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Some good sales

The Offering by Elissa Farrow-Savos

It's no fun being the hunted one by Jeannette Herrera

Cory Oberdornfer

Elissa Farrow-Savos

Elissa Farrow-Savos

I like your boots by Jeannette Herrera

Elissa Farrow-Savos

 

On Saturday, Star Wars always wins

I continue to sell lots of the Bisque pieces, and all the other artists in the booth (Cory Oberdornfer, Jeannette Herrera and Elissa Farrow-Savos) are also selling well.

Sold both of my two largest works - one from the "Sleep is the Cousin of Death" series and "Suddenly, she wasn't afraid any longer" (one of my "Obsessive" series) to a very lovely lady from Brooklyn.

Suddenly, she wasn't afraid any longer
2022 Mixed Media painting by F. Lennox Campello

Wanna know about the obsessions? Read this review by Dr. Rousseau.  

Also, these critics have written specifically about the obsessive imagery of "Suddenly, she wasn't afraid any longer."  Read Prescovia Wilson here and Hope Harrison here.

At the end of the fair, and after several days on my feet at the booth at the Affordable Art Fair, I usually walk the two blocks to the Chelsea Inn and crash and go to sleep right away -- tonight, this was on... so of course I had to stay up and watch it!

 

A walk around the booth at AAFNYC

 

Fair opens to the public

Today the fair officially opened to the public and once again it was packed! Happy to report that the Bisque drawings keep selling like crazy - I've even sold several to other gallery owners and artists at the fair. This is a special honor for me.

 

Affordable Art Fair NYC - The VIP Preview

I worked my ass off hanging amazing work by Herrera and Farrow-Savos (and mine), while the superbly talented Cory Oberndorfer hung his great paintings on the back wall of our booth... by four o'clock I was done, walked over to my tiny room at the Chelsea Inn, showered and headed back for the VIP Preview.

Once the doors opened, the crowds flow in, and my drawings on Bisque are selling like... sorry... hot cakes! And to my horror I discover that I have left my credit card reader in my hotel... and that means that every sale has to be entered manually (which means that fucking Paypal charges you a little "extra"). 

A couple of times there's actually a back-up! They are selling really, really good.

Affordable Art Fair NYC - The drive

Fair Ops for 2022 - drove to NYC today and unloaded at the loading dock of the Met Pavilion on 19th Street West with the usual union guys sitting around chewing the shit - three fat Italian guys, a couple of hardworking PRs and a Dominican or two -- no one really "working" but, then... it is NYC.

I unload boxes of artwork and store them away as I can't really set up until tomorrow.

Once unloaded, I park in the parking garage on 18th Street that weirdly enough doesn't really show up on any parking map - the South American dude who's been working there for years knows me well by now.

I almost have a heart attack walking my luggage over to the Chelsea Inn... there's a lot of weight being dragged and carried... my room is the size of my bed, but at least there's a tiny fridge and a shower and toilet! That alone is worth the almost thousand bucks - and it's only a couple of blocks from the fair.

Here's the van - all packed before the long drive to NYC.