Below is a sampling of video installations. Please visit Mary Jo Lombardo's youttube channel to see other video work.
Watermelon
Video, 2010
Created in response to the theme "Summer" and juried into the Westport Arts Center's Group show, this piece is a lyrical and sensual look at one of the glories of summer, watermelon. Juror: Alexandra Munroe, Ph.D., Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
(Still from Watermelon, click photo to link to video)
Video, 2010
Created in response to the theme "Summer" and juried into the Westport Arts Center's Group show, this piece is a lyrical and sensual look at one of the glories of summer, watermelon. Juror: Alexandra Munroe, Ph.D., Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
(Still from Watermelon, click photo to link to video)
Ophelia
Video, 2010
Drowning in flowers while a voice over repeats lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet, this work references classical theatre, flower symbolism/imagery, the pre-Raphaelite painting "Ophelia" by John Millais, and funeral wreaths in an attempt to re-imagine the flower in contemporary art.
This piece was created as a response to a call for a new way to look at flowers in art, curated by Terri C. Smith. It premiered at the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, CT on June 17.
(Still from Ophelia, click photo to link to video)
Video, 2010
Drowning in flowers while a voice over repeats lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet, this work references classical theatre, flower symbolism/imagery, the pre-Raphaelite painting "Ophelia" by John Millais, and funeral wreaths in an attempt to re-imagine the flower in contemporary art.
This piece was created as a response to a call for a new way to look at flowers in art, curated by Terri C. Smith. It premiered at the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, CT on June 17.
(Still from Ophelia, click photo to link to video)
Midsummer
Video, 2013
A hallucinogenic version of Titania's dream inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This video was part of a site specific installation at the Nest Arts Factory in May, 2013.
(Still from Installation of Midsummer, click photo to link to video)
Video, 2013
A hallucinogenic version of Titania's dream inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This video was part of a site specific installation at the Nest Arts Factory in May, 2013.
(Still from Installation of Midsummer, click photo to link to video)
