Last 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
The evening's soundtrack provided by Nate Nothing
Exhibit on view thru Friday, May 17, 2008
Anno Dominipresents...
"Victoria Everlasting"debut solo exhibit by Derek Weisberg feauring a site-specific sculptural installation
Derek Weisberg’s sculptures are inspired by the classical imagery of a time when art was created for the inspiration of the people to connect with the divine. Within the pursuit of artisan craftmanship, Derek’s figures are captured in moments of contemplation, anguish and the search for meaning and comprehension of being human during challenging times.
Artist's Reception: First Friday, March 7, 2008
8 p.m. 'til late • free and open to the public
Music: resident dj Nate Nothing
Exhibit ends: April 19th, 2008
View photos from our visit to Derek's studio and the current exhibit:
Studio visit — set 1 | set 2
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 Saturday, noon 'til 8 p.m.
Hera (Frankfurt, Germany) has an amazing exhibit up at Fifty24 in San Francisco through July. She and Akut are usually known for their collaborative works (aka HERAKUT). Hera's work is more graffiti/street art based whereas Akut is more smooth and realistic which makes for very intriguing qualities to their collabo pieces. Thereapy Dropout is Hera's first solo endeavor - an impressive debut.
"If you paint what you feel, you drag it out of yourself and put it in front of you, where you can see it and deal with it. Once that's done you can turn your back on it and leave it behind. Others will eventually paint over it, but that doesn't matter, because you had never planned on keeping it anyway. You're moving on. That's it," states Hera of the meaning behind her Therapy Dropout exhibit.
There's photos here
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Fifty24, 252 Fillmore St. San Francisco
AfterWorks begins this Friday at the Art Ark after the last of the ashes have fallen from the sky (or 10pm... whichever comes first). Featuring: the music of David Knight and Benjamin Henderson; Live Animation by M dot Strange set to the music of Panthelion, David Knight and Steve Barry; Live Painting by Brittany Rediger and Joe Barajas; Hooping by Rachel Radness.
The Art Ark
1035 S. 6th Street, San Jose, CA
Doors: 10 p.m.
Admission: free
This is one of our favorite sound art events to attend every year. It's well worth the trek if you don't live in Oakland. Thought I'd let someone else provide the accolades this round. Here's a nice write up from Jason Victor Serinusm of the East Bay Express.
The most extraordinary concert of the season, the Garden of Memory columbarium walk-through in the historic, Julia Morgan-designed Chapel of the Chimes, returns this weekend. The annual summer solstice celebration, whose fame has spread to Europe and the Far East, will scatter no less than forty local and international cutting-edge musicians and ensembles throughout the extraordinary facility. With acoustics to die for, and multiple, equally intriguing performances vying for attention, the more than 2,000 attendees expected this year are sure to find their consciousness and imagination expand. Arrive early to find decent parking and hear the most popular performers.
This is worth a road trip south! 150 amazing artists including past exhibiting A.D. artists: Dalek, Emek, Shepard Fairey, AJ Fosik, Sylvia Ji, Saber and Andrew Schoultz! The list is long and impressive, and some choices a bit curious which creates even more anticipation as to how it's all going to come together. For the full artists' list, visit the Laguna Art Museum website here.
from the press release: In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor is an exhibition that presents the work of approximately one hundred and fifty artists and posits that there has been a huge, but unacknowledged, art movement taking place in this country for the last forty years. Since 1994, this ground swelling of lowbrow, surrealistic, pop, figurative, and narrative work has coalesced and found a voice in the pages of Juxtapoz magazine published in San Francisco. This "rag" has become the most widely read art magazine in the U.S. It is an influencing force on the aspiring artists of generation Y and the millenials, who are now enrolling in art schools in numbers never before seen.
Sylvia Ji has a solo exhibit opening tonight at Whitewalls in SF. We're big fans of her work. If you can't make it out to the opening tonight, drop by the gallery before July 5th when it comes down.
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 14th, 2008 from 7-11 p.m.
On View through July 5th, 2008
White Walls
835 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
We've been trying to encourage Because of Ghosts (Australia) to visit the U.S. for a few years now. Their next major release "This Culture of Background Noise" comes out in September. Maybe if enough of us yanks buy it, they'll head this way!
A few weeks after the first song, "Patch a Signal," by Gretel Prinn surfaced, we've noticed a significant increase in the number of results we get from a Google search in our latest quest to learn more about about this emerging talent. Gretel Prinn is the result of an ongoing sound experiment masterminded by songstress and programmer, Annabel Linquist. There's more to download available here.
Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by renowned artist David Byrne. The artist transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.” The project consists of a retrofitted antique organ, placed in the center of the building's cavernous second-floor gallery, that controls a series of devices attached to its structural features—metal beams, plumbing, electrical conduits, and heating and water pipes. These machines vibrate, strike, and blow across the building’s elements, triggering unique harmonics and producing finely tuned sounds.
There's a great interview by Anne Pasternak, curator of Playing the Building, with artist David Byrne about the ideas behind this installation, and his other work. Read it here...
