We’re thrilled to be celebrating 2 years of coworking at pariSoma! To celebrate, we’re throwing a big ol’ party on July 14th. We’ll have DJ Aurelia behind the music, as well as sangria and other drinks.

Please come celebrate with us – it’s going to be a great night!

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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Come join us Sunday at pariSoma.  We’ll make sure Barack has enough volunteers to counter the smears, and we’ll get voters to the polls in the critical swing states.

All you need to bring is your cell phone; we’ll provide scripts and lists of voters to call. For extra kharma points, bring a snack or drinks to share with your fellow volunteers. Better yet, bring a friend. But at least bring yourself!

Sign up SOON here:
http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=81912

Thanks!