Beautiful Little Rapture,2024
Beautiful Little Rapture,2024 (Detail)
Beautiful Little Rapture,2024 (Detail)
Heaven Inside Me,2023
Heaven Inside Me,2023 (Detail)
Heaven Inside Me,2023 (Detail)
The Pledge,2023
The Glare,2023
The Return,2023
Julian Lombardi: Beautiful Little Rapture at The Something Machine, Bellport, New York, 2024
Julian Lombardi’s position on biomorphic abstraction points to the genre’s capacity for redemption, agency and psychosocial awareness. Lombardi leans into his sub- and unconscious to create distinct protean forms that commingle within uncanny land- and dreamscapes. Lombardi’s inquest into Surrealism allows for sensuous color and rapturous painterliness to reveal our nuanced relationships to the complicated present.
While Lombardi’s practice draws from his deep understanding of painting’s histories, his signature vocabulary offers Abstraction in the present tense where beholders are offered an opportunity to think through the complexities of contemporary life.
- Jeffrey Uslip
Curator, United States Pavilion, 2026 La Biennale di Venezia
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