Michael Lombardo (b. 1990, Norman, Oklahoma) makes paintings that depict objects and ephemera associated with the American West and the Great Plains. Regional references and allusions to memory appear across his body of work, capturing fleeting moments and significant heirlooms carefully rendered in his highly detailed and magnified compositions. Traces of landscape appear throughout, charging …
Michael Lombardo (b. 1990, Norman, Oklahoma) makes paintings that depict objects and ephemera associated with the American West and the Great Plains. Regional references and allusions to memory appear across his body of work, capturing fleeting moments and significant heirlooms carefully rendered in his highly detailed and magnified compositions. Traces of landscape appear throughout, charging the canvases with a keen sense of time and place. Red dirt, for example, unique to Oklahoma’s iron-rich soil, is collected from Lombardo’s visits back to his birth state, providing not just a formal …
