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Leo Villareal

The San Jose Museum of Art will present the first-ever museum survey of the work of the prominent sculptor Leo Villareal, a pioneer in the use of LEDs and computer-driven imagery. Leo Villareal, on view at SJMA from August 21, 2010, through January 9, 2011.

Listening Post Installation Time Lapse

Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens.

Listening Post is a sort of social portraiture for the twenty-first century.

Bari Kumar - The Making of Blind Faith, 2009

Bari Kumar was born in 1966 in Nellore, India and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. His work of art, Blind Faith was created in 2009 as a commission by the San Jose Museum of Art.

Of the piece he stated in an interview: 

"The image has a reference to the virgin Mary from the western world, but with the addition of the bindi on her forehead, instantly becomes an Indian figure. The blindfold works again to draw the attention to the cloth as well as the aspect of being unseen."

Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration - Preview

Chuck Close has revolutionized both contemporary portraiture and printmaking. Close made his first print as a professional artist in 1972 and printmaking soon became an important and most fruitful, experimental aspect of his artistic endeavor. His innovation in printmaking is now legend. Close was particularly concerned that his prints not simply be smaller versions of his paintings, but rather that printmaking open up an additional arena of investigation that would require him to engage in image-making in completely different ways.

Ansel Adams: Early Works

Submit your Ansel Adams-inspired photographs to be part of a looping slideshow at the San Jose Museum of Art by going to www.flickr.com/groups/ansel. Experience how artists have been influenced by the natural world and use your ability to capture, in your own unique way, the essence of natural beauty.

Todd Schorr: American Surreal - Preview

Todd Schorr: American Surreal is the first mid-career retrospective of the Los Angeles-based artist. Schorr is a leading figure in Southern California's cartoon-based movement, dubbed Pop Surrealism, which embraces low-brow culture and a ribald graphic style indebted to pop sources such as Mad magazine. Schorrs astonishing, highly polished realism, (inspired by Bosch, Brueghel and Dali), sets him apart from his best-known peers such as Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman, and Mark Ryden.

Road Trip

For the exhibition Road Trip in the fall, the San Jose Museum of Art is seeking your postcards from unique, fun and iconic vacation destinations that you travel to this summer. The postcards will be available in the exhibition's interpretation area where visitors to the museum can peruse the cards at their leisure. In addition, you will be able to make and send your own card directly from the museum!