BIO
David Lloyd
(b. 1955, Los Angeles, California)
Lives and works in Culver City, California
https://www.thehouseoflloyd.com/
David 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.
Education
| 1985 | BFA, California Institute of the Arts |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2020 | Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles, California, 13 February – 16 February |
| 2019 | 365 A Year of Drawing, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California, 5 January – 9 February |
| 2017 | Time is taller than space is wide, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California, 28 December – 4 March |
| 2016 | Altered Artforum, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California, 10 September – 15 October |
| 2014 | New Paintings, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California, 25 October – 10 January |
| 2013 | David Lloyd, Da Vinci Gallery, LA City College, Los Angeles, California Two Electric Desires, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Santa Monica, California, 4 May – 8 June |
| 2011 | Monas Hieroglyphica, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Santa Monica, California, October 22 – December 3 |
| 2010 | David Lloyd, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff-By-The Sea, California, 13 September- 17 October |
| 2008 | David Lloyd, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, October David Lloyd, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 12 January – 12 February |
| 2007 | David Lloyd, Gasoline, El Segundo, California, 24 March – 4 May |
| 2006 | Volcanoes, Sea Monsters and Secret Points, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California, 25 March – May |
| 2005 | Heavy Water, Gasoline, El Segundo, California, 17 August – 24 September David Lloyd: El Paraiso Perdido, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 16 July – 13 August |
| 2004 | David Lloyd, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 21 February – 17 March |
| 2002 | Paradise Found: Surf Paintings and Limited Editions, Thing, Venice, California, 7 – 13 December SuperKroma, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California, 18 January – 23 February |
| 2001 | David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 5 April – 26 April |
| 2000 | David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 22 April – 20 May |
| 1997 | David Lloyd, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 22 August – 27 September David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 15 February – 30 March David Lloyd, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, 3 January – 1 February |
| 1995 | David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 10 April – 10 May |
| 1994 | David Lloyd, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California 10 September – 3 October |
| 1993 | David Lloyd, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, 12 May – 12 June |
| 1992 | David Lloyd, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California 12 September – 3 October |
| 1991 | David Lloyd: New Paintings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 23 February – 23 March |
| 1990 | David Lloyd: Etchings, Editions Ilene Kurtz, New York, 4 October – 12 November |
| 1988 | David Lloyd: Paintings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 15 October – 12 November |
| 1987 | David Lloyd: Recent Paintings & Reliefs, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 30 May- 27 June |
Group Exhibitions
| 2020 | IN COLOR, Quotidian and Klowden Mann, Los Angeles, California |
| 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, 28 May – 20 June |
| 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, Klowden Mann, Miami, Florida Texas Contemporary, Klowden Mann, Houston, Texas ArtPadSF, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), San Francisco, California Tapping the Third Realm, Ben Maltz Gallery, OTIS, Los Angeles, California |
| 2012 | Miami Project, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Miami, Florida Art Platform – Los Angeles, gallery km (now Klowden Mann) and public installation project, Los Angeles, California ArtMRKT SF, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), San Francisco, California |
| 2011 | Follow the Physical: from The Paper File, gallery km (now Klowden Mann), Santa Monica, California, 23 July – 27 August |
| 2010 | Swell, Metro Pictures, Nyhaus, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, New York, 30 June – 6 August Abstract on Abstract: Charles Arnoldi, James Hayward, David Lloyd, Ed Moses, LA Contemporary, Los Angeles, California, 10 April – 15 May |
