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.Read the article (and see many photos) by Nataliya Andreyeva here.
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!
Friday, February 08, 2013
The Examiner on Artomatic show
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.Read the whole thing here.
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."
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
Thursday, February 07, 2013
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
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 8th Street, NW
Washington DC 20068
Reception Date:
Wednesday, February 13th, 6 - 8 pm
Exhibition Dates:
Friday, February 8 - Friday, February 22.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, Noon to 4 p.m.
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