B I O

D A V I D L L O Y D

Born 1955, Los Angeles, CA

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

David Lloyd is a Los Angeles artist who describes his current work as exploring the sublime and the ridiculous in equal parts, a combination of “serious mysticism and f-d up pseudo-science” that comments on the overabundance of competing didactic languages in our current social and political landscape. Though primarily known as a painter, Lloyd incorporates a wide range of media in pursuit of his conceptual goals, ranging from collage, fiberglass and resin, monoprint, paint of a variety of kinds, xerox transfer, water based medium, spar varnish, dirt, and used synthetic boat sails.

Lloyd graduated with a BFA from CalArts in 1985, and began his career with a series of intelligent, near-humorous abstractions, turning towards the incorporation of imagistic referents several years later. He has shown in California at Klowden Mann, Otis College of Arts and Design, Margo Leavin Gallery, Gallery Paule Anglim and the Orange County Museum of Art, along with many others, as well Metro Pictures, and Milk Gallery in New York. His work has been written about extensively, and he is included in the collections of the Orange County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and the Getty.

Represented by Klowden Mann (click here to view gallery website)

Education

1985 B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts,

Solo Exhibitions

2020 Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles, California

2019 365 A Year of Drawing, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California

2017 Time is taller than space is wide, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California

2016 Altered Artforum, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California

2014 New Paintings, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California

2013 David Lloyd, Da Vinci Gallery, LA City College, Los Angeles, CA

Two Electric Desires, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Santa Monica, CA

2011 Monas Hieroglyphica, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Santa Monica, CA

2010 David Lloyd, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff-By-The Sea, California

2008 David Lloyd, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, October

2008 David Lloyd, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2007 David Lloyd, Gasoline, El Segundo, CA

2005 Heavy Water, Gasoline, El Segundo, CA

2005 David Lloyd: El Paraiso Perdido, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2004 David Lloyd, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2002 Paradise Found: Surf Paintings and Limited Editions, Thing, Venice, CA

2002 SuperKroma, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA

2001 David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2000 David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

1997 David Lloyd, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997 David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

1997 David Lloyd, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1995 David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

1994 David Lloyd, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993 David Lloyd, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1992 David Lloyd, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1991 David Lloyd: New Paintings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1990 David Lloyd: Etchings, Editions Ilene Kurtz, New York, NY

1988 David Lloyd: Paintings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1987 David Lloyd: Recent Paintings & Reliefs, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions

2019 The Circle of Truth, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, California
UFOs, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California
I Am Nature, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, California

2018 Untitled, Klowden Mann, Miami Beach, Florida
The Californians, Pacific City Gallery, Huntington Beach, California
Group Show, Spring Place, Beverly Hills, California
Surface of a Sphere, curated by Daniel Gerwin, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California

2017 Blue, Kamizake exhibition curated by Gary Brewer, PØST, Los Angeles, California
Waterfalls and Volcanoes, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica California
Unique & Singular, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2016 Untitled, Klowden Mann, Miami Beach, Florida
Dig for Fire, Eastside International, Los Angeles, California

2015 Volcano, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California

MANA in Naples, Art 1307, Villa Di Donato, Napoli, Italy

2014 Endless Summer, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California
The Grinstein Artist Invitational: From Generation to Generation, Rosamund
Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2013 Miami Project, Miami, FL

Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX

ArtPadSF, San Francisco, CA

Tapping the Third Realm, Ben Maltz Gallery, OTIS, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Miami Project, gallery km booth, Miami, FL

Art Platform – Los Angeles, gallery km booth and public installation project, Los Angeles, CA

ArtMRKT SF, gallery km booth, San Francisco, CA .

