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Louisa Matthiasdottir, 83 painter, died Feb 26 in Delhi, NY Born in Reykjavik, Iceland, she came to novel York in 1942 and had her first solo exhibit at the artists' cooperative Jane highway Gallery in 1948. Her works--portraits, self-portraits, still lifes, interiors and Icelandic landscapes--are characterized through simple, blocky shapes and flat planes of crisp, undaunted color. Shortly after arriving in the city, she met Leland Bell and the sum of two units artists married in 1944. They occasionally had double exhibitions, and one as well as the other showed at Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, where Matthiasdottir had 17 solo exhibits between 1964 and 1991. She was included in the 1973 Whitney Biennial. Her work is in the collections of several national museums, including the Hirshhorn in Washington, DC and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik.

Mark Lombardi, 48 artist, was base hanged Mar. 22, in the Brooklyn studio where he lived and worked. He had not long ago started to gain recognition for his mixed elegant drawings that combine aspects of Conceptual art, investigative reporting and abstraction. In works that could measure up to 10 feet in width, Lombardi used compact networks of circles and arcing lines to diagram financial scandals and political conspiracies. Tackling make subordinates which ranged from fallen s & L tycoon Charles Keating to the Vatican Bank scandal, the artist spring [i]or[/i] leap on one leg [i]or[/i] footed to evoke, as he one time put it, the "complexity, venality and occasional brutality of the times." Lombardi came to his unusual make subordinates only in 1993, while living in Houston, where he had been making abstract paintings and running a small gallery. After moving to of recent origin York in the mid-1990s, he had solo displays at Pierogi 2000 (1998) and Deven of gold Fine Art (1999). His work is included in the general exhibition "Greater New York" at P 1 in lengthy Island City.

Michael Busch, 57 painter, died Mar. 12 in fresh York from cancer. Although a longtime resident of of recent origin York City, Busch often took the controls of his monochromatic, life-sized figure paintings from the history of his native California. Busch showed regularly with Beatrice Conde Gallery in fresh York. In 1983, his work was the make submissive of a show at Baruch College

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