Lenny Campello Loves Me

Lenny Campello’s art blog has been a daily read since I first started working in visual media. That we finally met, and that he’s written so fondly of me, makes me wanna do the white-boy ass shake.

When I first saw Sean Welker’s drawings, I thought that they were prints. When I returned and talked a little to Sean, I discovered that they were each an individual drawing expressing Welker’s interest in sugar skulls, matryoshka dolls, maneki neko figures and other odd elements. Welker would have easily also won the “Best Skeleton Art” category, but it wouldn’t be fair to give him two awards. This guy is one of the best artists at AOM.

You can read the entire article, where he name-checks many of my creative favorites, here.

Press

Thanks to local artist Pat Goslee, my illustrations have been given props on Lenny Campello’s art blog.  If you want to put your finger on the pulse of the DC art scene, Lenny is the man with the plan.

I consider myself wicked lucky to be lumped in with so many of my personal faves from this year’s Artomatic.  Read Goslee’s list of AOM highlights here.

Gentle reminder: Artomatic runs until July 5th.

A Movie Star Is Supposed To Be A Sophisticate!

Jayne Mansfield in one of her final sensationalist travel films.  OMG drag queens!

Or the Starbucks, or the Starbucks, or the Starbucks, or the Starbucks, or the…

Wow. We got dudes in brown flip flops! Dudes in brown flip flops!

“So many dudes in here, they ought to call this Ballston!”

“It Smells Like Fresh Vagina In Here!”

The other winning line: “Maybe a little oil…two fat cocks…together…oil…”

The audio is totally NSFW, but it is really, really funny.

Throw A Penny In That Beast! See What Wishes Come True!

This educational video on STIs from the 1960s has an awesome parody voice over by the ever-hilarious Deven Green. Also: almost certainly NSFW.

This Is Why They Invented The InterWebs - Part 2

“Bedazzles“?  Perhaps not in the way I first expected.

This Is Why They Invented The InterWebs - Part 1

This is NSFW. This is NSFAnywhere.

“I’ll send you green for your brown.”

Four On The Floor (An Artomatic Project, Part 3: The 7th Floor)

This is the part three of a series I want to write to help other folks sift through the 1100 visual artists showing at this year’s Artomatic.  There’s an amazing spectrum of really awesome art throughout eight large floors, and admittedly it’s a bit overwhelming after a while.

So this series has a few ground rules.  The first is that the plan is to select a handful of participating artists on each floor.  The second is that I’m not allowed to pick people I know.  The final rule I’ve set for myself is that these artists have websites.  That said, seeing it in person is really the preferable way to go.

It’s not that people who didn’t make this cut aren’t making compelling work–rather, this is the art that really struck me as exciting and fresh.  Be advised that your results may differ.

Previous installments of this series may be found here and here.

01. Mei Mei Chang (Space 7 03)
“ There are connections between internal symbols and connections which stretch out to the external.”

Cityscape, 2009, mixed media, 20″x30″.

02. Kelley A. Donnelly (Space 7 11)
“Her art and paintings are an extension of the motion and chaos she sees in life.”

Split Second, 2008, acrylic, 30″x40″.

03. Emma O’Rourke (Space 7 06)
“These biomorphic flowers represent strength in life force , nurturing motherhood yet embraces vulnerability and fragility. ”

a winter’s love, 2009, acrylic + collage, 16″x24″.

04. M. Gert Barkovic (Space 7 05)

“…the little revelations in touching surfaces and identifying new methods of technique have a consequence that I always feel is self-evolving and it does become a point of remiss in revealing the nature of it’s being.”

Untitled (knotted mass), 2009, discarded sheets + other organic material, 13′x7′x1.5″.

This year’s Artomatic is located at 55 M St. SE, conveniently right above the Half Street exit of the Navy Yard Metro stop.  The show runs from until July 5th.