ELLIOTT LLOYD
Color Wave, Paintings from 1973 to 1977

May 11 through June 8, 2019


OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, May 11 from 4:00 to 7:00 PM


David Richard Gallery, LLC
211 East 121 ST | New York, NY 10035
P: (212) 882-1705
www.davidrichardgallery.com

David Richard Gallery is pleased to present Color Wave, Paintings from 1973 to 1977, an exhibition of a seminal series of works by New York artist Elliott Lloyd in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. This series documents a major transition in the artist’s approach to his painting practice in the early 1970s; moving away from shaped compositions with rigorously planned color palettes and meticulously executed stained canvases to a freer, spontaneous approach that was loose, followed impulses and organically constructed large-scale compositions with layers of translucent and opaque color. The presentation will be on view from May 11 through June 8, 2019 with an opening reception Saturday, May 11 from 4:00 to 7:00 PM on the Ground Floor at 211 East 121st Street, New York, NY 10035. Please contact the gallery at info@DavidRichardGallery.com or call 212-882-1705 for additional information.

The paintings in this exhibition represent a major turning point for Lloyd. His approach during the 1960s was to control and meticulously plan the color and composition of his paintings, pouring dilute pigment onto unprimed canvas with an approach similar to watercolor painting. Realizing that shaped canvases necessarily had an interaction with the wall, and thus his compositions, Lloyd wanted the canvas to be neutral and his approach more automatic, dynamic and fluid. The paintings in Color Wave were painted off the stretcher, which gave the artist more freedom to follow impulses and gestures to their natural conclusion, not constrained by a predetermined shape or size of canvas. When the paintings were finished, Lloyd decided the final composition using tape to mark the outer perimeter, which determined the ultimate dimensions of the completed work. Most of the paintings in this series have never been stretched or presented before, and this is the first exhibition of this series as a cohesive group.

Lloyd’s application of the pigment in these paintings from 1973 to 1977 was very different from his earlier works, it was more saturated, thicker and bolder. He physically moved and brushed the paint, the colors were crashing into one another and puddling, mixing and overlapping on the canvas with dynamic strokes and color harmonies. This series led to the artist’s very successful transition to other experimental series of works that explored color, diverse media and supports made of wide-ranging materials—from canvas and paper to clay, glass, Plexiglas and mixed media collages—with compositions derived from organic combinations of pigment and free-flowing gestures.

About Elliott Lloyd:
Elliott Lloyd (1937-2017) was born in Sioux City, Iowa, studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then moved to New York in 1961. He had solo exhibitions at the Soho Center for Visual Artists, Hal Bromm Gallery, and Abraham Sachs Gallery and also exhibited with Susan Caldwell, Robert Elkon and Tibor De Nagy galleries in New York. His work is in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Newark Museum, New Jersey, James A. Michener Collection, University of Texas, Austin, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York and Chase Bank among other institutions and private collections. Lloyd’s exhibitions and artworks have been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, Art Forum, Art International, Art in America, and Art News among other publications. Lloyd was and instructor at the Parsons School of Design, where he taught drawing for twelve years. Lloyd lived and worked in Long Island City, Queens, New York.

David Richard Gallery is pleased to be the exclusive representative of the Elliott Lloyd Estate.

About David Richard Gallery:
Since its inception in 2010, David Richard Gallery has produced museum quality exhibitions that feature Post War abstraction in the US. The presentations have addressed specific decades and geographies as well as certain movements and tendencies. While the gallery has long been recognized as an important proponent of post-1960s abstraction—including both the influential pioneers as well as a younger generation of practitioners in this field— in keeping with this spirit of nurture and development the gallery also presents established artists who embrace more gestural and representational approaches to the making of art as well as young emerging artists.

In 2015 David Richard Gallery launched DR Art Projects to provide a platform for artists of all stripes—international, national, local, emerging and established—to present special solo projects or to participate in unique collaborations or thematic exhibitions. The goal is to offer a fresh look at contemporary art practice from a broad spectrum of artists and presentations. The Gallery opened its current location in New York in 2017.

Associated Artist

• Elliott Lloyd

Associated Exhibitions

• Elliott Lloyd Color Wave, Paintings from 1973 to 1977
  May 7, 2019 - June 8, 2019
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Associated News

• May 11, 2019
  Elliott Lloyd
  11 May — 8 Jun 2019
  at the David Richard Gallery in New York, United States
  
  


• May 8, 2019
  Elliott Lloyd: Color Wave, Paintings from 1973 to 1977
  GalleriesNow.net
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• April 25, 2019
  Press Release - Elliott Lloyd: Color Wave, Paintings from 1973 to 1977