D. Dominick Lombardi
D. Dominick Lombardi (Bronx, New York 1954) is a visual artist, writer and art critic; the U.S. editor of dArt international magazine; as well as a curator. He was an art critic for the New York Times from 1998 to 2005.
Biography
D. Dominick Lombardi was born into the family of an Italian-American carpenter in the Bronx, NY in 1954. He worked in the family carpentry shop as a teenager. [1] Currently he is an adjunct professor at Westchester Community College. [2]
Artist
Lombardi has been exhibiting since 1977. Some of his exhibitions include:
- Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany 1989-92
- Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY 1989
- Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA 1991
- Silpakorn University Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 1993
- Art Chicago, Chicago, IL 1993,
- Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany 1993 & 94
- Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT 1995 & 96
- Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Katonah, NY 1995, 98 & 2008[3]
- San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA, 1996
- Art/Ex Gallery/Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT 1997[4]
- University of Connecticut Stamford Branch Gallery, Stamford, CT 2000[5]
- Ketilhusid Museum, Akureyri, Iceland 2002
- Art Gallery, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY 2002[6]
- Shore Institute of Contemporary Art (SICA), Long Branch, NJ 2004 & 05[7]
- Delta Axis/Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN 2005[8]
- CIGE/China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China, 2005
- Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, New York, NY 2005[9]
- Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI 2007[10]
- Art Commune, Hong Kong, China, 2007
- Morean Arts Center (was The Arts Center), St. Petersburg, FL 2007[11]
- Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX 2008,[12]
- Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 2009[13][14]
- Artlexis, Brooklyn, NY 2009[15][16][17]
- Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, 2009
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, Central Gallery, Amherst, MA 2010 [18]
- "Under the Influence: The Comics and Contemporary Art" Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY [19][20]
- "Recontextualizing the Found" Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY[21]
Articles and reviews of his art have been printed in many publications, including Sculpture magazine,[22] ARTnews, The New York Times, Time Out New York, NY ART BEAT, The M magazine, Post Road Magazine, WHITEHOT[23] and Zing.[24][25]
Lombardi is represented by the Kim Foster Gallery, New York City.[26]
Post Apocalyptic Tattoo
Lombardi is best known for the Post Apocalyptic Tattoo series which spanned the decade between 1998 to 2008[27][28] which culminated in two one-man shows. The first exhibition in 2008, was held at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, TX, titled “The Post Apocalyptic Tattoo: A Ten Year Survey”. The second exhibition was held at the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, CT, opened in September 2009.[29]
Critic
Lombardi's features and art criticisms have been published in The New York Times, ARTslant,[30] Art in Asia (S. Korea), Public Art and Ecology (China), Art Experience NYC, Sculpture, Sculpture Review, d’ART (U.S. Editor), Art Papers, Art Lies, ARTnews, & magazine, Art New England and culturecatch.com among others. His reviews and feature articles for The New York Times appeared between 1998 [31][32] and 2005.[33]
Curator
Lombardi has curated a variety of exhibitions in museums and galleries across the U. S.
Other curatorial projects include ‘Nature Calls,’ ‘Suspect Reason,’ ‘Fear is a Four Letter Word,’ ‘Speaking in Strings: Ken Butler and Kurt Coble,’ ‘Over the Top - Under the Rug,’ ‘One Night Stand - The Sex Show,’ ‘The Waking Dream,’ ‘The Tradition of Icons,’ and ‘Champions of Modernism: Non-Objective Art of the 1930s & 40s and Its Legacy.’ [25]
External links
References
- ↑ http://media.icompendium.com/ddlombar_SenseandSustainability.pdf
- ↑ https://wccartdept.wordpress.com/about/faculty/
- ↑ "Contemporary Confrontations," Katonah Museum of Art, January 25, 2009 - February 22, 2009, http://www.katonahmuseum.org/exhibitions/archive/
- ↑ Zimmer, William, "The 20th Century, Two Viewpoints in Sculpture and Collage," The New York Times, Sunday, January 18, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/18/nyregion/art-the-20th-century-two-viewpoints-in-sculpture-and-collage.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
