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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Aqua Art Miami has a new boss
Art Miami LLC, parent company of Florida's longest running premier
contemporary and modern art fair Art Miami and producer of five of
America's most respected international art fairs, announced today that
it has appointed Jennifer Jacobs as Director of Aqua Art Miami. Art
Miami LLC acquired the fair at the conclusion of the 2012 edition.
"I
am happy to announce that Jennifer Jacobs has joined us as the new Fair
Director of Aqua Art Miami. Based in the Northwest, where the spirit of
Aqua originated, Jennifer has extensive background in the visual arts
and fair management, and has been closely aligned with Aqua since its
inception as an exhibitor, visitor and supporter. I am confident she
will champion the fair's artistic mission to furthering emerging and
cutting edge galleries and be a leading force in driving our success as
we begin Aqua Art Miami's new chapter," said Nick Korniloff, Art Miami
LLC, Fair Director and Partner.
"I
am thrilled to build upon the successful reputation of Aqua", said
Jennifer Jacobs, Aqua's new Director. "Over the last eight years Aqua
Art Miami has been recognized within Miami Art Week as a showcase for
young dealers and galleries with strong emerging and mid-career artists,
all amidst a fun and relaxed environment. Pairing that program with new
and increased opportunities around marketing and audience services, I'm
extremely excited to develop a vibrant and expanded future for Aqua in
2013 and beyond."
Prior
to joining Aqua, Jacobs consulted and directed with the development
and launching of new art fairs on the West Coast, and brought collectors
and museum groups to art fairs and events throughout the world through
her company The Jacobs Group LLC. Prior to that, Jacobs served as the
Director of Development for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
(PICA). Based out of Portland, OR, Jacobs will also assist in exhibitor
recruitment efforts for the 2013 editions of CONTEXT Art Miami, Art
Southampton, and the 2014 edition of Art Wynwood.
35 years!!!
They Are Celebrating Their 35th Year
in the Nation’s Capital
ZENITH GALLERY PRESENTS
“The Best of All Worlds…Traditional and Modern Art”
Featuring the
Sculpture of Paul Martin Wolff and Paintings by Bradley Stevens
February 4 - April 27, 2013
February 4 - April 27, 2013
MEET THE ARTISTS RECEPTION:
Wednesday, March 13, 5:30-8:00pm
AT THE ELEVEN ELEVEN SCULPTURE SPACE AT 1111 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Campello gets a mention!
Not me, but my daughter Elise:
The cast is relatively small for TMP's usual productions with only nine actors and an accompanist. Many of the actors portray two or three characters throughout the five musicals. While all the actors handled their roles skillfully, as usual, some were more enjoyable to watch than others and maybe it is just a matter of preference of acting styles. Regardless of what acting style you prefer, Elise Campello, Cherity Harchis were standouts among the cast.Read the whole review here.
Opportunities for Artist
Deadline: February
23, 2013 at 5:00pm.
The d'ART Center, Visual Art Center in Norfolk,
VA, is holding the 23rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Art Exhibition: Open to All
Media. This national art exhibition awards $3,200 in prizes! The juried
exhibition is held in the d'ART Center's 5 sky-lit galleries from April 12 -
May 25, 2013. $30 for 5 Entries.
Visit website for a prospectus at: www.d-artcenter.org/247.html
Questions? Please contact Jennifer Palestrant at connect@d-artcenter.org
or call 757-625-4211.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Call for Art
Deadline: February 15, 2013
The Kinsey Institute is accepting submissions for The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2013 at Indiana University’s Grunwald Gallery of Art.
The competition is open to all artists 18 years and older creating artworks relating to human sexual behavior, gender and/or reproduction. The jurors are interested in both the positive and negative ways these topics affect individuals, couples and/or society, and welcome a broad range of submissions exploring subjects including: sex, gender, sexuality, eroticism, reproduction, romantic relationships, the politics of sex and gender, human figure, and sexual health.
Visit website for moreinformation.
