I'm hearing from artists who have received a call from the Ratner Museum telling them that all shows after September have been cancelled?
Anyone know what's going on?
Anyone know what's going on?
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Artist Opportunities Spring 2013
Visual Arts: One Million Bones
Deadline: Ongoing
One Million Bones is a large-scale social arts practice, which means we use education
and hands-on artmaking to raise awareness of genocides and atrocities
going on around the world, this very day. We are collecting artwork
bones for a collaborative installation of 1,000,000 bones on the
National Mall in Washington, D.C. from June 8th-10th, 2013. This
installation will serve as a collaborative site of conscience to
remember victims and survivors, and as a visible petition to raise
awareness of the issue and call upon our government to take much needed
and long overdue action. We need more bones! We are looking for
individuals, groups, and organizations to host bone making events! For
more information, contact Kathleen McEuen at Kathleen@onemillionbones.org
Visual Arts: Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2013
Deadline: April 5, 2013
Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic
Site, calls for entries for Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2013, a
juried exhibition of outdoor sculpture in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Glenn Harper, editor of Sculpture magazine, is the guest juror of this
group exhibition, which will be on view from Saturday, June 22 to
Thursday, October 31, 2013. Chesterwood is the country home, studio and
gardens of America’s foremost sculptor of public monuments, Daniel
Chester French (1850-1931). This year marks the 35th anniversary of
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood. Sculpture proposals may be in any
medium but must be suitable for long-term outdoor exposure and of an
appropriate outdoor scale. Please read the complete call for entries for
instructions on how to apply online.
Visual Arts: Mezz Gallery at Artisphere Call for Entry, 2014-15
Deadline: April 28, 2013
Proposals will be accepted from individual artists, arts groups, organizations, and curators who live, work, study or maintain a studio in Arlington County. Jurors are Jackie and Philippe Loustaunau, collectors, and Sarah Tanguy, curator and independent curator and arts writer.
Proposals will be accepted from individual artists, arts groups, organizations, and curators who live, work, study or maintain a studio in Arlington County. Jurors are Jackie and Philippe Loustaunau, collectors, and Sarah Tanguy, curator and independent curator and arts writer.
Deadline: May 15, 2013
We are pleased to announce that the
2013-2014 Annual Grants Program Application and Guidelines are now
available online. All applications are due to the Cultural Affairs
Division office by 5:00 pm on Wednesday, May 15. The Annual Grants
Program provides opportunities for local arts and culture organizations
and individual artists to reach the Pasadena community through
interesting, relevant and high quality programs. For more information
about the Annual Grants Program Application, Guidelines and free
Technical Assistance Workshops, please visit the Cultural Affairs
Division online or call (626) 744-7062.
Artists Residency: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)
Deadline: May 15, 2013
The VCCA is a year-round community that
provides a supportive environment for superior national and
international visual artists, writers and composers of all economic and
cultural backgrounds to pursue their creative work without distraction
in a pastoral residential setting.
Deadline: May 18, 2013The
third edition of the (e)merge art fair will take place October 3 – 6,
2013, in Washington, DC, at the Rubell Family’s Capitol Skyline Hotel.
Last year, 80 exhibitors presented rising talent from the Americas and
Europe at (e)merge. More than 5,500 art supporters engaged with
painting, sculpture, digital media, performance and installation works
by 152 artists from 24 countries in both our gallery and our artist
platforms. (e)merge is the only art fair that gives free exhibition
space to artists without gallery representation. If you are an artist
who is currently unrepresented by a gallery and has not yet had a solo
exhibition in a major museum or Kunsthalle, (e)merge is your forum for
discovery. Artists whose proposals are accepted by the selection
committee will be provided with exhibition space at the Fair free of
charge.
Visual Arts: VSA 2013 Emerging Artists Program – Call for Art
Deadline: June 9, 2013
A national juried exhibition of emerging artists, ages 16-25, with disabilities. Sponsored by Volkswagen Group of America, In/finite Earth aims to showcase artwork that illuminates innovative viewpoints at the intersection of environmentalism, creativity, and disability. This call for art asks artists to engage in the physical, emotional, and creative ties we share across our planet, and present their artistic perspectives regarding the natural world, sustainability, and our collective future. Fifteen artists will be selected for an exhibition in Fall 2013 and will share $60,000 in cash awards.
A national juried exhibition of emerging artists, ages 16-25, with disabilities. Sponsored by Volkswagen Group of America, In/finite Earth aims to showcase artwork that illuminates innovative viewpoints at the intersection of environmentalism, creativity, and disability. This call for art asks artists to engage in the physical, emotional, and creative ties we share across our planet, and present their artistic perspectives regarding the natural world, sustainability, and our collective future. Fifteen artists will be selected for an exhibition in Fall 2013 and will share $60,000 in cash awards.
