast prepared by renown chef Kitty Greenwald is paired with stunning projections by filmmaker and new media artist Grahame Weinbren

What: an epicurean feast paired with stunning projections that together explore food’s shifting identity
Where: San Jose City Hall Rotunda
When: Tuesday, September 14@ 8pm-11pm; includes unveiling of Rockwell LAB’s City Hall installation.
Tickets: $304.00 (Purchase tickets here: http://01sj.org/2010/events/slwb/ )

Still Life with Banquet investigates the contradictions present in 17th and 18th Century Dutch still-life paintings by translating them into a contemporary context.

Adorning the walls of the houses of the bourgeoisie, for whom these wondrous goods had recently become available?through the development of colonies and expansion of international trade?Dutch still lives illustrated the fruits of global commerce comfortably removed from the exploitation that fueled the Dutch Republic's phenomenal rise to prosperity.

On September 14, 2010, a cross section of people will gather in an unusual urban location for a seasonal menu created using pristine, iconographic ingredients. The dishes will nod to the Dutch cookery of the Golden Age, the setting's culinary history, and the chef’s improvisations.

Accompanying the meal will be super high-resolution projections?modeled after these still lives?using the meal’s ingredients and table decorations. During the consumption of each course, the diners are surrounded by images of its ingredients naturally returning to the soil in an ecological process of decomposition, while at the same time the flowers and plants decorating the tables emerge in a natural process of growth, replacing the now decayed, decomposed and moldy foodstuffs.

Artists
Grahame Weinbren is a filmmaker and new media artist whose installations have been exhibited and films screened in museum, galleries and festivals worldwide. Weinbren publishes and lectures on cinema, interactivity, and new technology and is an editor of the Millennium Film Journal, and on the graduate faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Kitty Greenwald has cooked in New York, France, Italy and Portugal. She has worked at Slow Food Nation, The Smithsonian Folk Life Festival: Food Culture USA, curated Slow Film Night at the YBCA Slow Food Nation exhibit and co-created a dinner for Agency, Montalvo's 2009 Arts Initiative celebrating Silicon Valley's agricultural and culinary history. She has written for Real Simple, National Geographic, and Mercury News and is currently authoring a cookbook for Reader's Digest.

We at Phantom Galleries know there is an abundance of talented artists, performers, musicians and creatives doing great work in this area and are exhibiting at a wide variety of venues....from well established art venues to under the radar, out of the way indie venues.

We want to help artists and audiences connect by forwarding your news through our Phantom Galleries blog, direct emails, Facebook and Twitter all at no charge. So send us your exhibition news, upcoming events or, if you're putting on an event and need artists, send us your call for art.

We suggest you email us a 640pixel image at 72dpi, event title, date(s), venue info and a short description of your event. Please send info a week or two before the actual event. Send all information to info[at]PhantomGalleries.com

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Gary Coleman has found a way of increasing his studio space; put the art somewhere else.

He currently has 15 pieces in the Mountain View Tied House, 5 at the Mistral Restaurant in Redwood Shores, 8 at the Olio Restaurant in Campbell, 12 at the Stone Griffin Gallery in Campbell and 4 at the Los Gatos Museum's Art Gallery, not to mention 15 pieces in a bridge club in Palo Alto. Good news, bad news: Using time to put art out limits the time to fill the studio with new work.

Gary is showing both his landscapes and abstracts.

You can see more of Gary's works here: http://garycolemanartist.com

Figures: Wandering in Wonder

The selection of work included in this exhibit includes paintings of figures in various states of mood and expression. Completed over the last four years, the works are also a sample of Almondia's first years creating art. "I hadn’t realized a lot of my work is figurative. It wasn’t until installing the artwork for this exhibit that I realized they were all figurative and mostly female." says Albert about his current exhibit at Soula Power Yoga.

Themes of seduction, romance, elegance, heart-break, mystery, happiness, and simultaneously, inequality and solidarity are presented. "Probably because I’m a man I’ve been asked why so many women as subjects in my art? The answer lies within the work itself."

Almondia was born and raised in San Jose, CA. Selected past exhibits include KALEID Gallery, Eclectix Gallery (formerly in El Cerrito) and USF School of Law's Creative Justice Art Show a fundraiser to support a domestic violence program in San Francisco, CA. This is Almondia's first solo exhibit.

