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THE VIDEO GAME ART SHOW |
THURSDAY | MARCH 10 6pm - 2am | BLUE CUBE  Americans spend more money on video games than they do on movie tickets... Video game characters have become icons, and video game iconography has entered the mainstream... Not surprisingly, VIDEO GAMES have had a profound impact on NEW ART. This art show, which coincides with the acclaimed Game Developer's Conference at the Moscone Center, showcases a couple dozen stellar emerging artists from around the world whose work has been influenced by video games. |
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NOTE: there are NO presales for this show. doors open at 6 and ALL the art will be sold on a first-come first-served basis. |
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 THE VIDEO GAME ART SHOW marks our TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY... so we decided to do this one up BIG... DJs downstairs include NoMe + Kelly Tunstall + Chris Sia DJs in the upstairs game lounge include Tom Thump + Soulside astounding visuals + multimedia by video art pioneer STEFAN G. MORE video art from HEXASTATIC electronic rhythm + 8-bit sonic explorations mixed LIVE by CHAOTRON special live performances from WISE PROOF + ??? and what would a video game art show be without VIDEO GAMES? MobileTheatre™ Gaming Cinema Networked GameHex™ LAN System from our friends at SENET ENTERTAINMENT play a pre-release version of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory featuring a soundtrack by Amon Tobin courtesy of our friends at Ubisoft play NEW GAMES in surround-sound ULTIMATE GAME CHAIRS and what would a video game art show be without FREE STUFF? featured door prizes + video game competition awards: gaming headsets from Plantronics LOTS of FREE GAMES! gamer + geek apparel giveaways from the Gravy Factory anodized aircraft aluminum Banshee Pads |
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 TOMORROW NIGHT! THURSDAY march 3, 2005 6 pm - midnight at the blue cube | map to 34 Mason START SOMA PRESENTS... Kevin Epps DVD release party straight outta hunters point $10 cover gets you in AND the DVD! art | music | film | community |
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 + Salifu Mohammed's FIRST solo show! Salifu grew up in the village of Wa in the upper west region of northern Ghana, called Busa. He has exhibited at galleries + museums in his native Ghana, and his work is in numerous permanent + private collections throughout Africa, Europe, and the United States. Salifu recently moved to San Francisco, and this is his FIRST solo show in the US. START SOMA is absolutely honored to showcase his large format oil paintings, which are simply mesmerizing... |
| and watch for a PAINTED ROOM in the Hotel des Arts coming from Salifu in july... |
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PAINTED ROOMS 3.0 |
FRIDAY | APRIL 15 |
HOTEL DES ARTS |
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Last year, START SOMA launched an art gallery in the HOTEL DES ARTS - a boutique 51 room art hotel in the heart of San Francisco's Union Square. Over the past months, some of the premier emerging artists in the world have been painting their own signature rooms. Floor to ceiling, and pretty much everything in between - with full autonomy to do whatever they wanted... | 
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Last year, we showcased 16 PAINTED ROOMS. On April 15, we unveil 16 more: |
Bryan Dawson | Josh Feldman | Maria Gillespie | Doze Green | Maya Hayuk | Kenji Hirata | Matt Irving | MATZU Jason Lee | Eric Orr | Chris Pastras | Punkadelik | MISK | Anthony Skirvin | Kelly Tunstall | Klutch + Vinyl Killers kindly email john@STARTsoma.com to request an invitation to the opening... space is VERY limited for this one! |
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and ALL the previously painted rooms will be open! |
Brad K. Alder | Brian Barneclo | Tim Gaskin | Logan Hicks | Terrance Hughes | NEON | Kelly Ording | Jet Martinez Jimmy Soat | Damon Soule | APEX | David Choe | David DeRosa | Sam Flores | Vulcan one night only... All the painted rooms are available at NO CHARGE for magazine photoshoots... kindly contact info@STARTsoma.com for additional information |
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SCION EVENT RECAP |
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 this past weekend, several START SOMA artists from PAINTED ROOMS were hired by Scion to paint some more rooms + walls for a giant party at the Hangar One Vodka Distillery on the Alameda Naval Base.
and you read it here first... ...this PAINTED ROOMS thing is going to take off! |
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David DeRosa Commissions make great gifts! |
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 David DeRosa is a top-notch talent who had the first public exhibition of his paintings at START SOMA this past year. His work resonated, and he has been the START SOMA artist in residence for the past nine months. He quit his day job and has been painting around the clock ever since... Over the past months, David has completed portraits in his signature after image style for a whole host of decidedly interesting characters... |
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Perhaps someone you know would like one? Or maybe one for YOU? Interested in learning more? Kindly contact info@STARTsoma.com to schedule a sitting. |
* David DeRosa's paintings hang on the walls of Eminem, Mos Def, Nas, Nelly, Snoop Dogg, Danny Glover, Mix Master Mike (the Beastie Boys), Proof (D12), and Middleweight Champion of the World Bernard Hopkins. David has been hired by SUN and SCION for art projects, and he just finished a series of posters for an electro-pop band from Rome who took advantage of his 'free art for emerging musicians' program! We have had to re-schedule his first solo show half-a-dozen times because his work sells directly from the studio before it is even dry! And remember - you do NOT need to own a Bentley to afford a DeRosa commission - prices start at $500... |
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THIS JUST IN.... |
 the PAINTED ROOMS in the HOTEL DES ARTS were just featured in one of the world's premier travel magazines! according to the blurb in this month's Condé Nast Traveler: the most popular rooms at San Francisco's newly renovated Hotel des Arts have graffiti-inspired murals by artists such as Sam Flores, Apex, David Choe, and Vulcan, one of New York City's early graffitists... the magazine also included a GREAT photo of Sam Flores' painted room - so please check out page 44 of the March 2005 Condé Nast Traveler! more PAINTED ROOMS press coverage |
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 Thank you! info@STARTsoma.com |
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