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Celebrating Pride Month 🌈, I 🩷 LA is a group exhibition of contemporary queer art. It is a gratitude letter, authored to acknowledge the historical, political lineage and creative influences emerging out of shared kinship. On view in Los Angeles, June 4 - June 30. ⁠⁠Michael Lombardo creates paintings that draw from the material culture, objects, and visual remnants of the American West and Great Plains. His works weave regional references with personal recollection, rendering both fleeting moments and treasured heirlooms in enlarged, meticulously detailed compositions.⁠⁠Emmy, 2026⁠Oil on linen⁠14 x 12 inches⁠35.6 x 30.5 cm⁠⁠@michael_lombardo by @michael_lombardo

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California Poppy V, 2026Graphite on paper5 x 3.25 in | 13 x 8.5 cmCalifornia Poppy VI, 2026Graphite on paper5 x 3.25 in | 13 x 8.5 cmCalifornia Poppy IV, 2026Graphite on paper5 x 3.25 in | 13 x 8.5 cm#californiapoppy#michaellombardo by @michael_lombardo

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Satin Scarf, 2026 Oil on linen 17 x 13.5 in | 43.2 x 34.3 cm#painting#motherofpearl #michaellombardo by @michael_lombardo

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California Poppy I, 2026Graphite on paper5 x 3.25 in | 13 x 8.5 cmCalifornia Poppy II, 2026Graphite on paper5 x 3.25 in | 13 x 8.5 cmCalifornia Poppy III, 2026Graphite on paper5 x 3.25 in | 13 x 8.5 cm#californiapoppy#motherofpearl #michaellombardo by @michael_lombardo

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Closing today at Cob Gallery: Mother of Pearl 84a Lamb’s Conduit St, WCIN 3LTMother of Pearl, 2026Oil on linen with dirt8.25 x 5.5 in. | 21 x 14 cm#painting #motherofpearl #michaellombardo by @michael_lombardo

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El Pecos, 2026 Oil on linen 18 x 16 in. | 45.7 x 40.6 cm by @michael_lombardo

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Michael Lombardo | Mother of Pearl | Until 30 May Cob Gallery presents ‘Mother of Pearl’, the UK debut of Los Angeles–based artist Michael Lombardo.Bringing together new paintings and drawings, the exhibition explores memory, belief, and material through recurring motifs of shells, flowers, and fabric. Drawing on references to the American West, Panama, and Lombardo’s religious upbringing, the works blur the boundaries between image and object, surface and place.Paintings of pearl-snap cowboy shirts and band T-shirts bearing country and western icons extend this logic of figuration through fabric. Enlarged and rendered with devotional attention, these garments operate as contemporary icons, images worn against the skin, where identity, belief, and longing are held in tension.Across the paintings of silk and satin, Lombardo’s attention turns to surfaces that are inherently unstable, light-responsive, reflective, and difficult to fix. Highlights slide across the painted fabric, producing moments where image and abstraction become indistinguishable. A recurring motif is the satin scarf associated with Panamanian military culture, its sheen and drape rendered with heightened sensitivity. Here, material carries contradictory associations, softness and authority, intimacy and display. The surface does not settle, but flickers between legibility and dissolution. Across the exhibition, Lombardo situates figuration within the language of abstraction, allowing fabric, creased, folded, and marked by use, to become the ground on which the sacred and the everyday briefly coincide.Michael LombardoEl Pecos, 2026Oil on linen45.7 x 40.6 cm18 x 16 inMichael LombardoSatin Scarf, 2026Oil on linen43.2 x 34.3 cm17 x 13 1/2 in by @michael_lombardo

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Michael Lombardo | Mother of Pearl | Until 30 May Cob Gallery presents ‘Mother of Pearl’, the UK debut of Los Angeles–based artist Michael Lombardo.Bringing together new paintings and drawings, the exhibition explores memory, belief, and material through recurring motifs of shells, flowers, and fabric. Drawing on references to the American West, Panama, and Lombardo’s religious upbringing, the works blur the boundaries between image and object, surface and place.Using textiles and Oklahoma red dirt embedded directly into the works, Lombardo creates paintings that feel both devotional and deeply personal. A series of irregular, cut-out canvases reject the traditional rectangular frame, allowing the paintings to take on a sculptural presence where memory and material converge.Michael LombardoPillowcase I, 2026Oil on linen43.2 x 44.5 cm17 x 17 1/2 inMichael LombardoMother of Pearl, 2026Oil on linen with dirt21 x 14 cm8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in by @michael_lombardo

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Michael Lombardo | Mother of Pearl | 10 - 30 May Cob Gallery is pleased to present ‘Mother of Pearl’ the UK debut of Los Angeles–based artist Michael Lombardo. Lombardo’s practice attends closely to material culture and the visual languages of place. Born in Panama and raised in Oklahoma, he moves between these geographies not as fixed identities, but as overlapping systems of memory, belief, and perception. Drawing from personal archives and lived experience, Lombardo paints objects shaped by use and proximity, including flora and fauna, garments, textiles, and keepsakes. Rendered with careful precision, these forms accrue emotional and symbolic weight, held close to the body and marked by touch.Michael LombardoLavie Lee, 2026Oil on linen22.9 x 17.8 cm9 x 7 in by @michael_lombardo

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Cob Gallery is proud to present the UK debut of Los Angeles–based artist Michael Lombardo. His work explores material culture, memory, and place through intimate depictions of garments and keepsakes. Drawing on his upbringing in Panama and Oklahoma, Lombardo transforms textiles into emotionally resonant images in which personal history, regional identity, and devotional symbolism intersect. In Mother of Pearl, fabric becomes both subject and surface, positioning the everyday as a quiet site of reverence where abstraction and figuration meet.Michael Lombardo | Mother of Pearl 10 - 30 May Opening Saturday 9 May, 5-8pm84a Lamb’s Conduit St, London, WC1N 3LTMichael LombardoEl Pecos, 2026Oil on linen45.7 x 40.6 cm18 x 16 in by @michael_lombardo

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“The Plume” on view at Overduin & Co. Feb 24 - Apr 4, 20266693 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028Featuring:Susan CiancioloGina FischliCaitlin KeoghMichael LombardoVioleta MayaShin Okuda by @michael_lombardo

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Rose II, 2026Oil on linen 7.25 x 8.25 in. | 18.415 x 20.955 cmOn view in “The Plume” at Overduin & Co.February 24th - April 4th, 2026#rose#painting#michaellombardo by @michael_lombardo

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