Playing the Building
an installation by David Byrne
May 31–Aug 10, 2008 CREATIVETIME
"For the maverick rhythm scientist Paul D. Miller, sound is liquid; it spills over and slips under categories, firewalls, case law, and legal codes to find us and move us. In the same way, his important collection of sound thinkers and sound ideas calls us to remove the fake 'security' imposed on us by capital and state, and, more crucially, to reimagine freedom and reclaim our creativity." --Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Come meet Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid at Anno Domini, First Frdiay June 6th at 7pm as he discusses his new book Sound Unbound. Free and open to the public.
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician living and working in New York City. His artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale for Architecture, the Andy Warhol Museum, and many other venues. His written work has appeared in such publications as the Village Voice and Artforum. He is an editor of the magazine 21c and the author of Rhythm Science (MIT Press, 2004).
We first encountered this film "The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal" as an installation at CCAC (now CCA) in San Francisco. Created by Matt McCormick in 2001, its premise lies in the concept that "emerging from the human psyche and showing characteristics of abstract expressionism, minimalism and Russian constructivism, graffiti removal has secured its place in the history of modern art while being created by artists who are unconscious of their artistic achievements." It was nice to stumble across this 5 minute clip on YouTube. The original, shot on 16mm film, runs for 16 minutes. Check it out.
SOUND & VISIONS A San Jose Group Photography Show featuring: Aaron Choe, Kim Hoang, Junior Sanchez, Rachel Olmstead, Tomek, Jennifer Anderson, Andrew Peejack, Dave Imlay, Lucia Espinoza, and Whitney
Friday, May 30th from 8pm 'til Midnight On the Corner Music
530 East Campbell Ave (downtown Campbell)
DIG DUG returns...
A Record Swap and Listening Party featuring
DJs:
David Ma (Wax Poetics, wttmradio.com)
Mr. Ma is a well-respected and widely published hip-hop writer who specializes in interviews with classic and emerging artists in the field. As a selector his tastes run toward 60's soul, Bowie, and the occasional party jam. Chief Xcel: Core Collector
Justin Torres (Re-Joint Records, All Bay Productions)
Mr. Torres has held it down as a vendor for many of the past Dig Dug events, and we are very excited to hear some selections from his legendary collection. Though a specialist in soul and funk from the Bay Area, we're not quite sure what to expect when he takes the decks. The Break Up Letters
DJ Platurn (Oakland Faders, Music Machine)
Platurnipus is one of the finest DJs in the Bay area and beyond. He is a prolific and award-winning battle DJ, mixtape DJ and, more recently, club rocker. He has promised to bring out the funk records that he loves but can't play anywhere else. From Oakland to Iceland
Vendors:
Jeff Jagged from On the Corner Music in Campbell Geraldine from www.fmgvinyl.com King Most, in-demand DJ/Producer (Plug Label)
San Jose legend Joey Meyers
...and more
UPDATE: Homouroboros Dedication Ceremony May 17th!!
Please join burners, press and public for the Black Rock Arts Foundation ribbon-cutting ceremony for Peter Hudson's Homouroboros installation! This will be the official kick-off for the Zero1 festival, and the beginning of an entire month of monkey business in downtown San Jose.
The dedication will take place at 6pm on Saturday, May 17th at the Children's Discovery Museum - Discovery Meadow (directions here). Once the ribbon is cut by Melissa Alexander, Executive Director of BRAF, and Peter Hudson, the artist and creator of Homouroboros, the drums will start to pound and the zoetrope will start to spin. Get ready for what Wired Magazine called the winner of the "WOW, did you see that?" survey at Burning Man 2007.
Reception follows the ceremony, 7pm - 9pm at Anno Domini gallery with food and refreshments. Be sure to see this incredible zoetrope at its best ... in full dark ... to appreciate the effects under the strobe lights of what scientists call "the persistence of vision". We'll all walk over to the monkeys at 9pm for a full night experience!
Just came across this short film by Blu, considered an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. It was made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche). The music by Andrea Martignoni. It was produced by Mercurio Film with assistant Sibe.
Check out this new video made for Good Hustle animated by artist PJ Gaviglio. Great stuff!
Ben Henderson will be performing with Dan McKee (of good hustle) at the Space Gallery this Friday, May 16th. Henderson and McKee will be playing solo sets and collaborating on a few tunes. Also performing will be David Knight, Rick Halverson and Tyler Cripe. This show is an art opening for the people at Monkeys with Human Haircuts . The event is free (21+) and begins at 8:30pm.
The third installment of LISTEN/VISION presents a very special evening with live performances by the three principal members of the German arts platform Raster-Noton: Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender. Each artist will perform individually, and collectively as Signal. These artists are considered by many to be some of the most important and influential individuals working within the field of experimental electronic audiovisual performance today.
May 14, 2008
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
7pm-midnight
Tickets are $15 for the general public, free for SFAI Students (limit one per student).
Tickets will be sold the night of the performance at the venue, advance tickets may be purchased online here: www.volumeprojects.org
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.
