Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show. I'm going to talk about an artist. And the title of this talk that is about this artist is artist Mark Lombardi, evidentiary realism and a conspiracy so immense. And it's about an artist who passed away March 22nd 2000 he was born on

March 23rd 1951 and he was an American neo-conceptual artist who

specialized in drawings that document alleged financial and political frauds by

power brokers and the uses and abuses of power I would say that you can take

the alleged out of this bio

that I'm reading into the record.

He was born in Manliest New York just outside of Syracuse,

and he majored in art history at Syracuse University

and graduated with a BA in 1974.

He worked as a chief researcher while an undergrad

for a 1973 art exhibit about the teapot dome

state scandal also that led to Watergate so he was involved in kind of art as an art history major

in his undergrad career he moved to the contemporary art museum in Houston, Texas and became work there for two years until 1976.

So he was always kind of a researcher and librarian.

And he started a regional artist archive, wrote two books, one on drug wars, the other on panoramas, artistic panoramas.

He was also an abstract painter.

And in 1996, he moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he started this kind of new career,

where he started writing about his art.

He made these panoramic, sometimes large, some small,

but all these interconnecting dots of really what was happening,

kind of in the world of finance and government connections and political frauds.

And there were so many at that time in the 90s, 80s.

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