Carmelo Blandino

BIOGRAPHY

Carmelo Blandino

 

“My works are entrusted with the messages of Ages, created to impart healing and creative inspiration through beauty.”

 

Born to Sicilian parents in Tübingen, Germany, and with a childhood spent in the cities of Montreal and Modica, Sicily, Carmelo Blandino’s life journey has spanned continents and oceans. It has now brought him to the United States, where he has studios and residences in both Connecticut and Wisconsin.  Blandino grows his inspirational vocabulary by taking the essentialness of home to each and every place he has made his bed, wherever he has set up easel and wielded a paintbrush.   

 

Blandino studied art and design in Montreal and enjoyed success as freelance illustrator to advertising agencies, designers and architects.  A next step, borne of both logic and calling, demanded that Blandino turn his focus on the creation of his own artistic legacy.  The result is a fast growing, ever-morphing, highly personal and spiritually guided oeuvre.  Informed heavily by Blandino’s multicultural heritage and imbued with a sensual, expressionistic exuberance, Carmelo’s paintings are renowned for their immediacy and intensity – color, movement, and combustible forms display elemental deconstruction, rebuilt into alluring visions of harmonious appeal.  The transcendental narrative, which lies at the heart of Carmelo’s work, is achieved via a symbolic abstraction of the flowers, landscapes and faces he renders.  These images speak intimately and empathically as brilliant manifestations of what Blandino calls his “unconscious to unconscious communication.”

 

Education:

1983-1984 Creative Arts: Vanier College, Quebec, Canada

1985-1988 Illustration and Design: Dawson College, Montreal, Canada

 

Exhibitions:

2019 Solo Exhibition, Brenau University Museum, Gainsville, GA

 

2018 Solo Exhibition, Thomas Riley Studios, Naples, FL

 

2017 Tew Galleries Salon Show, Atlanta, GA

 

2016 Baker Museum of Arts, Florida Contemporary, Naples, FL

 

2015 Solo Show, Galerie De Bellefeuille

“Carmelo Blandino & Hunt Slonem Kindred Spirits”, Coats Wright Fine Arts, Carmel, IN

Solo Show, “The Art of the Garden”, Jane Eckert Fine Art and Consulting

Solo Show, “Candy Flowers”, Thomas Riley Studio, Naples, FL

Spring Group Show, Thomas Riley Studio, Naples, FL

Solo Show, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

 

2014 “Wolf Kahn & Carmelo Blandino”, Galerie Sono, Norwalk, CT

Solo Show, “New Works”, Galerie Sono, Norwalk, CT

Solo Show, “New Beginnings”, Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden

“Florida Contemporary”, Baker Museum, Naples, FL

Lecture and Exhibition, “Creativity is Natural”, The Von Liebig Center, Naples, FL

“Suspended Dialogues”, Solo Show and Lecture, Thomas Riley Studio, Naples, FL

 

2013  Solo Exhibition, “Rebirth”, Sono Gallery, Norwalk, CT

“Wynwood Walls”, Art Basel, Miami, FL

Gallery Sono, Norwalk, CT

JLD Design Showroom, Café Des Artistes, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA

 

2012   “Wynwood Walls”, Art Basel Miami, FL

          Solo Show, “The Flowering of Consciousness”, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

          Group Show, Arcadia Fine Arts, Four Seasons Hotel, New York City, NY

2011 “En Masse: Primary Flight”, Wynwood Walls, Art Basel Miami, FL

          Fountain Art Fair, Art Basel, Miami, FL

          Toronto International Art Fair, TIAF

 

2010  Solo Show, “The Earth Laughs In Flowers”, Couture Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

          Solo Show, “The Earth Laughs In Flowers”, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

          “29th Founders Show”, The Von Liebig Center, Naples, FL

          “Art 2010”, Group Show, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

 

2009 “Art 2009”, Group Show, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

