Sperry Bazaar, a gathering of local artists, crafters, collectors and retailers, will debut this month on February 23rd & 24th inside the Sperry Station Building located at 30 N. Third Street, downtown San Jose. For more info email Sperrybazaar@yahoo.com

The snake has been celebrated and revered for many millennia in numerous world cultures. Through its slender, smooth exterior it hides many myths and secrets within its appendage-less body. Its fangs bring agonizing death to the naïve, but by shedding its skin it is reborn again and again. Dragons, guardians, demigods, demons… they represent many things to many people. Cukui is proud to present our first show of the New Year. The Year of The Snake, as the lunar calendar dictates, falls upon us this cycle. A collection of fine artists will assemble together to interpret their own notions on what significance the snake plays in their lives. Please come out and enjoy a night of visual and audio stimulation as we come celebrate in community and in creativity.

Cukui Clothing Company
229 Jackson Street
San Jose, California 95112

Phantom Galleries is proud to be partnering with Cinequest again this year for their Cinequest 23 Film Festival! This is the 4th year that PG & CQ has worked together to bring this live painting event to the amazing audiences of this maverick film festival.

This year's artists are: André Hart, Melanie Sharr and Jeff Hemming. All three artists are highly imaginative in their concepts and excellent in their painting practice. We look forward to their interpretations of the festival's theme "UNLEASH."

Festival attendees will have the ability to observe each artist put their talent to work and thereafter vote for their favorite artist via Facebook. All sponsors, artists and paintings will be presented at the closing ceremony before announcing the winner of the "Live Art Contest!"

Stop by often to see our artists' progress. Artists will be on view in the Camera Cinemas 12 windows along the Paseo de San Antonio walk between S. 1st and S. 2nd streets during the festival February 26–March 29, 2013.

Cinequest schedule & ticket information available at www.cinequest.org

Art Ark Gallery is pleased to present...

An Evening with Tango Trio

This Saturday, February 9th from 6-10pm
6-7pm Free Tango lesson taught by Leslie Gordon
7-10pm Music and Dancing

LIve music by Tango Trio
(Gianfranco Paolozzi, Nancy Lane & Griff Derryberry)

On view during the event:

Tango and the Modern Nude
A visual & performing arts exhibition celebrating the human form…from a reclining nude to a body in motion.

Participating Artists:
Alexanna Alvarado, Chrysta Giffen, Elizabeth Torrance, Julianne Sterling, Anne Sconberg, Denise Olenak, Eric Stampfli, Kathleen McDonald, Avery Palmer, Diane Kaye, Evan Suarez, Steve Davis, Brittney Cathey-Adams, Elise Putnam, Francesca Lovecchio, Trina Merry, Charisse Petruno, Don McCunn, Judy Roberto, Wayne Berger

Art Ark Gallery
1035 South 6th Street
San Jose, CA 95112

KALEID artist John Renzel is currently showing Faux + Faux = 8 a series of eight slightly jacked up "faux" portraits at Faux Salon as part of their on-going local artist feature.

Exhibition: February 10 – April 10, 2013

Faux Salon
378 E Campbell Ave
Campbell, CA 95008
(408) 378-3289

Hours:
Tue & Fri 10am-5pm
Wed & Thu 11am–7pm
Sat 9am–3pm
Sun 11am–4pm

Join us at KALEID Gallery for this upcoming TWO BUCK Tuesday, February 19th, 7pm-10pm!

Come enjoy an inspired evening of performances, live painting, $2 art, drop-in sketching table & quirky people get together! It’s open to all ages and free!

Sculptor David Canavese will give a free workshop teaching you some of his papercraft skills! All materials are provided.

Drawing On Magazines with Lara Sophia?-Magazines and oil pastels provided?-supplies to create a simple paper frame?$2 suggestion to cover materials

Force 129 will have these custom painted upcycled jars for $TwoBucks!

Julie Bilyeu will teach “Dry Pastelchemy” -creating your own dry pastels from scratch!

connections . relationships . attachments . hold us together?, what are your connections? be part an installation of labels defining connections that will be attached together and presented in an art show by Valerie Runningwolf in May at gallery 25, fresno, ca. make a label telling of your connections to what, who, where.

Bring your sketch pads and pencils for another Costumed Life Modeling session with Lara Sophia!

LIVE ART:

?Al Preciado

?James Pollard

?Leonnista

?John Hageman

?Nik Caesar

?David Mejia

Aaron Cobb

?J Swizza will spin some sweet tracks!

TWO BUCK Tuesday is February 19th, 7pm-10pm!?

88 South Fourth Street (@ San Fernando)
San Jose, CA 95112
info@KALEIDGallery.com
408-947-1785

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, noon -7pm
Free admission

Join us at Psycho Donuts in Campbell for a Rock and Roll ART show "Kepi and Friends Go Psycho" with live music by Kepi Ghoulie (Groovie Ghoulies) and Dog Party!

This show is going to be extra fun with art inspired by Kepi's music, Rock and Roll, punk and The Ramones.

Check out Kepi's latest video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQE7maP9Bf4

Psycho Donuts is turning 4 - so don't miss out on special donuts for the anniversary
and a special "Kepi" donut is in the works too!

