Arts Events
Road Trip
09/19 - 01/25: San Jose Museum of Art
Often considered a distinctly American experience, the road trip is an excursion in which the journey is as compelling as the destination. The exhibition Road Trip examines this travel experience through...
Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance Engineers
09/27 - 01/25: Parkside Hall
Leonardo da Vinci is celebrated as the inventor of extraordinary machines and mechanical devices that entered the common heritage of technical culture only several centuries after his death. However,...
Frida Kahlo - Portraits of an Icon
10/11 - 03/22: San Jose Museum of Art
Shedding light on the life and art of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), this exhibition features approximately fifty photographic portraits of the legendary Mexican artist. Drawn from the collection of Spencer...
Mark Harrington
10/11 - 01/04: San Jose Museum of Art
This exhibition presents recent works by painter Mark Harrington, who is known for his large-scale abstract canvases activated by horizontal lines. Harrington paints with his canvas flat on the ground,...
James Grashow - The Great Monkey Project
10/16 - 01/04: San Jose Museum of Art
Imagine one hundred life-size monkeys made out of cardboard dangling from each other and swinging from trapezes. This is what artist James Grashow will do to transform the museum’s lobby with...
Wilfried Satty
10/17 - 03/22: San Jose Museum of Art
Growing up in Germany during World War II, Wilfried Satty’s (1939-1982) imagination was forever stamped by the war-torn urban landscape. After moving to San Francisco in the early sixties and...
She Made It!
10/24 - 03/01: Leonard & David McKay Gallery at History Park
She Made It! The Tradition of Women’s Arts and Crafts in Santa Clara Valley is an exhibition of over 35 handmade items that explores the transition of women’s craftmaking from that...
Manuel Neri - The Figure in Relief
11/07 - 01/10: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
As one of the premier figurative sculptors living today, this solo exhibition will highlight relief sculptures and related drawings by this living master....
Chris Dorosz - The Painted Room
11/08 - 01/10: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Playing with the physicality of paint and the pixilation of digital imagery, Dorosz’ life-size installation of a living room is made of dots of paint suspended on hanging wire....
Boolean Valley
11/08 - 01/11: San Jose Museum of Art
Adam Silverman and Nader Tehrani met while pursuing their Bachelor of Architecture degrees at Rhode Island School of Design. Silverman is now an artist and potter who opened his own studio, Atwater...
This End Up - The Art of Cardboard
11/08 - 02/15: San Jose Museum of Art
In this exhibition, artists challenge the limits of cardboard by investigating topics ranging from formal concerns to social commentary and engineering. Bronze, marble, stainless steel…cardboard?...
Culture of Spontaneity - San Francisco Abstract Expressionism from the Permanent Collection
11/08 - 07/05: San Jose Museum of Art
From the mid-1940s to the early 1960s, San Francisco provided the setting for an important group of Abstract Expressionist painters. This faction is often considered a second-generation spin-off from...
Bread and Circus - Paintings by Mark Bryan
11/15 - 01/15: Art Object Gallery
Ever since he can remember, Mark Bryan has been troubled by the state of things. Maybe it was all that talk about heaven in Sunday school. Mark has wondered why there isn't a perfect world here or something...
Weapons of Mass Distraction
11/15 - 01/15: Art Object Gallery
Mattie Leeds began as a potter over 35 years ago. His clay vessels are large, with many over five feet tall. He paints bold, expressive and colorful figurative schemes that dance around the surfaces...
In the Grotto
11/15 - 01/15: Art Object Gallery
Ken Matsumoto, stone and glass scultptor, shapes new vessels and pays homage to The Impressionists with glass and found art objects. His latest artistic approach includes creating exterior spaces whereby...
Ajust Your Perceptions
11/15 - 01/15: Art Object Gallery
Michael Leeds, well known for his famous Blastolene Big Bertha V12 mobile, brings to Japantown, San Jose, his collection of found art object motorcyles scaled to fit in any motohead's livingroom. The...
Fresh Produce
12/05 - 01/10: Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
8th Annual Invitational Group Exhibit and Art Sale at Anno Domini. Come out to get together and celebrate the creative spirit....
Home Front: Santa Clara Valley's World War II Experience
12/07 - 09/13: History Park
A glimpse into how San José and the Santa Clara Valley were affected by World War II is presented in an exciting History San Jose exhibit. Learn how those at home supported the war effort,...
My Neighbors - A Photographic Exhibition by Joe Claus
12/07 - 01/31: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
This is the third exhibition of this growing collection of photographs. They are a tribute to the smaller side of Silicon Valley business and a testament to the spirit of these hard working individuals....
Lewis deSoto
01/31 - 03/28: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
This will be the first comprehensive solo retrospective of San Francisco-based artist Lewis de Soto....
The Prints of Andy Warhol
02/14 - 05/31: San Jose Museum of Art
Perhaps the best-known leader of the Pop art movement, artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol created iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, and Elizabeth Taylor. Drawing from a background in...
Jun Kaneko
02/28 - 05/10: San Jose Museum of Art
Ceramicist Jun Kaneko was born and raised in Japan and moved to the United States to study at the Chouinard Art Institute. He studied with ceramics pioneers Paul Soldner and Jerry Rothman in California...
Talking Art - Lewis deSoto
03/12 - 03/12: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Lewis deSoto's conceptual artwork utilizes a wide range of media including automobiles, inflatables, electronics, photography, wood and metal constructions. Many of his installations, sculptures and...
Womens Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation
04/04 - 08/16: San Jose Museum of Art
This exhibition presents a broad range of prints from the past 35 years by some of the foremost contemporary women printmakers at work in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Collectively, the...
Talking Art - Printmaking Today
04/09 - 04/09: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Printmaking is a process of trial-and-error, collaboration and infinite possibilities. Join ICA in a conversation with Bay Area printmakers to discuss what continues to excite them about making prints...
Lift Off
04/10 - 06/13: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
San Jose State’s Graduate MFA exhibition.
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Talking Art - Video Art Show-and-tell with Artist Jonn Herschend
05/14 - 05/14: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Join ICA for a presentation of video work selected by artist, curator and experimental publisher Jonn Herschend. After the viewing, Herschend will engage in a conversation about deadpan, humor and video...
Talking Art - 2009 Portfolio Reviews
06/11 - 06/11: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
A panel of curators, art dealers, teachers and artists will provide 15-minute individual critiques of artists' portfolios. Each artist will have two critiques. You are only eligible to participate in...
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