Exhibit: D. Dominick Lombardi's "Hidden Worlds"
D. Dominick Lombardi calls this body of work "Hidden Worlds," a viewing experience ripe with contradictions and complexity. Curated by David Gibson.
These sandy surfaced scamps reveal all and hide nothing. They are, after all, sculptures intended to be viewed in the round. From every vantage point their smooth plastic innards make themselves known, while their crusty skin serves as a foil to the panoply of detritus.
Lombardi's materials are the message of this dicey figurative work. It's all texture, color, and gestural hi-jinks at first glance. At once, Lombardi's figures draw us in with their formal delights, charm us with their familiar plastic leftovers, disarm us with their rounded limbs and cherubic grins and then, without warning, it is as if these scamps slide up and whisper in our ear that perhaps we just may be fiddling while Rome burns (or is buried in an insurmountable mountain of consumer cast-offs).
Opening Reception: March 30, 4-6pm.
