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ABOUT GEORGE LLOYD

  • I am an American painter and draftsman who has been a working artist for more than five decades . I spent the initial and formative phase of my artistic career in the San Francisco Bay Area. Four decades ago , I returned to my native New England and have remained here ever since.
  • The work of my San Francisco Bay Area period was , in the early 70's , predominantly figure based, but , in the middle of that decade, my focus shifted to a more rigorously conceptual mode of working that incorporated motifs, both geometric and architectural.
  • My work of the following decades was a more eclectic blending of both Modern and Baroque elements . More painterly and unabashedly poetic in character , it made frequent use of architectural idiom in pursuit of mythological subjects .
  • " Lloyd's body of work so far has been a myth of change : his paintings are transfigurations of feeling in and for the world . His formal experiments have been more than the solving of problems peculiar to painting ; they have also been a symboling forth of a restless , contentious inner life . Recognition , memory , archetype , the changing temperatures of sensation , idiosyncratic temperament , historical awareness --- all flow into Lloyd's form giving activity . He has invited the most disordered , inchoate materials into the picture making enterprise in order to disclose complex experience while momentarily stabilizing it in forms . W. S. Di Piero 2001
  • ON MY WORK / GEO LLOYD / 2025

  • My artistic endeavor has always been centered around drawing, and the pursuit of structure as a kind of primal urge or force, which may well have derived from an early exposure to architecture and building, via my father, who was an architect.

  • The other pole of my concern is color, as I understand it to be in the full sense of the Italian word 'colore ' which refers to color, not merely in terms of the abstract notion of color as hue, but also in relation to the material substance of the paint itself.

  • In my painting, process has forever been dominant over mere description. Moreover, I have persisted to operate artistically in the midst of an indeterminate world, very much in flux and happily devoid of fixed meaning or stultifying common sense.

  • As both painter and draftsman, I’ve never operated within a closed system. On the contrary, I’ve always opted to remain open to possibilities that will typically present themselves as random discoveries. Of late, as a result of my experiment with a variety of new materials, I've been pleased to find myself working in an area which I’ve discovered to exist between painting and drawing. Consequently, I believe that the expressive range of my work has been greatly expanded.

  • My work is included in both private and public collections both here and abroad.
  • Do note that this site is a work in process .The various portfolios are designed as windows onto different aspects of what has been a multifaceted artistic endeavor .
  • Image on left is STILL LIFE w PERSIMMON 2020

  • 24 x 20 ", oil on fabric affixed to plywd

Note : The BANGOR 1983 / PORTLAND 1985-6 SKETCHBOOK is collection of Joe and Ann Marie Malone Portland ME

RESUME / CV :

Education :

BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence 1967


MFA Yale University , New Haven CT 1969

Awards :

1995 - Elizabeth Foundation Grant 


1994 and 2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2002 - Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome

Collections :

• Achenbach Foundation, Legion of Honor , San Francisco, CA

• De Saisset Museum, University Santa Clara , S Clara CA

• Oakland Museum, Oakland CA

• Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit ME

• Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

• University Art Museum, Santa Barbara CA

• University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor ME

Selected Solo Exhibitions :

2020 Cove Street Arts , Portland ME --- GEORGE LLOYD / AMUSE BOUCHE

2018 George Marshall Store Gallery , York ME --- GEORGE LLOYD / TIME and AGAIN

2017 Greenhut Galleries , Portland ME --- GEORGE LLOYD / 80s and 90s work

2015 Greenhut Galleries , Portland ME --- GEORGE LLOYD / Recent Paintings

2014 George Marshall Store Gallery , York ME --- GEORGE LLOYD / a survey

2012 Acme Fine Art , Boston MA ---GEORGE LLOYD / INSIDE OUTSIDE

2010 Acme Fine Art , Boston MA ---GEORGE LLOYD / Paintings and Drawings from the Figure Period

2007 Acme Fine Art , Boston MA--- GEORGE LLOYD / Paintings from th 70s and 80s


2006 Portland Museum of Art , Portland ME 
--- GEORGE LLOYD : Between Plan and Elevation , curated by Susan Danly

• 2003 University of Maine Museum of Art , Bangor ME ---
GEORGE LLOYD : The Transition Years , 1982-1984

• 2001 Ogunquit Museum of American Art , Ogunquit ME --- GEORGE LLOYD : The Maine Years , 1982-2000

• 2000 Hackett Freedman Gallery , San Francisco CA ---GEORGE LLOYD / Paintings

• 1996 Caldbeck Gallery , Rockland ME --- GEORGE LLOYD / Paintings

• 1994 Kennedy Gallery, Holy Names College , Oakland CA --- GEORGE LLOYD : The Bay Area Years , 1970 -1982

1983 Dana Reich Gallery , SanFrancisco --- GEORGE LLOYD / Paintings

1983 Davison Art Center , Wesleyan University , Middletown CT

1978 Lawson de Celle Gallery , San Francisco --- GEORGE LLOYD / Paintings

Selected Group Exhibitions :

2006 Acme Fine Art , Boston ---Geometry and Absstraction

1999 Wiegand Gallery , Notre Dame College , Belmont CA --- ‘Drawing without Models’ , works by Geo LLOYD , Joseph SLUSKY , Abigail SHAHN and Charles SULLIVAN

• 1998 Portland Museum of Art , Portland ME 
“Biennial”

• 1992 National Academy of Design , NYC 
“167th Annual Exhibition”

1978 Federal Hall National Memorial , New York NY ---Metaphor in Painting , curated by D Rosenthal

1978 Ohlone College , Fremont CA --- Five Berkeley Artists


1977 Oakland Museum , Oakland CA , SIX EAST BAY PAINTERS

1973 Charles Campbell Gallery , San Francisco CA and Crocker Art Museum , Sacramento CA : DRAWINGS by Joan BROWN , Elmer BISCHOFF , Gordon COOK , and George LLOYD

Teaching :

University of California , Berkeley

San Francisco Academy of Art

University of Oregon , Eugene

Wesleyan University

Cornell University , Ithaca NY

University of California , Santa Barbara

New York Studio School