Space is a dominant organising principle that structures the way we experience the world around us. It plays out in the architectures that contextualise and inform embodied experience while also serving as a framework through which we arrange our inner lives. Our relationship to space is intimate, particular, and shaped as much by our psychology as our physicality.
Through closed eyes, darkly brings together three London-based artists who cultivate distinct treatments of space within their practices: Julian Lombardi, Shane Keisuke Berkery and Gus Monday. Referencing the Biblical idiom ‘through a glass, darkly’ and Phillip K. Dick’s 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly, the title of the exhibition describes how our perception of reality is imperfect and inevitably shaped by our own subjectivities. In paintings and works on paper, Berkery, Lombardi and Monday dissolve representational boundaries between internal and external experience, fusing autobiography and collective consciousness, sensation and observation, memory and encounter to explore how the complexities of human experience might be given form through artmaking.
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L.U.P.O. is thrilled to present the third edition of Summer Fling, a collective exhibition celebrating the broad perspective of the contemporary art scene, featuring works by Margaret Ayres, Laurena Fineus, Julian Lombardi, Gus Monday, Katherine Qiyu Su, and Maya Weishof.
Julian Lombardi artistic journey has led him to explore forgotten languages, enigmatic narratives, and the untamed essence of the jungle. Julian explores the intersection of technology and visual language, tracing a path from ancient scripts to modern digital interfaces.
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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.
Julian Lombardi (b. 1996 Philadelphia, USA) currently lives and works in London.
- Jeffrey Uslip
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Arusha Gallery is pleased to present Palimpsestic Impressions curated by Danny Leyland with work by Dannielle Hodson, Cayetano Sanz de Santamaria, Billy Crosby, Albie Romero, Xanthe Burdett, Gus Monday, Julian Lombardi, Danny Leyland, Tobias Francis, Shane Keisuke Berkery, Beth Cowey, Hiromi Murai, Lihong Bai and Sean Davidson
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