Multiverse

Multiverse focuses on the recognition, conscious or subconscious, and interpretation of the concept of the multiverse in contemporary visual art. Featuring digital art from Europe and the Americas, juxtaposed with analog works by artists from the northeastern United States, Multiverse’s curator D. Dominick Lombardi gives visitors the opportunity to see and discuss previously unimagined possibilities.

Curator’s statement: For this exhibition, I have selected a number of artists from a variety of countries and diverse cultural settings. Each artist presents their unique interpretation of the multiverse through digital data that is printed locally. These prints are juxtaposed with contributions from Northeastern U.S. artists offering analog works such as collage, painting, assemblage and sculpture. Visitors see throughout the exhibition striking imagery, some with familiar references, while other works are much harder to unscramble. This is fitting for such an exhibition as the concept of the multiverse, with the potential of as many as eleven dimensions predicted by theoretical physicists, is extremely difficult to grasp.

Physicists have been speculating that there are numerous, parallel universes for well over a century, beliefs that are gaining more and more recognition and acceptance outside the sciences through recent films like Everything Everywhere All At Once directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, or contemporary science fiction novels such as The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson. Still others, like myself, look with great interest to how the conscious or subconscious recognition or interpretation of the multiverse is leaving its mark on contemporary visual art.

D. Dominick Lombardi is an artist, art writer, and curator based in New York. A forty-five year retrospective of Lombardi’s art curated by T. Michael Martin has traveled across the United States. Lombardi’s writing credits include the New Art Examiner, ARTnews, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Two Coats of Paint, Art in Asia, and The Huffington Post. Lombardi’s most recent international curatorial project, Altered Logistics: Contemporary Collage and Appropriation Art, was held at the Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland.

Multiverse Artists

Adios from Everywhere  (New York) 

Oscar Rodríguez Amado (Mexico)

Erick Baltodano  (Peru)

Susana Blasco (Spain) 

Todd Colby (Massachusetts/ New York)

Vincent Dion (Connecticut)  

Leslie Giuliani

Alexander Makiolke (Portugal)

T. Michael Martin (Kentucky)

Max-O-Matic (Spain) 

Susan Meyer (New York)  

Eric Nord (Colorado) 

Maggie Nowinski (Massachusetts) 

Alicia Renadette (Rhode Island) 

Jeff Starr (New York)  

Pierre St Jacques (Canada)

Juan Sebastian Uribe (Columbia)

Lydia Viscardi  (Connecticut)  

Allison Lu Wang  (California)

Martin Weinstein  (New York)