Don't even try to tell me that they are not all cut from the same cloth: Obama, Boehner, Reid, Pelosi, Biden and all those professional "fooled you once, fool you all the time pros..."
Makes my head hurt....
Makes my head hurt....
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
At the fridge...
THIS WEEKEND
The Fridge Presents
Davis McLane Connelly’s Individuation
Opening Reception Saturday, January 5, 7 – 11pm
Artist Talk Sunday, January 6, 2 - 3pm
On View through January 27
Davis McLane Connelly’s newest drawings of youthful figures in lifelike, yet surrealistic scenarios will be on view starting this Saturday, 7 - 11pm, at The Fridge. Davis will also have an artist talk on Sunday, 2 - 3pm to talk about his techniques as a draftsman as well as the psychological concept individuation, the Jungian term for each person’s path to becoming whole, that drives this series.
Davis draws iconographic stuffed toys, anthropomorphic animals, and figures in various states of physical maturity to engage nostalgic and curious viewers in a dialogue concerning the regret of lost youth and the struggle for personal expression.
Davis says, “I want to make work that is visually accessible, and I believe it’s important for everyone to be able to form their own interpretation of my work. I aim to make my drawings aesthetically pleasing so that they appeal to a wide range of viewers. Beyond the immediate aesthetics, there are references to greater topics. For example, the words on a magazine, the direction in which light is cast, or the arrangement of the composition will hold clues to a deeper meaning."
Read more about Davis' show on The Fridge site
Monday, December 31, 2012
Washington vs The Other Washington
It was bound to happen sooner or later... the iconic Washington DC football team with a storied past would meet the Pacific Northwest's football team from the "other" Washington in a game that means something more than a win during the regular season.
The Redskins is a team with a long history of heroes, Super Bowls and dozens of Hall of Famers. The Seahawks is as close as the NFL comes to having a foreign team in its roster, and whose only Super Bowl appearance resulted in a loss due to the the worst officiated championship game in history.
The Skins stubbornly cling to a name that allegedly offends some people, and it is also one of the most famous and recognizable names in professional sports. As far as Seattle, I don't even know if a Seahawk is a real bird, although someone once told me that it was another name for an Osprey, which is some kind of sea bird that eats fish.
The Skins, even through all of their woes over the last few years, are still the Skins, and you can always count on seeing them on all the highlight reviews. Last night I spent several hours watching football and not once did I see any Seattle highlights in any of the half time, post game or any time of the day shows, after all, who outside of the Pacific Northwest follows that team?
But the one thing that Seattle has always been able to do, in good years and in bad years, is to be able to beat anyone and lose to anyone on any given Sunday. And even in their worst years, most NFL teams would rather play in Beirut, Baghdad or Damascus than in Seattle, and thus the Skins should be grateful that in spite of having a worse record that the Seahawks, they are hosting them at home rather than in Starbucksland.
This will be an interesting game; as in the last few weeks the Seahawks have opened a most impressive can of offensive whoop-ass which is sure to test the Skins' suspicious secondary.
Not only that, but because they might as well play in a foreign country, most football fans (especially DMV Skin fans) are not aware that Seattle is also led by a rookie quarterback, a little guy who may in fact be as good, and in my opinion better, than celebrated other rookie quarterbacks Andrew Luck and (here it comes DMV) RGIII.
The Seahawks' appearances on national TV are counted in dog years, even when they win their division (which in the last few years has been quite often) and thus it is understandable why most people would debate that Russell Wilson is as good as Luck or RGIII - until last week, they hadn't seen Wilson play.
Because he is such a game-changer in a place as visible as the DMV, you can bet the family farm that RGIII will win the Rookie of the Year award. And yet his amazing quarterback ratings and stats are almost exactly the same as Wilson's.
Which is why Wilson will try to outdo RGIII when the two Washingtons meet.
I don't know which team will win; both teams are playing exceptionally well, and both teams deserve to move on.
GoOspreys Hawks!
The Redskins is a team with a long history of heroes, Super Bowls and dozens of Hall of Famers. The Seahawks is as close as the NFL comes to having a foreign team in its roster, and whose only Super Bowl appearance resulted in a loss due to the the worst officiated championship game in history.
