Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Sleep is the Cousin of Death

Finished!  Will be at booth D15 at the Affordable Art Fair in Chelsea in New York City 22-25 September!


Sleep is the Cousin of Death
Sleep is the Cousin of Death
Mixed Media Painting on Paper
36x36 inches, c. 2022


Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Wayson Jones Artist Talk

Montgomery College’s Visual and Performing Arts Department presents Artist in Resident Wayson Jones Artist Talk on Wednesday, September 28th, 2022, at 1 PM. 

The Montgomery College Visual and Performing Arts Department of the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus presents the first artist talk of Fall Semester 2022 featuring artist in residence Wayson Jones. He is a painter, musician, and spoken-word artist. A virtual artist talk will be given at 1pm on Wednesday, September 28th, 2022.  This event will be held via ZOOM webinar. A workshop with the artist will be held on November 1, 2022, at 1:10 pm in room # CF 218 at the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, 930 King Street, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Both events are free and open to the public. Please go to www.montgomerycollege.edu/artsinstitute to register for the artist talk.  

About the Artist 

Wayson R. Jones is a painter, musician, and spoken-word artist. He received a degree in music from University of Maryland and later went on to perform with renowned poet Essex Hemphill, as part of Washington DC’s burgeoning Black LGBT arts scene of the 1980s and ‘90s. His visual art is informed by these experiences and by an exuberant approach to materiality and process. Wayson has had solo shows at BlackRock Center for the Arts, Arts/Harmony Hall, and the Northern Virginia Community College Margaret W. and Joseph L. Fisher Gallery and he is the recipient of a 2017 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council. His work has been purchased by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Maryland/National Capitol Park and Planning Commission, MGM National Harbor, and The Hotel at the University of Maryland, and is in private collections in the DC area and nationally.  

Monday, September 12, 2022

The curious case of the Washington Commanders and Washington state

Phone ringing...

Fill in the blank Graphic Design: Hello...

Someone in the Washington Commanders team: Hey! Is this Fill in the blank Graphic Design?

Fill in the blank Graphic Design: Oh, yeah... yeah - can I help you?

Someone in the Washington Commanders team: Yeah... hey we need a design for our new team name for our mugs and stuff...

Fill in the blank Graphic Design: No worries - I can have something back to you in a few days...

Someone in the Washington Commanders team: Great! We'd like our new "W" on top of the outline of Washington

Fill in the blank Graphic Design: Cool! Email me your new "W" and we'll design a great new graphic!

Someone in the Washington Commanders team: Great... I'm sending it over now.

Fill in the blank Graphic Design: OK man! Just got it -- I'll just put it on top of an outline of Washington!

Two days later and $20K in design fees later...

Phone ringing...

Fill in the blank Graphic Design: Hello...

Someone in the Washington Commanders team: Hey! Is this Fill in the blank Graphic Design?

Fill in the blank Graphic Design: Oh, yeah... yeah - can I help you?

Someone in the Washington Commanders team: Hey man... this is the Washington Commanders... I just got your email with the design - looks great!

Fill in the blank Graphic Design: Who's this again?

Someone in the Washington Commanders team: This is the Washington Commanders???

Fill in the blank Graphic Design: Oh yeah man... sorry... did you get my email with the new design?

Someone in the Washington Commanders team: Yeah... looks great man!

Fill in the blank Graphic Design: Thank you man!


Then this goes up for sale... cough... cough...

Washington Commanders mug with Washington state on it



My studio

Technically the laundry room of my house... but - hey! you gotta do whatcha gotta do!

The basement studio of American artist Florencio Lennox Campello


Sunday, September 11, 2022

Lest we forget



Studio View, 9/11 Oil on Canvas c. 9/11/2001 by David FeBland

"Studio View, 9/11"
Oil on Canvas c. 9/11/2001 by David FeBland

Saturday, September 10, 2022

Satan came to Memphis

Satan wears many faces - this one came to Memphis a few days ago...


Friday, September 09, 2022

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center - The Fall shows

 7 Fall Exhibits Open Saturday at AU's gorgeous Katzen Museum...

Make-BelieveGeorgia Saxelby and Devan ShimoyamaKallos: Maria KarametouSitting Pretty: Two Hundred Years of American Portrait Painting from the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of ArtHaunted KoreasMina Cheon with Kim Il SoonSingularities and Infinities: Shanthi Chandrasekar and Michael AlbrowNan Montgomery: CounterpointMore Clay: The Power of Repetition
Ongoing Exhibition:Glorious GlassWorks by Annette Lerner