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Opportunity for artists doing Hair

Deadline:  March 8, 2013 (postmarked).  

Exhibition on display 9/3/13 – 12/24/13. This exhibition will be accompanied by an exhibition catalog. 

Hair grows everywhere on the human body except the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, eyelids, and lips.  This exhibition will explore ideas about hair in many ways, including cultural, anthropological, historical and physical. 

A proposal should consist of: 
1. Statement – what is the rationale behind the exhibition? 
2. Resume(s) of all people involved (including name, address, email, telephone number). 
3. A CD with images (JPEG format, any size). 
4. A list of works with title, date, medium, dimensions.   

Proposal materials should be posted to: 

Exhibition Department
Paul Robeson Galleries
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
350 Martin Luther King Blvd
Newark, NJ 07102

Details here.

America Desnuda

America Desnuda
Charcoal on Paper. 2013. 17x12 inches

I've done at least one version of this drawing per year since 1978, and maybe 5-6 a year in the late 1990s. Who knows why... maybe my own way to out_Morandi... ehhh... Giorgio Morandi at his own game?

Chris Kyle

A real American hero... we thank you Sir! Fair Winds and Following Seas...

Aqua Art Miami has a new boss

Art Miami LLC, parent company of Florida's longest running premier contemporary and modern art fair Art Miami and producer of five of America's most respected international art fairs, announced today that it has appointed Jennifer Jacobs as Director of Aqua Art Miami. Art Miami LLC acquired the fair at the conclusion of the 2012 edition.

"I am happy to announce that Jennifer Jacobs has joined us as the new Fair Director of Aqua Art Miami. Based in the Northwest, where the spirit of Aqua originated, Jennifer has extensive background in the visual arts and fair management, and has been closely aligned with Aqua since its inception as an exhibitor, visitor and supporter. I am confident she will champion the fair's artistic mission to furthering emerging and cutting edge galleries and be a leading force in driving our success as we begin Aqua Art Miami's new chapter," said Nick Korniloff, Art Miami LLC, Fair Director and Partner.

"I am thrilled to build upon the successful reputation of Aqua", said Jennifer Jacobs, Aqua's new Director. "Over the last eight years Aqua Art Miami has been recognized within Miami Art Week as a showcase for young dealers and galleries with strong emerging and mid-career artists, all amidst a fun and relaxed environment. Pairing that program with new and increased opportunities around marketing and audience services, I'm extremely excited to develop a vibrant and expanded future for Aqua in 2013 and beyond."

Prior to joining Aqua, Jacobs consulted and directed with  the development and launching of new art fairs on the West Coast, and brought collectors and museum groups to art fairs and events throughout the world through her company The Jacobs Group LLC. Prior to that, Jacobs served as the Director of Development for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). Based out of Portland, OR, Jacobs will also assist in exhibitor recruitment efforts for the 2013 editions of CONTEXT Art Miami, Art Southampton, and the 2014 edition of Art Wynwood.

35 years!!!

They Are Celebrating Their 35^th Year in the Nation’s Capital

 

ZENITH GALLERY PRESENTS

“The Best of All Worlds…Traditional and Modern Art”

Featuring the Sculpture of Paul Martin Wolff and Paintings by Bradley Stevens
February 4 - April 27, 2013

MEET THE ARTISTS RECEPTION:  Wednesday, March 13, 5:30-8:00pm

AT THE ELEVEN ELEVEN SCULPTURE SPACE AT 1111 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Campello gets a mention!

Not me, but my daughter Elise:

The cast is relatively small for TMP's usual productions with only nine actors and an accompanist. Many of the actors portray two or three characters throughout the five musicals. While all the actors handled their roles skillfully, as usual, some were more enjoyable to watch than others and maybe it is just a matter of preference of acting styles. Regardless of what acting style you prefer, Elise Campello, Cherity Harchis were standouts among the cast.

Read the whole review here.

Opportunities for Artist

Deadline: February 23, 2013 at 5:00pm. 

 

The d'ART Center, Visual Art Center in Norfolk, VA, is holding the 23rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Art Exhibition: Open to All Media. This national art exhibition awards $3,200 in prizes! The juried exhibition is held in the d'ART Center's 5 sky-lit galleries from April 12 - May 25, 2013. $30 for 5 Entries. 

 

Visit website for a prospectus at: www.d-artcenter.org/247.html 

 

Questions? Please contact Jennifer Palestrant at connect@d-artcenter.org or call 757-625-4211.

Call for Art

Deadline: February 15, 2013

The Kinsey Institute is accepting submissions for The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2013 at Indiana University’s Grunwald Gallery of Art.  

The competition is open to all artists 18 years and older creating artworks relating to human sexual behavior, gender and/or reproduction.  The jurors are interested in both the positive and negative ways these topics affect individuals, couples and/or society, and welcome a broad range of submissions exploring subjects including: sex, gender, sexuality, eroticism, reproduction, romantic relationships, the politics of sex and gender, human figure, and sexual health. 

