Collectibles & Explorations

Pacifico Palumbo & Dominique Thiébaut

Pacifico Palumbo is exhibiting several paintings at Jo Smith Gallery in Northampton for the month of August 2024. Pacifico, a painter and neon sculptor, created neon sculptures in his studio, in Brooklyn, NY, which he sold in his gallery, "Say it in Neon," on Hudson Street from 1972 until 2002. After closing the gallery, he and his partner Michael moved to Colrain, Massachusetts where he spends his time painting. Their home serves as his studio and gallery: the Barrel Shop Gallery. Earlier in his career, Pacifico was an art director at the Wells, Rich, Green agency and worked on Madison Avenue during the 1950s and 1960s, and was one of the original "Mad Men." He left advertising in the 1970s to run his gallery full-time. In August, the gallery will showcase several oil paintings in his show titled "Florals and Collectibles." Most of the floral paintings were painting at and around his home. It will be the first time his "Collectibles" collection is exhibited.

Dominique was born in Paris, France, and moved to the Pioneer Valley in the 1980s to study at the University of Massachusetts. He never left the valley, and adopted it as his home, and currently lives in Northampton, MA. He is a photographer and digital artist. When he is not spending time capturing the beauty of our ever changing New England landscape, he explores the boundaries between art and digital media. The current exhibit at Jo Smith’s Gallery covers the spectrum of his art explorations.