F+ Gallery

Thanks everyone who came out for the re-opening of F+ Gallery! Huge thank you to @jordanchristianart for filling the gallery with your beautiful work. Stay tuned for more more shows and opportunities to get involved...... #wearamask #besafe #havefun #artgallery # Artshow #fplusgallery #jordanchristianart #abstractart #painting #dtsa #orangecounty #ocloft #santiagostreetartlofts

Return to the land of the living tonight! Happy to re-open F+ Gallery to humans again. Hope to see you TONIGHT 7-10pm 661 Poinsettia St 92701 Please use FREE parking at the Santa Ana Train Station:... 1000 Santa Ana Blvd 92701 #wearamask #besafe #havefun #artgallery #orangecounty #dtsa #reopening #ocreopening #jordanchristianart #fplusgallery #artlife #abstractpainting

Join us this Saturday April 3rd 7-10pm at F+ Gallery for a viewing of our current exhibit featuring art by Jordan Christian @jordanchristianart This will be your last chance to see this show! We are rolling open the doors for a safe open air viewing experience. #Wearamask #besafe #havefun Free parking at the Santa Ana Train Station... There will be drinks and light snacks available #OrangeCounty #artgallery #artshow #dtsa #santiagostreetlofts #ocart #ocevent #socalart #reopening #artlifeoc #fplusgallery #socalart #localoc

Art has returned to F+! We are rolling up the doors to the gallery for an open air solo show featuring: Jordan Christian @jordanchristianart join us as we safely get back to art life.... Saturday March 6th (6- 10pm). Save the date #wearamask

Phenomenal work from @na_roda from South Korea. Roda is a recent graduate from F+ University’s Art Business Course. Her work is highly detailed and creative. My favorite of a series of characters she calls Obill Duckliam. DM for print purchase details #digitalart #characterdesign #artgallery #fplusgallery #dtsa #santaanaart #orange county

Woven Colors: by Lorelei Laaman 22 x 28 Acrylic and Collage on Canvas. Available now! -320 DM for purchase details. Proud to present work from my first round of Art Business Students. By purchasing their artwork you will be investing in emerging artists that have made a commitment to produce work and follow their creative passion to the fullest extent. They are learning how successful living artists have created value for there investors while creating a sustainable income f...or their families. Their commitment to the business side of Art gives value and confidence to you as the art lover and collector. Lorelei’s work is visually impactful and infused with meaning as in so many words she explains that this work mirrors how beautiful our lives can be if we embrace diversity and work together with all race, creed and color. It’s a call to return to a childlike love for people, creation and The Creator. Thank you for supporting F+ Gallery and an extremely talented and serious class of emerging artists. We are attacking the rest of 2020 with a positive passion!

Happy to start sharing the hard work of my recent Art Business students who just graduated from an intensive 16 week course. Rabbit Well @rabbit.well.animation is creating her own brand of quirky, fun animation shorts. She created a comedy about a superhero and super pet, who save the City of Boredom from zombies. It is an Official Selection of Los Angeles Film Awards in 2019. Watch here: http://www.rabbitwell.com/youtube... Rabbit Well has also produced some artwork based on her animations you can buy! City Bird by Rabbit Well - 36 x 24" Digital Print on Canvas Available Now!$600 DM to purchase, support or make a donation through Venmo @fplusgallery 100% Rabbit Well profit made in 2020 will be donated to American Red Cross to help CORV-19 relief.

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Join me today 1pm on meetup.com/Art-Business/ I’m going to interview @saramlyons live on zoom and then at 3pm I’m giving a live overview of the 16 week Art Business course I have developed. The Art Business Course will Launch August 15th. Don’t miss out if you want to learn how to live your best creative life by building a side hustle or business around your artistic passion. DM me for details I will send you the links you need to get in.

I do not wish to be an artist, I only wish that art enables me to be. Noah Purifoy, 1963 Born in Snow Hill, Alabama in 1917, Noah Purifoy lived and worked most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California, where he died in 2004. He received an undergraduate degree from Alabama State Teachers College in 1943 and a graduate degree from Atlanta University in 1948. In 1956, just shy of his 40th birthday, Purifoy earned a BFA degree from Chouinard, now CalArts. ... His earliest body of sculpture, constructed out of charred debris from the 1965 Watts rebellion, was the basis for 66 Signs of Neon, the landmark 1966 group exhibition on the Watts riots that traveled throughout the country. As a founding director of the Watts Towers Art Center, Purifoy knew the community intimately. His 66 Signs of Neon, in line with the postwar period’s fascination with the street and its objects, constituted a Duchampian approach to the fire-molded alleys of Watts. This strategy profoundly impacted artists such as David Hammons, John Outterbridge and Senga Nengudi. For the 20 years that followed the rebellion, Purifoy dedicated himself to the found object, and to using art as a tool for social change. In the late 1980s, after 11 years of public policy work for the California Arts Council, where Purifoy initiated programs such as Artists in Social Institutions, which brought art into the state prison system, Purifoy moved his practice out to the Mojave desert. He lived for the last 15 years of his life creating ten acres full of large-scale sculpture on the desert floor. Constructed entirely from junked materials, this otherworldly environment is one of California’s great art historical wonders. This is where I discovered his work in 2013. He inspired me that day and I have taken it with me for life. Thank you Noah. #blacklivesmatter

