Shaky Ground Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC January 8–February 14, 2016
It is traditionally assumed that the art object is a record of history, whether the history of the artist, of its time, or merely an object left over after the fall of a civilization. While the writing of a period is open to the influence of retelling, interpretation, or the vagaries of translation, the visual object, by its very nature, promises us the stability of meaning inherent in its "objectness." How, then, in an age where perpetual war, disintegrating environmental conditions, and rapidly accelerating technologies, do we expect our artworks to function? What kinds of anxious objects will best represent to future generations our story? D. Dominick Lombardi poses these questions, and a group of artists at Lesley Heller’s Workspace seek to answer them in the exhibition Shaky Ground.
Lombardi’s choice of artists is interesting.
It is traditionally assumed that the art object is a record of history, whether the history of the artist, of its time, or merely an object left over after the fall of a civilization. While the writing of a period is open to the influence of retelling, interpretation, or the vagaries of translation, the visual object, by its very nature, promises us the stability of meaning inherent in its "objectness." How, then, in an age where perpetual war, disintegrating environmental conditions, and rapidly accelerating technologies, do we expect our artworks to function? What kinds of anxious objects will best represent to future generations our story? D. Dominick Lombardi poses these questions, and a group of artists at Lesley Heller’s Workspace seek to answer them in the exhibition Shaky Ground.
Lombardi’s choice of artists is interesting.
- 1/14/2016
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Head: Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi Hamden Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst October 18 - November 12, 2015
Head, a group show being held at the University of Massachusetts’ Hampden Gallery, is being curated by D. Dominick Lombardi from October 18 to November 12. The exhibition, which features the diverse work of 20 artists, as well as the collaborative work of the twelve artist Outside-the-Line Collective, embarks on a mesmerizing visual tour of the head as an evolving object in contemporary art. A far cry from the arbitrary identity marker of early portraiture, Head demonstrates the head as an indistinguishable entity capable of broad symbolic meaning.
One of my favorite pieces is the life-size stoneware sculpture, “Wolf Woman” (2013) by Northampton based artist, Cynthia Consentino. In this stunning work, a life-size, bone white mannequin body is cast the grimacing head of a wolf, which plucks petals ominously from an enormous yellow flower. Beside it, “Wolf Girl III...
Head, a group show being held at the University of Massachusetts’ Hampden Gallery, is being curated by D. Dominick Lombardi from October 18 to November 12. The exhibition, which features the diverse work of 20 artists, as well as the collaborative work of the twelve artist Outside-the-Line Collective, embarks on a mesmerizing visual tour of the head as an evolving object in contemporary art. A far cry from the arbitrary identity marker of early portraiture, Head demonstrates the head as an indistinguishable entity capable of broad symbolic meaning.
One of my favorite pieces is the life-size stoneware sculpture, “Wolf Woman” (2013) by Northampton based artist, Cynthia Consentino. In this stunning work, a life-size, bone white mannequin body is cast the grimacing head of a wolf, which plucks petals ominously from an enormous yellow flower. Beside it, “Wolf Girl III...
- 10/20/2015
- by Jillian Burkett
- www.culturecatch.com
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