- ↑ Zimmer, William, "Form, Color and More From 25 Artists,"The New York Times, Sunday, August 13, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/13/nyregion/art-form-color-and-more-from-25-artists.html
- ↑ http://www.maureenmullarkey.com/essays/marist.html
- ↑ SICA (The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art), Long Branch, NJ, accompanying catalogue, 2005, http://www.sica.org/Exhibitions/INKED.html
- ↑ "INKED," Delta Axis/Marshall Arts, (curated by Koan Jeff Baysa), 2005, http://www.deltaaxis.org/artists/inked.html
- ↑ "Cursive: D. Dominick Lombardi, Creighton Michael, David Rubin, Hilda Shen, Rebecca Smith," Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, March 13 - April 13, 2005, http://www.tenri.org/gallery/cursive.shtml
- ↑ "Intelligent Design: Project II," MONA (Museum of New Art), September 15-October 13, http://www.detroitmona.com/intelligent_design.htm
- ↑ "Skin City: the Art of the Tattoo," The Arts Center, Amanda Cooper, curator, October 12 - December 31, 2007, http://www.theartscenter.org/exhibits/1007/skin_city.htm
- ↑ Johnson, Michael, "San Antonio Report: The Post Apocalyptic Tattoo: A Ten-Year Survey," NYARTSmagazine, July/August 2008, http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=276333&Itemid=752
- ↑ "Designing Intelligence? Continuing The Intelligent Design Project," Schmidt Center Gallery?Florida Atlantic University, January 30 - April 3, 2009, http://www.fau.edu/galleries/DesigningIntelligence.php
- ↑ Allen, Ron C., "FAU exhibit applies art and intellect to the theory of intelligent design," South Florida Sun-Sentinel, February 5, 2009, http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpfauevents0205pnfeb05,0,6972452.story
- ↑ Chambers, Christopher Hart, "Hot Tattoos on Graphics Action at Brooklyn Gallery," 1mdb.com, March 20, 2009, http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0717725/
- ↑ Kaufman, Lauren, "Re-digesting Kitsch," NYARTSmagazine, April, 2009, http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=632427&Itemid=25
- ↑ NY ART BEAT, "D. Dominick Lombardi: Toyota VS Godzilla," http://nyartbeat.com/event/2009/41B0
- ↑ Hidden Worlds
- ↑ http://www.lehman.edu/vpadvance/artgallery/gallery/AAAUnder_Influence_Checklist.HTM
- ↑ http://media.icompendium.com/ddlombar_articleUndertheInfluenceatLehman.pdf
- ↑ http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/acalendar/EventList.aspx?fromdate=2/4/2014&todate=2/17/2014&display=&type=public&eventidn=6633&view=EventDetails&information_id=17995
- ↑ http://media.icompendium.com/ddlombar_sculpturemagazinereview.pdf
- ↑ http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/dominick-lombardi-housatonic-museum-art/1974
- ↑ http://www.zingmagazine.com/issue20/keller.html
- 1 2 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/d-dominick-lombardi/
- ↑ http://kimfostergallery.com/d-dominick-lombardi/
- ↑ Goddard, Dan R., "New York artist D. Dominick Lombardi said his 10-year survey show is "like walking around inside my head.", ART BEAT, February 11, 2008,
- ↑ Wilson, Michael, "D. Dominick Lombardi's drawings and sculptures create imaginary mutations in which incongruous components are forced together and familiar icons are warped beyond recognition." "Review: Apocalyptic Pop," Time Out New York, January 15–21, 2009, page 53, http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/art/70460/apocalyptic-pop
- ↑ Morgan, Robert C., "whitehot | December 2009, D. Dominick Lombardi @ The Housatonic Museum of Art," http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/dominick-lombardi-housatonic-museum-art/1974
- ↑ http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/17721-d-dominick-lombardi?tab=REVIEWS
- ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E7D91031F932A35756C0A9639C8B63
- ↑ Pendergast’s Private World
- ↑ The New York Times, 5/1/2005, WE section p.8 "The Colors of Nature, The Lines of Mathematics"
- ↑ http://bosicontemporary.com/exhibition-detail/26.html
- ↑ http://culturecatch.com/art/head-bosi-contemporary
- ↑ http://www.rauschenberggallery.com/2013/11/2013-exhibition-archives/
- ↑ http://www.hcc.commnet.edu/info/news/press/2013/0522_eyeonthestorm.asp
- ↑ http://www.artesmagazine.com/2013/07/housatonic-museum-of-art-exhibits-eye-on-the-storm/
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/events/348968301795043/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1rnH0wsTU
- ↑ http://www.ablefineartny.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=g02_b06&wr_id=70&page=3
- ↑ http://culturecatch.com/art/monkey-spoon
- ↑ http://www.artexperiencenyc.com/monkey-spoon/
- ↑ http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=4492
- ↑ http://www.artcritical.com/listing/anonymous-curated-by-d-dominick-lombardi/
- ↑ http://media.icompendium.com/ddlombar_culturecatchAnonymousreview.pdf