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D. Dominick Lombardi
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Technique only goes so far...
by D. Dominick Lombardi
steven bindernagel at CRG Gallery
January 10th - February 23rd
Posted
1/20/13
I cannot help but think of the more commercial, often palette knife-painted, construction-based abstractions of the 1960s as I first walk into the exhibition at CRG Gallery. That is not good.
As references go, you want to try to avoid the kitschier techniques, the ones that rely too heavily on dazzling their audience solely with technique, unless you plan to make a commentary about esthetics, or, you are intentionally trying to tweak your audience to get their attention, with the intention of bringi... [more]
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Sensationalism and Sexuality
by D. Dominick Lombardi
FC SOFIA at DE BUCK GALLERY
November 1st, 2012 - December 15th, 2012
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11/20/12
Start with cartoon characters, add a little S & M, a cup of fetishism and a bucket full of small cell phone charms and children’s stickers, then stir in a mood of domination and you have the fabulously fun work of FC SOFIA. FC SOFIA, which is comprised of the French-based duo of Frederic and Catherine Sofia, captivated this reviewer with a very slick read on the sensationalism and sexualizing of contemporary aesthetics.
Anchoring the installation are four wall-mounted, brightly colored masks that... [more]
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The Explosive Sublime
by D. Dominick Lombardi
Ushio Shinohara at Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
August 29th, 2012 - December 16th, 2012
Posted
10/29/12
In a far room, in one of the many spaces at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art can be found the sometimes explosive and other times sublime art of Ushio Shinohara. Boxing Painter (2011), the first piece you encounter even before you enter the space immediately sends your thoughts through dynamic expressions, inventive techniques and fantastical fantasies. Using color-loaded boxing gloves, as he has done in the 1960s and again since 1991, Shinohara marks his territory like a predator marks its groun... [more]
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Happening & History
by D. Dominick Lombardi
Jonathan Beer at Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts
September 6th, 2012 - October 11th, 2012
Posted
9/9/12
The narratives in Jonathan Beer’s art make many unpredictable turns. And like the paintings of Neo Rauch, who is an influence here, there is an unmistakable weirdness in the work. It’s never clear what you are looking at, or why the sky is sometimes bright yellow, or the earth fractured and filleted, yet there is enough of a reference to the known world to trigger a disjointed series of quick, unresolved thoughts in the viewer’s mind.
The general gist of Beer’s art is a suspension of reali... [more]
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Collector's Catalogue 2012: The Collector Base
by D. Dominick Lombardi
Posted
8/14/12
Over the years, a few artists have made a point to tell me they care little, if at all, about ever selling their work. Whenever I hear that sentiment, I always feel this twinge of suspicion, as I know what it is like to sell one’s own work. In point of fact, there would be little art to see if there were no collectors. Commercial galleries would not exist and a lot of very creative people would be stressed, repressed and totally misunderstood if there were no patrons or collectors.
Richard Smolin, creator of the websi... [more]
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Summer in the City
by D. Dominick Lombardi
Rita Ackermann, Miriam Cahn, David Dupuis, Mark Flood, Mary Heilmann, Lothar Hempel, Sean Landers, Keith Mayerson, Dan McCarthy, Marlene McCarty, Matthew Monahan, Robert Moskowitz, Joyce Pensato, Jack Pierson, Andreas Schulze, Amy Sillman, Kiki Smith, Philip Taaffe, Dan Walsh, Robin Winters at Anton Kern Gallery
July 10th, 2012 - August 24th, 2012
Posted
8/12/12
August is the toughest month to find a gallery exhibition that will inspire most critics’ fingers to pound the keyboard. With so many galleries closed, and others emphasizing the coming season’s first exhibition in early September, there tends to be a general lack of interest in mounting a show, especially anything substantive. However, there are some good gallery exhibitions here and there, one being “It’s Always Summer on the Inside” at Anton Kern Gallery in Chelsea. Organized by Dan M... [more]
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Dam That Paint!
by D. Dominick Lombardi
Ron Johnson at Gary Snyder Gallery
July 10th, 2012 - August 17th, 2012
Posted
7/16/12
For his first one-person exhibition in New York, Ron Johnson offers up a collection of paintings that project a keen and sometimes-referential theory of color, a very curious technique, and a place between non-representation and our collective subconscious of catalogued experiences that flow through the exhibition in unexpected ways.
To achieve the sinuous interlocking and overlapping fields of color, Johnson employs pre-positioned dams to corral the poured paint and polyurethane mix. The dam wa... [more]
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Energetic, Wrenching, and Raucous
by D. Dominick Lombardi
Rick Prol at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
May 19th, 2012 - June 17th, 2012
Posted
6/7/12
I first came to know the art of Rick Prol in the 1980s when he was with B-SIDE gallery, a space run by artist Caren Scarpulla who too had a feel for the hideous/beauteous aesthetic. At that time, Prol’s difficult imagery, cutting painting style, bizarre juxtapositions and fantastical combinations of impossibly difficult architectural elements rendered simply were a huge part of the East Village art scene.
With my recent visit to the prestigious Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art I was h... [more]
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Skeletons In Our Shared Closet
by D. Dominick Lombardi
John Mellencamp at Tennessee State Museum
April 12th, 2012 - June 10th, 2012
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5/25/12
John Mellencamp doesn’t see himself as an activist, which I suspect is his humility speaking. There is no escaping the fact that Mellencamp is a political artist. And I say this with the utmost respect as his views are heartfelt, witnessed first-hand and lifelong. With work ranging from the alarming Strange Fruit (2006), which points to past, horrific atrocities, to the straightforward Coast to Coast (2005) that reveals the continuing problems and degradation more and more are facing across our... [more]
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