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Join Suite Five for their annual Holiday Party, December 4th!

posted by Suite 5 on November 17, 2008 in ANNOUNCEMENTS, ART EXHIBITS, PRESS, EVENTS, STYLISTS

Please join SUITE FIVE SALON for a holiday party of the most spectacular order! We have so much to celebrate: it’s the holidays; it’s our 2nd Anniversary; it’s an art opening! This special event will take place on Thursday December 4th, 2008 from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at SUITE FIVE SALON, 305 Grant Avenue, 5th floor, San Francisco.

Enjoy delicious bubbly and delectable bites as we toast to a merry season, embark into our terrific (well we don’t expect them to be terrible!) twos, and enjoy fine art. We’ll also be strutting our stuff with models featuring the hottest in SUITE FIVE SALON’s stylings.

Featured artwork will be a selection of 16 original photographs by Marin filmmaker and artist John Zissimos. The images illustrate the resultant looks born out of a collaborative project among the Suite Five team to highlight and explore its creativity and innovative approach to hair styling.“It was an opportunity for us to share inspiration,” says Suite Five owner and stylist Bradley Crane. “We wanted to show our interest and involvement in the future looks of styling; what’s to come. We also wanted to explore and present hair as art.”

The images captured by Zissimos, each featuring one hair model from the shoulders up — the angles and framing vary from shot to shot — are romantic, soft, and simple — graceful. Color is either black-and-white or limited to a simple palette. The background is plain. Nothing detracts from the focal point, the action: Hair. Jagged, wispy, sculpted, wavy, seductive, mysterious, angled, each creation culminates in a compelling, alluring look.

The SUITE FIVE SALON team includes stylists Bradley Crane, Karrie Dies, Don Gonzalez, Ron Lee, Brian Jensen, and Lori Talarico; colorists Rita Leanio and Melissa Magtibay; and make-up artist Guille Rayala. Frames for the photography were generously donated by Oberon Design.

REMINDER PRIMP PARTY THIS FRIDAY at SUITE FIVE SALON!

posted by Suite 5 on in ANNOUNCEMENTS, ART EXHIBITS, PRESS, EVENTS, STYLISTS

Friday, November 21, 7:00pm – 10:00pm, Reservations $45
Where: Suite Five Salon, 305 Grant Avenue, 5th floor, San Francisco

Get the hair, make-up, and accessory essentials you need to be a seasonal sensation, affordably. Hey, we know the economy sucks right now, but there’s no need to be not be completely stunning. Pump up the glam to holiday levels, and we’re here to help, and have fun (and indulge in chocolate and champagne!). We’re here to help you make it happen at a price you can afford.

HAIR AS ART, Photography by John Zissimos

posted by Suite 5 on September 20, 2008 in ANNOUNCEMENTS, ART EXHIBITS, PRESS, EVENTS

Opening reception: October 2, 2008, 6pm – 7:30 p.m.

On show October 2 through November 29, 2008 at SUITE FIVE SALON, a selection of 16 original photographs by Marin filmmaker and artist John Zissimos. The images illustrate the resultant looks born out of a collaborative project among the Suite Five team to highlight and explore its creativity and innovative approach to hair styling.“It was an opportunity for us to share inspiration,” says Suite Five owner and stylist Bradley Crane. “We wanted to show our interest and involvement in the future looks of styling; what’s to come. We also wanted to explore and present hair as art.”

The images captured by Zissimos, each featuring one hair model from the shoulders up — the angles and framing vary from shot to shot — are romantic, soft, and simple — graceful. Color is either black-and-white or limited to a simple palette. The background is plain. Nothing detracts from the focal point, the action: Hair. Jagged, wispy, sculpted, wavy, seductive, mysterious, angled, each creation culminates in a compelling, alluring look.

The SUITE FIVE SALON team includes stylists Bradley Crane, Lori Talarico, and Brian Jensen; colorists Rita Leanio and Melissa Magtibay; and make-up artist Guille Rayala. Frames for the photography were generously donated by Oberon Design (oberondesign.net).

John Zissimos began to develop a passion for photography at the age of 13. He spent 15 years as an award-winning Creative Director at some of the most innovative and well-known advertising agencies in America. Zissimos is currently working as an independent writer/director. He lives in Mill Valley.