The Skins stubbornly cling to a name that allegedly offends some people, and it is also one of the most famous and recognizable names in professional sports. As far as Seattle, I don't even know if a Seahawk is a real bird, although someone once told me that it was another name for an Osprey, which is some kind of sea bird that eats fish.
The Skins, even through all of their woes over the last few years, are still the Skins, and you can always count on seeing them on all the highlight reviews. Last night I spent several hours watching football and not once did I see any Seattle highlights in any of the half time, post game or any time of the day shows, after all, who outside of the Pacific Northwest follows that team?
But the one thing that Seattle has always been able to do, in good years and in bad years, is to be able to beat anyone and lose to anyone on any given Sunday. And even in their worst years, most NFL teams would rather play in Beirut, Baghdad or Damascus than in Seattle, and thus the Skins should be grateful that in spite of having a worse record that the Seahawks, they are hosting them at home rather than in Starbucksland.
This will be an interesting game; as in the last few weeks the Seahawks have opened a most impressive can of offensive whoop-ass which is sure to test the Skins' suspicious secondary.
Not only that, but because they might as well play in a foreign country, most football fans (especially DMV Skin fans) are not aware that Seattle is also led by a rookie quarterback, a little guy who may in fact be as good, and in my opinion better, than celebrated other rookie quarterbacks Andrew Luck and (here it comes DMV) RGIII.
The Seahawks' appearances on national TV are counted in dog years, even when they win their division (which in the last few years has been quite often) and thus it is understandable why most people would debate that Russell Wilson is as good as Luck or RGIII - until last week, they hadn't seen Wilson play.
Because he is such a game-changer in a place as visible as the DMV, you can bet the family farm that RGIII will win the Rookie of the Year award. And yet his amazing quarterback ratings and stats are almost exactly the same as Wilson's.
Which is why Wilson will try to outdo RGIII when the two Washingtons meet.
I don't know which team will win; both teams are playing exceptionally well, and both teams deserve to move on.
Go
2012 ====> 2013
What a great year (for me anyway) this was... easily the best "art" year ever, with the most art sales, including sales to not one but two collectors in the Top 100 Art Collectors List, plus an offer of my first ever museum show, plus my best art fair ever, plus continuing and steady sales of my book (look for a couple more to come out next year)...
But by far the best thing about 2012 was my wonderful family, and it is from all of us that I wish all of you a terrific 2013!
See ya there!
But by far the best thing about 2012 was my wonderful family, and it is from all of us that I wish all of you a terrific 2013!
See ya there!
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Torpedo Factory Opportunities
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Drew Storm Graham
(Via) The DC-area knows that Strathmore
Hall houses the incredible Baltimore Symphony, but Strathmore is not just for
the performing arts anymore - Strathmore features
fine visual arts. The organization
is in its second season of its Fine AIR program, where the center cultivates
local visual arts talent by pairing emerging artists with established
professionals in the community in its Fine Artist in Residence (Fine AIR)
program and exhibition. Fine AIR residencies last six
months, during which time participants expand their craft, build their audience,
create a curatorial proposal, solidify their artistic voice and, ultimately,
premiere a new body of work commissioned by Strathmore.
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| "Twisted" Drew Storm Graham |
Multidisciplinary artist Drew Graham's artwork references imagery steeped in the counter cultures of tattoo and graffiti art. Normally working with airbrushed laminated wood veneers, under the mentorship of writer and artist F. Lennox Campello, Drew has been exploring new artistic possibilities.
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| Drew Graham begins sifting crushed glass powder onto panels of glass for color samples. |
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| Color, texture, patterns, sequence and how depth can be achieved are the goals of the glass workshop. |
The culminating Fine Artists in Residence Exhibition will be
on view in the Mansion at Strathmore beginning August 31, 2013.
