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.

No FIRST FRIDAY for July

Please note that there will not be a First Friday Artwalk for July due to the July Fourth holiday. We will return First Friday August 1st with featured exhibits by Kyle Perera (aka Pellet Factory) and Andy Gouveia.

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First Friday June 6th Featured Exhibits

KALEID gallery presents featured exhibits by clayprint monograph artist Martha Castillo and mixed media artist Eric Taggart.

Artists' Reception First Friday June 6th, 7-9pm
Exhibit on view through July 12, 2008.

This reception is part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS artwalk. It is free and open to the public.

Cities and Beyond by Martha Castillo
This collection includes work from two of Castillo's most recent series: “Cities I Have Known”, and “Beyond the Surface”. Mostly large, all abstract, expressive and lively, they capture her feelings about places and ideas.

I perceive life as many of layers of mood, color and texture, and am inspired by the visual evidence of ageing all around us. Those layers, built up over time, and worn down by use, generate the uneven patina of life’s experience. *Clayprinting allows me to be curious, to explore complex interplays of shape and color, surface and core.
The monoprints are textured and complex. I hope you will find them inviting.

*Clayprint-This innovative new technique invented by Pennsylvania Artist Mitch Lyons, is all about layers. The artist creates images by painting layers of white potters clay with pigment added, onto a slab of un-fired stoneware clay. The image is then transferred by hand to canvas, using a wooden brayer and other hand tools, generating a monotype. Every print is a unique, artist made, original.

Martha Castillo has studied with Mitch Lyons, the inventor of clayprinting, on numerous occasions. In addition to exhibiting her clayprints to a growing audience, Castillo teaches workshops in this exciting new medium.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. by Eric Taggart

Eric Taggart is a self-taught artist who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. In undergraduate and graduate school, his focus of study was philosophy, religion and psychology. In 2003, he began to explore these same fields through artmaking in an effort to mend what was deconstructed through my formal education.

Taggart adds: I work in many mediums and tend to be drawn to objects and materials that already have history and narrative. Recent works have included whiteout, wire, tape and string - materials that are commonly associated with mending and repair.

Taggart engages religious, psychological and political themes through his mixed-media work which often includes found objects, personal family artifacts and common materials typically used for household mending and repair.

In the spring of this year, a blue ribbon jury of Los Angeles gallery owners and museum curators (most notably Howard Fox, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art) selected Taggart as one of LA ArtSeen's 2008 Emerging Artists. His work was then hung in the company of works by such highly esteemed artists as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg at the corresponding benefit auction in Hollywood.

Eric has exhibited in San Jose, San Francisco, Mt. View, Los Angeles and San Diego. He has a BA in Philosophy and Theology from Point Loma Nazarene University and a MA in Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. He currently resides with his wife in Los Altos.

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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.

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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

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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

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