This year, Lupo Lorenzelli presents a group exhibition at Untitled Miami that celebrates the power of proximity, dialogue, and friendship in the making of contemporary painting. The project brings together four artists: Cayetano Sanz de Santamaría, Julian Lombardi, Gus Monday, and Shane Keisuke Berkery who, over the past year, have shared the same studio in London. What began as a practical arrangement evolved into an ecosystem of exchange, influence, and mutual growth. Their studio became not only a site of production but a space of conversation, critique, and everyday companionship, almost a family.
Although each artist speaks from a distinct visual and cultural background, with Cayetano from Bogotá, Shane from Tokyo and Dublin, Julian from Philadelphia, and Gus from London by way of South Africa, their practices have begun to resonate across shared questions of perception, form, and the psychological dimension of image making. The booth at Untitled Miami will echo this environment, part exhibition and part reimagined studio, evoking the layered intimacy of a space where thought and gesture intertwine.
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Kearsey and Gold is pleased to present Unstable Grounds, an exhibition that unites the paintings of contemporary artists Julian Lombardi (b.1996, Philadelphia) and Shane Keisuke Berkery (b.1992, Tokyo) in dialogue with Frank Auerbach, James Brooks, R.B Kitaj, Markus Lüpertz, Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland.
Shane Keisuke Berkery is a contemporary Irish-Japanese painter with an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art. Berkery utilises photography, drawing and digitally manipulated compositions to create paintings that blur the boundaries between past and present, intertwining art history with personal, familial and cultural histories. This manifests in complex visual imagery that defy linear narratives. This complexity represents the strangeness of our world whilst acting as a meditation on Berkery’s unconscious mind.
Julian Lombardi is an American painter from Philadelphia and currently based in London. Lombardi earned his MA in painting from the Royal College of Art. Lombardi utilises abstract forms that delve into the spatialisation of psychological and sensory experiences. Lombardi’s visual language is marked by gestural lines, protean forms, and vivid passages of colour, often incorporating tubular motifs.
During a residency with Kearsey & Gold, Lombardi has developed a process that incorporates digital manipulations into the painting process. He begins with a background of gestural mark making and passages of colour; this background is digitised and manipulated to create a series of layers that serve as the framework for the midground and foreground. A deliberate painterliness underlies the digitally manipulated forms that reminds us that within the interconnectivity, integration of AI and distortion of information we are still human - albeit in a faster and more fraught world.
The inclusion of works by Auerbach, Brooks, Kitaj, Lüpertz, Moore and Sutherland draws parallels to Berkery and Lombardi’s psychological fragmentations in their attempt to negotiate a changing world. In the 20th century the context was a post-war climate marked by displacement and loss. To rebuild - and to make sense of a new world - there was a fundamental need to materialise their battles, both personal and collective, through innovative approaches to subject, forms, and figure. Berkery and Lombardi continue this approach in our own time. Specifically, in relation to the ever-growing grip of technology and its effects on human subjectivity.
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L.U.P.O. Lorenzelli Projects marks a new milestone with a double exhibition coinciding with Milano Art Week, while also celebrating the inauguration of its new exhibition space in Milan’s Isola district. The opening of the new exhibition space in Isola marks a significant expansion for L.U.P.O., enabling the creation of more intricate and immersive exhibitions and installations, further establishing the gallery as a platform for experimentation in contemporary art scene.
The exhibition brings together Fabien Adèle, Gus Monday, and Julian Lombardi, three artists who explore the boundaries of perception and spatial experience. Their works inhabit a fluid territory where memory, imagination, and cultural constructs intertwine, creating ever-shifting visual landscapes. Each artist, in his own way, destabilises the boundaries between subject and environment, reality and abstraction, allowing open-ended and elusive narratives to emerge.
Nowhere To Be
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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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