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Graphite Conspiracies at the AGO
Torontoist had the opportunity to attend an AGO lecture on the late artist Mark Lombardi a month ago that involved no artspeak, and lots of interesting ideas (usually accompanied by wildly gesticulating arms, and far too many bangled bracelets). The show, Mark Lombardi: Global Networks is at the AGO til December 5th, and TORONTOIST thinks its well worth the trek. Lombardi, who conspiracy theorists wil claim was murdered for what his careful drawings unearthed, was a painstaking artists, one who kept over 14,000 flashcards of important people, and worked on his huge drawings sitting on the floor, resource materials spread all around him. NPR has a neat photo gallery of Lombardi’s drawings here. The NYC gallery Pierogi (yes, pierogi.) also presented a Lombardi show in 2000.