The Daphne by Florencio Campello SWE

Florencio Lennox Campello

A leading contemporary art personality for many years (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, raised in Guantanamo, and exiled as a child to Brooklyn, New York as part of the 1960s Cuban Diaspora. He studied art at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle, under Professors Norman Lundin, Alden Mason, Jacob Lawrence, Everet DuPen and others. Although he graduated from Washington in 1981, the artist started to sell his work professionally in 1977, when he became one of the regular exhibiting artists at Seattle's world-famous Pike Place Market, where he sold his art school assignments until 1981.