FRIDA KAHLO WITH BATS Gorgeous original drawing by WHOs WHO IN ART listed artist

Description: You are bidding on a one of a kind original Graphite on unfired broken Bisque by listed American artist F. Lennox Campello. Thus original drawing is somewhat three dimensional, as it projects off the wall about 4 inches. It is about 4x5 inches. The artist appears multiple times in both Who's Who in American Art as well as The Artists' Bluebook and most recently in the major art book 100 Artists of The Mid Atlantic. "FRIDA KAHLO WITH BATS" is an original Graphite drawing on reclaimed unfired broken Bisque. It measures about 4X5X4 inches and signed, titled and dated on verso. The other images shows many such drawings displayed at a recent art fair in New York City during NYC's Art fair week. It is ready to hang and be displayed. The artist has noted about this process in his journals: "For the last decade or so, I've been working on an entirely different substrate: Bisque.Not as a ceramic, but as a new surface for my drawings and paintings. They are executed on broken, repurposed, reclaimed unfired Bisque. It all started by accident: for many years I've been invited to and participated in the annual fundraiser for the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, which is a Washington, DC nonprofit art space dedicated to exhibiting fine art that explores the innate connection between healing and creativity. Their fundraiser is an auction where invited artists are each given a 12-inch Bisque bowl to transform it into a piece of art. Some artists create dioramas, most decorate the bowl in some form or another. I had for years just done a drawing in the bowl, fixed it and submitted it. One year, it arrived broken to the gallery and they contacted me and gave me a new bowl. When I saw the broken bowl, I fell in love with it and decided to start exploring doing drawings and paintings on broken, unfired Bisque. As such I began ordering box after box of Bisque, breaking it and creating artwork with the broken pieces. Parts of it were frustrating, as sometimes I'd drop a Bisque piece 3-4 times and it wouldn't break, and then on the 5th time it would break in a hundred unusable pieces. My wife then suggested that I contact the factory that made the Bisque molds and I did. The nice lady who answered my phone call agreed to save any and all broken pieces for me. "We don't usually break too many," she noted, "so it may be a while." Two weeks later she called me and I drove to the factory, where they had over a hundred pounds of broken pieces, and that was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship, as now, instead of throwing away the broken Bisque, it was being repurposed to create new works of art. The result has been immensely successful, as the new surface, with its three dimensions, delivers a complex new element to the narrative portion of my works. They are all ready to hang, need no framing and project off the wall anywhere from one to several inches. For this competition, with its thematic focus on "elements", I've selected three works which I feel fit within the parameters and focus of the call. In these works, I explore the element of fear, the element of imagination, and the element of surprise." Most recently, in 2016 he was called "One of the most interesting people of Washington, DC" by the Washington City Paper. He has exhibited widely in many galleries, museums and art fairs in Europe, Latin America and the US and is in the collection of several "Top 100" art collectors. We recommend that you Google this artist so that you can note his deep presence on the American art scene. In addition to numerous galleries, his work has been exhibited at the McManus Museum in Scotland, the Brusque Museum in Brazil, the San Bernardino County Art Museum in California, the Musee des Duncan in France, the Frick Museum in Ohio, the Meadows Museum of Art in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Hunter Museum in Tennessee, the Sacramento Fine Arts Center in California, the Popov Museum in Russia, the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, the Rock Springs Art Center in Wyoming, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Katzen Museum in Washington, DC and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colorado. A while back, his work was hand picked by renowned American art collector Mera Rubell (considered by many to be the top American art collector in the world) for her epic "36 Studios in 36 Hours" exhibition at the Katzen Museum at American University. In 2016 he was selected by The Washington City Paper as "one of the most interesting people of Washington, DC. WHAT THE CRITICS HAVE SAID ABOUT F. LENNOX CAMPELLO'S ART “... Art Basel Miami Beach week... One of the most intriguing creative minds in the city…” Brickell Magazine, Miami "... he manages to find a delicate balance between the black charcoal and cream-colored paper, resulting in a grainy, film-noir effect, making his subjects seem tough but vulnerable, like a flowering plant in a sexual wasteland." Ferdinand Protzman, Washington Post The artist illuminates this obscure corner of history with black charcoal drawings sketched on gleaming white paper. Each one if a gem suffused with the artists passion for these [Pictish] peoples. Joanna Shaw-Eagle, Washington Times One of Washington's best. NBC 4 Washington without Lennyis like a martini without olives. Jack Rasmussen, Director, American University Museum Campello, has used not only his considerable skills as a draughtsman but has been interpolated from the only sources that remain from Pict culture. John Blee, Georgetowner His use of charcoal sets him apart, enabling Campello to build a strong contrast in his piece's clear and understandable art. Rick Muirragui, Potomac News Dramatic effects of light and shadow Cheryl Allison, Bowie-Blade News Although small, the tension between the mass and the highlighted areas give the impression of a monumental subject. Lucy Blankenstein, KOAN Art Newsletter Campello's recently closed solo show demonstrated what a passion-filled artist and a unique vision can create. J.T. Kirkland, Thinking About Art Campello's drawings can be quite thought-provoking through the manner in which he chooses to depict religious, mythological, or cultural icons - many of which we are quite familiar with. Alexandra Silverthorne, Solarize This ... Still, some works stand out. F. Lennox Campello's irreverent drawings from the "Unknown Events in The Wizard of Oz Saga" include "How Dorothy Really Killed the Wicked Witch of the West" - she stuffed the old bat's head in that bucket of water. Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe The artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity and Provenance and a copy of the artist's art resume. About the Artist: One of the Mid Atlantic areas best-known arts personalities, F. Lennox Campello studied art at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle, under Professors Norman Lundin, Alden Mason, Jacob Lawrence, Everet DuPen and others. Although he graduated from Washington in 1981, the artist started to sell his work professionally in 1977, when he became one of the regular exhibiting artists at Seattle's world famous Pike Place Market. His art career has grown prodigiously since those days, and several of his "Pike Place Market" originals have since sold at auction for thousands of dollars, both in the US and Europe. In that same year that he graduated from Washington, he won the William Whipple National Art Competition First Prize for Printmaking, as well as the Silver Medal at the Ligoa Duncan International Art Competition in Paris and the French "Prix de Peinture de Raymond Duncan," also in Paris. Commissioned as an Ensign in the US Navy in1981, the artist was transferred to Spain, where he worked on a series of landscapes of Andalusia which now hang in over fifty private collections in Spain, Portugal and the United States. In 1985, he returned to the United States, living in Monterey, California(while pursuing a Masters degree) and later to Bowie, Maryland. During this time, he returned to figurative drawings, as well as delivered illustrations for magazines and periodicals. In 1989, Campello moved to Scotland, where he lived in a 307 year old farmhouse at the foothills of the Highlands near the ancient Pictish village of Brechin. The rugged character of the Scottish land and his discovery of the mezzotints of David Waterson, a mid-century Scottish printmaker, revived his previous interest in landscape, and for the next three years he produced over three hundred watercolors of Scotland. This work earned him the First Prize in watercolors at the 42nd Annual International North Wynd River Art Competition in the United States. In 1992, the artist returned to America and lived for a year in Sonoma, California, where he produced over 400 commissioned drawings for the Sonoma Ballet Conservatory. Upon completion of this project, he relocated to the Greater Washington, DC area. In 1996, he opened the Fraser Gallery in Washington, DC, and then in Bethesda, Maryland. He was the co-owner of the gallery until 2006, at which time he re-located to Media, Pennsylvania. He returned to the DC area in 2009, where he currently resides. In addition to numerous galleries, his work has been exhibited at the McManus Museum in Scotland, the Brusque Museum in Brazil, the San Bernardino County Art Museum in California, the Musee des Duncan in France, the Frick Museum in Ohio, the Meadows Museum of Art in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Hunter Museum in Tennessee, the Sacramento Fine Arts Center in California, the Popov Museum in Russia, the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, the Rock Springs Art Center in Wyoming, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, DC and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colorado. As an experienced curator, has also curated several important shows in the capital area, such as the 2001 Survey of Washington Realists at the Athenaeum in Alexandria, a huge salon-style show that for the first time catalogued together the artists working in the realist tradition in the area, and most recently Seven for the Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, where seven galleries were filled by selected DC area artists. In 2006, he also curated the worldwide Homage to Frida Kahlo exhibition for the Cultural Institute of Mexico. Campello is also a regularly published art critic of regional prominence. His art reviews have appeared in DC One Magazine, Cultureflux Magazine, ArtsKrush Magazine, Art Calendar Magazine, Visions Magazine for the Arts, Dimensions Magazine, Pitch Magazine, The City Beat, the Crier Newspapers chain, the Washington Post and various other local newspapers, as well as Daily Campello Art News, an online BLOG with over 21,000 weekly readers that he edits and publishes. He is also often heard on NPR discussing art issues as well as on the television program ArtsMedia News. He is the author of 100 Artists of Washington, DC, published in 2011 by Schiffer Press. As an art dealer with a 100% rating, we guarantee all of our Ebay offerings 100% and if any reasonable issues are not100% to your satisfaction, we will refund your bid and we're always open to any questions. You can also visit our booth at several of the Art Basel week art fairs in Miami each December and at the Affordable Art Fairs in New York in the spring and fall. 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Price: 199.99 USD

Location: Potomac, Maryland

End Time: 2024-11-20T00:07:26.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.99 USD