2011 Follow the Physical: from The Paper File, gallery km, Santa Monica, July 23 – August 27

2010 Swell, Metro Pictures, Nyhaus, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY

Abstract on Abstract: Charles Arnoldi, James Hayward, David Lloyd, Ed Moses, LA

Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2009 In A Different Light, Eric Phleger Gallery, Encinitas, CA

2007 Wolfgang Bloch, Joe Curran, David Lloyd, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

The Happening, Milk Gallery, New York City

Wolfgang Bloch, Wade Koniakowsky, David Lloyd, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff-By-The Sea, CA,

The Happening, Orange County Museum of Art

2006 There Goes The Neighborhood Part Deux, Sixspace Gallery, Culver City, CA

The L.A. Scene, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2005 The Big Show, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff-By-The-Sea, CA

2006 The Art of the Wave, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff-By-The-Sea, CA

Group Show, Gasoline, El Segundo, CA

Green Room Festival, Yokohama, Japan

2004 [The Purple Haze Project], Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

The Moonshine Festival, Festival of the Arts, Laguna Beach, CA

Mostra Internacional Da Arte Cultura Surf, Bienal Brasil , São Paulo, Brasil

2003 Surf Odyssey, Universal Art Gallery, Venice, CA

Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing, San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA
Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

No Chaser; Straight Ahead Abstract Painting,, Post, Los Angeles, CA

SoCal Locals, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002 Surf Culture, The Art History of Surfing, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA,

Gallery Selections, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA

sGallery Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2001 A Necessary Beauty, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA

Hand Painted, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA

2000 The Spurgeon Project, The Spurgeon Building, Santa Ana, CA

A Spot in the Mind, curated by David di Michele, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles

1999 Forms of Thought, William Turner Gallery, Venice CA

1998 Ways and Means, Miller Durazzo, Los Angeles, CA

1997 On Paper, Post, Los Angeles

March Six, Ikon LTD/Fine Art, Los Angeles

1995 Six Roads to Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)

Bumpy, Post, Los Angeles

Painting Beyond the Idea, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (catalogue)

Transatlantica, Museo Alejandro Otero, Venezuela (catalogue)

1993 Germinal Notations: a drawing show, Food House, Santa Monica, CA

East Coast-West Coast: Five Abstract Painters, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.

A Complete Hand of One Suit, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fourth Newport Biennial Southern California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA,

(catalogue)

1992 Abstraction for the Information Age, curated Irit Krygier, Works Gallery South, Costa Mesa,

American Drawings Since 1960: Selections from the Collection, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los

Angeles

Group Show, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

1991 New Formalism, Busche Galerie, Koln, Germany

20th Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles; traveled to:

Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico and Musee d'Art Moderne et

d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France,

1990 The Ends of Paintings, The Edges of Abstraction, curated by David Pagel, Shoshana Wayne

Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, (catalogue)

Mel Kendrick, David Lloyd, John Torreano, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,

1986 A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

2019 Melrod, George, “‘365 A Year of Drawing:’ A Diary of Aesthetic Discovery,” March 18.
Zellen, Jody, “David Lloyd, 365 – A Year of Drawing,” Art and Cake, 30 January.

2017 Heitzman, Lorraine, “David Lloyd at Klowden Mann,” Art and Cake, 17 February.
“David Lloyd,” Wall Street International, January

2016 Katz, Andrew, “Scenes from Untitled Art Fair 2016,” New American Paintings, December.

2015 DiMichele, David “The Bold Standard,” Artillery, March

The Artists of the Film MANA” (Catalog), Lancaster Museum of Art.
Schwartz, Julia, “A Conversation with David Lloyd”, Figure/Ground, 13 February.
http://figureground.org/a-conversation-with-david-lloyd/
Zellen, Jody, Artscene, January.
http://klowdenmann.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/David-Lloyd-artscene1.pdf

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Osberg, Molly, “David Lloyd’s Ethereal Paintings Teeter Between Scienceand Mysticism”, Artsy Editorial, 6 November.
https://www.artsy.net/article/editorial-david-lloyds-ethereal-paintings-teeter-between-science

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Mimi Wada, “David Lloyd”, Coast Line, Spring

