Marla Lombard

Education and activities

Biography

Marla Lombard is an abstract painter who works acrylic paint, ink, pigment, and dyes into an alchemy of layered color and texture on small panels.

Marla has exhibited across the U.S. from New York to Hawaii. Her work can be found in private, corporate and institutional collections in the U.S., and in Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Spain and Switzerland.

She has a BA with emphasis in cinematography from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. She worked in the art world in different capacities: as an art consultant, for a contemporary conceptual gallery and for private collectors.

Her passion for the study of art culminated at Christie's Fine Art Auctioneers, New York, as Assistant Vice President, Old Master Paintings. A constant parade of fine art at Christie’s was the ultimate visual joy and teacher.

Marla lives at the beach in Southern California.

Exhibitions

Selected Solo / 2 Person Exhibitions

2006 “Depth in Surface,” 47 paintings by Marla Lombard, Ilona Miko, photographs,
The Seed Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
2003 “Omnia Volant: All Things Fly, Images by Marla Lombard,” Kapi’olani Community College,
The University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI
2002     Featured Artist: Marla Lombard,” The City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA

Recent Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 “Lush and Radiant,” Galerie Califia, Horazdovice, Czech Republik
Ampersand Artist Gallery (online) ongoing, Ampersand Art Supply, Austin, TX
2008 “Darkness,” Koa Gallery, Kapi’olani Community College,The University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI
Artists Space, New York, NY
McCaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art 101 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Tribal Spears Gallery, NY, NY
Sacred Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
McLeod Family Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 “MMMVIII Koa Gallery, Kapi’olani Community College, The University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI
First Street Gallery, Claremont, CA
City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
2005    “Dreaming of Color,” Koa Gallery, Kapi’lolani Community College,The University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI
2004    “Campaign Works,” Long Beach, CA
“Exposure 2004,” Hellada Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2003    “MMMVI,” Koa Gallery, Kapi’olani Community College, The University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI
            “Downtown Arts,” Hawai’i Consortium for the Arts, Honolulu, HI
            “Exposure 2003,” Hellada Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2002    “Transformation,” dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
“Art Benefits Life,” Life Skills Lab, Los Angeles, CA
2001    “Art, Transformation and Healing,” dA Center for the Arts,Pomona, CA
            “Made in California, The City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
1999    Christie’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Staff Exhibit, New York, NY
    “Brooklyn Artists,” The Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

   
Television
2002    Director Sydney Pollack, Dell Computer,
image enlarged to backdrop, 2 nationwide commercials

Publications
“Art Auction for Haiti,” News, CAW, Caribbean Art World Magazine, January 29, 2010
Elise D’Haene, “The Art Scene,” The East Hampton Star, East Hampton, NY, January 28, 2010
Boltax Gallery, “Art Auction for Haiti Catalog,” New York, NY, January 28, 2010
Landes, Jennifer, “Art Auction for Haiti,” The East Hampton Star, East Hampton, NY, January 26, 2010
Scarborough, James, “Depth in Surface, Marla Lombard,” What the Butler Saw, May 2006
Sperry, Nancy, “State of the Art,” Star-Progress section, The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA,
Thursday, January 11, 2001

Education
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
B.A., Communication Arts, emphasis cinematography

Selected Institutional & Corporate Collections
Maximon Pictures, New York, NY
Rootwork Studio, Los Angeles, CA
The Seed Gallery, O.C., CA
Kapi’olani Community College, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI

Private Collector Locations
United States and Europe

My favourites

Artist

Paintings and drawings 1600 to present.
El Greco, Jan van Huysum, Guardi, all the Tiepolos, Tomas Hiepes, Arcimboldo, Magritte, Leonora Carrington, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Tansey, Ross Bleckner, Suzanne Unrein