About Strathmore
Strathmore presents and
produces exemplary visual and performing arts programs for diverse audiences;
creates dynamic arts education experiences; and nurtures creative ideas and
conversations that advance the future of the arts. The hallmark of the arts center
is the Music Center at Strathmore, a 1,976-seat
concert hall and education complex. The Music
Center at Strathmore, located at 5301 Tuckerman Lane
in North Bethesda, MD, is immediately adjacent to the
Grosvenor-Strathmore station on Metro’s Red Line. For more information, call (301) 581-5100 or
visit www.strathmore.org.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Go enter something...
April 1, 2013 THE ARTIST'S MAGAZINE 30th ANNUAL ART COMPETITION More than $25,000 in cash prizes will be awarded, and Top Award Winners will be featured in the December 2013 issue of The Artist's Magazine! All winners will also appear in a special online gallery. There are 5 categories for you to compete and win. Plus, there's a Special Student/Beginner Division for new artists. Entry fee. For details and to enter: Entry Page OR art-competition@fwmedia.com December 31, 2012 SEEKING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PAINTING UCR Assist Prof in Painting beginning 7/1/2013. Artist in painting and drawing. Salary commens. w/ ed. & exp. Applications incl. cover letter, CV, state. teaching phil, rep. of prod. & 3 ref. letters in PDF emailed to Painting Search, Art Department, UCR. Appl review begins 1/8/2013 until filled. The University of California, Riverside is an EEO/AA Employer. Details/email for Application: http://www.art.ucr.edu/employment/index.html OR ArtAPLF@ucr.edu January 5, 2013 PUBLICATION COVER AND CONTENT COMPETITION Art & Beyond Publications holds Cover and Content Competition with up to $4000 in awards. Entry fee. Details: http://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/art-beyond-magazine-content-competition OR mryk@art-beyond.com December 28, 2012 16th INTERNATIONAL JURIED SCULPTURE COMPETITION Exhibition: May 1st, 2013 to October 1st, 2013. The exhibition is located in North America's first and foremost international Peace Park established in 1921. Peace Arch International Park (border crossing) is the Western United States' International Gateway between Vancouver, BC, Canada & Seattle, Washington. Stipend $200. No entry fee. Details: http://www.peacearchpark.org/callforentries.htm December 28, 2012 MYSTERY BUILD $15K ART CONTEST $15,000 in cash awards. Create a work of art using ONLY the materials provided in a Mystery Build Kit, without knowing what's inside! Submit photos or videos of what you make to compete for cash. Deadline for entry is October 20, 2013. The 5 lb. kits are 12" x 9" x 3" and contain a wide variety of materials. $36 entry fee includes materials kit. Details: http://www.mysterybuild.com OR info@mysterybuild.com January 4, 2013 LACDA "SNAP TO GRID" OPEN CALL Every entry shown! The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art seeks artists for an un-juried international exhibit featuring digital art and photography, Jan 10, 2013 - Feb 2, 2013. All entries will be printed (8.5"x11" on heavyweight paper) and shown in the gallery arranged in a grid. Entrants submit JPEG files of original work. Exhibit is limited to space available, early entry is advised. Entry fee. Details: http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html January 7, 2013 10th INTERNATIONAL CALL TO ARTISTS A total of $3,000 in awards for the 10th annual outdoor art exhibit celebrating diversity to be displayed during April - May 2013, in Sarasota, FL. 38 artists will be selected for the exhibit. No entry fee. Details: http://www.embracingourdifferences.org January 15, 2013 MIDWEST ARTIST RESIDENCY The Anderson Center, one of the premier artist communities in the Midwest, is current accepting applications for the May - October 2013 residency period. The residency includes room, board, studio space for visual artists and the chance to collaborate with other artists. Application fee. Details: http://andersoncenter.org January 16, 2013 TEXAS & NEIGHBORS REGIONAL 5-STATE ART COMPETITION Open to any artist over the age of 18 residing in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. More than $8,000 in cash prizes will be awarded in 4 categories for you to compete and win. Over 80 selected artists exhibit at the Irving Arts Center and online gallery. Deadline for entry is February 5, 2013. Entry fee. Details: http://www.texasandneighbors.com OR info@texasandneighbors.com January 23, 2013 INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR STORIES MEMORIES & HISTORIES PHOTOGRAPHY Explore these themes through personal, familial, cultural and/or universal imagery. This gallery and online exhibition is juried by Regina Anzenberger. $750 in cash prizes offered as well as sponsored awards. Entry fee. Details: 970-224-1010 OR http://www.c4fap.org/cfe/2013Stories OR coordinator@c4fap.org January 29, 2013 ARTISTS WANTED : SHOWCASE YOUR WORK IN TIMES SQUARE A Special Invitation to Join a Global Community of Over Half a Million Creators. You are invited to celebrate your creative passion with an international community of over half a million members on See.Me. To inaugurate our global launch, we're offering over $125,000 in awards to inspired creators like you. No entry fee. Details: http://www.see.me/art?f=sm01_adl1 OR hello@see.me February 1, 2013 INTERNATIONAL JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW Winners will receive a total of $2,500 in cash awards and winners and juror's selections will be presented in a group show at the 69 Leonard Gallery in the SOHO art district in New York City and an online gallery on the NYC4PA website with the Grand Prize winning image being posted on the NYC4PA home page. In addition, an exhibition catalog of the group show will be available and the gallery show will be listed and reviewed in a NYC Gallery magazine. Entry fee. Details: http://www.nyc4pa.com/#!winter-2012 February 28, 2013 St JOHN'S COLLEGE NATIONAL JURIED SMALL WORKS EXHIBITION Less is More: Small Works in a Great Space. Accepting entries in all media. $2,000 CASH AWARDS. Jurors: Joann G. Moser, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Jack Rasmussen, Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, D.C. Online sales gallery. Open to artists living in the USA and Puerto Rico. Entry fee. Details: http://themitchellgallery.org/prospectus.php February 28, 2013 CALL FOR ART BIOLOGIC A thematic exhibition based on art inspired by the biologic and natural world. Entry is limited to biologic and nature based artwork and is open to all interpretations of theme as it applies to landscape, fruits, vegetables, flowers and fauna; and to human figuration as part of the biological world. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, May 18 - June 15, 2013. Entry is open to all artists working in any media. National magazine publication awards. Entry fee. Details/questions: Limner Gallery, 123 Warren St, Hudson NY 12534 OR http://www.slowart.com/prospectus/bio.htm OR slowart@aol.com March 31, 2013 INTERNATIONAL DIRECT ART MAGAZINE COMPETITION The Annual International Competition for $26,000 in publication awards in Volume 20 of Direct Art Magazine, Fall/Winter 2013 issue. Direct Art has both print and online editions. The print edition has several distributors, including COMAG Marketing Group, the distributors of Art News and Art in America. Direct Art can be found in bookstores across the USA, including Barnes and Noble. The competition is open to all artists working in any media. The twenty two awards include the covers of magazine, feature articles and full page displays. Entry fee. Details/questions: SlowArt Productions, 123 Warren St, Hudson NY 12534 OR http://www.slowart.com/prospectus/spring.htm OR slowart@aol.com ARTIST-OF-THE-DAY GALLERY SEEKS SUBMISSIONS Guidelines for submissions can be found at: http://artdeadlineslist.com/aotd/submission.guidelines EROTIC ART GALLERY SEEKS SUBMISSIONS Guidelines for submissions can be found at: http://artdeadlineslist.com/eag/submission.guidelines
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Nervous fish?
We often get together with my wife's family at Hinode Sushi in Rockville, a hidden gem of a Japanese restaurant in Rockville.
One of my nephews is very much into aquariums and pet fish, etc. and next to Hinode is a pet shop with a lot of fish to choose from... anyway, my nephew usually wonders into the pet shop, buys a fish, they put it in a plastic bag filled with water, and then my nephew walks back to Hinode, and eventually we all go our respective ways.
I've often wondered if the fish, elated to be "rescued" from the boredom of the tank in the pet shop, is all excited that someone has finally bought it, and is looking forward to a new place to swim... and then is walked into a sushi shop.
Does the fish think: "oh, oh... crap!"
One of my nephews is very much into aquariums and pet fish, etc. and next to Hinode is a pet shop with a lot of fish to choose from... anyway, my nephew usually wonders into the pet shop, buys a fish, they put it in a plastic bag filled with water, and then my nephew walks back to Hinode, and eventually we all go our respective ways.
