“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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