This month's First Friday's art walk is also the 4th Annual SubZERO Festival!

Sean Sczepanik

Steven Sczepanik

Start off the art walk by parking at South Fourth & San Fernando garage and check out KALEID Gallery's feature exhibit (located on ground level of the garage). Sean & Steven have put together an amazing show not to be missed!

Layers of Age in Monster Land
New installation and paintings by Sean Sczepanik & Steven Sczepanik. An exploration of monsters and cartoons from the imagination, referencing mainly Nightmare on Elm Street, Poltergeist, Fright Night, and Hellraiser. Also on view is a display of hands representing fellow artists. Each hand containing a characteristic of each artists’ style.

Artists' Reception: Friday June 3, 7-10pm, free & open to the public
part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS monthly art walk http://www.southfirstfridays.com

Feature exhibition on view through June 25, 2011

KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth Street
San Jose, CA
info@KALEIDgallery.com / 408-947-1785
http://www.KALEIDgallery.com

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 7pm
Saturday, Noon - 5pm

Then take a short stroll to 2 new Phantom Galleries exhibitions!!

66 South First St.: Defragmentation 66 by Michele Guieu

Defragmentation 66 is an adaptation of the last installation I’ve made in San Diego: Defragmentation: Rearranging Bits and Pieces of Memory. It is an ongoing project and the occasion to reflect on bits and pieces of my memories, as I am recalling/documenting them. The project originated when I was about to leave San Diego after living there for 6 years. I thought about the different times I’ve left a place in my life. Defragmentation 66 is the first installation I am showing in San Jose since I’ve moved and it represents a link between the two towns – and beyond. The installation is on a smaller scale but uses some essential elements featured in the first version of the show: an ensemble of paintings, a painted background and videos. The videos in Defragmentation 66 are new memories and were taken here, in the bay area. The address number where the show is held, 66, is an interesting symbol in my life: the first time I came to the US, that’s the road I travelled on.

Exhibit on view through August 30th. Visible 24/7 from the sidewalk.

95 South Market St.: Roundels sculptures by Gianfranco Paolozzi

"I was looking in the recycle container full of paper from flexo printing 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." ~Gianfranco

Exhibit on view through August 30th. Visible 24/7 from the sidewalk.

Then make your way over to the SoFA District for the monthly art walk and 4th Annual SubZERO Subculture Festival!

South FIRST FRIDAYS presents the 4th Annual SubZERO Festival

Focused on emerging and present subcultures thriving in our region, SubZERO is a diy, artistically bent, hi/lo-techno mashup where street meets geek. Come downtown on June 3rd to San Jose's SoFA District from 6pm 'til midnight for an inspired evening of arts & culture. In addition to the South FIRST FRIDAYS monthly art walk you'll find outdoor stages of entertainment plus artists, performers & musicians celebrating the indie creative spirit!

FRIDAY JUNE 3, 2011 from 6pm-midnight
SoFA district in downtown San Jose
(on South First Street between San Carlos & Reed Streets)

http://www.SubZEROFestival.com

http://www.facebook.com/subzerofestival

For full information on all the South FIRST FRIDAYS art venues' exhibitions, please visit http://www.southfirstfridays.com

NextSpace Coworking is opening the doors to our San Jose location very soon, and I am really excited about turning a space that has stood vacant for many years into a vibrant urban space.

NextSpace offers the physical infrastructure for small businesses/innovators/creatives and also a community of support and opportunity. Their Santa Cruz and San Francisco locations are really alive and humming with activity and I'm stoked to be have this visual, tangible symbol of just how productive San Jose is right in the heart of downtown, on the ground floor of the Lion building at Second and San Fernando.

I would like to reach out to the local artist and maker community to help fill the space. We need artwork on the walls, and I would like to showcase artists from San Jose. We definitely want to keep things fresh, modern, relevant. I will be happy to offer you the opportunity to hold a reception, or the use of NextSpace's facilities if you need a place to work for a bit. I have some large walls, as well as the opportunity for more intimate pieces to be displayed.

Your audience: NextSpace users tend to be motivated local businesspeople and entrepreneurs, and we anticipate that we'll have 60 or so active members with more people using the space for events.

Please email if you're interested- gretchen@nextspace.us

Thanks -

Gretchen Knight Baisa
Community Curator
NextSpace Coworking + Innovation, Inc.
www.NextSpace.us
408.393.2391

KALEID Gallery presents

Two Buck Tuesday June 21st 7-10pm

You're invited to join us for our monthly $2 art sale and quirky people get together!

We have another great lineup of art, demos and hands on activities!

Featuring:

Sean Stryker & PARTY FOWL Welcome to Party Fowl! A short form improv group that will have you rolling! Party Fowl does interactive improv taken from suggestions from the audience - and make up scenes and improv games on the spot in
real time! See your suggestions come to life as we play from razor sharp wit and active imaginations. We always have a ton of fun everywhere we perform and everyone in the group does it just out of the love of being a ham. So please sit back and enjoy Party Fowl!

Cipacteo will show us how he makes a gourd & leather bag. Gourds have been utilized by native people around the world, from water containers, eating bowls, and bags for carrying sacred medicine.

Laurel will decorate people with Henna! Laurel will be offering traditional and non traditional small henna tattoo designs. They are all natural and last about 5-10 days. She'll also have a small collection of hand made greeting cards.

Nathan’s Juxle Puzzle? “How to go from 3 simple lines to complex, ‘shape changing’ art pieces…in twenty minutes.”?This is Nathan’s personal answer to NOT playing Sudoku. The idea came in a moment of pure inspiration while he was drowning in a cup of black coffee.?The Juxle Puzzle is an imaginitive and challenging Strategy Game you can play at three diffrent levels of difficulty. All you need is a pencil, paper and your brain.?Complete the game and you can go to the Ultimate Next level and make Art. Exciting!?Come join him and…?Learn how to play the Juxle Puzzle Game. ?See some of Nathan’s completed original pieces. ?Make your own pieces! It’s a whole thing…

Join cheapskates Courtney and Jo Anne for another free project using recycled materials. Design a hanging lantern with a battery-powered LED and fused plastic shopping bags for your evening summer patio party. Visit craftingforcheapskates.blogspot.com for more projects to make on the cheap.

Jodi will host a Sugar skull demo. Make your own mini skull for $2! FREE for kids.

Plants are amazing sprouts of energy rising from the fertile soils of the Earth!? Learn a little about plants from Lara Sophia and buy some young plants to raise as your own and possibly eat later.? Seed Packet Raffle, no entry fee, one entry per person. Must be present to collect.

Our resident portrait artist David Mejia will be here to draw your portrait while you wait for a small fee!

Michael Denning will be making his collage buttons! Denning is an artist with the Heart of Chaos Artisan Collective and a volunteer art instructor in Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall. He will be creating art buttons out of his "Zen" drawings as well as helping others to create art buttons out of collage and drawings for Two Bucks. Each button is 2.5" and will cost you Two Bucks to make and take home. Proceeds from his sales will help to benefit non-profit Project Knew Groove, a charity art organization based in Half Moon Bay.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-Denning-Heart-of-Chaos-Artisan/51790415784

LIVE ARTISTS:?
Andre Hart ?
Kori Thompson
?Mike Borja
JehOiakim Santos
Morgan Richardson
Steven Recce
Nik Caesar
John Hageman


Beautiful music will be made by Gianfranco on the accordion & Jessica on the piano!

Sugar & Spice will be selling their delicious sweet and savory creations for only $2

?As always, $2 art will be on sale throughout the evening!