Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Me bitchin' to the WaPo in 1998

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 Ferdinand Protzman's "A Cool Idea: New Shows for Summer" {Style, July 16} said D.C. art galleries ignore the month of August....

1980 Cuba piece at auction!

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This 1980 work from my Cuba series just popped up at an auction house in Miami! Proceeds go to the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora . B...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Daily Campello Welcomes New DC Arts Commission Chairperson

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Reggie Van Lee was officially sworn as chairperson of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities on Thursday, July 1, 2021. Chairperson Va...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Cubans are on the street!

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The internet is ablaze with the news that for the first time (at least in my memory) there are widespread protests in Cuba - the shouts are ...
Monday, July 05, 2021

The Morrigan

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New for 2021 - a return to one of my obsessions! This is "The Morrigan" - she's the Celtic goddess of War, Lust and Sex. About...
Saturday, July 03, 2021

Punk Lincoln

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"Punk Lincoln", circa 1981, Charcoal and conte on paper, 12x16 inches - an art assignment from the University of Washington School...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Burundanga explained

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Here's the whole logic to this song: Songo hit Borondongo because Borondongo had hit Bernabe... And Borondongo did that because Bernabe ...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Paint It! Ellicott City Award Winners Announced

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Landscape painters from around the Mid-Atlantic region gathered in Historic Ellicott City June 10-13, dodging raindrops and cicadas while co...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Torpedo Factory artists new presence on Facebook

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Check out their new footprint on Facebook! Click here.
Sunday, June 20, 2021

Isla Judia

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This is "Isla Judia", circa 1981, watercolor on 180 weight paper, done while I was a student at the University of Washington Schoo...
Friday, June 18, 2021

Call for Artists - Essex Gateway Sculpture Artwork

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Any and all Maryland artists are invited to submit work for the new Essex Gateway Sculpture, a public outdoor display featured at the entran...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

My picks for Paint It! Ellicott City 2021

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 As June arrives, I’m beginning to think that perhaps the Covidian monster has been tamed, art fairs are desperately seeking galleries to ap...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Grandsonator!

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Saturday, June 05, 2021

This is what being a Cuban is like (Cuban Transformation Machine)

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This is a piece that I did in art school in 1981: I cut out the shape of Cuba from a blue acrylic wash paper, then affixed it to a mirror an...
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Friday, June 04, 2021

Remembering a powerful woman

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Five years ago my courageous mother died... this is my eulogy from that day: When my father died last year, I began  his eulogy by noting...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Sleep is the cousin of death

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 A series of drawings on the subject... Sleep is the cousin of Death - a 2021 drawing by F. Lennox Campello Sleep is the cousin of Death - ...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Selfie

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 Today...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Not Frida Kahlo

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Those are not Frida Kahlo's eyes... those are my eyes, circa 1980 or so when I was a student at the University of Washington School of A...
Friday, May 28, 2021

At the Pike Place Market in Seattle

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Lenny Campello at the Pike Place Market circa 1980 As I've noted here before countless times, almost everything I know about presenting,...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Unicorn Mare and Foal

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Just out of the blue a nice collector from West Seattle sends me a nice note with a couple of images... she acquired this hand-colored print...