GVA Cafe Art Gallery

GVA Café open Faily 9-2 Call in your order for take out 408 776-0571

A day of fun filled activities, art show, food, live music, cake! And the Birthday Girl ❤️

Art by Ed Crane now showing at FVA Café downtown Morgan Hill

Always a great experience at GVA Café Downtown Morgan Hill ❤️

How about Tuesday morning 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Does anyone else have a case of the Mondays? Perk up with 10% off a drink of choice from GVA Cafe Art Gallery all month long with your Passport this September!

GVA CAFÉ caters will LOVE in the ingredients

Our Passport Month Kick-Off Party is this Friday, March 2nd! Select Passport Holders should be sure to visit Coyote Creek Golf Club from 6p.m.-8p.m. to get exclusive tastings from our long list of Wineries and free bites from our 15 Passport Partners!

GVA Café downtown Morgan Hill

Does anyone else have a case of the Mondays? Perk up with 10% off a drink of choice from GVA Cafe Art Gallery all month long with your Passport this September!

ART SHOW SATURDAY DECEMBER 9TH 5-8 P.M. Food*wine*music* EXTREMELY RARE PICASSO Prints and more presented by David Krase From New York City [email protected]

You are invited to our Local Art Exhibit show, FREE TO ATTEND, live music, appetizers: catered by The Cafés one and only dancing Jane, wine, fashion show by Johnny Smith, much more.

NOW open 7 days a week Davidkrase.com

“An Artist can teach us how to do a lot more than just hold a paintbrush.” Phil Tiger

GVA Cafe Art Gallery

Love Wins is the theme of this space.
One of my mentors was Bert Long Jr. taught me to navigate through the gallery system but not to be fooled by what it represents.

So u won’t be fooled here is what we have set out to accomplish

Embrace diversity in Art/Life
Teach that Creativity should be encouraged for all, children/adults.
Demonstrate how to take and idea and make it real..

GVA art gallery had its first show on July 12, 2017 and featured the work New York Artist David Krase. Our second show is scheduled for September 24 and will showcase the photography of Kim Bush of Morgan Hill. This show is open to all Morgan Hill artist and submissions should be forwarded to [email protected] for final approval.

The work of David Krase is currently on display at the GVA.

Artist Statement

David Krase’s crudely rendered paintings and drawings are characterized by colorful grounds rife with abstracted figuration, neo-tribal motifs, otherworldly specters and pseudo-extraterrestrials. A more or less ‘outsider artist’ Krase’s oeuvre is a prodigious output of work produced in a wide array of mediums including pen and ink, oil, acrylic, chalk pastel and literally anything Krase adopts along the way. His ritual etching, scrawling and scraping gestures imbue the canvas with an ‘after image,’ what Krase suggests is just one symptom of his urge to create paintings within paintings. Infinity – energy without end – is the insignia driving force of his stroke. The undulating lines, oblong figures and jagged psychedelia Krase commits to canvas evoke the presence of embryos, umbilical cords, roots, flows, conduits, fleets and misfiring synapses.
David Krase began painting full time in 2009 under the guidance of his mentor visual artist Bert Long Jr. He was formerly a trained classical guitarist and trail blazing pioneer of the downtempo electronic musical genre known as Trip Hop. Often attacked on stage for his outrageous lyricism during his days as a musician, Krase brings equal mayhem to his works works on canvas, paper and wood adopting the spirit of African diasporic traditions particularly within the realm of Blues, Jazz and painting. Krase also names his work as a Social Worker and Special Ed teacher – two positions which have led him to mentor marginalized populations including Black and Latino youth, victims of abuse and Vietnam Vets for over twenty years – as having played a clear role in his turn to art as a therapeutic medium. He specifically notes a period in LA working with several members of the notorious inner city gang known as MS-13 as being formative. He recalls student affiliates of the gang’s unusual use of color, figuration and writing, and sees traces of their aesthetic appear today in his paintings and drawings.
Currently, Krase’s process oriented labors in the studio absolve the crisis of his lifetime of emotional tumult supporting victims of physical and sexual abuse the artist absorbed working as he did. His visual compositions have been likened to the late great graffiti writer and painter Jean Michael Basquiat and bare oblique reference to Cubism, Science Fiction and Horror. Mounted in handmade frames, Krase’s cast of objects, beings and vegetal spirals offer a veritable ‘portal’ into a mysterious, murky and darkly ethereal terrain.

Davidkrase.com
[email protected]
832-969-9023