Prints available at http://albert-almondia.artistwebsites.com

Exhibit on view through August 2010.

Soula Power Yoga
200 S. First Street, Suite 70 (on the Paseo between 1st & 2nd)
San Jose CA 95113
408-993-9642
www.soulapoweryoga.com

Blaise Rosenthal has a new exhibition of works at Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz. Artist's reception is August 6th, 6-9pm. Exhibition on view through August 29, 2010.

Felix Kulpa Gallery & Sculptue Garden
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA
831-421-9107

New Location: 42 Central Ave., Los Gatos (outside, in the back, in the gazebo.)
Date/Time: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Free admission.

Pot Luck, BYOB or other drink. (If you can't, come on over anyway!)

This is art only this time (unless there's a spontaneous reading as open mic). Elizabeth is offering her sketch pad art, normally $50 for $5 as well as works on board and backframed, normally $600 for $150.

Come over to relax and chat and look at the beautiful view.

Facilitator: Elizabeth Parashis
artpages@earthlink.net

Congratulations to KALEID Gallery artist Michelle Waters for being in the impressive line up of artists participating in the 2010 SEA NO EVIL ART SHOW Benefiting SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY.

Date: Saturday July 31st, 2010
Time: Doors Open at 6:00 pm
Place: Corner of Mission Inn and Lemon in Riverside
3485 Mission Inn Ave
Riverside, CA 92501-3304

Sea No Evil Art Show is returning to the Riverside Municipal Auditorium! For one night only, on Saturday July 31st, over 60 art pieces from noted artists will be sold in an silent auction format for the sole benefit of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Captain Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and focus of the Animal Planet’s popular series “Whale Wars” will be the featured speaker giving an update on the state of affairs in the Oceans of the world. It will be a speech you will not want to miss!

A $20.00 Donation is required at the door.

Evening entertainment:
Featured Speaker Paul Watson
Come meet the Sea Shephard crew from Whale Wars
A special DJ set by The Crystal Method
DJ Diabetic (Shepard Fairey)
an Acoustic performance by Matt Costa
Michelle Rodriguez from Avatar
and Music between sets provided by DJ Jason of To Die For Clothing

More info: www.SeaShepherd.org

Artist list: http://www.seashepherdartshow.com/2010-donating-artists/

FREE World Cup Final Viewing Party! Live Broadcast on a Jumbotron in Downtown San Jose's SoFA District.

Sunday July 11, 9am - 3pm
On South First Street between San Carlos and San Salvador streets

To celebrate the final game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a free viewing party, presented by the City of San Jose, the San Jose Earthquakes, the San Jose Downtown Association and the San Jose Sports Authority will be held in downtown San Jose's SoFA District.

Featuring a World Cup Final live broadcast on a large Jumbotron, the viewing party will also include activities hosted by the Earthquakes, the only professional Major League Soccer franchise in Northern California, including a player meet-and-greet, a special kids recreation area, with Earthquakes Inflatable Slide, and a fun soccer skill area, the Earthquakes Speed Kick.

SoFA restaurant and entertainment venues will feature special food and beverage offerings throughout the day.

The recent issue of Content Magazine features many worthy artists and creatives that make up our awesome vibrant community including KALEID artist Gianfranco Paolozzi as interviewed by, KALEID artist also, Trina Merry!

Check out the issue for free here: http://content-magazine.com

The Usuals Presents: Lost San Jose. New works by Josh Marcotte

Artist’s reception: July 23rd from 6–9pm
Work on display through August.

The reception also includes a fashion show featuring new t-shirts from Deakstok, including shirts designed in collaboration with Lost San Jose, a jewelry trunk show, Squareone and Cutso of the Bangerz spinning beats, free hair styling by 5 Color Cowboy, a visit from Treatbot, food, drinks and more.

A portion of all Lost San Jose work and Deadstok t-shirts sold at the opening reception will go towards The Trace Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization, which recently lost their school to a fire.

The Usuals
1020 The Alameda
San Jose, CA

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Munio-Ink, San Jose Fashion Art Music (SJ FAM), and KALEID Gallery present SeaSkin.

