NYAB Event - Lynette Lombard "New Paintings"

Lynette Lombard "New Paintings"

Bowery Gallery

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Lynette Lombard's new work focuses on expansive views of the Spanish and Midwestern landscape. Each painting presents multiple points of view while maintaining sensations of rising, falling and twisting terrain. Idiosyncratic geometries and chromatic light build a weighted, visceral experience of place. Lombard incorporates Max Beckmann's stacked spaces with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's pulsating color relationships. Together these influences allow her color and drawing structure to make land masses compress against each other while water and sky stretch into open expanses.

All land is charged with history. Currently, the artist is most engaged in land at the crossroads—the mouth of the Mediterranean, a land historically inhabited by Jews, Arabs and Christians, which is now either abandoned scrub grass with gigantic boulders or dotted with irrigation ponds and new citrus orchards carved into the desert. It's a land in transition. In contrast, the Midwestern landscapes are painted from inside looking out into an urban space, where moments of nature are squeezed between tarmac and concrete. These paintings of trees, cars and snow banks sometimes eliminate the foreground, so the viewer falls into a destabilizing space.

As a landscape painter, Lombard works directly from the motif, evoking a primal sense of confrontation and connection. She finds plastic, rhythmic organic forms within pictorial tensions. She is interested in a slow unfolding as an image opens up and allows for a space of contemplation where sensations and memories merge, and meanings revealed.