SAN JOSE, CA.- Two Fish Design, the producers of Phantom Galleries and owners of Anno Domini gallery, announces the launch of KALEID (Greek for beauty and form, and a shortened take on kaleidoscope.), a gallery dedicated to local artists.

KALEID emerges from the very successful fifth annual Holiday Gallery of Gifts, a project of Phantom Galleries. This year's holiday art sale which was temporarily housed in the former Artist & Craftsman Supply store at 88 South Fourth St., saw a substantial increase in foot traffic and art sales from December 2 - 23, 2006.

In their effort to keep the momentum going for the benefit of local artists, Brian Eder and Cherri Lakey (Two Fish), approached the San Jose Redevelopment Agency and Downtown Association to stay in the city owned building until it is leased to a permanent tenant . The concept was met with enthusiasm and support by all.

KALEID features over 60 artists from the San Jose area, giving them both exhibit and sales opportunities like no other here in Silicon Valley. The gallery showcases fine art, limited editions and creative gifts in a wide range of mediums and price points originating from the artists themselves.

In addition to bridging the artist and public exposure gap, Two Fish envision KALEID to be an incubator for creative enterprise. "If you think about each artist or display in KALEID as a micro business, you can imagine some of these artists opening boutiques, creative service businesses or unique social spaces. What if all the retail downtown was independently owned and operated? Imagine the unique, artful experiences for the people that live, work and visit here. It's an experience you most certainly won't get at a chain retailer or mall." says Lakey.

Brian Eder adds, "People are looking for authentic experience, not the manufactured kind. A gathering of local artists like this brings our creative culture to the surface and gives us all a chance to celebrate its existence."

KALEID will host First Friday artists' receptions expanding the downtown art walk currently focused on the SoFA district. Each month KALEID will highlight two new "Featured Artists" by giving them 60' of prime wall space near the gallery's entrance. These exhibits are awarded to those that are challenging the status quo of contemporary art here in San Jose.

The grand opening is First Friday February 2 from 7pm - 9pm. The two featured artists for February are: Deborah Mills Thackery, Graffiti on an Abandoned Train. This series of color photographs explores myriad textures and colors found on turn-of-the-century railroad cars left in a field to rust and weather found near Woodstock, New York. Everett Taasevigen's new body of paintings, Test for Echo, is one part of his long term body of work: The Ring, which consists of seven sets of seven doors. Taasevigen continues to use a monochromatic palette, wide sweeping movements and layers of graphite while revealing new ideas and emotions to a long held theme of his style of minimalism.