The Kinsey Institute is accepting submissions for The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2013 at Indiana University’s Grunwald Gallery of Art.
The competition is open to all artists 18 years and older creating artworks relating to human sexual behavior, gender and/or reproduction. The jurors are interested in both the positive and negative ways these topics affect individuals, couples and/or society, and welcome a broad range of submissions exploring subjects including: sex, gender, sexuality, eroticism, reproduction, romantic relationships, the politics of sex and gender, human figure, and sexual health.
Visit website for moreinformation.
Batman Agonizing Over Robin
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| "The Batman Agonizing Over Robin" Charcoal and Conte on Paper. 2013 14 x8 inches framed to 26 x 20 inches |
This week a new space opens
Artful Grand Opening
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Reception: 2/16/2013 5-8 pm
Save the Date! Join them as this new gallery celebrates an Artful Grand Opening on Saturday, February 16, from 5 to 8 pm. Visit the inaugural exhibition of Sculpture, Abstract, Figurative, Realism, and Impressionistic Art, meet the artists, and enjoy the festivities. RSVP Requested |
About Color Wheel
Home Décor, Paint and Picture Framing
"Color Wheel’s 6,400-square-foot McLean location is three stores rolled into one, featuring decorating services and products, custom framing and a fine art gallery, as well as paint and specialty finishes. Our store professionals are trained specialists whose knowledgeable experience and helpful advice will ensure the success of every project."
Sunday, February 10, 2013
SELECT 2013
SELECT 2013: WPA Art Exhibition Auction and Gala
Location: 64 New York Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002
Exhibition Opening Date: February 16, 2013 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Exhibition Opening Date: February 16, 2013 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Art Auction Gala Date: March 16, 2013, 6:00 - Midnight
Curator Talks: February 20 and 27, 6:30pm.
Curator Talks: February 20 and 27, 6:30pm.
Exhibition Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12:00pm - 6:00pm, February 20 through March 15.
WPA is bringing SELECT, their annual art auction
exhibition and gala to 64 New York Avenue, NE in NoMa this year! The
main event, which takes place Saturday, March 16, 2013, showcases works
by more than 100 prominent and emerging artists in a month-long
exhibition and brings together over 500 patrons and artists for a
vibrant gala evening and auction. The exhibition opens on Saturday,
February 16 from 6-8 p.m. with a reception sponsored by Peacock Café.
The opening reception and exhibition is free and open to the public.
The exhibition will remain on view from 12 p.m.- 6 p.m. every Wednesday
through Saturday from February 20 through March 15.
Curator talks will
take place February 20 (Kaitlin Booher; Amy Brandt, Ph.D.; Klaus
Ottmann, Ph.D.) and February 27 (Dorothy Moss, Ph.D.; Lawrence Waung;
Michelle Wilkinson, Ph.D.) at 6:30 p.m.
For more
information, to purchase gala tickets, to see the list of participating
artists, or to become a sponsor, please click here!
Saturday, February 09, 2013
ART Break
Have an ART Break in your Community!
What’s an ART Break?An ART Break is when a person takes a moment out of his/her day to sit down, relax, and make art.
How do I provide an ART Break to my community?
That’s easy, become an Artist in Residence with Art is Moving! It’s a unique program that provides anyone from around the world with the opportunity to offer art making for free to their community. Each artist in residence will receive $500 in art supplies, guidance from AIM’s co-founders and promotional materials in order to make an ART Break Day happen in their own city.
We can’t wait to add your city to our list of Art Break Day Sites!
For more information, visit www.artbreakday.com
Questions? Email Art is Moving at artismoving[at]gmail[dot]com
Friday, February 08, 2013
The Examiner on Artomatic show
Artomatic is unstoppable! It kicked of the year with a remarkable Artomatic Inauguration Ball and is not slowing down! Join 35 select artists from past Artomatic shows at juried exhibition by Lenny Campello.Read the article (and see many photos) by Nataliya Andreyeva here.
