WaPo

Mark Jenkins has a cool review today in the Washington Post about my solo show at Artists and Makers Studios II in Rockville.

Nudes, superheroes, language, autobiography, art history and biblical tales are among “The Obsessions of F. Lennox Campello,” as summarized by the title of his show at Artists & Makers 2. Rather than pack lots of these interests within a single frame, the local artist and critic disperses them across more than 50 drawings, prints and mixed-media pieces. The individual works are often spare, with a single small figure isolated on a vast sheet of paper or a shard of broken pottery. The subjects, mostly female, include painter Frida Kahlo and Lilith, Adam’s pre-Eve gal pal (according to the Talmud). 

His technique is classical, but he sometimes incorporates a contemporary technology: embedded video. “Portrait of You” features a live feed of the picture’s viewer, and “Cuban by Ancestry, but American by the Grace of God” (seen last year at the American University Museum) chronicles his family history on a video loop. The combination of drawn and electronic images can be gimmicky, notably in a piece that places flickering video on the forehead of (who else?) Frida Kahlo. But a man who nurses so many fixations must commandeer many channels to broadcast them all.

Read the whole Galleries column here.

Now at Strathmore

25th Annual Colored Pencil Society of America
International Exhibition

Sat, June 10–Sun, Aug 6, 2017
Juried by Joann Moser, former Senior Curator of Graphic Arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum




Mandarins and Paper by Paco Martín Dominguez

Founded in 1990, the Colored Pencil Society of America highlights the versatility of this vibrant, distinct medium, by selecting the world’s most amazing colored pencil works for this annual, international exhibition.


Please join Strathmore for the following events presented in conjunction with the exhibition:


CHILDREN'S TALK & TOUR June 24CURATOR'S TOUR June 24COLORED PENCIL CLASS FOR FAMILIES July 9 COLORED PENCIL CLASS FOR KIDS July 9COLORED PENCIL TECHNIQUES FOR TEENS & ADULTS July 16

Bummerstein... or why artists (and writers) need a thick skin!

Dear Florencio L. Campello:

Thank you for sending "The Mother of All Rock Fights." Your work received careful consideration here.

We've decided this manuscript isn't right for us, but we wish you luck placing it elsewhere.

Kind regards,

The Editors

P.S. Without submissions like yours, we'd lose the sense of discovery that keeps AGNI fresh. Please click here for a discounted subscription rate offered as a thank-you to our submitters: https://www.bu.edu/agni/subscribe-08sem08.html.

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Dear Florencio,

Lunch Ticket receives a number of excellent submissions each reading period, and while yours is one of them, it was not chosen for the upcoming issue. This is not a reflection on your work or on your worth as a writer. Our direction for the next issue of Lunch Ticket was simply different than the vision of your work.

Rejections are never easy—for you the writer, or for us, the editors. But as we both know, they are part of being a writer. We are sorry that we weren't the right market for The Mother of All Rock Fights, but we know that there is another market waiting for you, and to them, this piece is exactly perfect. We hope you know that this letter doesn't mean "no forever", and we hope you will submit to Lunch Ticket again.

Best of luck, and take good care,

The Editors of Lunch Ticket

You can go here to view the submission:
http://lunchticket.submittable.com/user/submissions/7523257

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Dear Florencio,

Thanks for letting us read The Mother of All Rock Fights. Unfortunately, we've decided this one's not right for us. We wish you the best of luck in finding a home for the essay elsewhere, and in your continued writing.

Sincerely,

Team Barrelhouse
www.barrelhousemag.com

You can go here to view the submission:
http://barrelhouse.submittable.com/user/submissions/7373068

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Dear Florencio Campello,

Your submission was received successfully.

writer: Florencio Campello
title(s): The Mother of all rock fights
genre: nonfiction

Thank you for your submission. You can check the status of your submission at any time by visiting https://www.cincinnatireview.com/submissions/ and logging into your account.

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Hi,

Thank you for your submission to Bethesda Magazine’s Short Story Contest. The judges have made their selections, and your story was not among those chosen this year.

We encourage you to enter the contest again in the future.

Best,

Kathleen Neary

Bethesda Magazine

Wanna go to an opening this weekend?

OPENING RECEPTION:

SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 4:00-6:00pm

Art Scam Alert

Beware of this rodent trying to scam artists:

James Thomas jgateventure00@gmail.com

Good day,

Trust that this email meets you well. 

Can you ship internationally. I also would like to confirm if payment can be made via MasterCard.

I hope to read back from you swiftly. 

Warm regard

James Thomas

Flying Solo

Flying Solo: An exhibition of photographs by Tanguy de Carbonnières
June 30 – August 6, 2017
Reception and Gallery Talk: Saturday, July 8, 2017, 5-7 PM
Gallery Hours: Sat 1-4pm and Sun 1-8pm www.glenechophotoworks.org
301-634-2274

Abstracted shapes and brilliant colors and light patterns captivate the viewer of this exhibition of photographs by Tanguy de Carbonnières. Taken from an aerial perspective, de Carbonnières's images are studies in the wonders of nature. Soar above the plains of southern Africa and across the dynamic Victoria Falls. Mystical skies, the scorched earth of the bush, the luscious grass of the Okavango Delta, Victoria Falls' roaring waters and elusive wildlife await.

PHOTOWORKS GALLERY @ Glen Echo Park
7300 MacArthur Blvd, Glen Echo, MD 20812

Un-Censored drawing

Rebecca Anderson, a parent with two children at the high school, said she was offended to find a drawing of a topless woman, with both middle fingers extended upward in defiance, hanging at an art show last week at Cheltenham High School. The annual spring Unified Arts Show, which ran last week, features works by district students and is open to the public.

You can read the whole article, and see the offending artwork (which is pretty amateurish, but drives the point home as only representational art can) here.