San Jose photographer invitations public into his workspace for Open Studios – The Mercury Information

San Jose photographer Allan Barnes caught the shutterbug by staring out the home windows of the Grand River bus in Detroit.

“My mother would take us on shopping trips to Hudson’s, a large Detroit-based department store,” Barnes remembers in his artist’s assertion. “I would admire the architecture, which got older and more spectacular as we approached downtown. Seeing that it was beginning to vanish probably inspired me to learn the craft.”

Barnes, who shall be exhibiting his work at 1854 Almaden Road, studio 4, in San Jose through the remaining weekend of Silicon Valley Open Studios on May 16-17, says his “first decent body of work” was a portfolio of structure. He morphed right into a photojournalist whereas engaged on his school newspaper, then switched to style and portraiture within the Nineties.

“However, I also started making landscapes again, and for the last 10 years in the Bay Area, I have come full circle back to landscape work.”

Barnes is amongst greater than 370 visible artists taking part in Open Studios’ fortieth anniversary occasion this month, when artists working in all kinds of media are inviting the general public to go to them at greater than 100 studios and galleries from South San Francisco to San Jose and Pacifica to Half Moon Bay. The weekend of May 2-3 featured websites alongside the coast and the Northern Peninsula, whereas the weekend of May 9-10 highlighted Midpeninsula artists. South Bay artists shall be entrance and heart on May 16-17.

Studios are open on Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. every day. To see an interactive map of the exhibit areas, view a gallery of all of the taking part artists and find out about their work, go to https://svos.org.