Stephan Doitschinoff (aka CALMA) is a self-taught artist based in Bahia and São Paulo, Brazil.
Looking to Brazilian folklore and Baroque religious imagery, as well as Alchemical and Pagan symbols, Stephan has created his own unique language and style which embraces his influences and lets them evolve naturally into his own autobiographical work by combining them with his roots in urban art and Pop culture.
Artist's Reception: First Friday, May 2nd, 2008
8 p.m. 'til late • free and open to the public
Music: dj Chlorophil Exhibit ends: June 21st, 2008
In February, 2007, Anno Domini was proud to exhibit Daniel Jesse Lewis’ debut solo exhibit Everything All At Once, All Day Long. His sensitive and humorous observations of life’s little moments were played out on various sized works including a 12’ x 8’ canvas that contained such milestones as his wedding, a cousin’s funeral and a bizarre morning commute in which a fire blazed outside the window.
Until Now, Daniel’s second solo exhibit with A.D., portrays recently made memories: learning he’s about to become a father, the way friendships seem to bloom and wilt, fantastic explanations for death, split personalities, and the various forms of escapism we engage, all within Daniel’s view of the basic softness and vulnerability of the human being.
"The world it seems, is in a constant state of chaos, but as I watch my baby grow and prepare to be born, for the first time, I feel a sense of calm in all of it. As if everything until now -- has been to prepare me for now."
~Daniel Jesse Lewis
Artist's Reception: First Friday, April 4, 2008
8 p.m. 'til late • free and open to the public
Exhibit on view thru Friday, May 17, 2008
View photos from our visit to Daniel's studio and the current exhibit: Studio Visit: set 1 Gallery Installation: set 1 | set 2
LOCATION & HOURS
Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 So. First Street map
San Jose, CA 95113
408.271.5155
www.galleryAD.com
Gallery & Store Hours: Tuesday through Friday, noon - 7 p.m.
Saturday, noon - 5 p.m.
Artists Andy Gouveia and Kyle of Pellet Factory will have new works at Broken Door Espresso this Friday. It'll also be your last chance to see Kyle's mural in the space as it's about to be redone by another artist soon.
Hooping by Rachel Radness and live music by The Meting Face Trio.
Friday, May 9th, 8pm 'til late.
Broken Door Espresso
231 E.Santa Clara Street (across from City Hall)
San Jose, CA
Anno Domini is proud to be hosting the return of the Underskatement Film Festival Vol. 4 this Friday, April 18th.
Andreas Troif and David Franklin chose 24 of the best short films out of 75 submissions from as far away as South America, Europe and Australia. The works include documentary, experimental, animation and music videos shot on 16 mm, Super 8 and digital cameras. Besides the filmmaker being a skateboarder, the only other criteria was to keep the submissions under seven minutes long.
Friday, April 18th, 7:30pm
$5.00 admission at the door
Anno Domini
366 South First Street
downtown San Jose
408-271-5155
AK Press is a worker-run anarchist collective, which publishes and distributes books and other media. They are looking to hire two new collective members for full time positions.
Their politics draw on the rich heritage of anarchist, anti-authoritarian, and left-communist thought and action. AK Press publishes around 20 books, CDs, and DVDs per year, and distributes 4,000+ other titles from independent presses and publishers to the book trade, individuals, radical spaces, and other outlets.
Anno Domini is hosting Black & Brown's Spring Fashion Show entitled "Extinction." B&B is a great asset to our creative community and their fashion shows are always professional and inspirational. This show will be no exception, the extinction theme will carry over into the hair, makeup, clothing, projection visuals and music.
Saturday, April 12th
Doors open at 8pm, show at 9pm
$7 admission
Anno Domini gallery
366 South First Street
downtown San Jose
Jai Tanju will have an exhibit and book release entitled Just Keep Going. The exhibit is derived from his exhibit at No. 12 gallery in Tokyo last year.Music by: RS2 Solid Sound, Stars Misplaced, and Man Versus.