Deadline: August 30, 2013
The National Watch and Clock Museum of
Columbia, PA invites artists to respond to the concept of timekeeping
and how it is represented today. Special consideration will be given to
those works that
are functional timekeepers as well. So how do you as an artist respond to the concept of timekeeping? This exhibit will be located in the special exhibit gallery in the museum and take place in fall 2013. There is no entry fee.
Visual Arts: 100 Survivors
Deadline: September 2, 2013
are functional timekeepers as well. So how do you as an artist respond to the concept of timekeeping? This exhibit will be located in the special exhibit gallery in the museum and take place in fall 2013. There is no entry fee.
Visual Arts: 100 Survivors
Deadline: September 2, 2013
Call for submissions for 100 Survivors,
a collaborative, web-based photo and video project for women currently
in treatment for breast cancer or diagnosed in the past three years. By
featuring up to 100 women and their work, 100 Survivors hopes
to inform and inspire by looking beyond "awareness" and "supporting the
cause" and focusing on the experiences of actual women with breast
cancer. Unique perspectives on breast cancer and identity are welcome
and encouraged.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
202-416-8898
Monday, April 01, 2013
Capital Art Fair
The 2013 Capital Art Fair will take place in Arlington, VA, at the Holiday Inn-Rosslyn Westpark Hotel during the first weekend of April.
Saturday, April 6, 2013: 10 am – 6 pm
Sunday, April 7, 2013: 11 am – 5 pm
The Holiday Inn-Rosslyn Westpark Hotel is located at 1900 North Fort Meyer Drive, Alexandria, VA 22209. It is just over the Key Bridge from Georgetown and only one block away from the Rosslyn Metro stop on the Orange and Blue lines.
More information, including directions and a list of participating dealers, can be found at the Capital Art Fair website: http://www.capitalartprintfair.com/.
A successor to the Washington International Print Fair and the Washington Print Fair, the Capital Art Fair is now in its fourth year of bringing collectible and desirable art to the Washington, DC, area. This year, the fair boasts over 20 distinguished art dealers from across the United States and Canada.Tickets to the 2013 Capital Art Fair can be bought at the fair for $10. The fair hours are as listed below:
Visitors to the fair will find thousands of works on paper from great master prints to cutting edge, contemporary pieces. The original prints, paintings, drawings, and photographs span over 500 years of creative expression, offering an impressive and expansive selection to DC art collectors.
The Capital Art Fair presents an invaluable opportunity, both in access and convenience, to the seasoned art collector, as well as those looking to break into the market. It is the only art fair in the Washington, DC, area where an extraordinary range of fine art will be available for collectors, museums, and the curious to purchase. It also gives a chance for the vibrant DC art community to interact and talk with exhibitors and dealers who are highly respected in the field, many of whom are well known to the curators of DC museums and established members of the International Fine Print Dealers Association.
Saturday, April 6, 2013: 10 am – 6 pm
Sunday, April 7, 2013: 11 am – 5 pm
The Holiday Inn-Rosslyn Westpark Hotel is located at 1900 North Fort Meyer Drive, Alexandria, VA 22209. It is just over the Key Bridge from Georgetown and only one block away from the Rosslyn Metro stop on the Orange and Blue lines.
More information, including directions and a list of participating dealers, can be found at the Capital Art Fair website: http://www.capitalartprintfair.com/.
Artist at the Altar of Modern Art
Here is my latest work in my evolving marriage of traditional art with electronics. This could possibly be my favorite work of art in my seminal exploration of the marriage of art and technology. It has everything that I strive for: technical skill, narrative, a sense of place and something that really pulls someone into the work.
This piece is watercolors, acrylic, charcoal and an embedded digital player that every five seconds dissolves a new image from the art stock of 20th century masters and near masters... Pollock, Rothko, Mondrian, Washington Color School dudes, Basquiat... and hacks like Still.
It will make its debut next Wednesday at the Affordable Art Fair in New York City. Anyone in need of some passes, send me an email.
I'm confident that this work will find a home in NYC once someone with some sharp eyes for what the future of painting/drawing looks like notices it!
This piece is watercolors, acrylic, charcoal and an embedded digital player that every five seconds dissolves a new image from the art stock of 20th century masters and near masters... Pollock, Rothko, Mondrian, Washington Color School dudes, Basquiat... and hacks like Still.
