Coffee Conversations with Victoria Pesce Elliott: Palm Pods, Collage, and the Art of Holding On

This Saturday from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, we invite you to join us at ARRAE Gallery for a relaxed afternoon with artist Victoria Pesce Elliott. This is a chance to meet Victoria in person, hear about her process, and spend time with the work in a way that feels open, informal, and genuinely welcoming.

Victoria will be sharing the story behind her Palm Pods and other pieces on view, including how she gathers, preserves, and transforms materials into collages and sculptural lighting. If you have ever stood in front of a work and wondered how it came to be, this is the kind of conversation that stays with you. You will leave with a deeper understanding of the materials, the decisions, and the quiet persistence behind the work.

Victoria Pesce Elliott is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blurs the lines between natural and constructed, domestic and wild. Through mixed media collages and sculptural lighting made from palm pods and found materials, she invites viewers to reconsider what is ephemeral, what is preserved, and what it means to bring nature indoors. A lifelong gatherer and transformer, Elliott is a South Florida native who splits her time between Miami Beach and Treasure Beach, Jamaica. Her three-decade career as a journalist and food writer continues to inform her practice—infusing her work with curiosity, narrative depth, and an eye for detail. Her collages combine painted surfaces with fruits, flowers, embroidery, and preserved foods, while her light fixtures suggest childlike wonder and domestic intimacy. Elliott’s work asks: Can we frame or improve upon nature? Or are our attempts reflections of our own fragility? Her practice is a quiet meditation on beauty, impermanence, and the instinct to hold on.