Roberta Carasso, “David Lloyd”, Art Scene, May issue

2012 Tracey Harnish. “Art Platform Los Angeles 2012”, LA Art Diary, 29 September

“David Lloyd and the Collision of Everything, An Artist Talk”, NY Arts Magazine, 17 February

2011 Tracey Harnish, “David Lloyd at Gallery KM”, Art Week LA, 11 November

2010 Roberta Smith, Artist and Surfer as Best Buddies, The New York Times, 22 July

2005 Michael Hixson, Gasoline Surfing, The Beach Reporter, 18 August

2004 John Gunnin, A Parade of Days, The Surfers Journal, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring

2003 Rahne Pistor, Art gallery rides the wave of local beach pasttime surfing, The Argonaut, 7 August

2002 Chris Dixon, Catching a Cultural Wave (Just Dont Try to Define It), The New York Times, 28 July,

Arts and Leisure section

Christopher Reynolds, Seriously, Dude, Los Angeles Times, July 28, Calendar section, pp. 3, 82-83

Robert L. Pincus, Shape of Things To Come, The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 7-13, p.42

Dawna Bratten, L.A. Artists Paint the downtown R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego Downtown News, February 7 21, p.10

2000 Mario Cutajar, David Lloyd and Tony Delap, Art Scene, May issue

1998 Openings, Art & Antiques, December 1998 (illustration)

1997 David Di Michele, David Lloyd at Chac Mool Gallery, Artweek, October, p24, illustration

David Pagel, Art Review, Los Angeles Times, August 29, p. F28

Cathy Curtis, Work in Search of a Theme, Los Angeles Times, March 18, pp. 2 and 7 (illustration)

1995 Terry Kugelman, Bumpy at Post and Painting Beyond the Idea at Manny Silverman, Art Issues,

November/December, illustration

David di Michele, Painting Beyond the Idea at Manny Silverman, Artweek, November, p.23,

illustration

Timothy Nolan, Bumpy at Post, Artweek, November, pp.24-25, illustration

David A. Greene, Abstraction Distraction, Los Angeles Reader, October 13, pp.14-1

David Pagel, Style over Substance in Beyond the Idea, Los Angeles Times, October 12, p.F4

Susan Kandel, review, Los Angeles Times, October 6, p.F24

1994 Mario Cutajar, The Anxiety of Modern Painting, Artweek, October 20, p.26, illustration

Katrin A. Velder, Eine Kunstmetropole im Aufbau, Handelblatt, Koln, Germany, September 23/24

1993 Cathy Curtis, Paletteable: Newport Harbors Fourth Biennial, Los Angeles Times [Orange County

Edition], OC Live!, October 14, p.3, cover illustration

Devorah Knaff, The Beast: Fourth Newport Biennial at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, Artweek

Calendar, Newport Harbor Art Museum, September/October, cover illustration

Lee Fleming, Abstract Painters at Drysdale, The Washington Post, February 6

Eric Gibson, Imported Works Make Whats Here Look Good, The Washington Times, February 4

Interview, January, illustration, p.79

1992 Lita Barrie, On the Scene: Los Angeles, Artspace, December, pp. 88-89

David Pagel, The Shape of Things to Come, Los Angeles Times, Calendar, September 24, F4-5

1991 Kunstforum International, Koln, Germany, December

Suvan Geer, Approachable Abstractions by David Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, March 1, F19, llustration

Susan Kandel, Arts Magazine, Summer, p.101, illustration

David Pagel, David Lloyd, Art Issues, No.17, April-May, p.34, illustration

David Pagel, The Ends of Painting, The Edges of Abstraction, Vol.15, No.2, January/February, pp. 42-49, illustration

Fred Stern, David Lloyd: New Paintings, Mizune, Art & Auction, Spring, illustration

1988 William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, October 21, Part VI, p.22

1986 Ralph Rugoff, David Lloyd, L.A. Weekly, December 12-18, pp.45-46, illustration