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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Monday, December 17, 2012
Newtown
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Opportunity for Artists
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Zero Dark Thirty
As I've noted before, I am not really sure why I continue to get passes to many press previews of movies, but every once in a while, I do have the time and interest to go see one ahead of time and I saw Zero Dark Thirty and came away entertained, but as usual disappointed as to how Hollywood distorts historical events in order to make a film... ahhh... entertaining.
My basic issue with Zero Dark Thirty, and almost every single Hollywood movie allegedly representing a historical event, is that I am a pedantic Virgo, who tends to over notice little "wrong" things about celluloid history... little things such as a military ribbon out of place, an uncovered salute from a sailor, a wrong line.
To start, the very start of the movie is made up and never happened. But even before the start of the movie I have an issue.
"How can you have an issue before the movie starts, Lenster? ", you ask.
The title is wrong.
No one in the military says "Zero Dark Thirty." The statement used to depict a very early hour in the day is "O Dark Thirty" -- "O" as in the letter; not "Zero" -- and I understand that this may confuse some folks who never served, but if I'm going to be pedantic, then I might as well start with an erroneous title.
Back to the start of the movie.
There were only threepeople terrorists who were water boarded by the CIA in their effort to gather intelligence from the bad guys (and thousands of US military people as part of the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) school - at least when I was in, being water boarded was part of the school curriculum); the dude being water boarded in the movie was not one of them, so why make that up?
That's two strikes already, and we're not even finished the first few minutes of the film, but Hollywood has already seeded suspicion about nearly everything that follows and that bugs the pedantic me.
The vast left wing nut house is going bananas over this film because it thinks that it is too flattering to the CIA, to the US Government, to whatever... they also rightly complain about perceived historical inaccuracies (although I didn't recall any such complaints on equally intellectually dishonest efforts such as Oliver Stone's "W" or Michael Moore's pick any documentary).
As a work of historical fiction, the film was splendid in its entertainment factor... and Hollywood will tell you that it is a "film and not a documentary." The problem is that a lot more people will see this film, and take it for a full, true story, than will ever read the actual facts about the OBL hunt.
My basic issue with Zero Dark Thirty, and almost every single Hollywood movie allegedly representing a historical event, is that I am a pedantic Virgo, who tends to over notice little "wrong" things about celluloid history... little things such as a military ribbon out of place, an uncovered salute from a sailor, a wrong line.
To start, the very start of the movie is made up and never happened. But even before the start of the movie I have an issue.
"How can you have an issue before the movie starts, Lenster? ", you ask.
The title is wrong.
No one in the military says "Zero Dark Thirty." The statement used to depict a very early hour in the day is "O Dark Thirty" -- "O" as in the letter; not "Zero" -- and I understand that this may confuse some folks who never served, but if I'm going to be pedantic, then I might as well start with an erroneous title.
Back to the start of the movie.
There were only three
That's two strikes already, and we're not even finished the first few minutes of the film, but Hollywood has already seeded suspicion about nearly everything that follows and that bugs the pedantic me.
The vast left wing nut house is going bananas over this film because it thinks that it is too flattering to the CIA, to the US Government, to whatever... they also rightly complain about perceived historical inaccuracies (although I didn't recall any such complaints on equally intellectually dishonest efforts such as Oliver Stone's "W" or Michael Moore's pick any documentary).
As a work of historical fiction, the film was splendid in its entertainment factor... and Hollywood will tell you that it is a "film and not a documentary." The problem is that a lot more people will see this film, and take it for a full, true story, than will ever read the actual facts about the OBL hunt.
Art Purchase Awards
Heading out to hand out some art purchase
awards from the Prince George's County Arts and Cultural Heritage
Division... congrats to Robert W Kincheloe, Ric Garcia and Celestine Ranney-Howes!
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