I've often wondered if the fish, elated to be "rescued" from the boredom of the tank in the pet shop, is all excited that someone has finally bought it, and is looking forward to a new place to swim... and then is walked into a sushi shop.
Does the fish think: "oh, oh... crap!"
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Campello men
Friday, December 21, 2012
World will not end without a fight!
Battle is still going on, but so far nothing is looking shimmery, like Marty McFly does every time that he's about to be eliminated from the future when he's in the past.
Struggle on!
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Score one for the Mayans
Since tomorrow is the end of the world, I'm gonna be saving big bucks, because the day after tomorrow is my wife's birthday, and since tomorrow is the end of the world... do you see my logic?
Of course, no one wants the world to end, except maybe those mutant Ayatollahs in Iran, but there's that whole "present-buying" angle to work...
Of course, no one wants the world to end, except maybe those mutant Ayatollahs in Iran, but there's that whole "present-buying" angle to work...
Hirst leaving his dealer...
But “these superstar artists are self-propelled machines,” said Tobias Meyer, director of Sotheby’s contemporary art department worldwide and its principal auctioneer. “Just as actors left their studios in the 1950s, artists have become bigger stars than their galleries. The world is their oyster, and they know it.”Read the NYT story here.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
When modern art baffles
"If you've ever stared at a piece of modern art and felt you just didn't "get it," you're probably among the majority.Read the whole story by WTOP's Madeline Tallman here.
The Smithsonian is trying to change that. The American Art Museum has begun hosting discussions aimed at helping museum-goers grasp the meaning behind some of the museum's more enigmatic works."
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Wake effect continues
Remember me harping about the "wake effect" of art fairs?
Review: The "wake effect" is akin to the wake that a ship leaves behind as it sails through the water. In artfairese, it is what happens (sales, contacts, articles, etc.) after an art fair is over.
Since Aqua ended, we've closed a deal for four 30x40 photographs by the amazing Dulce Pinzon - all to be sent to a major private collection in NYC which although "private" is open to the public.
And ballsy Cuban photog Cirenaica Moreira will be the focus of a profile article in VOGUE magazine.
And yours truly has been offered his first museum solo!
Yay!
Review: The "wake effect" is akin to the wake that a ship leaves behind as it sails through the water. In artfairese, it is what happens (sales, contacts, articles, etc.) after an art fair is over.
Since Aqua ended, we've closed a deal for four 30x40 photographs by the amazing Dulce Pinzon - all to be sent to a major private collection in NYC which although "private" is open to the public.
And ballsy Cuban photog Cirenaica Moreira will be the focus of a profile article in VOGUE magazine.
And yours truly has been offered his first museum solo!
Yay!
Blake Gopnik Laid Off at Newsweek
Former WaPo art critic Blake Gopnik, who escaped the sinking ship known as the WaPo's Style Section for Tina Brown's nearly submerged Newsweek, has been fired ; according to NY Magazine:
Also leaving Newsweek/The Daily Beast amid substantial layoffs is art and design critic Blake Gopnik, he confirmed to Daily Intel. Gopnik joined Tina Brown's magazine from the Washington Post in 2010, along with Robin Givhan, the first and only fashion writer to win a Pulitzer Prize. Givhan was let go in the downsizing as the company kills its print edition. "It's been a wild ride, and a strange one," Gopnik said.Before he left, the Blakester had this great article on the coming explosion of the art market bubble... I sorta agree with him. Read that here.
Yoga
In this work, the digital imagery completes the narrative of the visual image.
We see the woman’s mind begin the effort to clear the mind of all things and achieve the perfect state of a blank mind.
Her struggles are followed through the digital imagery of food, drinks, candy, space, Mr. Spock and other images before settling on a perfectly blank mind.
Furthermore, the buyer of this piece has the option to request to have me add some specific “distracting” digital images to the piece, if so desired, and thus become a “contributor” to the work.
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Yoga
Charcoal and Conte on
Paper with Embedded Electronics
© 2012 F. Lennox
Campello
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