Mark Lombardi - Definition and Overview

Mark Lombardi (1951 - 2000) was an American artist.

Lombardi is best known for his pencil diagrams of crime and conspiracy networks. His art is structurally similar to the Sociogram (http://moodle.ed.uiuc.edu/wiked/index.php/Sociogram) drawn in the field of social network analysis. The impact is very different, with elaborate and delicate spiderwebs illustrating networks of conspiracy.

Lombardi's drawings purport to document financial and political frauds by power brokers. His 1999 drawing, entitled George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens, ca 1979-90, shows the alleged connections between James Bath, the Bush and bin Laden families, and business deals in Texas and around the world.

After two highly successful solo art shows, Mark Lombardi died of suicide (hanging himself in his Williamsburg, New York studio) in March, 2000.

External link

• Mark Lombardi: Global Networks (http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00013J&topic_id=1), Independent Curators International