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F. Lennox Campello
F. Lennox Campello is an American (born in Cuba, 1956) artist, art critic, author, art dealer, curator, and visual arts blogger. In 2016 The Washington City Paper called him "one of the most interesting people of Washington, DC."
Florencio Lennox Campello was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba in 1956, and immigrated as a child to the United States in the 1960s along with his political refugee parents and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Aviation High School in Long Island, New York (Class of 1974). He studied art at the University of Washington (BFA, 1981), where he was commissioned as a U.S. Navy officer, and subsequently received an MS from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in 1987.
Campello's art is predominantly narrative and storytelling in nature, and often incorporates technology such as video, sound, and miniature spy cameras into the finished pieces. He has exhibited widely in the United States, Europe and Latin America, including in the McManus Museum in Scotland, the Brusque Museum in Brazil, the San Bernardino County Museum in California, the Meadows Museum of Art in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Tennessee, the Sacramento Fine Arts Center in California, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon, the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications in Russia, the American University Museum, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum at the University of Oregon, the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami, Florida, and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
This body of works was started in the 1970s while the artist was in art school, and uses the shape/map of the island of Cuba as the unifying element in paintings, prints and drawings. In the works, the island is often depicted as behind jail bars (such as on the cover of the poetry book Cuba in Verse: The Island Behind Bars by Ada Bezos, Editorial Betania (2012) ISBN 978-8480174008), or with oars, or surrounded by tears, etc.
Campello's artwork often appropriates American comic book superhero themes, most often Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and others. He has also curated several group art shows where the artwork is focused on multiple artistic interpretations of the superhero iconography.
This series focuses on interpreting the tattoo artwork of the original people of Scotland, known as the Picts. Campello was exposed to Pictish culture while living in Scotland in the 1990s, and began focusing a series of drawings and paintings which over the years have interpreted and reproduced the Pictish tattoos on a variety of male and female nude studies.
Campello was awarded the 1979 First Prize (Drawing) by Renton Art Society Renton, Washington, 1981 First Prize (Drawing). from the Keene-Mason Gallery National Competition New York, NY, 1981 First Prize (Printmaking), Whipple Gallery National Competition, Marshall, MN, the 1995 Best of Show at the 20th Princess Anne Art Show in Virginia Beach, VA, Best of Show at the 1996 Festival in the Park in Roanoke, Virginia, and the Best in Show at the 2007 Stockley Gardens Art Festival in Norfolk, VA. He was most recently awarded a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in 2019, and one of his works was acquired in 2018 for the permanent collection of Montgomery County, Maryland.
In a review of his 1996 exhibition of portraits of Internet porn stars, The Washington Post noted that his artwork "manages to find a delicate balance between the black charcoal and cream-colored paper resulting in a grainy, film-noir effect, making his subjects, traffickers in mass-consumption prurience, seem tough but vulnerable, like a flowering plant in a sexual wasteland."
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F. Lennox Campello
F. Lennox Campello is an American (born in Cuba, 1956) artist, art critic, author, art dealer, curator, and visual arts blogger. In 2016 The Washington City Paper called him "one of the most interesting people of Washington, DC."
Florencio Lennox Campello was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba in 1956, and immigrated as a child to the United States in the 1960s along with his political refugee parents and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Aviation High School in Long Island, New York (Class of 1974). He studied art at the University of Washington (BFA, 1981), where he was commissioned as a U.S. Navy officer, and subsequently received an MS from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in 1987.
Campello's art is predominantly narrative and storytelling in nature, and often incorporates technology such as video, sound, and miniature spy cameras into the finished pieces. He has exhibited widely in the United States, Europe and Latin America, including in the McManus Museum in Scotland, the Brusque Museum in Brazil, the San Bernardino County Museum in California, the Meadows Museum of Art in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Tennessee, the Sacramento Fine Arts Center in California, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon, the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications in Russia, the American University Museum, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum at the University of Oregon, the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami, Florida, and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
This body of works was started in the 1970s while the artist was in art school, and uses the shape/map of the island of Cuba as the unifying element in paintings, prints and drawings. In the works, the island is often depicted as behind jail bars (such as on the cover of the poetry book Cuba in Verse: The Island Behind Bars by Ada Bezos, Editorial Betania (2012) ISBN 978-8480174008), or with oars, or surrounded by tears, etc.
Campello's artwork often appropriates American comic book superhero themes, most often Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and others. He has also curated several group art shows where the artwork is focused on multiple artistic interpretations of the superhero iconography.
This series focuses on interpreting the tattoo artwork of the original people of Scotland, known as the Picts. Campello was exposed to Pictish culture while living in Scotland in the 1990s, and began focusing a series of drawings and paintings which over the years have interpreted and reproduced the Pictish tattoos on a variety of male and female nude studies.
Campello was awarded the 1979 First Prize (Drawing) by Renton Art Society Renton, Washington, 1981 First Prize (Drawing). from the Keene-Mason Gallery National Competition New York, NY, 1981 First Prize (Printmaking), Whipple Gallery National Competition, Marshall, MN, the 1995 Best of Show at the 20th Princess Anne Art Show in Virginia Beach, VA, Best of Show at the 1996 Festival in the Park in Roanoke, Virginia, and the Best in Show at the 2007 Stockley Gardens Art Festival in Norfolk, VA. He was most recently awarded a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in 2019, and one of his works was acquired in 2018 for the permanent collection of Montgomery County, Maryland.
In a review of his 1996 exhibition of portraits of Internet porn stars, The Washington Post noted that his artwork "manages to find a delicate balance between the black charcoal and cream-colored paper resulting in a grainy, film-noir effect, making his subjects, traffickers in mass-consumption prurience, seem tough but vulnerable, like a flowering plant in a sexual wasteland."