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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, 

                  CA

                  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


2014         Bartucca, Kristen Osbourne, “David Lloyd, “New Paintings” at KlowdenMann”, Arte Fuse Magazine, 3                        December.
                 www.artefuse.com/2014/12/03/david-lloyd-new-paintings-at-klowden-mann-123794/
                 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

 

2013          Frank, Peter, “Haiku Reviews”, Huffington Post, 17 September

                  <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/haiku-reviews _n_3941879.html?utm_hp_ref=arts>

                  Moret, A. “David Lloyd: Two Electric Desires at gallery km”, art ltd, July

                  <http://www.artltdmag.com/index.phpsubaction=showfull&id=1373654675&archive&start_from&ucat=32 

                  Rothman, Tibby. “What David Lloyd Walked Away From the L.A. Art World”, LA Weekly, 7 Jun

                  <http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2013/06/david_lloyd_km_gallery.php>

                  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

   

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