| 2009 | In A Different Light, Eric Phleger Gallery, Encinitas, California, 2 May – 6 June |
| 2007 | Wolfgang Bloch, Joe Curran, David Lloyd, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 17 November – 14 December The Happening, Milk Gallery, New York City, New York, 13 – 14 April Wolfgang Bloch, Wade Koniakowsky, David Lloyd, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff- By-The Sea, California, 17 March – 11 May The Happening, Orange County Museum of Art, 19-20 January |
| 2006 | There Goes The Neighborhood Part Deux, Sixspace Gallery, Culver City, California, 2 December – 13 January 2007 The L.A. Scene, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 29 July – 23 August |
| 2005 | The Big Show, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California, 12 November – 20 January The Art of the Wave, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California, 21 May- 25 June Group Show, Gasoline, El Segundo, California, 5 March – 9 April Green Room Festival, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2004 | [The Purple Haze Project], Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, California, 9 October – 14 November The Moonshine Festival, Festival of the Arts, Laguna Beach, California Mostra Internacional Da Arte Cultura Surf, Bienal Brasil, São Paulo, Brasil, 23 – 27 July |
| 2003 | Surf Odyssey, Universal Art Gallery, Venice, California, 2 August – 12 September No Chaser; Straight Ahead Abstract Painting, Post, Los Angeles, California, 12 July – 9 August SoCal Locals, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 14 June – 11 July |
| 2002 | Surf Culture, The Art History of Surfing, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, 28 July – 6 October Gallery Selections, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California, 9 – 30 August Gallery Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 2 – 30 August |
| 2001 | A Necessary Beauty, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California, 19 October – 29 November Hand Painted, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, California, 15 September – 28 October |
| 2000 | The Spurgeon Project, The Spurgeon Building, Santa Ana, California, 8 – 9 January A Spot in the Mind, curated by David di Michele, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, 21 January – 29 February |
| 1999 | Forms of Thought, William Turner Gallery, Venice, California, 20 March – 17 April |
| 1998 | Ways and Means, Miller Durazzo, Los Angeles, California, 29 August – 26 September |
| 1997 | On Paper, Post, Los Angeles, California, 11 October – 8 November March Six, Ikon LTD/Fine Art, Los Angeles, California, 6 – 27 March |
| 1995 | Six Roads to Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 14 October – 5 November 25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California 23 September – 28 October, (catalogue) Bumpy, Post, Los Angeles, California, 10 September – 14 October Painting Beyond the Idea, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 9 September – 21 October (catalogue) Transatlantica, Museo Alejandro Otero, Venezuela, 5 July – 12 September (catalogue) |
| 1993 | Germinal Notations: a drawing show, Food House, Santa Monica, California, 10 – 27 November East Coast-West Coast: Five Abstract Painters, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C., 12 January – 13 February A Complete Hand of One Suit, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 11 January – 13 February Fourth Newport Biennial Southern California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, 2 October 1993 – 30 January 1994, (catalogue) |
| 1992 | Abstraction for the Information Age, curated Irit Krygier, The Works Gallery South, Costa Mesa, California, 10 December – 17 January 1993 American Drawings Since 1960: Selections from the Collection, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1 October – 31 December Group Show, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York, 4 June – 3 July |
| 1991 | New Formalism, Busche Galerie, Koln, Germany, 11 October – 21 December 20th Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 12 January – 18 February traveled to: Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, 13 June – 25 August traveled to: Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France, 11 October – 24 November Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 1 September – 6 October (catalogue) Mel Kendrick, David Lloyd, John Torreano, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 17 February – 10 March |
| 1990 | The Ends of Paintings, The Edges of Abstraction, curated by David Pagel, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 1 September – 6 October (catalogue) Mel Kendrick, David Lloyd, John Torreano, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 17 February – 10 March |
