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Lydia Viscardi of Connecticut brilliantly mixes metaphors that both dig deep and expand exponentially. Using both the familiar and the otherworldly, Viscardi presents a new take on how we develop as human beings, how we cope with life’s ups and downs, and where we are and what we may believe in. In the end, it’s about that sweet spot between heaven and Home Depot, being grounded or lost, or pining for some place just out of reach, where fantasy and reality coalesce.
D. Dominick Lombardi, curator, Altered Logistic: Redux, UMass
Dart International Magazine, Aug 2024
Hudson Valley MoCA
Hudson Valley MoCA, Peekskill, NY
group show Feb. 1 - May 3, 2025
Niveous Mix, 2022
acrylic and collage with vintage hand-crafted textile mounted to panel
47 1/2” x 47 x 2”
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Dart International Magazine, August 15, 2024, Altered Logistics: Redux by D. Dominick Lombardi
Antiques & The Arts Weekly, Feb. 17, 2023, Lydia Viscardi & Rita Valley Showcased - CAMP Gallery Announces ‘The Not So Silent Witnesses’ Exhibition
WPKN radio interview, 89.5FM, Jan. 24, 2023, Jim Motavalli's show, 89.5 FM
Hartford Courant, Section 4, Arts & Living, July 10, 2022, Connecticut museums and galleries offering exhibits, pictured: “Maybe Hereafter” by Lydia Viscardi
Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Sept. 8, 2021, Heaven, Hell, And What Lies Between, by Susan Rand Brown
The Newtown Bee, Friday, July 9, 2021, Viscardi Celebrating Solo Exhibition in Hartford: Opening Reception July 15
WPKN radio interview, Live Culture with Martha Willette Lewis, June 26, 2021, 89.5FM, WPKN
Art Spiel Contemporary Art and Culture, Sept. 9, 2020, Here and Hereafter – Lydia Viscardi at Five Points Gallery, by Eliot Markell
Connecticut Post, Aug. 30, 2020, Arts and Style, Confronting our Mortality, Amanda Cuda
CT Insider, Aug. 31, 2020, Newtown artist’s show focuses on ‘Here and Hereafter’, Amanda Cuda
Waterbury's Republican American, Aug. 28, 2020, Five Points, four shows: Exhibits range from abstract to mixed media, Alarson
New Haven Register, Aug. 18, 2020, Five Points Gallery show features works by Lydia Viscardi, Staff reports
The Register Citizen, Aug. 18.2020, Five Points Gallery show features works by Lydia Viscardi, Staff reports
Voices, Aug. 26, 2020,: Newtown Artist showcased at Five Points Gallery
Art Spiel Contemporary Art and Culture, Nov. 30, 2018, Las Gravitas at ODETTA, Sharilyn Neidhardt
Connecticut Post, Art Bonanza at UB Gallery, Nov. 5, 2015 https://twitter.com/hyperallergic/status/473257044783669248
http://artsinbushwick.org/bos2014/directory/seeking-space/
Bushwick Daily, June 4, 2014, Fashion in Art: Check Out These Stylish Works from BOS
Balanced Rock: The North Salem Review of Art, Literature and Photography, Vol. I, 2013, Mouse that Flies, Concklin’s Orchard Southeast View
Mother-musing.com – Interview http://mother-musing.com/blog/2012/08/11/lydia-viscardi-rooms-in-the-house/
Culture Catch, http://www.culturecatch.com /art/dem-bones, by Margaret Roleke, November 10, 2009
Newtown Bee, https://www.newtownbee.com/05112007/migration-features-works-by-lydia-viscardi-and-thuan-vu/?q=Lydia%20Viscardi
Dan’s Papers, “Lydia Viscardi at Blue Heron”, Jan.14, 2005
The Journal News, Small Scale, Self Portrait as Mary Cassatt, oil and collage on panel,, Sept. 6, 2001
Newsday, The Arts & Entertainment, Art Review, “Images of Spring and Summer”, June 14, 1983.
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Newsday, Art Review, “Prints of the Island”, Sept. 11, 1981