In honor of Franco’s retirement this month, I made this the next in a series of reprints from the design blog I kept for The Frame Maker between 2007 and 2009. These posts are primarily about the art and artists we worked with as well as custom and green picture frame design by your truly while contracted as the general manager of The Frame Maker in San Diego, CA.
 
Original post date: June 2009

Here are a few pictures of Franco Colavecchia’s installation of original painting and stage design renderings now in The Frame Maker showroom through August 28, 2009

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Link to my original post: SoHo Memory Paintings installation at The Frame Maker

The next in a series of reprints from my old Blogger blog
Original post date: July 2009

Spent a couple hours of this gorgeous San Diego Sunday in the studio working on the sky paintings for this week, here’s a quick picture:

The show of my paintings with Joseph Bedford’s custom furniture opens this Friday at Joe’s Little Italy space Bedford Built. Our reception is part of the first “NoLi Notte” or “North Little Italy Nights, which is a monthly art event that’s emerged out of Kettner Nights.

The first round of “Little and Large” shows open at other spaces that night in Little Italy, but my wife Heather will be joining Joe and I in his space at 2360 India Street to debut her LifeChain project.

If you haven’t seen the LifeChain series of videos we’ve done of Heather in her studio, I’m putting the first episode here below; I’ll be posting parts 3 and 4 tomorrow on Heather’s new WordPress blog at www.heather-reilly.com/sdmetalsmith. Check it out!