Visit website for moreinformation.

Batman Agonizing Over Robin

"The Batman Agonizing Over Robin"
Charcoal and Conte on Paper. 2013
14 x8 inches framed to 26 x 20 inches

This will be exhibited for the first time at the SCOPE New York Art Fair next month in New York City - unless one of you buys it first!

This week a new space opens

Artful Grand Opening

Reception: 2/16/2013 5-8 pm Location: Color Wheel Gallery 65 703-356-6345 1374 Chain Bridge Road McLean Virginia 22101 Save the Date! Join them as this new gallery celebrates an Artful Grand Opening on Saturday, February 16, from 5 to 8 pm. Visit the inaugural exhibition of Sculpture, Abstract, Figurative, Realism, and Impressionistic Art, meet the artists, and enjoy the festivities. RSVP Requested

About Color Wheel

Home Décor, Paint and Picture Framing

"Color Wheel’s 6,400-square-foot McLean location is three stores rolled into one, featuring decorating services and products, custom framing and a fine art gallery, as well as paint and specialty finishes. Our store professionals are trained specialists whose knowledgeable experience and helpful advice will ensure the success of every project."

SELECT 2013

SELECT 2013: WPA Art Exhibition Auction and Gala 

Location: 64 New York Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002
Exhibition Opening Date: February 16, 2013 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Art Auction Gala Date: March 16, 2013, 6:00 - Midnight
Curator Talks: February 20 and 27, 6:30pm.

Exhibition Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12:00pm - 6:00pm, February 20 through March 15. 

WPA is bringing SELECT, their annual art auction exhibition and gala to 64 New York Avenue, NE in NoMa this year! The main event, which takes place Saturday, March 16, 2013, showcases works by more than 100 prominent and emerging artists in a month-long exhibition and brings together over 500 patrons and artists for a vibrant gala evening and auction. The exhibition opens on Saturday, February 16 from 6-8 p.m. with a reception sponsored by Peacock Café. The opening reception and exhibition is free and open to the public. 

The exhibition will remain on view from 12 p.m.- 6 p.m. every Wednesday through Saturday from February 20 through March 15.

Curator talks will take place February 20 (Kaitlin Booher; Amy Brandt, Ph.D.; Klaus Ottmann, Ph.D.) and February 27 (Dorothy Moss, Ph.D.; Lawrence Waung; Michelle Wilkinson, Ph.D.) at 6:30 p.m. 

For more information, to purchase gala tickets, to see the list of participating artists, or to become a sponsor, please click here!

ART Break

Have an ART Break in your Community!

What’s an ART Break?
An ART Break is when a person takes a moment out of his/her day to sit down, relax, and make art.

How do I provide an ART Break to my community?
That’s easy, become an Artist in Residence with Art is Moving! It’s a unique program that provides anyone from around the world with the opportunity to offer art making for free to their community. Each artist in residence will receive $500 in art supplies, guidance from AIM’s co-founders and promotional materials in order to make an ART Break Day happen in their own city.

We can’t wait to add your city to our list of Art Break Day Sites!

For more information, visit www.artbreakday.com
Questions?  Email Art is Moving at artismoving[at]gmail[dot]com

The Examiner on Artomatic show

Artomatic is unstoppable! It kicked of the year with a remarkable Artomatic Inauguration Ball and is not slowing down! Join 35 select artists from past Artomatic shows at juried exhibition by Lenny Campello.

The beautiful Pepco Edison Place Gallery has been transform by the variety of artistic talent on its walls, glass work, creative costumes and 3-d installations. Artist opening reception on Wednesday, February 13 from 6-8 pm is the place to be to meet your local artists and charge your (visual) senses!

 Read the article (and see many photos) by Nataliya Andreyeva here.

Bora Mici on my Artomatic show

"Critics generally hate Artomatic because they are not equipped in any intellectual way to write about a show with 1,000 artists. That would require them to visit the show six to seven times, while still getting paid for just one review, when they are used to visiting a gallery or a museum with brains tuned to evaluating a single artist or group show rather than 1,000 artists ranging from disturbingly awful to spectacularly good.

In this mini Artomatic, I have broken down the real thing for them in the hopes of restoring some intellectual honesty to their critical opinions."

Read the whole thing here.

Randall Scott is back!

New H Street Gallery!

RandallScottProjects, who used to have a gallery around the DMV a few years ago and then moved to New York, is back in the DMV with a new gallery.

Read Gail Vollrath's interview with Randal Scott here.

The inaugural opening exhibition for Scott's new spapce is Golden Cacti by Mason Saltarelli.  The opening reception is Saturday February 9 from 5pm to 8pm.

Details here. 

Other galleries in the same area also having openings this Saturday include CONNERSMITH on Saturday  from 6pm to 8pm and  Industry Gallery from 6pm to 9pm.

Opportunities for Artists

States of Mind

The Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland invites visual artists and poets alike to apply for this exhibition. This is a unique show focusing on the embodiment of mental health in art.

