Monday, December 09, 2019

Call for solo and group show proposals

Deadline: Feb 1, 2020

BlackRock Center for the Arts is now accepting exhibition proposals for solo, group and themed exhibitions to be presented in our gallery spaces in 2021 and beyond. Visual artists, curators, and coordinators of artist collectives and organizations who are over the age of 18 and live or work in Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania are encouraged to submit Exhibition Proposals. 

BlackRock is a nonprofit arts center which presents changing exhibitions of contemporary art by both emerging and established artists working in all media, to include site-specific installations, video and other time-based media, performance, new technologies and experimental forms.

Details here.

Sunday, December 08, 2019

Sunday in Miami Beach: Art Basel Week - The Last Day!

Today is the last day of the fair week - and as usual... here's my morning photo from the 16th floor of Bel Aire!


Over at Pulse, the slight tension of the last day is palpable in the air, as galleries which have done well and galleries which have not send their vibes through the air.

My "Bisque wall" has done well over the days of the fair - over 40 pieces have sold!

. Lennox Campello's Bisque wall at Pulse Art Fair Miami Beach 2019
Campello Bisque wall at Pulse Art Fair Miami Beach 2019
Janis's major piece finds a collector - as I suspect that as soon as the red dot goes on, the two interior designers who have been considering it will have alarm bells ring in their heads.



Soon it is 5PM and the fair ends and packing and loading begins, and the dance between bubble wrap, cardboard, accompanied by the music of tape dispensers rules the fair and another year of Art Basel week is about to end.

For some, preparations for 2020 are already beginning.

Saturday, December 07, 2019

Art Basel Miami Beach week: The Saturday report

The day started with the usual gorgeous view from my friends' condo and then it went bananas from there... cough... cough...

View from Bel Aire, 16th floor in Miami Beach


Cattelan banana after it was eaten - Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 meme

Saturdays are usually the busiest days at the planet's primary art venue week... today Pulse debuted a discussion panel in Spanish, with me, blue chip artist Sandra Ramos and art consultant Tessie Penin.

Tim Tate, Lennox Campello and Sandra Ramos at Pulse Art Fair 2019 Miami Beach
Tim Tate and Sandra Ramos
The subject of the discussion was my now over 10-year-old discussion "On Identity in the Arts: What does it mean to be Latino/a?" and it went really well, with Ramos and Penin adding really substantial points to this issue.


As it had been doing for the first two days, Michael Janis' main piece in the fair was receiving a lot of attention, and by the end of the night, two separate art consultants had placed it in their list to showcase to their clients.

Michael Janis at Pulse Art Fair 2019 Miami Beach
Work by Michael Janis
The wall of drawings of unfired Bisque kept selling well throughout the day as well... and I re-arranged it to shrink it a little...

Campello drawings on unfired Bisque at Pulse Art Fair 2019 Miami Beach
Campello drawings on unfired Bisque

Friday, December 06, 2019

New works on Bisque

A lot of these stayed with new collectors as they were sold at the Pulse Art Fair in Miami Beach last week...






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