The beautiful Pepco Edison Place Gallery has been transform by the variety of artistic talent on its walls, glass work, creative costumes and 3-d installations. Artist opening reception on Wednesday, February 13 from 6-8 pm is the place to be to meet your local artists and charge your (visual) senses!
Bora Mici on my Artomatic show
"Critics generally hate Artomatic because they are not equipped in any intellectual way to write about a show with 1,000 artists. That would require them to visit the show six to seven times, while still getting paid for just one review, when they are used to visiting a gallery or a museum with brains tuned to evaluating a single artist or group show rather than 1,000 artists ranging from disturbingly awful to spectacularly good.Read the whole thing here.
In this mini Artomatic, I have broken down the real thing for them in the hopes of restoring some intellectual honesty to their critical opinions."
Randall Scott is back!
New H Street Gallery!
RandallScottProjects, who used to have a gallery around the DMV a few years ago and then moved to New York, is back in the DMV with a new gallery.Read Gail Vollrath's interview with Randal Scott here.
The inaugural opening exhibition for Scott's new spapce is Golden Cacti by Mason Saltarelli. The opening reception is Saturday February 9 from 5pm to 8pm.
Details here.
Other galleries in the same area also having openings this Saturday include CONNERSMITH on Saturday from 6pm to 8pm and Industry Gallery from 6pm to 9pm.
Opportunities for Artists
States of Mind
The Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland invites visual artists and poets alike to apply for this exhibition. This is a unique show focusing on the embodiment of mental health in art.This is not an exhibition emphasizing principles or output of therapeutic art, instead we seek artists whose work sheds light on the depth of mental health. We hope a broad representation of ideas and interpretations on this theme will be submitted for review. All mediums will be considered. Please visit our mission page for more information about the gallery.
ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS through February 11, 2013-- CLICK HERE!
May 9 – June 22, 2013
· A total of $1500 is available for artist honorariums
· Artists not selected will be added to our database for future exhibition opportunities through the Stamp Gallery.
· Artwork submitted and accepted must be available for the duration of the exhibition.
· Artworks must be ready to install, framed and/or professionally prepared to hang.
· If submitting a site-specific installation, artists are responsible for installation and de-installation of artwork.
· Literary work will be uniquely displayed in the gallery in the form of projections or prints.
· Artists are responsible for delivery and return of artwork.
· Students are welcome to submit artwork for consideration!
· $15 submission fee is waived for University of Maryland students
Dates and Deadlines
February 11, 2013 Submission Deadline
February 15, 2013 Artists will be selected and contacted
March 1, 2013 Participating Artists’ materials due: Bio, high res. images, artist statement
May 3, 2013 Artwork drop-off/ delivery deadline
May 4-8, 2013 Installation
May 9, 2013 Opening Reception
June 23, 2013 Deinstallation - all artwork must be removed from gallery by end of day
Wanna go to an opening tomorrow?
ALTERED
Saturday evening, Feb. 9 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.
Artist's Talk: At the reception.
BlackRock Center for the Arts
presents works by three artists:
Nancy McNamara, CassieTaggart, Joyce Zipperer
ALTERED will be on display from February 6 - March 2, 2013.
BlackRock Center for the Arts
12901 Town Commons Drive
Germantown, Maryland 20874
(301) 528-2260
Thursday, February 07, 2013
When Boards of Education bite
"A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual."Read all about this insane rip off idea here.
F. Lennox Campello and Artomatic Artists
This is always made difficult because (in my experience) the
number of artists available to select from, and the amount of work able to be
selected is always in conflict by a gargantuan exponential factor: there are
always many, many more good artists than there’s space to hang a show.
And thus, one of the true constants of the curatorial
task is the harsh reality of eliminating good work from an exhibition; reducing
the amount of paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, etc. simply because
of the finite amount of space to display it.
Competitions and “Call for Artists” are even worse,
because artists are actively “competing” against each other for the selective
nod from the juror or curator.
