Exhibition Dates: November 26 – December 28, 2024

Opening Reception: Thurs, December 5, 2024, 5PM-8PM

Closing Reception: Sat, December 28, 2PM-3:30pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11PM-6PM

Bowery Gallery is pleased to present In Awe, an exhibition of the last landscape drawings and paintings by Lynette Lombard. This is Lombard’s final solo exhibition at Bowery Gallery, which has represented her work since 2005.  

Lombard’s career spanned more than five decades.  Perceptually driven landscape painting was the heart of her body of work for past 30 years.  Reflecting on her passion for painting place, Lombard said: “ The process of manifesting a landscape into paint takes me outside of myself into a physical and perceptual world of immense complexity, astonishing magnificence, and awe.”

In February 2022, one month before her most recent solo show at the Bowery Gallery, Lombard underwent brain surgery and received a terminal diagnosis. Drawing became her focus and her anchor for healing and self-expression. From the moment she left the hospital in Chicago, she was driven to create colored crayon drawings of the natural world she was inhabiting and witnessing. During 2022 and ’23, Lombard made drawings of Lake Michigan, various sites in Chicago, a final-cut lake at Green Oaks, Galesburg, and New York’s Ashokan Reservoir.  These drawings were a continuation of an artistic practice, in which, she explained, she “….became consumed by intervals, spatial fluxes, slipping forms and sky, but also by the tremendous complexity in the way nature is organized.” A few paintings included in the exhibition were started before Lombard’s illness, but completed in late 2022. 

Lynette Lombard is represented by Bowery Gallery in New York, Confluence Collective in Spain, the Midwest Paint Group, and Seven on Site, a group of American landscape painters. She has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Mojacar, Spain, La Barquilla Gallery, Sorbas Spain and The Figge Museum, Davenport, Iowa. Her work has been reviewed by Lance Esplund (NYSS), by John Goodrich in Painting Perceptions, in Louis Finkelstein’s Fragments of a Language on Painting at the New York Studio School, and elsewhere. Recent publications about her work include “Palpable Stakes: Paintings by Lynette Lombard,” a catalogue essay by Jennifer Samet, and “Unexpected Connections: Lynette Lombard in conversation with Ying Li and Deborah Kirklin,” in Zeuxis.  Her website is lynettelombard.com.