“Breathe”, Group Show, Judith Liegeois showroom, Montréal, Canada

“Nature 2009”, Group show, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

“Third on Canvas”, The Von Liebig Center, Naples, FL

“Have a Seat II”, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL

 

2008 Art 2008, Group Show, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

Art show, Judith Liegeois Showroom, Montréal, Canada

Naples Museum Studio Tour, Naples, FL

Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, FL

Solo Show, “Memoria”, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

Faculty Biennial, The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL

Solo show, Sanctus- Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL

Toronto International Art Fair, ON, Canada 

 

2007 Group show, Art 2007, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

Toronto International Art Fair, ON, Canada

Palm Beach Art Fair, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Palm Beach, FL

Solo Show, “Vivo”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON

Small Works, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Solo Show, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Solo Show, Galerie De Bellefeuile, Montréal, Canada

 

2006 “Small Works”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Solo Show, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Solo Show, Galerie De Bellefeuile, Montréal, Canada

 

2005 “Figura”, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

          Group Show, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

          Group Show II, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

          Solo Show: Landscapes and Florals, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

          Art Chicago, Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL

          Art for Life - Casey House Foundation

          Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, ON

 

2004 “The Painted Gift”, Hubert Gallery, New York, NY

          Small Works - Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON

          Small Works - Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Art for Life - Casey House Foundation

          Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

          Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

          “Circa 700”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto

 

2003 Pausa - Bau-IX Gallery, Toronto

          Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal, Canada

 

2002 Galerie Simon Blais, Montréal, Canada

Bau-IX Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

New Canadian Painting Royal Bank of Canada, Place Ville-Marie, Montréal, Canada

New Canadian Painting Competition, Royal Bank of Canada Exhibit, Ottawa, Canada

          Viva Italia, Holt Renfrew, Montréal, Canada

 

Museum Collections:

Brenau Museum, Gainesville, Georgia USA

 

Museum Exhibitions:

2019 Brenau Museum, Gainesville, Georgia USA

 

2014 Baker Art Museum, Naples Florida, Florida Contemporary

 

Bibliography:

2015 Huffington Post: “Kindred Spirits: Carmelo Blandino and Hunt Slonem”

Studio Visit Magazine

World of Interiors: What’s Trending

House and Garden: What’s Trending

 

2014 American Art Collector, March Floral issue

 

2013 Maps Magazine. Front Cover featured “A Love Song”

Gulfshore Life, 01/01/2013

 

2010 Naples Illustrated, “Legends of the Fall: Oscar De La Renta / Carmelo Blandino”

Gulfshore Life “Rising Star”, 01/15/2010

Gulfshore Life “The Art of Style”. 09/08/2010

Carmelo Blandino: Pulse Magazine: 9 artists profiled, 01-15-2010

 

2009 Naples Florida Weekly “Third on Canvas event culminates in live auction:

Among the participating artists are: Paul Arsenault, Carmelo Blandino”

 

2008 Mass Art Guide – Audio Carmelo Blandino, hosted by: Julie Glick Length: 26.5 Minutes.

“At Home with Art: 13th Annual Artists’ Studio Tour opens door to creative work and living spaces”, Naples Daily News, Janice T. Paine, Wednesday, February 27, 2008

RBC Canadian Painting Competition, 2008 Royal Bank of Canada, edited by Laurel Mac Millan

“Shining Through: The Art of Carmelo Blandino”, Text by Betty Ann Jordan

 

2006 Canadian House & Home / Tea Time, page 72

 

2005 Toronto Star, Deft Mix of Light & Dark

Corriere Italiano, May 6th , L’Encan per Santa Cabrini, un appuntamento divertente da non mancare!

 

2002 Grafika Magazine, numero 68, mars 2001, Carmelo Blandino illustrateur,

Le Talent Partagé

 

2001 Grafika Magazine, numero 68, mars 2001, Carmelo Blandino illustrateur,

Le Talent Partagé

 

 

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