At Gallery B in April

Captivating, vibrant landscapes by oil painters Jennifer Howard and Kathleen Byrnes will be on display at Gallery B throughout April. The gallery welcomes back Jennifer and Kathleen who will present their exhibit, “Color + Light,” from April 6 – May 1, 2022. The show will be open Wednesdays – Saturdays 12-6pm and Sundays, April 24 and May 1, 12-5pm. Gallery B is located at 7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E, Bethesda, MD - at the original second site of the legendary Fraser Gallery.

Jennifer Howard

Jennifer Howard, a painter and graphic designer, strives to convey a textural quality in her work. She applies the paint honestly and emotionally, creating layers of color with an emphasis on capturing light. A lover of the outdoors, Jennifer has always had a need to connect with nature and found great fulfillment in plein air painting. She relishes painting in the moment and absorbing nature in all its power. Her love of nature bloomed during her childhood in the Hudson Valley and many trips to the Adirondack Mountains of New York, but after more than 30 years in Washington, D.C., much of her inspiration comes from the surrounding local area. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Science in graphic design from SUNY College of Buffalo and has also studied at the University of Siena, Italy; Corcoran College of Art and Yellow Barn Studio.

Kathleen Byrnes

As a plein air artist, Kathleen Byrnes paints with quick but studied expression as she interprets the scenes with a signature palette. Her works explore the light and structure and unique perspectives of destinations throughout Washington, D.C. the countryside of Virginia and Maryland, as well as the inlets, towns and marshlands of Southern New Jersey. Painting in both oil and pastel, her goal is to express the soul of the landscape, whether the site is natural or manmade. Her work has been informed and influenced by the challenge of mastering both the intellectually controlled mark and the emotionally and physically expressed mark. Her painting has earned her several awards. She has exhibited in both solo and group shows and her work also appears in private collections.

Re-Reading the News: Black Women Stewarding Cultural Memory

Afro Charities presents Re-Reading the News: Black Women Stewarding Cultural Memory, with Imani Haynes, Deyane Moses, Alexis Ojeda-Brown and Angela Rodgers-Koukoui this Thursday, March 31st from 6-7:30pm at Eubie Blake National Jazz & Cultural Center. 

According to the Society of American Archivists, only 3% of archivists identify as Black. Come learn from a panel of Black women cultural memory workers about how their identities inform their work, what collections they steward, and what practical tips they can offer for exploring a career as an archivist, or in adjacent fields.

Click here to sign up.

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.