In selecting “F. Lennox Campello and Artomatic Artists”
that degree of difficulty achieved lunar orbit almost from the very inception
of the idea!
Let me tell you why: the brilliance of Artomatic (and
what nearly every art critic and scribe seems to miss) is the mind-numbing
diversity of what happens when 1,000 or so visually-dominant earthlings gather
together to exhibit tens of thousands of work of art.
From the vast resources of the last Artomatic I could
have easily organized a curated show with a strict focus on flowers, or nudes,
or politics, or sex, or robots, or chickens, or music, or green art, or extra-terrestrials,
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera (Note to self: do some of these shows in the
future).
Instead, and drawing from my spectacularly enviable
experience in assembling ass-kicking art shows, I used what I call “The Campello
Group Show Success Formula.”
The formula is brilliant in its simplicity: start with a
core number of well-established, well-known artists that will draw the savvy
artsy crowds in; add some mid-level emerging artists hungry for the rung to the
next level, and stir in some hungry, seldom seen newcomers to the art scene of
the DMV. Because of the sheer size of Artomatic, the competitive factor – and
thus the difficulty of the job at hand – was very high.
And so, the formula brings a tried and true approach to
group show organization – these are not a selection of the “Best Artomatic
Artists According to Campello”; that show would have been easy to organize.
This is instead a show selected to offer you one man’s view of what Artomatic
is all about, but in a manageable space guaranteed not to burn out your sensory
nerves. You will see blue chip DMV artists that you and I know well, you'll see artists that I've never met, you'll see artists whom I represent or have represented, you'll see artists that will raise your eyebrow, and you'll see artists whose work you'll like, and artists whose work will leave you unimpressed.
The results in this show will surprise you, entertain
you, capture your imagination and perhaps even disappoint you here and there,
but overall they will give you this ardent Artomatic lover’s caressing
curatorial opinions and evidence to support my theory that Artomatic is the
greatest art group show on planet Earth.
Location:
Pepco Edison Place Gallery
702 8th Street, NW
Washington DC 20068
Reception Date:
Wednesday, February 13th, 6 - 8 pm
Exhibition Dates:
Friday, February 8 - Friday, February 22.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, Noon to 4 p.m.
Art Law Clinic
Art Law Clinic
The Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For the Arts are providing their expertise and feedback to artists in need of legal assistance.This FREE 25-minute clinic is available to artists of all disciplines in need of advice. Saturday, February 9 at MAP Baltimore from 1-4pm. Schedule an appointment in advance at info@mdvla.org (recommended).
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Artomatic and I
Artomatic and I are pleased to announce "F. Lennox Campello and Artomatic," a group show curated by yours truly and which will have an opening reception at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery next Wed. February 13 from 6-8 PM. Its is free and open to the public. I will give you some more thoughts on this show later, but please pencil it in.
Location:
Pepco Edison Place Gallery
702 8th Street, NW
Washington DC 20068
Reception Date:
Wednesday, February 13th, 6 - 8 pm
Exhibition Dates:
Friday, February 8 - Friday, February 22.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, Noon to 4 p.m.
The invited past Artomatic artists include:
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Bijan Machen
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Carrie Hughes
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Christ Lyngas
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Cory Oberndorfer
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David Camero
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David D'Orio
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Deborah Lash
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Devin Symons
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Erwin Timmers
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John Grunwell
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Joseph Merchlinsky
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Kathryn Trillas
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Larry Jones
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Lindsey Routt
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M. Helene Baribeau
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Magda Johanna Gomez
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Michael Janis
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Monica de Gastyne
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Nancy Donnelly
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Natalia
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Natalie Camou
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Nicolas Zimbro
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Paul Farley
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Philip Yabut
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Rania Hassan
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Ric Garcia
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Roger James
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Russ McIntosh
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Sardar
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Sasha Sinclair
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Sean Hennessey
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Shanthi Chandrasekar
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Stephanie Booth
Tim Tate
Zofie
Lang
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