Suite Five Salon features bimonthly, rotating art installations highlighting contemporary artists from the Bay Area. The salon holds free bimonthly openings in conjunction with downtown’s First Thursdays. Please contact 415-362-5005 for more information.
Press Contact: Jenn Doyle Crane, 415-362-5005

Exhibition of Paintings by KOCH

posted by Suite 5 on July 22, 2008 in ANNOUNCEMENTS, ART EXHIBITS, PRESS, EVENTS

Suite Five Salon announces an exhibition of work by San Francisco artist, Koch, August 7 – September 27, 2008. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, August 7, from 6:00 to 7:30pm.

The San Francisco artist Koch is very much informed by “the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism” and he himself has stated Jack Jefferson and early Frank Lobdell works as an influence. The artist’s dark and “non-decorative” pallet of burnt umbers and raw sienna are emotive. However, the paintings entice the viewer’s eye to grapple between the macro and micro. The subsequent abstract planes are created by the raw power of simple and abstract brushstrokes.

For more information about Koch and his work, contact DoyleCrane Fine Ar t.

Suite Five Salon features bimonthly, rotating art installations highlighting contemporary artists from San Francisco. The salon holds free bimonthly openings in conjunction with downtown’s First Thursdays. Please contact 415-362-5005 for more information.

Exhibition of Paintings by MEL PREST

posted by Suite 5 on May 22, 2008 in ANNOUNCEMENTS, ART EXHIBITS, EVENTS

Suite Five Salon announces an exhibition of work by San Francisco artist, Mel Prest,
June 5 – August 2, 2008. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, June 5, from 6:00 to 7:30pm.

San Francisco artist Mel Prest combines hues and marks to form simple color patterns which constitute a multi-dimensional architecture based on physical landscapes and rhythmic vibrations. Prest’s hand-painted lines pulsate against her effortless grid planes, creating a synesthesia of perspective. The viewer must focus and re-focus the eye to apprehend undulating lines that distend and contract, shifting in both connotation and appearance in a single gaze. Her paintings are optical quandaries that act as visual metaphors for three-dimensional form.

Mel Prest’s recent exhibitions include Contemporary Perspectives at the MOCA, Santa Rosa, California, 2005; The Line Up, San Francisco Art Institute, 2004; Bowerhaus, the Bower, San Antonio, Texas, 2003; and Open Line, a solo show at the Gregory Lind Gallery, 2003. Prest received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Mills College and presently lives and works in San Francisco. She was Artist in Residence at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2004 and an Affiliate Artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts from 2002 to 2005.

For more information about Mel Prest and her work, contact Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco.

ATTENTION ARTISTS

posted by Suite 5 on April 28, 2008 in ART EXHIBITS, EVENTS

If you are an artist interested in exhibiting your work please send an email submission with resume and images to DoyleCrane Fine Arts Collection Management.

EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY CORNELIA SCHULZ

posted by Suite 5 on March 22, 2008 in ANNOUNCEMENTS, ART EXHIBITS, EVENTS

Suite Five Salon announces a new installation of work by Bay Area painter Cornelia Schulz, April 3–May 31, 2008. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 3 from 6:00 to 7:30pm.

Schulz’s paintings are sophisticated puzzle-like combines that are as much about sculpture as they are about painting. Schulz plays with the tradition of “shaped canvases,” a term that refers to two-dimensional paintings that do not conform to a rectangular configuration. Schulz mounts individual blocks of painted canvas on to irregularly shaped boards, and then joins them into one cohesive, integrated whole.

Different techniques and materials, such as coating the canvas with alkyd (a polyester-based resin), dripping oil paint, and spilling pools of ink, coupled with a subtle but still intense color palette offer elements of surprise within a carefully considered, tightly controlled structure. By deviating from the rectangle, Schulz is able to extend her imagery beyond the confines of four linear “walls.” However, the juxtapositions within the paint surfaces and the elegant, biomorphic patterns draw the viewer deeper into each individual form, creating a subtle tension between the painting’s external edge and its internal contradictions.

For more information about Cornelia Schulz and her work, you may also visit Patricia Sweetow Gallery.

Suite Five Salon features bimonthly, rotating art installations highlighting contemporary artists from San Francisco. The salon holds free bimonthly openings in conjunction with downtown’s First Thursdays. Please contact 415-362-5005 for more information.

EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY DAVID LYLE

posted by Suite 5 on January 14, 2008 in ANNOUNCEMENTS, ART EXHIBITS, PRESS, EVENTS

Suite Five Salon announces an exhibition of work by New York artist, David Lyle, February 5 – March 29, 2008. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, February 7, from 6:00 to 7:30pm.

David Lyle acts as both curator and painter, sifting through a vast array of lost snapshots from the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s found at thrift stores, garage sales, e-bay auctions, and flea markets. His oil paintings mimic their found photo authenticity and achieve a sense of nostalgia and memory. Generally, the paintings are made of black and sepia tones, which take on a nostalgic or cinematic mood. They almost have a voyeuristic feel to them, as if the subject or subjects are unaware that they are being watched.

In his own words, David Lyle describes his paintings, “I feel that to find a lost photo and paint it, allows the photo and the memory to have a second life. Although I don’t know the people in the paintings, I can relate to certain memories and times in my own life”

For more information about David Lyle and his work, contact Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco.

Suite Five Salon features bimonthly, rotating art installations highlighting contemporary artists. The salon holds free bimonthly openings in conjunction with downtown’s First Thursdays. Please contact 415-362-5005 for more information.

REMINDER HOLIDAY PARTY this THURSDAY at SUITE FIVE!

posted by Suite 5 on December 3, 2007 in ANNOUNCEMENTS, ART EXHIBITS, PRESS, EVENTS

Join Suite Five Salon for a holiday celebration of its one-year anniversary and the opening of an exhibition of paintings by San Francisco artist Lisa Lightman, on view December 6, 2007 through January 31, 2008. The party and artist reception will be held on Thursday, December 6, from 7:00 to 10:00pm.

Exhibition of work by LISA LIGHTMAN

posted by Suite 5 on November 7, 2007 in ART EXHIBITS, EVENTS

Join Suite Five Salon for a holiday celebration of its one-year anniversary and the opening of an exhibition of paintings by San Francisco artist Lisa Lightman, on view December 6, 2007 through January 31, 2008. The party and artist reception will be held on Thursday, December 6, from 7:00 to 10:00pm.

Lisa Lightman is a San Francisco-based artist whose intricate, mixed-media collages and paintings employ a deeply personal and singular language that reflects her ongoing engagement with the subconscious. Lightman refers to her constructions as “states of mind” and they are the result on an ongoing, iterative process that involves a building up and breaking down of the surface. The processes of drawing, painting, rubbing, scratching, layering, and excavating are clearly evident and speak not only to Lightman’s extensive mining of her interior self but also her responses to external political and cultural stimuli.

A range of influences from the multilayered paintings of Howard Hodgkins to the rhythmic, calligraphic works of Cy Twombly manifest themselves in these highly emotive works. However, the symbology, sophisticated palette, and pop surrealist mark-making manifest Lightman’s own internal investigations. For more information about Lisa Lightman and her work, visit www.lisalightman.com.

Exhibition of work by EMILY SEVIER

posted by Suite 5 on September 25, 2007 in ART EXHIBITS, PRESS, EVENTS

Suite Five Salon announces an exhibition of work by San Francisco artist Emily Sevier, October 4 – December 1, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, October 4, from 6:00 to 7:30pm.

Emily Sevier is a San Francisco-based artist whose work explores and questions contemporary concepts of beauty. Working in both two- and three-dimensional formats and employing a deliberately childlike aesthetic, Sevier examines the normative social values that underlie our assumptions about what is good and what is bad.

Sevier draws on fables and fairy tales to create sculptures, paintings, and drawings whose simplicity of form and playful, lighthearted references to romantic ideals belie the sincerity of its critical subject, which is, in Sevier’s words, “a sugarcoated grotesque of the human quest for perfection and attempt to improve upon nature.”

Emily Sevier is an artist, arts administrator and independent curator. She has exhibited in the Bay Area and abroad, and has curated shows for organizations including Southern Exposure and Mission 17. In her life as an arts administrator Emily has worked with Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the James Irvine Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. Emily received her BFA in 1999 from Washington University in St. Louis with an emphasis on painting and minor in art history. For more information about Emily Sevier and her work, contact emilyseviergirl@yahoo.com.

Suite Five Salon features bimonthly, rotating art installations highlighting contemporary artists from San Francisco. The salon holds free bimonthly openings in conjunction with downtown’s First Thursdays. Please contact 415-362-5005 for more information.

Paintings by Tina Vietmeier

posted by Suite 5 on August 25, 2007 in ART EXHIBITS, EVENTS

Suite Five Salon announces an exhibition of paintings by San Francisco artist Tina Vietmeier, August 7 through September 29, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, September 6, from 6:00 to 7:30pm.

Vietmeier is a British-born artist whose chosen medium is encaustic-an ancient artistic practice that consists of beeswax, crystalline pigment, and tree resin applied on a firm ground, in this case, wood panel. Vietmeier extends the process to incorporate modern materials such as recycled papers, graphite pencil, and discarded or used objects to create works that are spare in imagery but rich in color and light. The artist builds up the surfaces and then breaks them down in a manner that Vietmeier likens to an archeological dig, with “everyday” imagery buried and revealed within the successive layers. The texture, media, and symbology come together to create a visual experience that is at once timeless and deeply personal.

For more information about Tina Vietmeier and her work, visit http://www.tinalaurenvietmeier.com. Tina Vietmeier is represented by the Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco.

Paintings by Ben Cressy

posted by Suite 5 on March 30, 2007 in ART EXHIBITS, EVENTS

http://www.bencressy.com

Suite Five Salon Grand Opening

posted by Suite 5 on September 1, 2006 in ART EXHIBITS, PRESS, EVENTS

Suite Five Salon is proud to announce its grand opening, Thursday, October 5, at 7:00pm, at 305 Grant Street, 5th floor, San Francisco.

Founded by San Francisco native and sought-after stylist Bradley Crane, Suite Five Salon offers the best in cut and color in a chic, custom-designed space on Grant Street. Designed by Bradley Crane himself, the salon reflects Bradley’s styling philosophy: clean, uncluttered, modern. Airy and filled with natural light, the bespoke interior combines a downtown urban sensibility with a sophisticated and refined attitude.

A beautiful, clean-edged red oak bar invites clients to linger over a cup of coffee or, for those in the know, a glass of wine, while dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows provide the perfect perch to watch the hustle and bustle of Union Square. The steel stations, which are works of art in themselves with their soaring double-sided mirrors, were custom designed by Bradley and local artist and fabricator Chris French. Rich warm grays accented by a deep blue provide the perfect backdrop for rotating art exhibitions curated by art consultant, and Bradley’s wife, Jenn Doyle Crane. The current exhibit features photographs by Bay Area photographer and director John Zissimos.

Committed to providing the very best in service and quality, Suite Five Salon provides expert shampoo and scalp massages, hair treatments, haircutting, color, and styling. The salon offers the coveted, jasmine- and orchid-infused Leonor Greyl line of shampoos, conditioners, and styling products as well as Pureology, an all natural, vegan product line specifically designed for color treated hair.

Please join us in a celebration of Bradley’s vision and success as he, and a dynamic team of creative individuals from some of the best salons in the city, come together to create the unique environment and experience that is Suite Five Salon.

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Join Suite Five for their annual Holiday Party, December 4th!

REMINDER PRIMP PARTY THIS FRIDAY at SUITE FIVE SALON!

HAIR AS ART, Photography by John Zissimos

Exhibition of Paintings by KOCH

Exhibition of Paintings by MEL PREST

ATTENTION ARTISTS

EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY CORNELIA SCHULZ

EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY DAVID LYLE

REMINDER HOLIDAY PARTY this THURSDAY at SUITE FIVE!

Exhibition of work by LISA LIGHTMAN

Exhibition of work by EMILY SEVIER

Paintings by Tina Vietmeier

Paintings by Ben Cressy

Suite Five Salon Grand Opening