DAVID LLOYD
Born:September 29, 1955, Los Angeles.
Lives and works in Culver City, California
Education:B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, 1985
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008David Lloyd, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 12 January - 12 February
2007David Lloyd, Gasoline, El Segundo, California, 24 March - 4 May
2006 Volcanos, Sea Monsters and Secret Points, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff-By-The-Sea,
California, 25 March - May
2005Heavy Water, Gasoline, El Segundo, California, 17 August – 24 September
2005David Lloyd: El Paraiso Perdido, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 16 July – 13 August
2004David Lloyd, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 21 February - 17 March
2002Paradise Found: Surf Paintings and Limited Editions, Thing, Venice, California, 7 - 13 December
2002SuperKroma, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California, 18 January - 23 February
2001David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 5 April - 26 April
2000David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 22 April - 20 May
1997David Lloyd, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 22 August - 27 September
1997David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 15 February - 30 March
1997 David Lloyd, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, 3 January - 1 February
1995David Lloyd, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 10 April - 10 May
1994David Lloyd, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California 10 September - 3 October
1993David Lloyd, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, 12 May - 12 June
1992David Lloyd, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California 12 September - 3 October
1991David Lloyd: New Paintings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 23 February - 23 March
1990David Lloyd: Etchings, Editions Ilene Kurtz, New York, 4 October – 12 November
1988David Lloyd: Paintings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 15 October – 12 November
1987David Lloyd: Recent Paintings & Reliefs, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 30 May - 27 June
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007Wolfgang Bloch, Joe Curran, David Lloyd, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 17 November - 14 December
The Happening, Milk Gallery, New York City, 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
2006There 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
2005The Big Show, Pacific Surf Gallery, Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California, 12 November - 20 January 2006
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
2003Surf 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
2002Surf 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
2001A 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
2000The 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
1999Forms of Thought, William Turner Gallery, Venice California, 20 March - April 17
1998Ways and Means, Miller Durazzo, Los Angeles, 29 August - 26 September
1997On Paper, Post, Los Angeles, 11 October - 8 November
March Six, Ikon LTD/Fine Art, Los Angeles, 6 - 27 March
1995Six 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, 23 September - 28
October, (catalogue)
Bumpy, Post, Los Angeles, 10 September - 14 October
Painting Beyond the Idea, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, 9 September – 21 October (catalogue)
Transatlantica, Museo Alejandro Otero, Venezuela, 5 July – 12 September (catalogue)
1993Germinal 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)
1992Abstraction 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
1991New 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; Musee d’Art Moderne et
d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France, 11 October – 24 November
1990The 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
1986A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2 December - 15 January 1987
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2005Michael Hixson, “Gasoline Surfing”, The Beach Reporter, 18 August
2004John Gunnin, “A Parade of Days”, The Surfer’s Journal, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring
2003Rahne Pistor, “Art gallery rides the wave of local beach pasttime surfing”, The Argonaut, 7 August
2002Chris Dixon, “Catching a Cultural Wave (Just Don’t 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
2000Mario Cutajar, “David Lloyd and Tony Delap,” Art Scene, May issue
1998 “Openings,” Art & Antiques, December 1998 (illustration)
1997David 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)
1995Terry 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.14-16
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
1994Mario 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
1993Cathy Curtis, “Paletteable: Newport Harbor’s 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 What’s Here Look Good,” The Washington Times, February 4
Interview, January, illustration, p.79
1992Lita 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
1991Kunstforum International, Koln, Germany, December
Suvan Geer, “Approachable Abstractions by David Lloyd,” Los Angeles Times, March 1, F19,
illustration
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
1988William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, October 21, Part VI, p.22
1986Ralph Rugoff, “David Lloyd,” L.A. Weekly, December 12-18, pp.45-46, illustration