Red Union Hair Salon – San Francisco

Julie Jaycox describes her work: These photos are my own intimate view of nature’s incredible creativity. An entire life cycle can be observed and documented in a garden through the growth and decay of plants, who both feed us and entertain us with their delightful blooms.

I was born here in California but raised on Sunset magazine in the Midwest, went to college in the geological beauty that is Utah, and enjoyed a 15-year stint in New York City before moving back to the Bay Area. I have been shooting botanically for more than fifteen years. I love plants and being outdoors, inheriting my interest from my father, a beekeeper and gardener. I grow my own cacti and succulents because they are beautiful and survive my occasional neglect.

I use a Contax RX 35mm camera with Fuji NPS 160 print film (now out of production, but filling my refrigerator), natural lighting (fog is a wonderful light filter) and no tripod. None of my images are cropped or altered in any way. They are printed straight from the negative.

My botanical photos have been exhibited twice at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park, they have been shown regularly at Canessa Gallery on Montgomery Street, and I have an ongoing display of my work at Mama’s on Washington Square in North Beach. I have shown a variety of photographic images (not all botanical) in venues around the U.S. and Europe, including a group show at The San Francisco Women’s Art Gallery.”

For more info, visit:
juliejaycox.com

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Krishna Bhat received his art education in England and San Francisco. He has lived in San Francisco for twenty years and has shown his work in various galleries throughout the city. With vivid, bold colors, his paintings, which are mostly in Oils, capture mood, energy and feeling in an absorbing manner- viewers often having very different interpretations of each.

As well as working as a Fine Artist, Illustrator and Photographer, Krishna also runs his own After School Art Program where he teaches Kids ages 8-18. In addition, Krishna is co-owner of Rock n Roll Babies, a line of organic and funky baby clothing (on which his illustrations can be seen).

Visit Krishna’s Website or contact the artist directly at:
415-552-7383
krisbhat@sbcglobal.net

Tags: artist, Krishna Bhat, Photographer, Rock n Roll Babies, San Francisco

Patty Mulligan has been creating photographs on real 22-carat gold for almost 20 years. Previously, she worked with Polaroid film doing Polaroid Emulsion Transfers, but in 2009 Polaroid ceased making the film she used. She has only a few prints left using the Polaroid emulsion transfer process, some of which will hang in the Red Union Salon. Recently, she has developed a new process for printing on gold, which she refers to as “orotones”. (See description below.)

All of her gold photographs evoke the historic process exemplified in the work by Edward Curtis who documented the West at the turn of the century. With her unique processes, she can transform a typical photograph by backing it with 22-carat gold. By doing so, the gold fosters a warm, emotional response that that changes depending on the light that strikes it. She is interested in how different light throughout the day changes the effect on the photo and as a result, the viewer’s response. She also enjoys blurring the distinction between a photograph and a painting.

Orotones:
Edward Curtis would print a black & white photograph on glass plate and then coat the back of the plate with gold, giving the images a transparent, glowing effect. Patty has spent the last several years developing her own orotone process to achieve a similar effect using a high-end archival inkjet printer. To create these pieces, she first coats a glass plate with a liquid emulsion and then prints the image on the plate. Later, the plate is backed with 22-carat gold. The entire glass plate is then reversed so that both the image and the gold are on the underside. Because she uses a modern printer, she can print in color (unlike Curtis) so that photographs come alive with the vibrancy of color that is enhanced by the gold. The glass gives depth and the metals luminescence and warmth, yielding a print with sparkle and life not found in regular photographic prints on paper.

“The ordinary photographic print, however good, lacks depth and transparency, or more strictly speaking, translucency. We all know how beautiful are the stones and pebbles in the limpid brook of the forest where the water absorbs the blue of the sky and the green of the foliage, yet when we take the same iridescent pebbles from the water and dry them they are dull and lifeless, so it is with the ordinary photographic print, but in the Curt-Tones all the transparency is retained and they are as full of life and sparkle as an opal.” – Edward Curtis

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“I was born in Northern California and currently live in San Francisco. I have been painting since I was twelve years-old and started having exhibits at seventeen with my first show being solo.  Growing up around art, music, and culture creative influences were always around me.  It came to me easily but there is always more to learn.  I hope to become better everyday and continue to expand.  I am inspired by experience, contrast, sexuality, and resilience.  I try to convey, whatever the subject may be, in my work a sense of strength in order to keep a theme of myself paying homage to where I’ve come from and especially where I am going.”

–Milan

Milan has been showing her work for three years now and has sold over a hundred pieces created in her studio, painted live, and numerous commissioned pieces both private and commercial.   In addition to this success she has been and continues to be attack her art as ever-changing and always learning.  Your support is greatly appreciated.

Website milanevje.com
Email: milanevje@gmail.com
Facebook: facebook.com/ArtistMilanEvje
Prints: society6.com/MilanEvje

Tags: artist, hair salon, Milan Felice Evje, San Francisco

Born in 1972, J.D. Lenzen grew up in and around the Bay Area—the bubble he calls home. He spent his mid-twenties living and working in the redwoods of the San Mateo Mountains, and his late-twenties exploring, playing and stumbling within the various underground scenes of San Francisco. His paintings explore the dance between image and identity; questioning popular social archetypes through the use of genderless characters he calls “Moles”.