We are one body waring against itself. I believe in JUSTICE for ALL not Justice for some. Black lives matter and Black lives are my friends and my family that I love. I pray forgiveness for the times I have fallen short and not said or done enough to show it. I pray for change in our hearts and minds tonight. I pray for a colorblind LOVE to return to new heights when this is over. GOOD and EVIL exists within all of us. Let it be good that wins the war inside myself tonight.... I pray the same for every man and woman alive tonight. How do we move forward from here? There is no change unless you can perceive the world outside your own paradigm. As a white person if you can see the pain and suffering the black community has endured for generations let alone the tragic killing of George Floyd you might understand and empathize with their righteous anger. There are millions of loving, kind, and trustworthy people that are protesting and grieving peacefully. WAKE UP! We can not profile entire groups of people and judge them by the actions of a few. It is time to rebuild our system ONE for ALL and ALL for ONE! #blacklivesmatter

Industry Giant circa 2007 with 2020 context. Coming up this Saturday March 28th. F+ Gallery Art Business is going online! Topic: Art Pricing and Covid19 Game Plan. Go get an invitation and details here: www.meetup.com/Art-Business/

Art Business class in session at F+ Gallery we are three classes in and growing strong! Join us this Saturday March 7th 3-5pm the topic is Key Strategies for Selling Art First timers get in FREE! For details visit fplusgallery.com/classes

This is a progress photo from an original commission painting I made many years ago. Join me at F+ Gallery this Saturday February 29th 3-5pm for Art Business class . 1st timers get in FREE! Topic: How To Create Multiple Streams of Income Through Your Art Brand... In this class I will share with you 7 things that many professional artists do to generate income through their own personal brand. Success as living artist will require multiple streams of income. I will show you how you can expand your opportunities and ideas for financial viability. Returning students will also be sharing findings from Gallery research and artist case studies. For the past ten years I have sold my own artwork as well as hundreds of emerging artists work through F+ Gallery in Santa Ana which first opened in 2012. I have also had success in the business world helping struggling companies to become profitable again. Now my goal is to combine all my experiences from art and business to help you to live your best and most profitable life through your passion. I encourage first time students to bring some examples of their artwork to class for an open share. $40 per class for returning students Checkout www.fplusgallery.com/classes for a complete course schedule. See you Saturday! -Micah #artgallery #ArtBusiness #PAINTING #PHOTOGRAPHY #OrangeCounty #DTSA #OC

Coming up this Saturday 3-5pm at F+ Gallery Art Business School continues with: HOW TO BUILD MULTIPLE STREAMS OF INCOME THROUGH YOUR ART BRAND. In this class I will share with you 7 things that many professional artists do to generate income through their own personal brand. Success as living artist will require multiple streams of income. I will show you how you can expand your opportunities and ideas for financial viability.... Returning students will also be sharing findings from Gallery research and artist case studies. For the past ten years I have sold my own artwork as well as hundreds of emerging artists work through F+ Gallery in Santa Ana which first opened in 2012. I have also had success in the business world helping struggling companies to become profitable again. Now my goal is to combine all my experiences from art and business to help you to live your best and most profitable life through your passion. First Timers get in free! I encourage first time students to bring some examples of their artwork to class for an open share. $40 per class for returning students Checkout www.fplusgallery.com/classes for a complete course schedule. See you Saturday! -Micah

Art Business class is today 3-5pm we will talk about How to Develop Art Brand Identity and Style. 1st timers join us free! After that each class is $40. This is a fun but serious 16 week Art Business course I have developed to help creatives build a business or side hustle using their passion! Message for details. #artbusiness #artgallery #orangecounty

Saturday February 15th 3-5pm F+ Gallery Presents: ART BUSINESS. Artists who are interested in developing their craft as a business. F+ Gallery founder Micah Kersh will share over 10 years of experience, hard knocks and compiled research on living and working as a creative person. This group class is for the visual artist, painter, photographer, filmmaker, musician, writer, actor and otherwise inspired creative person who wants to discover the best possible solution for living... your life meaningfully through art. Focus Topics: - Proven steps to generate income through your passion. - Specific financial organization guidelines. - Practical actionable steps to develop and improve your craft. - Built in networking and self marketing opportunities. - Ways to establish your personal brand identity - Overcoming fear and creative roadblocks - Anticipating levels of hardship, suffering and sacrifice required to achieve success. - The importance of repetition. - Success, happiness and the survival of creative inspiration.