Saturday April 5th from 7-10pm
Black & Brown Clothing
1225 W. San Carlos St., San Jose
The Big Sad: Barry McGee & Clare Rojas Riverside Art Museum Exhibition Dates: March 30 - May 17, 2008
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 30, 2008, 4-7pm
Barry McGee and Clare Rojas have long been associated with the "Mission School", a loose collection of artists inspired by the culture of the street, particularly in the Mission District of San Francisco. Their works are often shown clustered together, mixing handcrafted paintings with scraps scavenged from the street and with photographs and other artwork found at thrift stores.
We're very pleased to announce we've acquired two new locations for the Phantom Galleries project in the SoFA District. We are grateful to the owners of the buildings for their participation which gives exhibit opportunities to our local artists and enlivens our district.
486 South First Street - Long time Duke of the Art Car brigade, Philo Northrup(pictured above) exhibits his personal assemblage artwork. On view through May, 2008.
480 South First Street - Lori Gordon's watercolor text paintings are part of the current exhibit This Show Needs You at SJICA. On view through April, 2008.
Anno Domini, in partnership with Sao Paulo's Choque Cultural, presents Bruno 9Li's first ever limited edition screen print. This 3 color, signed/numbered, visually reverberating print is an edition of 150, for $225. USD
We also have a new arrival of original artwork by Bruno from his Tormenta exhibit in Sao Paulo late last year.
Our good friend M Dot Strange is out wondering the streets of Tokyo searching for the perfect bowl of Udon. Thought we'd share a cool little music video he put together recently with PNOK so you could perfect your dance moves before the weekend.
"FERAL"a collaborative installation bySWOON & MONICA CANILAO, "tales of wicked women and wildish girls" opens on Friday, March 21, 2008 at The Luggage Store. The artist's reception is on the 21st from 6-8pm and the exhibit runs through April 26th. Make sure you get out to this one!
Black Rock Arts Foundation is working to bring Homouroboros by Peter Hudson to San Jose for a month long exhibit beginning mid May, 2008. At 24 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter, Homouroboros is one of the largest, most ambitious zoetropes ever created, and public exhibition of the piece will establish a new level of interactivity for public art.
A community event featuring the artist will be held here at Anno Domini gallery on Thursday, March 20th from 6:30pm - 9pm. Admission is a $10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds to benefit the Homouroboros project. ($28,000 has already been raised toward their goal of $40,000.)
Volunteers are also needed to support this amazing outdoor, interactive exhibition. If you would like to lend your hands or mind to this project, feel free to attend this event for more informaiton, or visit their site here.
Ben Henderson, an amazing singer/songwriter is performing live at Brokendoor Espresso on Friday, March 14th at 8pm.
Ben just released his new CD Dirty Birdies which is fantastic, it'll be a real treat to see Ben in this up close and intimate venue. Free and open to all ages. (Awesome flyer by Pellet.)
Brokendoor Espresso
231 E. Santa Clara (across from City Hall)
Downtown San Jose
Friday, March 21st. 2008, 7-9pm
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut St. San Francisco, CA 94133
LISTEN/VISION is a unique series exploring the art of perception. It is a place and time for a shared experience of sound and light and space. Volume and Overlap.org have partnered to commission new and unreleased sound and video works from an international pool of acclaimed contemporary artists. These exclusive pieces, not to be found anywhere on the web or a CD, are presented in a collective listening environment. Links: Overlap.orgVolumeprojects.org
Congratulations to the local crew behind the making of "Glory Boy Days" that debuted at Cinequest this weekend. We really enjoyed seeing our peeps up on the big screen last night!
David Choe (AD 2002, 2003, 2006) will be at Lazarides Gallery in both of their locations - London and Newcastle- with new original works and limited prints. The exhibit runs February 28 thru March 28th.
