KALEID - A gallery of fine art, limited editions and creative gifts


	Community artists have come together to enliven the downtown core by creating a lively gallery within an empty storefront.
	KALEID gallery - 88 South 4th Street, San Jose, CA 95113 - For more info: 408.271.5151 or info [at] kaleidgallery.com Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 7pm; Saturday, Noon - 5pm Join us every First Friday of the month for an opening reception of two new “Featured Artists” exhibitions. 7pm-9pm, free and open to the public, part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS gallery walk.
	First Friday May 2nd Featured Exhibits KALEID gallery presents featured exhibits by photographer Josh Hires and assemblage artist Philo Northrup. Artists' Reception First Friday May 2nd, 7-9pm Music by Elevator Out The Market 2.0 by Josh Hires On the surface, The Market is a look at a single day in the life of the many street vendors in Bay-Area farmers markets. This collection of work is a culmination of Josh Hires’ targeted research and photography efforts over the past 2 years. Initially a BFA project at San Jose State University, the images strive to show us a dual purpose. Firstly, they showcase a cultural phenomenon that is rather unique within the scope of America’s agriculture scene. Second, and perhaps most importantly they address the larger question of “what is for dinner, and how do the varied answers to this question effect us as a society”. Comprised of a series of 20x20 and larger Light Jet Prints, the show displays several aspects of our daily eating habits, but most specifically the habit of shopping at a local farmers market. Josh Hires is a Bay Area photographer who has shown in venues from San Joaquin Valley’s Spectrum Photography Gallery to magazines and other Central Valley Publications. Rampart by Philo Northrup Philo Northrup has been working on his Rampart project since 2006. The term, rampart, means an imposing fortification or castle wall. Northrup's rampart consists of a series of large found-object assemblages, which, when displayed close together, form one giant construction that covers an entire side of a building. The basic concept is to take the practice of assemblage - recombining disparate objects into a cohesive whole - to a grander scale so that the resulting piece is Monumental. The individual components focus on color and texture using standard geometric shapes (see above image "Blue X"). Often the base objects are construction materials such as doors and windows. The Kaleid Gallery will show a small version of Rampart, a larger version will be exhibited at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in 2009. Northrup's artwork has been exhibited at numerous venues including the San Jose Museum of Art, USC Museum of Art, Triton Museum of Art, California Museum of Art, Venice ArtWalk, LACE Annualé and the Bayannale. Most recently he had a solo show at the True World Gallery in Joshua Tree, CA. Northrup is best known for his ArtCars, which have appeared in articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Artweek, LA Times, SF Chronicle, SF Weekly, San Jose Mercury News, Juztapoz and Wired. This reception is part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk and is free and open to the public. posted by KALEID First Friday April 4th featured exhibits KALEID gallery presents featured exhibits by Gabe Ibarra and Jennifer Norton April 4 thru 25th. Artists' Reception First Friday April 4th, 7pm-9pm This reception is part of the South First Fridays art walk and is free and open to the public. Gabe Ibarra, Cherry Blossoms and Wheelbarrel, photograph Near and Dear To Me "The Garden City and Coyote Valley" Gabe Ibarra's photographic exhibit documents his immense hours of walking, discovering and rediscovering neighborhoods that have gone from orchards to a bustling city. A series of work 15 years in the making – do not rush the experience – savor it and rediscover your own neighborhood. Jen Norton, Patriot Act, mixed media on paper Bits and Pieces...Fragments of Clarity Revealed In Everyday Moments Daughter. Sister. Wife. Mother. Teacher. Creator. Our lives are rich with meaning hidden in our shared everyday moments. Jen Norton's artwork celebrates those relationships that bring us deep joy.Norton's work will include both acrylic and watermedia paintings, using color, texture and pattern as vehicles of expression. Relationships, recognizing grace in small moments, and finding meaning in everyday events all become subject matter in Norton’s paintings KALEID gallery 88 South Fourth Street (@ San Fernando) Downtown San Jose free and open to the public posted by KALEID First Friday March 7th Featured Exhibits 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 posted by KALEID First Friday February 1st KALEID gallery enters its second year with over 60 artists and featured exhibits by Cindy Stokes and Wendy Lowengrub. Artists' reception: Feb. 1, 2008, 7pm -9pm. Featuring Isoscelles a classic jazz paino trio with definite leanings toward Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock et alia, playing new and vintage standards. Exhibit on view through Feb. 22, 2008 Abstract painter Wendy Lowengrub and photographer Cindy Stokes provides complimentary views of form and pattern of nature through their respective mediums. Cindy Stokes, Burn II, Dynamic Form series, gelatin silver print, 2007. Dynamic Form book will also be available. The black-and-white photographs in Dynamic Form reflect my visual attraction to pattern and form in both natural and manmade materials. This interest is intensified by some knowledge of the underlying physics and biology from my engineering and science background. Why naturally occurring structures so often wind up visually alluring remains a mystery. Some forms are clearly functional and display principles of efficiency, while others seem purely serendipitous, although that idea may simply reflect my lack of understanding. Emergent patterns reveal fortuitous combinations of geometry and chance; paradoxically, very similar patterns occur on widely differing scales and arise from surprisingly different phenomena. The forms seem universal while the media are irrelevant, left to our imagination. ~Cindy Stokes Wendy Lowengrub, Glaciology, mixed media on canvas, 2007 The Glaciology exhibit is a series of paintings inspired by a trip to the Souther Patagonian Ice Fields in Chile and Argentina. Deep glacial crevasses and the undersides of icebergs that calve off glaciers reveal ice that is a beautiful, surreal and indescribably blue. This ice may be hundreds, if not thousands, of years old. The ice absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum with the exception of blue, which it transmits. These paintings are about the search for this color and form. ~Wendy Lowengrub posted by KALEID First Friday January 4th at KALEID 7-9pm Start the year off right with the Holiday Gallery of Gifts Only Sale of the Year — 20% off a wonderful assortment of original works of art, photography, textiles, jewelry, hand-blown glass, handmade books, cards and unique gifts by over 60 participating artists. Sale ends Saturday, January 5th at 5pm! Featuring music by Seabright – live instrumentation (drums, guitars, synthesizers) with computer looping and real-time arranging. A balance of the electronic and the organic is achieved through the use of improvisational experimentation crossing over into the post rock, shoegaze, psych, and ambient genres. posted by KALEID
	KALEID is a project of Phantom Galleries, produced by Two Fish Design, in partnership with the San Jose Downtown Association and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency.