{"id":474,"date":"2010-10-17T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T22:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chezarts.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2010-11-05T22:31:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T05:31:17","slug":"art-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chezmana.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Art in Context: Music and Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Art<\/a>\n

In November, Chez Mana<\/em> launches\u00a0Art in Context,<\/em> a series of invitation-only events hosted at small and convivial settings.<\/p>\n

The first is scheduled for November 7th<\/sup> and features one of the Bay Area’s hottest songwriters, Deborah Crooks, performing her own compositions based on blues, folk and contemporary influences, backed by her accomplished trio.<\/p>\n

“…a more diverse take on Americana with a distinctly female tone, and quite charming.” \u2014East Bay Express<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Superflows,<\/em> a photo exhibit by the French artist Pierrick Gaum\u00e9<\/a>, will be on display.<\/p>\n


\n\"Deborah<\/a><\/p>\n

Deborah Crooks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Songwriter\/recording artist\u00a0Deborah Crooks is an intimate and edgy artist whose lyric-driven and soul-wise music draws on folk, rock, Americana and the blues.\u00a0\u00a0Deborah\u2019s lyrics are honed by a lifetime of writing as well as world travel, and she is an active member of the San Francisco songwriting and arts scene, leading many events and initiatives. \u00a0Deborah’s performance and recording credits include an appearance at the 2006 Millennium Music Conference, the RockerGirl Magazine Music Convention,\u00a0\u00a0Harmony Festival, 2009’s California Music Fest as well as MacWorld 2010 and three EP\u2019s and a full-length CD \u201cAdding Water to the Ashes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0For Art in Context, she\u2019ll perform a special acoustic set with her band including strings, percussion and guitar.<\/p>\n


\n\"Tatiana<\/a><\/p>\n

Tatiana Ecoiffier<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tatiana Ecoiffier<\/a> is balancing her life between her two passions, music and biology. Originally from France, she was classically trained as a violist at the conservatory of Strasbourg. She played in several symphonic orchestras as well a chamber music group before moving to Boston in 2006 to finish her master’s degree in biotechnology at Harvard. Now living in Berkeley, she is completing her PhD in vision science and finding her musical inspiration while accompanying several talented Bay Area artists. She has been playing with Deborah Crooks since they recorded “It’s All Up to You” last January.<\/p>\n


\n\"Kwame<\/a><\/p>\n

Kwame Copeland<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Kwame Copeland<\/a> first picked up a guitar as a teenager growing up in Wyoming and has written and played music ever since. In addition to writing and playing bass and guitar for a variety of notable Bay Area projects that have included The Straw Coyotes, Two Headed Turtle, Adrian West Band, Grace Woods as well as Deborah Crooks, he currently fronts his own Kwame Copeland Band.<\/p>\n

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\"Mike<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Stevens<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Mike Stevens<\/a> began playing drums at the age of nine and has played professionally since he was fifteen. Mike quickly became first-call sub for many of Eastern Connecticut’s music ensembles and was the resident drummer for several rock and jazz groups in the area. Since moving to the Bay Area, he\u2019s performed and recorded with a number of local bands.<\/p>\n\n

Pierrick Gaum\u00e9’s<\/a> Quest<\/h2>\n
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The Jaguar's Palms<\/p><\/div>\n

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I remember the foggy autumn weather when I took this photograph. Shady palm trees were going wild in the wind.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Between Castro and the Mission district in San Francisco, my eyes were wandering over the hoods of the cars. I could see warped buildings and tree limbs that looked like moving ghosts and animals until a Jaguar effigy caught my attention.<\/p>\n

In a colorless jungle, this animal’s muscular shine looked like a call of the wild, a leap into\u00a0more intrigue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

With their feeling of vertigo \u00e0 la Hitchcock, Pierrick Gaum\u00e9’s Superflows offer organic and exploded visions of today’s cities. Their colors wind like hot lava through fractal, crystallized shapes that still reflect actual buildings.<\/p>\n

Since 2007, Gaum\u00e9 has been capturing these furtive reflections in French and American cities. His photographs freeze accidental collisions of sunbeams, facades and four-wheeled mirrors. The distortions are natural phenomena resulting from the intersection of architectural and streamline shapes on cars’ shiny complex volumes.<\/p>\n

For information on future events join http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chezmana<\/a><\/p>\n

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