Tag: Palm Springs Fine Art Fair

This Artsy Life: So Long, 2013!

I don’t know about you, dear Artsies, but I am ready to say goodbye to 2013 and get to the good stuff that I just know is waiting in the New Year! All in all, 2013 was a pretty good year for me and Mr. Forager. For today’s This Artsy Life post, I put together a little look back at some of our favorite moments from 2013 [ in case you’re wondering about the song choice, it is “our song” and still fits Mr. F & I so perfectly ]–

No life is ever perfect and ours, though exciting and full of adventure compared to most, is no different. We learned a lot this year, about ourselves and each other. We each went down new roads, sometimes things worked out and sometimes they didn’t. But in the process, we grew and we feel like we know better now what we want and where we’d like to be.

You can catch up on the specifics of our year in the This Artsy Life archives. Starting in 2014, I’ll take a break from doing these features each week but will be posting scenes from our life on Instagram and will pop in here on the blog with an occasional This Artsy Life post when I have something special to share. Meanwhile, I’m excited to begin a daily creative exercise that I’ll be posting on Instagram each day! More on that later this week!

Mr. Forager and I wish you all the very best in the New Year! Thank you for coming along on this journey with us.

All images by Artsy Forager. Video created using the Flipagram app.

December 31, 2013
Amplified Spaces: Jeffrey Palladini

Hotels are usually advertised as a luxurious means of escape. A place where you don’t have to make your bed and clean, neatly folded towels appear while you are out as if by magic. But they can also be places of desolation and despair. Where a cast-out husband goes to sort out his life, where the traveling salesman spends countless hours missing his family. In his Hotel series, San Francisco artist Jeffrey Palladini explores the intimacies of this microcosm of life.

Pool #10, oil and charcoal on wood, 55×37

When I first spotted Palladini’s work at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, I was immediately drawn to his quiet expanses of solid color. The simplicity of his palette adds to the somber, isolated feeling in some of the work.

A Late Morning, oil and charcoal on wood, 13×9

Missing Our Reservations, oil and charcoal on wood, 13×9

The Highlights, oil and charcoal on wood, 13×9

Then there’s the flip side of hotel visits– when all is fun and irresponsibility. Staying up late, sleeping in, lounging around the pool doing nothing at all. The anticipation of what might happen and memories you might make. In showing us glimpses of his subjects from behind, we voyeuristically gaze, wondering which kind of hotel scene we’ve stumbled upon.

Pool #8, oil and charcoal on wood, 37×25

If you’d like to see more of Jeffrey Palladini’s work, please visit his website. I hope you love this work as much as I do. Seriously it was like a scene from a hotel bar.. I spotted it across a crowded room.. 😉

All images are via the artist’s website.

February 28, 2013
This Artsy Life: Weekend 7 [ Art, Wine, & Who Really Cares About the Rest? ]

Happy Monday, Artsies! Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend. Or are you one of the lucky ones who gets a President’s Day holiday? We’re totally jealous!

Our weekend was full of ups and downs– Let’s get the bad stuff over first.. The Downs: Discovering a hole in the kitchen sink pipe of our rental Friday night ( yikes! ), the Disneyland like atmosphere of wineries in Temecula made us miss Oregon even more, crowds at the local breakfast joints on Sunday ( where did all the people come from?? ), still no working sink Sunday night ( the dishes are piling up! )

The Ups: Attending the Palms Springs Fine Art Fair on Friday, a day filled with wine tasting in Temecula on Saturday, discovering less crowded, out of the way wineries, soaking up the warmth on the back porch with Mr. F & a cocktail on a restful Sunday. I’d say The Ups outweighed the The Downs for sure!

[ Carole Feuerman greeting at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair ]

[ Aldo Chapparo, Robert Kelly, Oli Sihoven ]

[ totally needed some of this over the weekend ]

[ art candy by Klari Reis ]

[ wine, wind, wonderful ]

[ hmm.. which do we want? ]

[ Dr. Evil cherub ]

[ the Foragers love a game of bocce ]

[ warmth of the sun ]

Hope you had a lovely weekend, Artsies! Lots more photos from the Palm Springs Art Fair, Temecula, and more from This Artsy Life on the Artsy Forager Instagram feed! And tons of loveliness coming your way this week, including the opening of our very first online show, City Mouse | Country Mouse in the Found Gallery! Such exciting stuff I can’t stop using exclamation points! 😉

February 18, 2013