Featured artist, Sandy Munio-Sanjurjo will showcase unique, contemporary artwork inspired by the beauty of the Sea. From mixed media pieces to portraits of body painted subjects, Sandy expresses her oceanic passion with a sexy new twist.

Sandy has chosen Oceana as the beneficiary of this exciting art showcase. Oceana’s vision “seeks to make our oceans as rich, healthy and abundant as they once were.”

Proceeds for the charity will come from the auction, donations, and the $10 admission fee.

We invite all to join us on this special night of art and music. This is a great way to support local artists and enjoy a beautiful evening, while giving back to a worthwhile cause.

Artist's Reception & Auction:
Saturday, July 17, 2010, 6-9pm
$10 donation at the door

Exhibit on view through Friday, July 23, 2010.

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street
Downtown San Jose
http://www.KALEIDgallery.com/
408.947.1785

Parking: street metered parking (free after 6pm) or 4th St. Garage (@San Fernando) $3 after 6pm.

For more information, or to donate directly, please visit: http://sites.google.com/site/munioinkseaskin/home

Find Your Muse at the Eclectic & Quirky TWO BUCK Tuesday this Tuesday, July 20th, 7-10pm.

A bodypainter creates timely work about our relationship to oceans, A production company stays in San Jose instead of moving to LA, A performer dances for peace, and a local professor rediscovers artistic inspiration at KALEID Gallery’s monthly Two Buck Tuesday event.

TWO BUCK Tuesdays is an inspired event hosted by a crew of very dedicated artists at KALEID Gallery on the Third Tuesday of the month. Artists and audience alike are invited to attend, contribute and share in this unique event all free of charge.

The Two Buck Tuesday Crew organizes artistic, creative speakers, live demos, performances and live music jammed into three hours for a hyper shot of inspiration that you'll carry with you all month long until the next one.

“One thing all these speakers and performers have in common is passion and inspiration. They’ve all found their muse and want to share it,” says July curator Trina Merry.

On July 20th from 7-10pm the public can see and speak with many amazing artists, performers and musicians and purchase $2 art (starting at noon.)

The speaker series has garnered a cult following. Similar to the idea of TED Talks, each speaker gets 10 minutes (or less) to speak and answer questions.

This month’s speaker series line-up includes:

Sandy Sanjurjo will do a walk-through talk about her feature “SeaSkin” Exhibition at KALEID Gallery.

“SeaSkin was born from the notion that we are, as humans, directly connected with our environment. We are a part of the air we breathe, the earth we derive nourishment from and tread on, the water we play in and consume,” says Sanjuro.

“Initially we wanted to donate to Oceana for their 'Save the Sharks' project, but of course, with the devastation in the gulf it only makes sense for the money to go towards the clean-up effort. We will leave it in Oceana's capable hands to determine where they can best use the funds. The message of this show rings even more true now, that we are physically connected with the health of our planet, and this terrible oil slick will harm us in ways we cannot yet predict. It will leave a very deep scar on our skin.”

Kevin Powers, local professor, will talk about Inspiration, how it relates to the art making process, and tips on getting re-inspired.

Element 151 Films, a San Jose-based production company, will screen some of their music videos & share why they’re here instead of LA.

Performance by Khalilah Ramirez who will share her “Dance of Peace”. “The purpose of the Dance of Peace is to help foster peace in people’s hearts. It makes people smile. It makes dogs bark. It gets people talking to each other. It turns the conversation towards peace. It is fun and silly. It takes people’s minds away from their everyday worries,” says Kalilah Ramirez.

Daniel Gaines Photography will help artists whip their websites into shape by shooting web-ready jpgs of artwork for only $2. Please limit to 5 works that are 36”x48” or smaller. http://danielgainescreative.com

Classical Guitar performance by Trent Endsley.

Model Sadya Senior will pose for sketchers at the TBT sketch table! Drawing supplies are provided courtesy of KALEID Gallery.

Live art by featured local artists:
Devon Holzworth, Ivan Gonzalez and MSFT DTC KYT

TWO BUCK Tuesday- July 20th, 7-10pm
FREE and open to the public.

