Red Union Hair Salon – San Francisco

Grace Mangels began her hair career in Torrance, CA as an apprentice to a Creative Director, with over 25 years of service to her Palos Verdes clientele. She quickly became the salon’s go to colorist performing corrective color and natural looking grey coverage in this busy salon. Her technique, “Hair color first, makes eyes and skin sparkle, then the right haircut and shape will portray to the world how you want to be seen!” Leaving behind her loyal clients in LA, Grace looks forward to the new relationships and services she can provide at Red Union Salon.
Grace uses professional color lines from Schwartzkopf Igora Royal and Redken Shades.

Grace has over 10 years experience accommodating clients in their quest for excellent hair care and makeup solutions. She graduated with a skincare license in 2003 and began her skin care business that included bridal makeup, facials, and professional brow shaping. Then moving on to hair styling, she studied at the Paul Mitchell The School, in Costa Mesa, CA and Vidal Sassoon Academy in Santa Monica, CA.

Before becoming a licensed Cosmetologist, she studied Fine Arts in areas of oil figure painting and portraits, in Santa Barbara. This gave Grace a sense of confidence in looking at a person’s beauty and personal features, than making choices in color and shapes to compliment the natural beauty in each one of her clients.

Comments or questions are welcome.

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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

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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 personally saw this show a few days a go and it is a scream!  I loved it and have recommended it to all my friends and clients.  If you love musicals great make-up,  hair and costumes like I do your in.  A outstandingly fun evening with lots of laughs!

Music by George Gershwin
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Book buy Guy Bolton &Guy Bolton

Showing November @ through 20th, 2011
at the Eureka Theater 
215 Jackson Street San Francisco
in Gateway Plaza (between Battery & Front)

TICKETS ONLINE
www.42ndstmoon.org

TICKETS & GROUPB SALES PHONE  (415) 255-8207
Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 pm

THE 20s ROAR WITH SCANDALOUS HI-JINKS AMONG THE SWANK LONG ISLAND SET!  A trio of bootleggers land smack in the middle of romantic intrigue at Long Island estate in 1926.  The champagne, laughs and dazzling Gershwin tunes flow freely as the merrymaking skyrockets.  The Parade of Gershwin standards include ‘someone to watch over me”, “Fidgety Feet”, “Maybe”, “Clap Yo’Hands” and “Do, Do Do”.

Directed: By:       MAUREEN McVERRY   
Music Director:   BRANDON ADAMS 
Choreographer:   STACI ARRIAGA

Starring:  TERRESSA BYRNE, TYLER MCKENNA, BRIAN YATES SHARBER, ZACK THOMAS WILDE,LISA-MARIE NEWTON, JACKSONDAVIS, GRAIG JESSUP, STEPHEN BAUGHT, ALANNA FOX, KATHRYN HAN, CHRISTINA INGRAM, ERICKA KIMBLE, AMIE SHAPIRO and SKYE VIOLET WILSON

Artistic Director:           GREG MACKELLAN
Production Director:      STEPHANI RHOADS
Executive :                 LAUREN HEWITT

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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

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Privé Finishing Texture Spray delivers a sleek textured semi-matte finish while giving hair a weightless volume. This medium hold spray is formulated with echinacea, gingko, and betula alba. Apply liberally to dry hair. Re-apply throughout the day to maintain style, volume and texture.

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Privé Concept Vert Volumizing Forth is the next generation of thoughtful planet technologies. This non-aerosol mousse amplifies your style while leaving your hair soft, shiny and full of bounce.

Features and Benefits:
Enriched with acai and babassu oil.

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Great for defining curls and reducing frizz.

Color safe formula.

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Instant Next Day Hair. Express your rock ‘n roll or surfer style.Receive 50% off our Stylist’s Pick of the Month.

Privé Foaming Styler Mousse provides texture, body and style memory in a unique styling mousse. Shake well: work a small amount through damp for dry hair and style. To refresh any look run wet hands through your hair and restyle. Be sure to check out the other products we carry at Red Union Hair Salon in San Francisco.

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Kelly Farr de Flores grew up on the West coast of Florida with an appreciation for the beauty of nature. Her passion for photography began at the age of seventeen, when her grandfather gifted his photography equipment to her. This began her journey into outdoor photography.

Kelly studied black & white photography for five years in college, working with different types of film and exploring various methods of photo processing in the dark room. She was featured in the 2004 edition of Photographer’s Forum, “Best of College Photography”.

Her heart led her to Southern California in 2006 to spread the gift of teaching yoga. While in Southern California she continued her photographic work and started selling her photographs at art fairs.

She has been creating her artwork digitally for the past five years Canvas tends to be her medium of choice as her work often has a painting-like quality. The awareness that she gains through her yoga practice reflects in her natural eye for photography by always being “awake.” She is able to communicate beautifully what she sees through the eye of the camera.

After extensive travel abroad with her husband, they relocated to Sausalito, California in February 2010 where they currently reside.

Her photography exhibition theme is “Reflection & Shining Light”. The mesmerizing “Shining Light” photographs focus on sunrays and the glow of energy shining through trees. The water lily series creates stillness in motion, while capturing reflections shining upon the water.

“We can be mirrors to all. Take time to look within and around. Light a candle where there is darkness. Spread love and peaceful energy to everyone and everything.”

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