"Kepi and Friends Go Psycho" A Rock and Roll themed art show featuring artists:
Kepi Ghoulie
Lucy Giles
Christine Benjamin
Gilbert Armendariz
Dan Potthast

Saturday, March 9th
12 noon to 6PM
Show is FREE and all ages

Show runs from March 9th to March 31st 2013

Psycho Donuts
2006 Winchester Blvd.
Campbell, CA 95008
408-533-1023

KALEID Gallery artist Shannon Amidon will be offering three new classes through Twin Soul Art Studio in Los Gatos. The classes include, Intro to encaustic painting, Make your own encaustic medium/paint and Photo transfers. To learn more about these classes please visit: http://shannonamidon.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-classes.html

Twin Soul Art Studio
644 N. Santa Cruz Avenue
Suite 11
Los Gatos, CA 95030

KALEID Gallery has begun new feature interviews with their artists on their website beginning this month, February 2013. As you may know, each month their main entry wall features two solo exhibitions by chosen resident artists there. Artists' receptions are held during the South FIRST FRIDAYS Art Walk on the first Friday of the month.

Kicking off this new feature are interviews with Melanie Sharr, and Jeff Hemming. Both artists are incredibly talented painters, each is from very different backgrounds and draw from different influences creating unique narratives with excellent techniques.

READ the interviews here, and then visit Sharr and Hemming's solo exhibitions. Both are on view through this week ending Friday February 22nd.

KALEID Gallery
88 S. 4th St.
Downtown San Jose, CA

Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, Noon-7pm, free admission.

PARALLAX
New works by and Joshua Quinonez (Madness) and Francisco Zarate (Francizek)
   
Opening Reception: Feb. 22nd, 7pm - 10pm
Music by Younity

on view through March 18th. 2013

The Usuals
1020 The Alameda
San Jose, California 95126

Our 6th annual vinyl/music inspired event featuring new artwork by:

Joe Aspacio
Erica Atreya
Cynthia Acevedo
Anthony Barbaria
Steve Caballero
Sonja Caldwell
Kim Christman
Michael Foley
Matt Guertner
Greca Ikke
Tyson Johnston
Jared Konopitski
Francis Marin
Mark Martinez
Splatterbeast
Ray Stevens
Jaime Wim Trevino
Kori Thompson
Roan Victor
And more...

+ drinks, DJs, and NO TAX ON ALL VINYL :)

Friday, Feb. 22nd, 7-11pm

On The Corner
530 E. Campbell Ave
downtown Campbell
408-871-0305 for info/directions

Corpus Callosum presents:
Uncanny Valley of the Hearts Delight #8
Friday, Feb. 22nd, 7pm, $8. door/all ages

Anno Domini
366 S. First St
Downtown San Jose
RSVP

We are emerging from our recording bubble to perform our first show of the year, because we're rusty like a water-damaged ukelin, but also because Nick Jaina is finally coming through town. Though you may be unfamiliar with his music as he comes to the bay but once in a blue moon, Nick is one of the premier songwriters in Portland, OR. His storytelling is immaculate and his music is beautiful, and we use no hyperbole when we say that he is one of the best musicians on the solar system, perhaps even outer space. He has released five albums on Hush Records and has, among many other things, composed three ballets with the Satellite Ballet and Collective, featuring dancers from the New York City Ballet. He will be joined on this tour by local string players Danah Olivetree (Fox & Woman, etc) and Dorota Szuta (Matador), who are, in our opinion, simply the best there is.

This show is headlined by our dear friend and San Jose legend-in-his-own-time Will Sprott. We personally gah-ron-tee that Mr. Sprott will blow our socks right through our shoes or your money back. ~Corpus Callosum

Will Sprott
Nick Jaina (Oregon)
Corpus Callosum

This is an excellent play we think you'll all relate to and enjoy! Thanks to the San Jose Stage Company for the discounted tickets being offered to our Phantom Galleries arts community!

“I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.” ~Mark Rothko

RED
By John Logan

Directed by Kenneth Kelleher

February 6-March 3, 2013
Performances:
Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 pm,
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm and
Sundays at 2:00 pm
Approximate running time 1 hour 30 minutes with no intermission

BUY TICKETS
Enter the promo code ROTHKO66 when you buy tickets to buy two tickets for price of one. (This discount does not stack with other discounts and is only good for performances of RED at San Jose Stage Company.)

Full-blooded and visceral, and winner of six 2010 Tony Awards including Best Play, Red by John Logan takes you into the mind of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko.

After landing the biggest commission in the history of modern art, Mark Rothko begins work on a series of large murals with the help of a new young assistant. Set amid the swiftly changing cultural tide of the early 1960s, celebrated bad boy of the art world for whom paintings are "pulsating" life forces and art is intended to stop the heart. The Stage's venue will serve as the ultimate environment for the up close and personal portrait of an artist's ambition and vulnerability. Red is a startling snapshot of a brilliant artist at the height of his fame, a play hailed as "intense and exciting" by The New York Times.

San Jose Stage Company
490 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Box Office: 408.283.7142

Visit out our facebook page to learn some interesting facts about the life and work of Mark Rothko and visit our website to learn more about upcoming shows.