SAN JOSE, California (February 25, 2012)—Popular Bay Area stand-up comic Joe Klocek will headline “Comedy Night at the Museum” on Thursday, March 15, 2012, at the San Jose Museum of Art. The show, which also features comic Edwin Li and emcee Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, will begin at 6 PM. The Museum will be open from 5 PM to 8 PM for viewing of the exhibition Renegade Humor. Tickets are $5, which includes Museum admission after 5 PM. Tickets are available online at LiveSV.com.
SJMA’s Museum Store Guild will also offer a mini-trunk show and sale from 5 to 8 PM. Vendors include glassblower Johnathon Schmuck, artist Murphy Adams, and jewelry designers Joy Pardi Fazzone and Lindsay Lassen-Kane.
Joe Klocek was voted “Best Comic in the City” in SF Weekly’s 2011 Readers Poll. He has appeared on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham and was featured on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. He is co-creator of the popular storytelling series “Previously Secret Information at Stage Werx in San Francisco. He is a favorite performer on the San Francisco comedy scene, and tours clubs nationwide.
Edwin Li has been performing stand-up comedy since the age of 16. He has performed at SF Sketch Fest and the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, as well as Bay Area clubs including San Jose Improv, San Francisco Punch Line, Cobb’s Comedy Club, and the Purple Onion in San Francisco.
Dhaya Lakshminarayanan is a stand-up comic, public speaker/storyteller, television host, and self-declared “proud nerd.” She worked in finance and tech before becoming a comedian. She hosted “High School Quiz Show,” on PBS’s WGBH (a recipient of a New England Emmy) and is a favorite on the national NPR show, Snap Judgment. She performed at SF Sketchfest in 2011 and 2012. She has spoken and taught workshops at numerous colleges including MIT, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan. Lakshminarayanan performed at the San Jose Museum of Art’s “ArtRage: Baat-cheet” in 2011.
Third Thursday evening hours are supported by grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation, and the Koret Foundation.
RENEGADE HUMOR
Comedy Night is offered in connection with the exhibition Renegade Humor, on view through July 8, 2012. The exhibition begins with a look at the bawdy irreverence, parody, and puns that are hallmarks of the work spawned at the University of California, Davis, in the 1960s and 1970s. It continues with works by artists of later generations who enlist humor to make a point and ends with new works by Kathy Aoki and Imen Yeh, who satirize election-year politics in projects commissioned by SJMA. Renegade Humor comprises 45 works drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, including paintings, works on paper, monumental sculptures, and ceramics. Visitors encounter traditional and untraditional media: a millipede-like couch, a pinball machine, a ceramic plate embedded with taxidermy eyes, and “paper” dolls of Barack Obama and Newt Gingrich. Renegade Humor is sponsored by the James Irvine Foundation and McManis Faulkner.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART
The San Jose Museum of Art celebrates new ideas, stimulates creativity, and inspires connection with every visit. Welcoming and thought-provoking, the Museum rejects stuffiness and delights visitors with its surprising and playful perspective on the art and artists of our time.
The San Jose Museum of Art is located at 110 South Market Street in downtown San Jose, California. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for students and senior citizens, and free to members and children under 6. For more information, call 408-271-6840 or visit www.SanJoseMuseumofArt.org.
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Programs at the San Jose Museum of Art are made possible by generous operating support from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Lipman Family Foundation, the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, the Koret Foundation, a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San Jose, and, with support for exhibiton development, Yvonne and Mike Nevens.