Jeffrey Palladini

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About the Artist:


ABOUT JEFFREY PALLADINI

Jeffrey Palladini was born in 1968 in the Chicago area and grew up in Southern California. He studied art at California State University, Long Beach, where he explored a wide range of media, eventually gravitating toward drawing and painting.

It wasn’t until his studies in Florence, Italy, in 1989 that he began to form a consistent creative voice.

The ubiquitous beauty of art in everyday life in Italy had a profound effect on the young artist and he began experimenting with combining the found objects and classical figurative imagery he encountered everywhere around him. From that time, Palladini has considered canvas simply too passive and he has continued to work almost exclusively using wood as the ground for his paintings.

He continues to develop his unique vocabulary of dramatic figurative imagery, combined with compelling linear and pattern elements, which serve to enhance and inform the narrative of each work.

Biography:


EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS

Palladini has exhibited his work in solo, group and juried exhibitions since 1991. His work is included in many private and corporate collections.

In 1991, Palladini relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area where he lives and works with his wife, psychotherapist Theresa Hall and daughter Lola.


EDUCATION

1990, California State University, Long Beach, BA Art
1989, Florence, Italy, Studio Art Studies through Richmond College, London


CIRRICULUM VITAE

 ECA.JeffreyPalladini.2010.pdf

 

Statement:


According to Jeffrey

"In these paintings are captured, in bright brief flashes, complex emotion and intense intimacy. With minimal information provided, to the viewer is left the imperative of exploring the vast remainder. From a movie still is extrapolated a full film of character, pacing, plot and script. From a paragraph, an entire novel. From a brief encounter, a lifetime of histories and potentialities. From a single windowpane spreads a wide, complicated landscape. From one charged moment, the story extends infinitely in all directions. As in memory, all is viewed in snapshots, in glimpses. Complex narratives, transformative events, entire lifetimes, boiled down to these singular points in time."

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Associated Exhibitions

She Looks At… The Water
May 1 - July 31, 2023
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Facing Abstraction - A Group Show at Elisa Contemporary Art NY Gallery
Opens February 2, 2022
January 24 - April 27, 2022
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Looking In and Letting Go: Faces and Places
September 16 - December 16, 2020
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Join Us for the First Affordable Online Art Fair November 6-30
Early Access - November 4-5
October 26 - December 12, 2020
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Father's Day Gifts
May 22 - June 30, 2020
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Dive In
May 23 - October 6, 2016
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Thank you for visiting us at Aqua Art Miami 2015
Dec. 2nd - 6th
December 1 - December 6, 2015
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Immersion
at The Design Studio in Bridgehampton
June 15 - July 27, 2015
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Pacific Swim
A Refreshing Summer Show featuring three West Coast artists.


July 14 - September 8, 2014
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Art from the Left Coast
November 29, 2013 - January 26, 2014
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Strength & Grace
A Tribute to Equestrians and Swimmers
July 6 - September 15, 2012
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SPLASH!
May 15 - September 6, 2011
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Affordable Art Fair NYC - Spring 2011

Join Us in Booth B-3 at this year's Spring AAFNYC
May 4 - May 8, 2011
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Reflections
Figures and Portraits from Contemporary Artists
September 24 - November 21, 2010
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