D. Dominick Lombardi and Kenneth Marchione

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January 7- February 12, 2005  Branchville Gallery  Ridgefield, CT This exhibit was reviewed in The Stamford Advocate and Art New England. Lisa Paul Streitfeld in the April/May 2005 issue of Art New England writes, "These two artists/curators/educators establish a timely and essential dialogue regarding the very form by which pop surrealism explodes with the messiness of human emotion; a new dynamism of beauty incorporating the shadow of the grotesque is created...Marchione uses Ophelia, the doomed archetypal female in Shakespeare's Hamlet as a launching point for an exploration evolving interior space....Lombardi's post-apocalyptic mutant Heads packs a visceral punch via the transformations suggested by its theme.In the completed arc of this highly evolved and self-contained narrative series of paintings, sculpture, and india ink drawings on the human head, the surface has been stripped away until the viewer is confronted with a ravaged brain bent on cannibalizing itself for expression..."
top image;Marchione  bottom image ; Lombardi