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Works/San José archive calendar of events 2006 Local Hero: Ray Ashley's Passion for Collecting 1/5/06-1/28/06 Reception: Friday, January 6th, 2006, 7 - 9pm Long-time Works supporter Ray Ashley has been collecting art, primarily through a variety of South Bay art auctions, for over 25 years. Local curator Sarah Puckitt and SFSU graduate student Monica Tucker will conduct an inventory of Ray’s collection and then curate this exhibition, which will be a veritable “Who’s Who” of the South Bay art scene for the last 25 years. Read the PR Engineered Constructs: a Minimalist Space 2/7/06 - 3/4/06 Reception: Friday, February 10th, 7 - 9pm Three Bay Area artists consider the urban as landscape, as material and as inspiration. Sparky Campanella, Susan Spies and Miya Ando Stanoff's use of tonality, texture and color all share a minimalist sensibility. With abstraction as their bridge, these three artists use photography, painting and metal work to construct contemplative environments. Read the PR artists website grand opening of P2IS: Paulette Peterson Installation Space Momentary Contemplation in an Over Stimulated World by Richard C. Clapp. The exhibition runs concurrently with Engineered Constructs, with a public reception also on February 10th at 7pm. New Music Night : Friday, March 10th 10pm, doors open at 9pm Mikki Boyd: Soul Sessions $10 / no one turned away In her first show since her residency at the prestigious Red Bull Music Academy in Seattle, soulful jazz and hip hop hybrid singer/songwriter Mikki Boyd returns to perform original songs nd fresh takes on jazz and soul favorites. Accompanied by her ultra-sonic family, Chris Boyd (bass), Harry Boyd (drums), Jason Archie (keys), Mikki lifts the audience to new plateaus of soul-filled harmony. Special guests TBA. Mikki Boyd's website Opening set by Trademark Performance Night: Saturday, March 11th 8PM Salbiffco Int'l presents: Affordable Entertainment $8 - 10 sliding scale / no one turned away Working as media satirists, stand-up comics, and cultural critics, the artists of Salbiffco Int'l have created a series of compelling video programs which we are proud to present at Works/San Jose. Sometimes irreverent, sometimes absurd, these often hilarious video programs provide a rowdy, thrilling alternative to mainstream media. Salbiffco's website Flux - Members’ Exhibition 3/28/06– 4/22/06 Reception: Friday, March 31st, 7 - 9pm A salon-style exhibition of work by current members. download call for entries download entry form see the pr P2IS: Paulette Peterson Installation Space PROJECTION by Carol Venn. The exhibition runs concurrently with Flux, with a public reception also on March 31st at 7:00pm. PROJECTION was borne out of a life-altering, disabling injury. A multi-media installation, the syncopated light and sound (either real or imagined) from two 8mm film projectors offer mantra-like prayers as a backdrop for the investigation of essence. Showings will be at the following times: Thursday, April 6 showings at 5:30, 6 and 6:30 pm and Saturday, April 22 at 2:30, 3 and 3:30pm. PROJECTION uses the process of unmaking as a remaking. Evidence of what normally is on the inside has been rendered vulnerably on the outside. Human presence registers in time and space as the artist will be present and the film aspect of the work shown on several occasions during the show. New Music Night Friday, 4/28, 9pm - 1am, doors open at 8pm $10 donation at the door/noone turned away Featuring: Aaron Novik and Bulkley/Cress Aaron Novik is a composer who will be performing with Cutting Guard, a group that combines influences ranging from modern composition, adventerous jazz, eastern european folk music, balinese gamelan, punk, indie rock and metal.. www.aaronnovik.com BulkleyCress (electronic/acoustic drum/sax duo) will perform the opening set. BulkleyCress is composed of drummer Tim Bulkley improvising on drumset and sampler and saxophonist Patrick Cress improvising on baritone saxophone and using samples, looping and effects. Performance Night Saturday, 4/29, 8pm $10/$8 members / noone turned away Featuring: Julia Christensen and Trish Stone Julia Christensen has been touring the United States documenting the phenomenon of the Big Box and the transformations made possible by local communities. Her massive Big Box Reuse project has garnered a cover story in the New York Times, dozens of radio & television interviews, and widespread critical acclaim. An experimental artist whose artworks tread the thin line between art and research, Julia tends to work best in a variety of media, testing the lines between electronic and non-electronic, audience and performer. Trish Stone creates work that explores the familiar, mundane surroundings of our daily lives, uncovering the sometimes whimsical, sometimes terrifying material underneath. Her photographic work documenting office spaces has been exhibited nationally, and her works in video, performance, web-art, and installation recently led to an Artist Residency at the Experimental Media Arts program at Stanford University. There, she began her controversial CharlesSpy.com project and began researching and creating work around the relationships between video games, surveillance, fantasy, and terrorism. San Jose State University Design Show 5/2/06-5/3/06 Reception: Wednesday, May 3rd, 6 - 9pm An introduction to the latest batch of San Jose State’s Graphic Design Corps, featuring portfolios of work created by BFA students. Present Perfect 5/9/06-6/03/06 Reception: Friday, May 12th, 7 - 9pm This exhibition conveys a belief that perfection lies in the impending failure of representing the moment. The exhibition includes works by three artists who record their lives, in part, to reaffirm their own presense. Featuring artists Irwin Swirnoff, Chris Thorson and Naomi Miller, Present Perfect will include video, performance-based readings, writing, photography and painting. P2IS: Paulette Peterson Installation Space Between Something and Something Else, ironing and in situ drawings by Mung Lar Lam. The exhibition runs concurrently with Present Perfect, with a public reception also on May 12th at 7pm. Between Something And Something Else is perception in pursuit of the lived experience while exploring the untenable, temporal and enigmatic. Using the ironed mark to delineate a point