Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Loads of talent in one pic

At a recent booksigning at the home of a major DMV art collector...

That's me in the background signing a copy of 100 Washington, DC Artists... which continues to sell surprisingly well as more and more DMV area shops and book stores order copies...

And in the foreground there's some major talent... that's Prof. Chawky Frenn, the top gun at GMU's Art School taking a pic of the legendary Lida Moser - yep... she whose's work is in every major museum in the world (including all DMV museums except the Hirshhorn... hello H?), and whose life has been documented in not one but two documentaries, and whose image (painted by Alice Neel not once but four times) hangs in a few major museums of their own around the planet...

Just bragging...

New Video Drawing: Ave Frida

Ave Frida by F. Lennox Campello


Here's the first stage of the drawing


Ave Frida by F. Lennox Campello

Here's a better view of the drawing's first stage


Ave Frida by F. Lennox Campello

The drawing itself is now pretty much finished and it's ready for the narrative video to be embedded


Ave Frida by F. Lennox Campello

The pattern of the window to be cut in the drawing has been measured and now the drawing is ready to be cut


Ave Frida by F. Lennox Campello

The window has been cut in the shape of a heart with fangs. A short loop of Kahlo and a young, frightened girl plays in the video player embedded within the drawing


Ave Frida by F. Lennox Campello

Ave Frida, Mater Omnium Artificum. 22 x 18. Charcoal and conte on paper with embedded video player and historical video in loop. 2011 by F. Lennox Campello.