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Phantom Galleries - 5 new articles Cinequest x Phantom Galleries UPLIFT Live Painting Contest 2024
CINEQUEST & Phantom Galleries are proud to present this year's CQ Live Painting Contest featuring artists Bre Contreras, Jemal Diamond and Francisco Ramirez. These talented artists will be painting live at KALEID Gallery during gallery hours March 7th–9th, as well as the 14th– 16th, with closing ceremonies on Sunday, March 17th. Breanna Contreras Bre Contreras is a captivating artist with roots in San Jose, California. She also blossoms across the sea, in Norway, as she plants seeds and breathes life into her artwork wherever she goes. Her art is powered by limitless expression as she explores a variety of different artistic mediums, spanning from the expected to the overlooked. Using art as a creative release, she brightens everything she touches as she reaches for colors that could warm any perspective.
Jemal Diamond Jemal Diamond is a Bay Area-based artist, and native Californian. He exhibits at KALEID Gallery, is a member artist of Works/San José, and creates from his studio at Visual Philosophy, all in San Jose, California. Jemal holds an MFA in studio art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and asks viewers like YOU to title all of his artwork.
Francisco Ramirez Originally from Mexico City, Francisco migrated to San Jose in 1987. His early life trained him to be resourceful and is a self-taught artist. His inspiration comes from everywhere and everyone, from Bob Ross, and Boris Vallejo to his Peers at Local Color to DDEF studios where he currently works from. His style of work include realism, hyperrealism, abstract, and surrealism. He has worked with oils, watercolor, sculpting, photography but spends most of his time painting with acrylics. Since becoming a full-time artist in 2017, he has painted over 20 collaborative and solo murals in San Jose. His canvas paintings number well over 400 strong, the sizes ranging from 4’x6’ to 5”x7” His commissioners include various construction companies, local businesses, residential, nonprofits and independent curators that align with his mission to empower, beautify and protect this community.
Check out this year's films at CINEQUEST Film Festival. Gallery hours: Thursdays–Fridays 12pm–7pm & Saturdays 12pm–5pm. Location: KALEID Gallery      Phantom Galleries presents "Inspired!" by Mason Roberts at The Pierce
Phantom Galleries is proud to present: “Inspired! Natural Forms, Layers and Flowers” Inspired! Natural Forms, Layers and Flowers are part of a series of paintings and drawings that are inspired by natural forms of rock, soil, energy, flowers, sky and movement. They tell the story of times past and time present and the consistent motion that is generally imperceptible to most of us. Perhaps a reminder that much has come before us and that much is still to come. Color and line are meant to engage the viewer and expose the energy, movement and sanguine balance between abstraction and recognizable form. About the Artist: These forms and connections often take the shape of the natural world and its inhabitants and perhaps highlight the increasingly complicated relationship we have with each other, along with the numerous connections we all share. Intersection of line and shape creating form and figure. Introduce color—intense color, tones that scream or sigh when viewed. Vibrant color! For Roberts, line + color becomes a language that can create innumerable engaging and interesting narratives that can be experienced throughout this exhibition. Artist’s reception: First Friday FEB. 2nd 5-9pm during South FIRST FRIDAYS ArtWalk SJ. Exhibition Dates: February 2 – April 13, 2024 Gallery hours: Daily 9am–6pm Phantom Galleries at The Pierce Apts. Gallery Lobby  Phantom Galleries presents "Past Present Future Journals" Gianfranco Paolozzi at The Pierce
Phantom Galleries is proud to present: Past Present Future Journals Gianfranco Paolozzi Solo Exhibition “Marking on surfaces moment by moment, hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year…Creating a journal.” Artist's reception: First Friday November 3rd 5pm–9pm Exhibition Dates: November 3, 2023–January 18, 2024 Phantom Galleries at The Pierce Apts. Gallery Lobby  Stream of Consciousness by Robert Chavez III at The Pierce Apts. FEB. 3rd
Phantom Galleries is proud to present: Stream of Consciousness Opening reception: First Friday February 3rd 5pm–9pm The creation of streams of ideas flowing in my brain when I focus on this work. I specifically chose to work using an inexpensive Holga camera on this project because of its versatility and the dream-like captures I can create with it. I use mixed media to intensify or emphasize my experimental exploration of this photographic project, hence a stream of ideas. Shadows, light, and structure continually clashing with life, color, and environment. My own chaos mixed with what is around me. Enjoy the experience.
About the Artist: His work has been featured in many different venues around the Bay Area, including San Francisco, the East Bay, and San Jose. Most recently, his work has been shown at the Mexican Heritage Plaza Afterlife show and at the 1Culture Camera Shy exhibition. In May 2022 Chavez received the SJCC ASG President Award for photography.He is currently a teaching assistant under Terri Garland at San Jose City College. Exhibition dates: February 3–April 15, 2023 Gallery hours: 9am–6pm Daily. Phantom Galleries  "Painting the Moment" by Kushlani Jayasinha at Phantom Galleries at The Pierce
This series is born to showcase the immediacy of the given moment. I find the less time I spend with the canvas the better the outcome. Let me explain this paradox. This series of paintings has that sense of immediacy. They do not try to capture anything in particular but like falling water, it is, what it is. About the Artist: Exhibition dates: September 3–November 13, 2021 Phantom Galleries at The Pierce Lobby Gallery  More Recent Articles |
