Farrington Smith Gallery

We hung the first painting in the gallery yesterday.

It’s over by the door where it gets great sunlight, and it made us all happy to see it up there on the wall while we continue to work around it.

Adam fixed a glitch in the track lights today, so we shouldn’t have any problem making our goal to be open the first Saturday in August. Doug MacCash, the art critic for the Times-Picayune, did a little write up in last week’s Lagniappe about us closing the French Quarter place, so I thought we should have a concrete date for our reopening.

So now we have it- August 5th.

- Amy

Daffodil; Adam Farrington; Acrylic and Pencil on Masonite; 16″ x 31″; $700

I realized yesterday how long it’s been since I’ve made a post…can I blame it on the heat? Hmm…or the fact that Scott has been on a trip to London and Madrid for the last couple weeks? He’ll be back this weekend, so after this little breather, I think we will be kicking it into high gear. We are so close to having the gallery ready to go, but sometimes that’s the time you can lose a little momentum, isn’t it?

Just to make this post more interesting, I’m gonna throw in one of my current favorite paintings of Adam’s.

-Amy

On The Delta; Adam Farrington; Paint, Masonite and Steel; $1200

ETA: Adam wrote a little about On The Delta after he saw my post, so here it is:

It’s hard to imagine a property out of its current context. There are those ones scattered about that predate everything else around them. It’s strange to imagine them isolated, like the first seed to drop.

You know what they say about real estate: location, location, location. This place doesn’t have any of that, but luckily they also say if you build it they will come.