About FSG
Farrington Smith Gallery provides a space for artists to share creative visions, ideas, and projects. Run by artist/entrepreneur Adam Farrington and artist/art director Scott Smith, the gallery also serves as a platform for emerging and established artists to convene, collaborate, and display their work with multiple techniques and materials.
A Little History…
“[T]he Farrington Smith Gallery brought a neglected vintage storefront back to life. The galleries have branded themselves the St. Claude Arts District and hold coordinated openings the second Saturday of each month.”
New York Times. “New New Orleans”
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/travel/escapes/30orleans.html
Pioneers of the resurgence of the post-Katrina art scene, Farrington and Smith opened the first FSG in 2005 in the sparsely trafficked French Quarter during the early recovery of New Orleans. In 2006, priced out by rising rents with the return of tourism, FSG relocated to a humble storefront on St. Claude Ave., becoming the first gallery to open in the area. New galleries soon followed (including Barristers and Art Noir) prompting the emergence of an important new arts district along the St Claude corridor which still thrives to this day. With the opening of new galleries in the area and along the corridor. FSG was also instrumental in the creation and organization of the beginnings of Dirty Linen Night on Royal Street, a nod to Julia Street's White Linen Night as well as St. Claude Arts Second Saturdays Art Walk (https://stclaudearts.org/), a monthly open-house gallery event with special exhibitions, which continues today.
The new FSG, re-founded in 2024 as a rebirth and reiteration of the original Farrington Smith Gallery. It aims to recapture and expand upon the gallery’s original mission: to revitalize, cultivate and promote New Orleans art culture.
Adam Farrington
Artist Adam Farrington has been a fixture in the New Orleans arts scene since 1995, relocating from upstate NY after receiving a BFA in sculpture from SUNY Purchase. His sculptures, paintings, and multimedia artwork range from the figurative, toylike and biological to the abstract, enigmatic, and ineffable. Subject to infinite interpretations, sometimes kinetic or with moving parts, and often using and combining unconventional media, he considers his art to be an exploration of materials, and an opportunity to connect with the creatively inclined.
His work has been shown at the NOLA Contemporary Arts Center, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Gallery Laffite, Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, and Taylor Bercier Fine Art and has been the subject of articles in The New Orleans Art Review, Sculpture Magazine, and the Times Picayune.
Scott Smith
Gallery director and artist Scott Smith arrived in NOLA in 1996 to join the art department at the House of Blues, where he was a curator and preparator for their extensive folk/outsider art collection. After assuming the role of Art Director at House of Blues, Scott became responsible for overseeing and managing all visual aspects of HOB projects across the country. In this position he collaborated closely with clients, creative teams, and artists to develop concepts, establish the overall artistic style, and guide the direction and execution of exhibitions and interiors.
During this time he met and hired Farrington to create a variety of original art works both large and small. They have worked in collaboration on numerous projects ever since.