Hamiltonian Artists and East City Art Partner to Present Essays on Art

Two of the DMV's key art scene power players, East City Art and Hamiltonian Artists, have partnered to present Essays on Art, an online publication series dedicated to promoting critical writing on visual art in the area. Each commissioned essay will be penned by a different author and focus on the work of Hamiltonian Fellows. Essays on Art serves as a public record to document the dynamic arts scene and to support writers with paid assignments. The essays will be co-published on the Hamiltonian Artists and East City Arts webpages in conjunction with the fellows’ solo exhibitions.

Installation view of We Were Here
Hamiltonian Artists, February 12–March 19, 2022.
Photo: Vivian Marie Doering.

The first Essay on Art is by curator and art historian Danielle O’Steen on Madeline A Stratton’s solo exhibition We Were Here, on view at Hamiltonian Artists through March 19. Read it here.

Things you find in the web

This piece, found unexpectedly through a Google image search, is a work that I did in 1993 and which was part of an international project curated by Mauricio Guerrero in 1993 called El Arbol de la Vida at the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, although I believe that this work (all of them from the project) are now part of the collection of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana also in Mexico City.

El Arbol de la Vida
1993 pen and ink by Florencio Lennox Campello

Another piece pops up at auction

Auction alert! This 1997 original ink wash drawing just showed up in my alerts - it was on auction at Barneby's and the winner of the auction already contacted me and it's heading to New Jersey!

1997 Nude Study Ink Wash by F. Lennox Campello

When Snipes come out...

When Snipes come out in the sun
1985 Navy cartoon by Lenny Campello

As some of you know, I used to do a lot of cartoons while I was in the Navy... some were published in base newspapers,  Navy magazines,  Stars & Stripes, etc. I gave most of them away over the years... 

Call for Artists

 Call for Artists: Maryland Art Place

Maryland Art Place (MAP) is proud to announce the 25th year of their Art Auction and benefit exhibition, Out Of Order. Out of Order provides a salon-style display space for hundreds of artists to hang their work wherever they please. OOO plays host to a variety of artists and professionals practicing in the visual arts and is a great opportunity for students and emerging artists to get their feet wet in Baltimore’s creative sector.

MAP will be holding an Artist Information Workshop on Saturday, April 2nd from 1-3pm. OOO will open on April 22, 2022. Visit MAP's exhibition page for more information.

Attention youth artists! Maryland Art Place is happy to introduce KIDOOO, a youth version of MAPs annual Spring Benefit exhibition Out of Order.

The opening of KIDOOO will take place in tandem with MAP's annual Out of Order event on April 22. Any artist is welcome to hang one original work of art on the first-come, first-served installation day of KIDOOO.

KIDOOO serves as an opportunity for young artists to exhibit their work in a major arts venue and to expand MAP’s services to students in elementary, middle and high school level arts classes. 

To participate in the KIDOOO exhibition, artists must be ages five-seventeen. Visit MAP's website to learn more and to participate.

Rejected!

I can't really complain this time -- I've been in the charity auction several times and even juried it one year when it hung at the Corcoran! Another example of the thick-skinning requirement for artists!

Dear Florencio,

On behalf of Washington Project for the Arts, thank you for submitting artwork to the Collectors' Night 2022 benefit auction Open Call. We appreciate your time and effort, but regret to inform you that your work was not selected for inclusion in the auction this year.

Despite this disappointing news, we hope you will stay connected by signing up for our e-newsletter or following us on Instagram if you haven't already. We post opportunities throughout the year and we also review Open Call for Ideas submissions on a quarterly basis. The projects that evolve out of these submissions constitute the main work we have been doing since our strategic realignment in 2018, which is collaborating with artist-organizers on inquiry-driven projects. We also host an artist-organizer-in-residence program; run a Warhol-Foundation-funded regrant program; and recently opened a new store for art books and editions. 

Wishing you all the best, and we look forward to seeing you soon,

Emily Fussner

Events Manager & Resident Designer

WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS

Opportunity for Artists

Exhibit Opportunity: Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House

The Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House is seeking exhibition proposals for 2023. 

The Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House is a non-profit gallery located in Columbia, Maryland. Operated by the Wilde Lake Community Association, the gallery features two spaces within the Slayton House lobby and Conference Room that hosts multiple juried art exhibits per year.

Send completed application forms to Lisa Kim at events@wildelake.org.