Jeffrey Palladini

Jeffrey Palladini was born in the Chicago area, and grew up in Southern California. He studied Art at California State University, Long Beach, where he explored a wide variety 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 to experiment with combining the found objects and classical figurative imagery he found everywhere around him. From that time, Palladini has considered canvas simply too passive, and has continued to employ wood almost exclusively as the ground for his paintings.
In 1991, Palladini relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives and works along with his wife and young daughter. He continues to develop his unique vocabulary of dramatic imagery.
Jeffrey Palladini has exhibited his work around the United States for nearly twenty years. His work is included in numerous private and corporate collections. He is represented by Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco, Gallery IMA in Seattle, Elisa Contemporary Art in New York, Obsidian 128 Gallery in Arizona, and Brian Marki Fine Art in Portland, Oregon.