It will make its debut next Wednesday at the Affordable Art Fair in New York City. Anyone in need of some passes, send me an email.
I'm confident that this work will find a home in NYC once someone with some sharp eyes for what the future of painting/drawing looks like notices it!
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| Artist Worshiping at the Altar of Modern Art (Version II) 17 x 35 inches. Watercolor, acrylic, charcoal and gesso on paper. 2013 by F. Lennox Campello |
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Mmm...
Photographers across the country can breathe a sigh of relief. The U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York dismissed collector Jonathan Sobel’s lawsuit against photographer William Eggleston. The case, art law experts say, has broader implications for all artists who incorporate old photographic negatives into new work — and the collectors who support them.Read about it here.
Filed last April, the complaint alleged that Eggleston diluted the value of Sobel’s collection by printing larger, digital versions of some of his best-known works and then selling them for record prices at Christie’s.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
It took 32 years to sell this painting...
When I was an art student at the University of Washington School of Art in the world's greenest city, the beautiful Seattle in the other Washington, one of the classes that we had was to create works in the style of "masters."
Back then I was in the ecstasy of having just discovered the works of Frida Kahlo, and being the talented antagonist that I am, I delighted in working the now iconic visage into as many art school assignments as I could.
This drove a lot of my art school professors batty, as control is always part of being a professor of anything, even though in art (at least back then) it was all about about freedom of doing whatever you wanted.
One week, the assignment was to paint a canvas in the style of Jackson Pollock, which as most art hacks now, can essentially be done with you eyes closed in zip time.
I delivered a four foot by four foot square canvas which delighted the Prof. -- him and I having had a few discussions about "following directions..." -- There was no Kahlo visage in sight! No eyebrows anywhere in the dripping of colors.
I got an A for the class.
Here's the painting below... it's actually a mediocre Pollock, but a brilliant drip painting in the style of the guy who was teaching the class and who was a drip painter... cough, cough; but there's more to the story.
Dude should have been suspicious of the title... heh, heh... but usually people want to see what they want to see...
And below is an image of the painting once the hidden flap in the center is removed...
And here's what's in the middle, under a most clever flap...
When I (of course) showed the hack (after grades had been recorded) the "real" work... he was furious at first... and then he laughed and congratulated me on my assholishness...
That painting has had a long and very cool provenance... it was exhibited back then at the University of Washington, and decades later at the Fraser Gallery show Passion for Frida: 27 Years of Frida Kahlo exhibition that got loads of coverage (for the DMV anyway), with a nice review in the Washington Times and a profile on the Washington City Paper.
After that it was everywhere! Santa Fe, New York, Miami...
And then, out of the blue (well... not really) ... it's now heading to a major art collector in Bryn Mawr, PA.
It took Frida and Jackson's marriage 32 years to find a home... but a home they have found!
Back then I was in the ecstasy of having just discovered the works of Frida Kahlo, and being the talented antagonist that I am, I delighted in working the now iconic visage into as many art school assignments as I could.
This drove a lot of my art school professors batty, as control is always part of being a professor of anything, even though in art (at least back then) it was all about about freedom of doing whatever you wanted.
One week, the assignment was to paint a canvas in the style of Jackson Pollock, which as most art hacks now, can essentially be done with you eyes closed in zip time.
I delivered a four foot by four foot square canvas which delighted the Prof. -- him and I having had a few discussions about "following directions..." -- There was no Kahlo visage in sight! No eyebrows anywhere in the dripping of colors.
I got an A for the class.
Here's the painting below... it's actually a mediocre Pollock, but a brilliant drip painting in the style of the guy who was teaching the class and who was a drip painter... cough, cough; but there's more to the story.
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| Frida Kahlo in a Jackson Pollock Universe F. Lennox Campello, oil on canvas, 4 ft x 4 ft, circa 1981 |
And below is an image of the painting once the hidden flap in the center is removed...
That painting has had a long and very cool provenance... it was exhibited back then at the University of Washington, and decades later at the Fraser Gallery show Passion for Frida: 27 Years of Frida Kahlo exhibition that got loads of coverage (for the DMV anyway), with a nice review in the Washington Times and a profile on the Washington City Paper.
After that it was everywhere! Santa Fe, New York, Miami...
And then, out of the blue (well... not really) ... it's now heading to a major art collector in Bryn Mawr, PA.
It took Frida and Jackson's marriage 32 years to find a home... but a home they have found!
Saltz on the Death of the Gallery Show
"Art doesn’t have to be shown in New York to be validated. That requirement is long gone..."Read the whole article here.
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