Farrington Smith Gallery

This weekend, we’ll be participating in the Marigny & Bywater Open Studios…stop by and visit us!

We’ll also be at the Bywater Art Market on Saturday. Yeah, we can do all this because there’s three of us over here at Farrington Smith Gallery! Looks like there will be live music this month in addition to a huge number of vendors…please support local artists!

Finally, our Photo Show is still up…you can come see the fabulous photography by Louviere + Vanessa, Jennifer Shaw and Jean Laughton. Check out the review D. Eric Bookhardt wrote about the show in the Gambit last week. It was great to participate in Photo Nola’s month of photography…thanks to all of those involved for including us!

-Amy

I suppose he’s our mascot.

Here he is in front of the desk that Adam and Scott made. So, Bywater Art Market was fun…we’ll do it again before the holidays, but not sure when. I’ll definately post sooner about it the next time we participate.

We may host the next New Orleans Geek Dinner, wherein bloggers and other computer-types mingle and pot-luck-it…I need to contact Alan G. to see what’s up with that. I’ve been a little shy, honestly, about mixing with other local bloggers because ours is about art and theirs tend to be more current-events oriented, but I’m gonna go ahead and jump in.

Adam has some pieces including Steamboat Sally and On The Delta in a group show opening in Brooklyn soon. It’s called Surge: New Orleans On High Ground, and is at the Brooklyn Lyceum in cooperation with New Orleans’ 3 Ring Circus Productions. Hope people up there enjoy getting a little NOLA flava.

Lastly, Adam is curating a group show to open in conjunction with Art for Art’s Sake on October 7. Our festivities will be during the day, when Adam also participates in the Marigny and Bywater Open Studio event. It just so happens that our mammas will be visiting together then, as well, so it’ll be a very busy and fun weekend for us! More information about the first Farrington Smith Gallery group show to come!

-Amy

It’s pretty late on Friday, but I wanted to post that Adam will be at the art market tomorrow! It’s the first time he’s ever done it, so we’re excited.

He’ll be bringing some smaller paintings and sculptures, plus these prints he makes…he cuts an animal or symbol out of metal, then prints it on a handpainted background on wood. Sometimes he uses the metal piece more like a stencil, and usually he adds glitter. I, personally, am a total sucker for anything sparkly, so I have a red glitter chicken on a pink background hung on our kitchen wall.

Each print is unique, but here’s a couple so you can get an idea of what they’re like:

These look great in multiples hung next to each other. It’s fun to see which ones people pick out…I suppose that’s true for all art.

Hope to see you at the Bywater Art Market. The gallery will still be open from 10-5, so stop by here as well if you’re in the ‘hood!

-Amy