This is not an exhibition emphasizing principles or output of therapeutic art, instead we seek artists whose work sheds light on the depth of mental health. We hope a broad representation of ideas and interpretations on this theme will be submitted for review. All mediums will be considered. Please visit our mission page for more information about the gallery.

ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS through February 11, 2013-- CLICK HERE!

May 9 – June 22, 2013
·               A total of $1500 is available for artist honorariums
·               Artists not selected will be added to our database for future exhibition opportunities through the Stamp Gallery.
·               Artwork submitted and accepted must be available for the duration of the exhibition.
·               Artworks must be ready to install, framed and/or professionally prepared to hang.
·               If submitting a site-specific installation, artists are responsible for installation and de-installation of artwork.
·               Literary work will be uniquely displayed in the gallery in the form of projections or prints.
·               Artists are responsible for delivery and return of artwork.
·               Students are welcome to submit artwork for consideration!
·               $15 submission fee is waived for University of Maryland students


Dates and Deadlines
February 11, 2013               Submission Deadline
February 15, 2013               Artists will be selected and contacted
March 1, 2013                     Participating Artists’ materials due: Bio, high res. images, artist statement
May 3, 2013                        Artwork drop-off/ delivery deadline
May 4-8, 2013                     Installation
May 9, 2013                        Opening Reception
June 23, 2013                      Deinstallation - all artwork must be removed from gallery by end of day

Wanna go to an opening tomorrow?

           ALTERED

 Saturday evening, Feb. 9  from  5:30 to 7:30 PM. 

                            Artist's Talk:  At the reception. 

              BlackRock Center for the Arts

                    presents works by three artists: 

 

  Nancy McNamara, CassieTaggart, Joyce Zipperer

    

     ALTERED will be on display from February 6 - March 2, 2013.

                             

                             BlackRock Center for the Arts 

                               12901 Town Commons Drive

                               Germantown, Maryland 20874

                                            (301) 528-2260

                                   www.blackrockcenter.org

When Boards of Education bite

"A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual."

Read all about this insane rip off idea here.

F. Lennox Campello and Artomatic Artists

Over the last couple of decades or so, I’ve curated or organized well over a couple of hundred art shows for galleries, museums, art centers, art fairs, etc. One of things that all of those events always seem to have in common is the always-surprising degree of difficulty in assembling a curated or juried group show.

This is always made difficult because (in my experience) the number of artists available to select from, and the amount of work able to be selected is always in conflict by a gargantuan exponential factor: there are always many, many more good artists than there’s space to hang a show.

And thus, one of the true constants of the curatorial task is the harsh reality of eliminating good work from an exhibition; reducing the amount of paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, etc. simply because of the finite amount of space to display it.

Competitions and “Call for Artists” are even worse, because artists are actively “competing” against each other for the selective nod from the juror or curator.

In selecting “F. Lennox Campello and Artomatic Artists” that degree of difficulty achieved lunar orbit almost from the very inception of the idea!

Let me tell you why: the brilliance of Artomatic (and what nearly every art critic and scribe seems to miss) is the mind-numbing diversity of what happens when 1,000 or so visually-dominant earthlings gather together to exhibit tens of thousands of work of art.

From the vast resources of the last Artomatic I could have easily organized a curated show with a strict focus on flowers, or nudes, or politics, or sex, or robots, or chickens, or music, or green art, or extra-terrestrials, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera (Note to self: do some of these shows in the future).

Instead, and drawing from my spectacularly enviable experience in assembling ass-kicking art shows, I used what I call “The Campello Group Show Success Formula.”

The formula is brilliant in its simplicity: start with a core number of well-established, well-known artists that will draw the savvy artsy crowds in; add some mid-level emerging artists hungry for the rung to the next level, and stir in some hungry, seldom seen newcomers to the art scene of the DMV. Because of the sheer size of Artomatic, the competitive factor – and thus the difficulty of the job at hand – was very high.

And so, the formula brings a tried and true approach to group show organization – these are not a selection of the “Best Artomatic Artists According to Campello”; that show would have been easy to organize. This is instead a show selected to offer you one man’s view of what Artomatic is all about, but in a manageable space guaranteed not to burn out your sensory nerves. You will see blue chip DMV artists that you and I know well, you'll see artists that I've never met, you'll see artists whom I represent or have represented, you'll see artists that will raise your eyebrow, and you'll see artists whose work you'll like, and artists whose work will leave you unimpressed.

The results in this show will surprise you, entertain you, capture your imagination and perhaps even disappoint you here and there, but overall they will give you this ardent Artomatic lover’s caressing curatorial opinions and evidence to support my theory that Artomatic is the greatest art group show on planet Earth.

Location:

Pepco Edison Place Gallery

702 8^th Street, NW

Washington DC 20068

Reception Date:

Wednesday, February 13^th, 6 - 8 pm

Exhibition Dates:

Friday, February 8 - Friday, February 22.

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday-Friday, Noon to 4 p.m.