Camille Engel
Camille Engel (b. Tulsa, OK, April 21, 1955) is a self-taught American realist painter currently living in Nashville, TN. Her diverse pictorial themes include contemporary still lifes, landscapes, fruits and flowers, trompe-l'œils, figuratives, and animal portraits. She is best known as a bird artist depicting sharply realistic, colorful birds of intricate detail and textures, characteristically breaking through torn trompe-l'œil holes in her art paper. Engel´s work has been repeatedly featured in Southwest Art, The Artist's, International Artist and other noted art magazines. Her oeuvre has received numerous awards, among them the People´s Choice Award at the Gilcrease Museum's “American Art in Miniature” exhibition in 2008, and the third place of the Artistic Excellence Competition by Southwest Art in 2015.[1] [2][3][4]
Career
Engel attended junior college at Tulsa Tech, majoring in fine arts while working as a graphic designer in a department store. She continued working in graphic design for a number of years until establishing her own design firm, first in Tulsa (in 1974) and then in Nashville in 1984, where she served corporate clients such as Random House, Fruit of the Loom, Aladdin, MCA, and RCA. She also designed music album covers[5] for a number of artists including George Strait, Reba McEntire, Randy Travis, Hank Williams, Jr, etc. Heeding advice to follow her dreams, she began painting in 2000 under the guidance of realist painter Charles Brindley. Praise at the gallery scene and competition success came shortly after. She has been painting on a full-time basis since 2003.
Awards
Camille Engel´s art has deserved many professional distinctions. One of her paintings -Strike A Pose- has won several, sequencially ascending distinctions, among them: 1) Selection for exhibition at the Sixth Annual Juried Exhibiti on organized by the International Guild of Realism (2011, Santa Fe, CA);[6] 2) Selection for exhibition at the 37th Birds in Art show held at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum (2012, Wausau, WI);[7] 3) Finalist place at the 9th International Salon Competition by the Art Renewal Center in 2012.;[8] 4) Selection by Southwest Art Magazine for publication among the Top 75 yearly album in 2013;[2] 5) Fourth Place Prize at the "Animals" competition by competition.net in 2014;[9] and 6) Finalist award at the Animal/Wildlife competition by The Artist's Magazine in 2015.
Recent recognitions to other art pieces by Engel include a First Place at the 2016 "Flowers, Plants & Gardens" competition by ArtCompetition.net;[10] and the Third Place in the Artistic Excellence by Southwest Art Magazine in 2015.[11] Also finalist award at the 2018 International Artist Magazine "Favorite Subject" Challenge;[12] the 2017 "Salon International" by the Art Renewal Center;[13] the 2015 and 2016 "Artistic Excellence Competition" by Southwest Art Magazine;[14] and the 2016 "Florals & Gardens Challenge" by International Artist Magazine.[15]
Engel´s artwork was recently exhibited as solo shows at the Ellen Noel Art Museum (Odessa, TX), and the Parthenon (Nashville) Museum. It is also scheduled for a solo exhibition at the Customs House Museum (Clarksville, TN), October 16 (2018) through January 2, 2019.
References
- ^ Parr-Moody, Karen. "CAMILLE ENGEL - When Paint Starts To Fly". nashvillearts.com.
- ^ a b "Artistic Excellence 2013 - Meet the Finalists". www.southwestart.com. Retrieved Mar 31, 2018.
- ^ "Emerging Artists - Camille Engel". southwestart.com. Retrieved Mar 31, 2018.
- ^ GRAM, G. "Camille Engel - USA". ggalleryslo.blogspot.com. Retrieved Mar 31, 2018.
- ^ "Camille Engel". www.discogs.com. Retrieved Mar 29, 2018.
- ^ "Reality Check: Realism Art Capital of the World Moves to Santa Fe". globenewswire.com. Retrieved Mar 31, 2018.
- ^ "Avian Art" (PDF). erictardif.com. Retrieved Mar 31, 2018.
- ^ "Camille Engel - Strike A Pose". artrenewal.org. Retrieved Mar 31, 2018.
- ^ "Winners Showcase - "Animals" - Wild, Domestic, Land, Air or Sea". art-competition.net. Retrieved Mar 31, 2018.
- ^ "Winners Showcase - "Flowers, Plants & Gardens 2"". art-competition.net. Retrieved Apr 2, 2018.
- ^ "Artistic Excellence 2015 - Third Place: Camille Engel". southwestart.com. Retrieved Mar 31, 2018.
- ^ "International Artist Jan-Feb 2018 Camille Engel". scribd.com. Retrieved Apr 2, 2018.
- ^ "Finalists". artrenewal.org. Retrieved Apr 2, 2018.
- ^ "Artistic Excellence 2016 - Meet the Finalists". southwestart.com. Retrieved Apr 2, 2018.
- ^ "Finalists - Camille Engel". internationalartist.com. Retrieved Apr 2, 2018.