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\u201cTemple Tomb Fortress Ruin<\/a>,\u201d an exhibition of paintings by John Wellington, is at the Lodge Gallery through March 5. Wellington embraces the formal tactics\u00a0of the old masters to depict a bleak, surreal, new world order\u2014seemingly both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western\u2014animated above all by a kind of perverted militarism. His work fixates, as his gallery writes, on \u201clost worlds, passing empires, false prophets, unlikely heroes, and the allure of idolatry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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John Wellington, You and Me<\/i>, 2009, oil and copper leaf on aluminum, 68″ x 48″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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THIS IS A COMEDY<\/i>, 2010, oil and aluminum leaf on aluminum, 48″ x 28.25″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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PROPHETE<\/i>, 2011, oil on wood panel, 48″ diameter.<\/p><\/div>\n

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COME NEARER THE FIRE<\/i>, 2008, oil and copper leaf on aluminum, 75″ x 48″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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BATHING DIANA (with guards)<\/i>, 2013, oil on aluminum, 30″ x 48″.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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