of transition and to indicate memories in a constant state of becoming, Lam employs the use of a non-classical, gendered and sociological process to further the notions of perceptual awareness and consciousness. The work strives for dimensionality, continuity and self-referential reflection while merging the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture and architecture to yield its own unique character and discipline. New California Masters 6/13/06-7/8/06 Reception: Friday, 6/16/06, 7 - 9pm In this annual juried exhibition, emerging curator Rachel Beth Egenhoefer takes the pulse of California's most recent MFA graduates. For further information download the call for entries (a PDF doc). First fridays at Works Panel Discussion: “Public Art” Friday, 7/7, 6:30pm Free and open to the public A discussion of the function of public art and how the City of San Jose facilitates the installation of artworks in public spaces. Panelists include artists Diana Pumpelly Bates, Bill Gould, Cynthia Handel, and San Jose Public Art Program Director, Barbara Goldstein. ex_XX :: post position CADRE after 20 years 7/18/06-8/13/06 Reception: Friday, July 21st, 7 - 9pm This exhibition surveys 20 years of work developed by artists in San Jose State University’s CADRE Laboratory for New Media. (CADRE: Computers in Art, Design, Research and Education.) This show will be part of the International Symposium on Electronic Art, to take place in San Jose and surrounding areas in August 2006. This prestigious biannual international symposium/art and technology festival will feature a global gathering of leaders in the art, science and technology communities. www.cadrexxx.com Press release New Media Performance: Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 7pm Carlos Castellanos presents BodyDaemon: A bio-responsive Internet server and performance Carlos Castellanos is an interactive media artist, National Science Foundation IGERT fellow and graduate student at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at Jose State University. His research and art practice focuses on Software/Network Art, DataMapping/Visualization/Sonification and Physical Computing. Most recently he is exploring relationships between the human body and mind to digital technologies, particularly the Internet and it's underlying structures. And at 9 pm on Tuesday, August 8th Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity: The Musical by James Morgan The movie will be preceded by a performance situated in the institutional understanding of special relativity. James Morgan has degrees in art and mathematics. His work incorporates fine art, performance, science and pure theory. In producing the work Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity: The Musical, he follows theory from nature to observation to representation and finally to entertainment. P2IS: Paulette Peterson Installation Space Michele Théberge: Breathing Room runs concurrently with ex_xx post position, with a public reception also on July 21th at 7pm. Michele Théberge is an artist and teacher based in Oakland, CA. Her drawings, paintings and installations have been shown in venues in Hong Kong, Japan, and across the United States. In 2004 she completed her MFA degree at the California College of the Arts. Breathing Room is a mixed media installation designed as a respite for the mind. Spare and reductionist, with a sense of humor, a vortex made of thousands of painted arcs, scraps of fabric, plastic, and other found materials create an ethereal space of visual quiet. Drawing on her years of meditation practice, Théberge began making paintings with repeated marks while in graduate school as a way to calm her mind and focus. Creating a room-sized installation is a way to envelop visitors in a space similar to what she experiences in deep meditation. Breathing Room Slide Show and Breathing Session Thursday, July 27 6:30-8:30 pm Slide show 6:30 pm Breathing Session 7:30 pm Participants will meet in the P2IS space, where Théberge will lead some simple breathing exercises followed by a period of silent contemplation. Visitors will be invited to reflect on the changing nature of the piece depending on one’s state of being and the experience of group meditation. American Seven 8/22/06-9/16/06 Reception: Friday, August 25, 7 - 9pm This exhibit focuses on the seven deadly sins, a traditional moral structure used by artists, applicable to the here and now. Current examples are a preemptive call to war, promotion of the death penalty, torture, abstinence-only education and exploitation. This exhibition offers artists and audience a way to express resistance to present values that are not life-affirming. Featuring artists Philippe Barnoud, Janeth Berrettini, Natalya Burd, Tony de Carlo, Chris Clary, Carl Ferrero, Brian Higbee, Dawn Martinez Oropeza, Victoria May, Mark Nobriga, Fanny Retsek, Sandra Starkey and Patrick Todd. Event Weekend: September 22 & 23, 2006 Mind Strata: The Collision Point 9/29/06-10/28/06 Reception: Friday, 9/29/06, 7 - 9pm Based on the idea that the layering of consciousness is analogous to the layering of geological time periods, the work of these three artists is combined in a single collaborative exhibition in which the authorship of each piece is in doubt and all pieces must be present for each piece to exist. Featuring artists Bryan Hewitt, Peter Foucault and Vita Mei Hewitt. P2x3 - Paulette Peterson three-part retrospective p1: Driven to Dig - 9/29/06 - 10/28/06 Reception: Friday, October 27th, 7 - 9pm an installation by Paulette Peterson in the P2 installation space. p2: Sanctity - 11/21/06 - 12/2/06 Reception for parts 2 and 3: Saturday, December 2nd, 5 - 7pm with the reception for the Annual Benefit Auction p3: Paulette Peterson Prints - 11/21/06 - 12/2/06 on view in the central hallway. Generously donated by Paulette's family, the sale of these prints at Works' annual auction on December 2 will benefit Works/San Jose and the Bay Area Breast Cancer Network. Event Weekend: November 3 & 4, 2006 Auction 11/21/06-12/2/06 reception: 5-7pm Saturday December 2nd auction begins: 7pm the silent auction includes the p2 prints. Works enteres its 30th year with its most significant benefit ever. Help bring Works into a new decade and launch it toward a new location!. More info...

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