Lazarides represents Banksy, Antony Micallef, Invader and Conor Harrington, all artists we really admire and David is well deserved to be in the same company.
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!
When: Sunday Feb. 24th, 2008 Time: 9:00am to 3:00pm Where: Scoot! Magazine Headquarters
190 Martha Street, San Jose CA
(888) 337-2668
* The cost for entry is free!
* All scooter types and riders are welcomed!
* Food and drink will be available for lunch!
* Bring the schwag you don't need!
* Arrive early to get the schwag you DO need!
The next SHARE San Jose meeting will be Thursday, February 21, 2008, starting at 7:30 p.m., here at Anno Domini gallery. This will be a jam-oriented session, like the first meeting organized back in December. Amplication, mixers, and projectors will be provided. Just bring your sound-making or video-making equipment, plug in, and see what happens. This time there will be an attempt to distribute MIDI clock to whoever can be driven by MIDI clock, so that the sounds are more synchronized.
More info: SHARE is a global organization dedicated to supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange in new media communities. Local SHARE groups hold free, open jams and workshops in their communities. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others' signal and perform live audio and video. SHARE furnishes the amplification and projection. SHARE happens weekly to monthly in cities around the world, where interesting things happen.
SHARE San Jose has a wiki and a mailing list to keep you connected.
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.
In addition to being a great painter, our good friend 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.
The Mumlers' "Thickets & Stitches" comes out today (released on Galaxia). Drop by Streetlight Records at 980 S Bascom Ave. in San Jose tonight at 7:30 for an acoustic set and pick up your own copy. See you there!
Hitting the streets tomorrow, Feb. 11th, is a new issue of WAVE Magazine with Bruno 9Li's work on the cover, and a nice shot inside of Barron's current exhibit, to illustrate their feature story about how to start an art collection. If you need any help in that department, you know where we are.
If you didn't get a chance to pick up one of Tessar Lo's works at A.D.'s Fresh Produce over the holidays, he has a dual show on right now at Project Gallery in Culver City with Chris Devera. Tessar has some beautiful, large works with mixed media and gold leaf on wood available here. Chris has some wonderful works as well.
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.
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
So far a crazy ride for local band The Mumlers. They won the Bleeding Edge Festival in '06, their reward was a two week session at a multi-million dollar studio in Montana in 2007, got signed to Galaxia Records, scored the cover of the Metro a couple of weeks ago, and now, finally, their record release party!
Friday, Feb. 15th, 9:00 PM - The Blank Club - San Jose, California - record release show! with The Dodos & Two Sheds!!-with super djs cutso & nate nothing. $8, 21+
About five years ago we went down to L.A. to see an exhibit by BANKSY -in a little house gallery in Silverlake (L.A.). We loved his street art and thought it'd be great to meet him and go to the after party that was in a little warehouse in an industrial area downtown. The exhibit had about 20 pieces....his stencils transposed to canvases, prices starting at about $150-$200. We weren't that into them, we thought they were better on the streets...still do feel that way.
Well Bonham UK just held the "world's first urban art auction" tonight and there's one of those canvas pieces from the L.A. show (pictured above)...it went for $121,000. Banksy dominated the sales although Blek LeRat, Faile, D*Face and Nick Walker did well, Keith Haring seemed to pale in comparison. Bonham says: Exciting, fresh, edgy and challenging, interest for works was fever-pitch throughout the sale with 99% of the work selling - a truly extraordinary phenomenon that the market has never seen before. In other words, we had no idea what a cash cow this was going to be!
Any one that's thinking street art is not a viable genre of art for the history books...think again. This is just getting started. (In Banksy's hometown of Bristol, the city is trainining cleaning crews to recognize Banksy work so they won't buff it....he's important to the promotion of the city.) The good news is there are so many amazing artists with incredible talent that are still affordable that if you're an emerging collector, there's definitely room on the ground floor.
You can see the Bonham auction results here. (btw, we never did get to meet Banksy...that would've been nice.)
