Follow @ignitebayarea for up-to-the-minute speaker announcements and event partners, they have quite a few things planned to kick off this new year of Ignite!

Another reason you shouldn’t miss out – Cater2.me has organized free food tickets for the first 100 people in the door! Two vendors will arrive at Public Works starting 6pm: El Porteno empanadas, and Creperie St Germain. Yum!

Doors open at 6pm, first speaker at 7pm. Admission is $5 before the event, and $7 at the door. Register now, spaces are limited. Free for first 50 sign-ups using discount code PARISOMA!

pariSoma is excited to welcome our next artist, Danyol, to our space! The opening will be held July 15th, and is your chance to meet the artist while enjoying sangria, snacks, and other art lovers.

Growing up, I nourished myself on a steamy pop-influenced mixed media paintings explore the liminal spaces between surface and emotion; gender role, responsibility and reality; along with other inconsistencies in our fragile social fabric. I want to bring part of my everyday life into my art and show people that there is beauty in the mundane, harmony in the abstract and power in the inspiration.

San Francisco artist danyol was born in 1970 in Orange County, California just a stone’s throw away from Disneyland. Growing up he nourished himself on a steady diet of pop art, cubism, and sarcasm. danyol’s use of his own life and surroundings combine to form a dizzying combination of colors, patterns, and textures. These are then masked out by definitive figures and shapes, somehow bringing some definition to his chaos. While bright and smile inducing on initial viewing, look closely at the found objects collaged in the background; they leave hints as to the deeper meaning of the painting. Look at it from one angle and it is seemingly straight forward, but look from another angle in different lighting, and the painting becomes much more.

While using equal parts nostalgia and current events together, danyol’s pop-influenced mixed media paintings explore the liminal spaces between surface and emotion; gender role, responsibility and reality; along with other inconsistencies in our fragile social fabric.

Hit the jump for more of Danyol’s work!

From the artist:

The following images represent a personal study that attempts to concurrently synthesize several realities.

The ultimate goal is to create a fresh, contemporary tectonic, while recognizing certain influences of mid-20th century design and cultural zeitgeist.

Atomic deserts, hovering metal ships, roadside steel and glass, space age superhighways- all come to mind.

These are purely iconic images however, not ingredients for a nostalgic recreation of a particular style. The moods and environments are deliberately ambiguous; it is left to the viewer to decide if they are looking at places of desolation and loneliness or scenes of quiet solitude.

See more of his work by clicking “more”.

Please join us on April 10th, 2010 for a showcase of music, art, fashion and atmosphere, inspired by everything French (at Workspace, Ltd.).

OUI,OUI!

Evening Highlights: Live musical performances, French style salon art show by local artists organized by Gogograciegalleries, fashion show presenting San Francisco boutique, April In Paris artisan leather accessories, delicious crepes by street cart Cre’Pierre and Brigitte Bardot look-a-like costume contest open to the public! Prizes and Surprises!

Stroll le Champs-Élysées, enjoy a drink et danse a Place Pigalle, et viver L’Art de Monmartre.

Performances (including live classical, chanson, accordion playing, burlesque dance and more) by:

Allison Lovejoy
Rob Reich
Zoli Lundy
Lua Hadar
Branislav Radakovich
Le monde Merveilleux du Burlesque by Delilah
and many more..
Tickets:
$12 at the door
$10 tickest at the door with RSVP to: tickets [at] aprilinparissf.com
(s’il vous plait - rsvp by 4 pm - April 10th, merci!)

Questions? Check us out at www.aprilinparissf.com or email us: info [at] aprilinparissf.com

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- Jérôme Brunet

After a great 6-week stay at pariSoma, Jérôme Brunet’s photography show, Back in Black is closing.  If you missed the opening and haven’t been in since, this is your last chance to see Jérôme’s art at pariSoma, and you don’t want to miss it!  Come check out the photos, sip sangria, and meet the artist at the pariSoma Innovation Loft.  A description of the show and Jérôme’s work is after the jump.

Now with wine tasting by Raphael Knapp of International Vineyards ($5 to try the wines).

Back in Black is a collection of photographs spanning the last ten years of music photography by award winning photographer Jérôme Brunet, featuring musical luminaries such as B.B. King, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Santana, Tom Waits and U2, as well as contemporary stars like Ben Harper and John Mayer. The exhibition will also include photographs from the 2009 S.F. Outside Lands Music & Arts festival.

About Jérôme:

A freelance photojournalist Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in Ontario, Canada. After obtaining his O.S.S.D. majoring in visual arts, he started his post secondary education in Paris, France, at the E.F.E.T. School of Photography, graduating in 1997. Jérôme Brunet’s award winning photography has been published internationally through such diverse publications as Rolling Stone, Billboard, American Photo, Guitar Player, Financial Times, Forbes and The New York Times. His client list includes Fender Musical Instruments, Gibson Guitars, The Discovery Channel, Nikon Imaging and is currently featured on the official websites of musicians Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and James Brown. Jérôme Brunet passion for music started at the age of four, studying classical music as a cellists for eight years before moving on to the guitar which he continues to this day. Jérôme Brunet is currently working and residing in the Bay Area of San Francisco and is represented internationally by the Zuma Press photo agency.

You can find out more about Jérôme and his photography here.

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You can find out more about their work at:  http://www.fiberdimensions.com/

“For me, every now and again, during those critical first few moments when an artist takes the stage to ply his trade and bare his soul, the lighting is perfect, the angles align and the essence is captured. This has been my consuming passion and greatest reward since I began my career as a photojournalist.”

- Jérôme Brunet

Back in Black is a collection of photographs spanning the last ten years of music photography by award winning photographer Jérôme Brunet, featuring musical luminaries such as B.B. King, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Santana, Tom Waits and U2, as well as contemporary stars like Ben Harper and John Mayer. The exhibition will also include photographs from the 2009 S.F. Outside Lands Music & Arts festival.

About Jérôme:

A freelance photojournalist Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in Ontario, Canada. After obtaining his O.S.S.D. majoring in visual arts, he started his post secondary education in Paris, France, at the E.F.E.T. School of Photography, graduating in 1997. Jérôme Brunet’s award winning photography has been published internationally through such diverse publications as Rolling Stone, Billboard, American Photo, Guitar Player, Financial Times, Forbes and The New York Times. His client list includes Fender Musical Instruments, Gibson Guitars, The Discovery Channel, Nikon Imaging and is currently featured on the official websites of musicians Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and James Brown. Jérôme Brunet passion for music started at the age of four, studying classical music as a cellists for eight years before moving on to the guitar which he continues to this day. Jérôme Brunet is currently working and residing in the Bay Area of San Francisco and is represented internationally by the Zuma Press photo agency.

You can find out more about Jérôme and his photography here.