| 1986 | A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2 December – 15 January 1987 |
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” (Catalogue), Lancaster Museum of Art. Schwartz, Julia, “A Conversation with David Lloyd,” Figure/Ground, 13 February. Zellen, Jody, “David Lloyd,” Artscene, January. |
| 2014 | Bartucca, Kristen Osbourne, “David Lloyd, “New Paintings” at Klowden Mann,” Arte Fuse Magazine, 3 December. Osberg, Molly, “David Lloyd’s Ethereal Paintings Teeter Between Science and Mysticism,” Artsy Editorial, 6 November. |
| 2013 | Frank, Peter, “Haiku Reviews,” Huffington Post, 17 September. Moret, A. “David Lloyd: Two Electric Desires at gallery km,” art ltd, July. Rothman, Tibby. “Why David Lloyd Walked Away From the L.A. Art World,” LA Weekly, 7 Jun. Wada, Mimi, “David Lloyd”, Coast Line, Spring. Carasso, Roberta, “David Lloyd”, Art Scene, May issue. |
| 2012 | Harnish, Tracey, “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 | Harnish, Tracey, “David Lloyd at Gallery KM,” Art Week LA, 11 November. |
| 2010 | Smith, Roberta, “Artist and Surfer as Best Buddies,” The New York Times, 22 July. |
| 2005 | Hixson, Michael, “Gasoline Surfing,” The Beach Reporter, 18 August. |
| 2004 | Gunnin, John, “A Parade of Days,” The Surfer’s Journal, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring. |
| 2003 | Pistor, Rahne, “Art gallery rides the wave of local beach pasttime surfing,” The Argonaut, 7 August. |
| 2002 | Dixon, Chris, “Catching a Cultural Wave (Just Don’t Try to Define It),” The New York Times, 28 July, Arts and Leisure section. Reynolds, Christopher, “Seriously, Dude,” Los Angeles Times, 28 July, Calendar section, pp. 3, 82-83. Pincus, Robert L., “Shape of Things To Come,” The San Diego Union- Tribune, 7-13 February, p. 42. Bratten, Dawna, “L.A. Artists Paint the downtown R.B. Stevenson Gallery,” San Diego Downtown News, 7 – 21 February, p. 10. |
| 2000 | Cutajar, Mario, “David Lloyd and Tony Delap,” Art Scene, May issue. |
| 1998 | “Openings,” Art & Antiques, December (illustration). |
| 1997 | Di Michele, David, “David Lloyd at Chac Mool Gallery,” Artweek, October, p. 24, illustration. Pagel, David, “Art Review,” Los Angeles Times, August 29, p. F28. Curtis, Cathy, “Work in Search of a Theme,” Los Angeles Times, 18 March, pp. 2 and 7, illustration. |
| 1995 | Kugelman, Terry, “Bumpy at Post” and “Painting Beyond the Idea at Manny Silverman,” Art Issues, November/December, illustration. Di Michele, David, “Painting Beyond the Idea at Manny Silverman,” Artweek, November, p. 23, illustration Nolan, Timothy, “Bumpy at Post,” Artweek, November, pp. 24-25, illustration. Greene, David A., “Abstraction Distraction,” Los Angeles Reader, 13 October, pp. 14-16. Pagel, David, “Style over Substance in ‘Beyond the Idea’,” Los Angeles Times, 12 October, p. F4. Kandel, Susan, review, Los Angeles Times, 6 October, p. F24. |
| 1994 | Cutajar, Mario, “The Anxiety of Modern Painting,” Artweek, October 20, p. 26, illustration. Velder, Katrin A., “Eine Kunstmetropole im Aufbau,” Handelblatt, Koln, Germany, 23-24 September. |
| 1993 | Curtis, Cathy, “Paletteable: Newport Harbor’s Fourth Biennial,” Los Angeles Times [Orange County Edition], “OC Live!,” October 14, p. 3, cover illustration. Knaff, Devorah, “The Beast: Fourth Newport Biennial at the Newport Harbor Art Museum,” Artweek “Calendar,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, September/October, cover illustration. Fleming, Lee, “Abstract Painters at Drysdale,” The Washington Post, 6 February. Gibson, Eric, “Imported Works Make What’s Here Look Good,” The Washington Times, 4 February, Interview, January, illustration, p. 79. |
| 1992 | Barrie, Lita, “On the Scene: Los Angeles,” Artspace, December, pp. 88-89. Pagel, David, “The Shape of Things to Come,” Los Angeles Times, Calendar, 24 September, F4-5. |
| 1991 | Kunstforum International, Koln, Germany, December. Geer, Suvan, “Approachable Abstractions by David Lloyd,” Los Angeles Times, 1 March, F19, illustration. Kandel, Susan, “David Lloyd,” Arts Magazine, Summer, p. 101, illustration. Pagel David, “David Lloyd,” Art Issues, No. 17, April-May, p. 34, illustration. Pagel David, “The Ends of Painting, The Edges of Abstraction,” Vol. 15, No. 2, January/February, pp. 42-49, illustration. Stern, Fred, “David Lloyd: New Paintings,” Mizune, Art & Auction, Spring, illustration. |
| 1988 | Wilson, William, Los Angeles Times, 21 October, Part VI, p. 22. |
| 1986 | Rugoff, Ralph, “David Lloyd,” L.A. Weekly, 12-18 December, pp. 45-46, illustration. |