KALEID Gallery
88 South 4th Street
San Jose, CA 95112
http://www.KALEIDgallery.com
(408) 947-1785

About KALEID Gallery:
Borne out of the Phantom Galleries project (art exhibitions in vacant storefronts), KALEID Gallery exhibits and sells the work of over 60 artists in a 6000 sq ft raw space with regular gallery hours and special monthly events. A catalyst for emerging artists and collectors, nowhere else in San Jose can you see so many talented artists in one venue.

SJ FAM is looking for 5 of San Jose’s top artists to participate in our 2nd Annual Art & Sole.

Requirements:
- Each artist will be asked to design 2 shoes: 1 male and 1 female shoe to auction off at the 2nd Annual Art & Sole.
- Artist will be given 2 weeks to design 2 pairs of shoes, finished products must be returned to SJ FAM by Friday, August 27. Shoes will be provided by event sponsors.
- Since bidders have an option of purchasing shoes as is or having a replica made in their own size, artist may need to create a 2nd pair of each shoe to tailor the shoe size of the bidder.

Benefits:
- Selected artist will receive 50% of the total bids placed on each of his or her shoe.
- Bids will starts at $50 per shoe.
- Artist will be promoted on www.sjfam.com

If you are interested in being an artist for Art & Sole please send an e-mail of interest to submissions@sjfam.com

Please include:
Contact information
A brief description of your interest
Link to portfolio

Deadline for submissions: August 7, 2010

Open Spaces: Watercolor paintings of Peninsula open spaces, by Trevlyn Willliams

Abstract Places: large format clayprints by Martha Castillo

Reception: July 30, 6-8 pm with live music

Exhibition dates: July 27 to August 21, 2010

Gallery House
320 California Ave, Palo Alto, 94306
(enter through Printer's Cafe)
650 326-1668

Gallery Hours:
Tues, 11-4: Wed - Sat, 11-8: Sun 11-3

WORKS Gallery presents another fun-filled, interactive, community-based Event & Exhibition opening August 6th from 7pm to 9pm.

It's all about murals... Painting the town!

Murals of Silicon Valley: Past, Present & Future is an exhibition of collaborative and individual murals, along with a photo documentation exhibit of signature and past murals of the Valley. In addition, on display will be murals done during the on-going WORKS' Series: Words, Painting,Music and Left Coast Live.

And, . . . In a true collaborative and community driven spirit, gallery goers are invited to work on murals still in progress. The public is invited to work along side dozens of local artists. Materials will be provided. All ages are invited!

See an Artist; Be an Artist . . . WORKS Gallery is your Gallery too! Here's your chance to paint with San Jose artists and muralists.

Join us for the Opening Reception - First Friday, August 6th, 7-9pm

WORKS San Jose
451 So. First Street
San Jose, CA

Who could imagine, a Food and Art pairing!

This special event features the art of Sonya Paz of Sonya Paz Fine Art Gallery, with her exuberant use of color and forms. Pair that with Culinary Instructor Nance Danner Rocha and Chrystie DeSoto from The Olive Bar in Downtown Campbell.

Bold shapes and vibrant colors leap off Sonya's canvases, while Nance's distinctive flair for flavor and presentation uses the freshest flavored Extra Virgin Olive Oils and aged Balsamic Vinegars to create an array of beautiful salads, and appetizers. Tantalize your senses with pop art visuals along with flavorful appetizers, salads, olive oil, tidbits and more!

Thursday, July 29, 2010 ~ 6:00pm to 8:30pm

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
Tickets can be purchased online here or in person at Sonya Paz Gallery or at The Olive Bar. Space is limited so get your tickets now! A percentage of proceeds will be donated to the Humane Society Silicon Valley to benefit shelter animals.

Sonya Paz Fine Art Gallery
195 E. Campbell Avenue
Campbell, CA 95008
408.378.5000

Anno Domini presents an evening of music and performance by:

Corpus Callosum, Spirits of the Red City, DeatHat and A Duet Behind the Wallpaper

Saturday, July 31st at 7pm
$5 admission at the door

Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 South First Street
Downtown San Jose
http://www.galleryAD.com
408-271-5155

Bryant Street Gallery presents:

New Works on Paper by Michael Buscemi

Artist's Reception: Friday, July 30th, 6-8pm

Bryant Street Gallery
532 Bryant Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301

www.bryantstreet.com
www.michaelbuscemi.webs.com