In his own words:  ”For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated the human condition, the exploration of self and identity in the context of society and the societal roles we embrace. I seek to illustrate, and ultimately process, the multitude of feelings we have about ourselves, others and the homeostatic neuroses that pave our common ground.”

In addition to his paintings, JD is also an accomplished knot tyer and novelist.

His YouTube channel “Tying it All Together“, has over 23,000 followers.  His book “Decorative Fusion Knots” is available for purchase on Amazon.com.

JD has published two novels, “Soft Candy” and “Disturbingly Normal“. Both are available for purchase on Amazon.com.

Tags: Decorative Fusion Knots, Disturbingly Normal, J.D. Lenzen, San Francisco Artist, San Mateo, Soft Candy, Tying it All Together

Jamie V. Rodriguez’ obsession with postcards started at a young age. Growing up in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, she was exposed to graphic design, pop culture, and print advertising, specifically postcards.

To pursue a career in the arts and also keep up with fast paced technology, Jamie V. Rodriguez studied graphic design at the Academy of Art University. Needing a more organic outlet, she took random objects in her surroundings and made a postcard everyday. Soon, the pieces of artwork grew, forming a whole series. Thus, The Daily Postcard was born.

Jamie V. Rodriguez is currently a freelance web designer and is also pursuing her other passion…traveling.

Tags: graphic design, Jamie V. Rodriguez, pop culture, print advertising, San Francisco Featured Artist, San Francisco Hair Salon

Ingrid Butler, a Sausalito Bay Area artist, has been active in the art community for thirty years. Moth Marblers is her business were she designs one of a kind marbled and decorative papers for book binders, collage artists, card designers, jewelry makers, and any one that needs traditional or modern papers for their project.

Ingrid is multifaceted, She not only decorates paper but also uses her papers in 3D installations which pop off the wall or hang from the ceiling. Butler also uses her papers in mixed media collages.

Recently, she has begun making art books with her paper samples from the past twenty-five years. Houghton Library at Harvard University has just acquired several sheets of her paper as well as one of her books, Twenty-five Years of Marbled and Decorative Papers.

Butler is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. She has dedicated her life to bringing beauty and good design into the world.

Tags: 3D, card designers, collage artists, decorative papers, Ingrid Butler, jewelry makers, Marbler, Rhode Island School of Design, Sausalito, Twenty-five Years of Marbled and Decorative Papers, Valentine's Day

Dana Draper has been strongly influenced by his family who were involved in the arts. Harry Guggenheim, director of the Solomon Guggenheim Museum for 20 years, encouraged Draper to appreciate the arts by his volunteering in the museum library and in the art restoration conservatory.

Peggy Guggenheim opened her doors to her 20th century art filled home in Venice, Italy to the young Draper. With this exposure, Draper later entered the Art Student League and obtained a masters in fine arts from NYU.

Draper’s grandmother, Dorothy Draper, internationally recognized interior designer, who decorated the San Francisco Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels, played a dominate roll in young Draper’s education. She was “The Designer” of the fifties and she taught him a keen sense of color and scale.

Currently: Again, Draper is working with copper, he has made the full circle from his early days in Chile. Draper employs a unique form of copper painting. He applies water based acids, and oxides directly on copper. Acids such as rice vinegar, lemon juice, and rock salt as well as special recipes are used to obtain exciting color patina interactions on the copper. Large sheets of copper that Draper has artfully crafted are transformed into unique art doors, interior dividers, wall panels, and site commissioned projects.

Draper is primarily a figurative artist focusing on the qualities of motion and light. Why nudes? “The undraped figures are devoid of politics, pretensions, and material possessions. Therefore, expression, feeling, motion, color, and relationship come into play as the primary visual and emotional factors.”

Tags: Architecture, artist, beauty, Color, Copper, Copper Figures, Dana Draper, Figures, salon, San Francisco, Sausalito, Scoll, Scroll Paintings

Gregory Dugan is an outsider artist who paints Abstract Expressionism landscape paintings on small and large canvases creating brilliant and beautiful colors, textures and action paint movement. He depicts raw emotions and deep spirituality in his paintings using acrylics, oils and gold leaf. His paintings are extremely visual, dramatic and highly sought after by private collectors. Mr. Dugan’s internationally known studio is located in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California, a beautiful neighborhood that continues to have a famous history of resident artists, silversmiths, and photographers. Mr. Dugan’s paintings can be viewed by appointment at his gallery, Johnny Utah, located at 1496 Valencia Street, San Francisco.

Tags: Abstract Expressionism, Gregory Dugan, Johnny Utah, Pacific Heights, San Francisco

          Erin Wapple and Tom McCullough started their art journey at California State University Chico. They graduated with their BA in Art Studio. Erin received her MFA in Painting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She continues to paint in good company of her cat Toby. Tom has ventured out into the work force while still following his interest in art and music. Together they face the challenges of surviving as artists.

Tom’s website:
myspace.com/itsthebutcher

Erin’s website:
erinwapple.com

Tags: Academy of Art, California State University Chico, Erin Wapple, Tom McCullough