Opening reception for Anne Lloyd: Floating Above a White Draped Room

Please join us for the opening reception for Floating Above a White Draped Room, an exhibition of abstract paintings and richly-layered mixed media works by Anne Lloyd that explore connections between states of being through a process guided by intuition. Art, conversation, light refreshments. Free and open to the public. 

ARTIST STATEMENT
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”   -   Ovid

I’ve always been interested in in-between transitional spaces, not being one thing or another, but rather “on the way to becoming”. This facilitates an ongoing process of growth.  

The paintings are intuitive, personal, and may evolve into a narrative. While the work appears lyrical and whimsical, there are personal underlying symbols. I create my own chaos, and then solve my way out. It’s a process that, at best, flows and self-directs. The work is built up in additive layers with paint and oil pastels using my hands, rags, sandpaper, or other tools to mark the surface.  

Many of the pieces in this show were created or re-worked in the last five years. During the pandemic, with the sudden break in routine, it was possible to concentrate with greater continuity.  

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anne Lloyd received her BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology, and graduate degrees from Cornell, and Pace University.  

She worked in publishing as a freelance artist in New York City, and taught art at the Wooster School in Danbury, CT.  

Select solo exhibitions have been at Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, NYC, NY; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva NY, and Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester Center, VT.    

Group shows include Webb and Parsons Gallery, New Canaan, CT; Central Hall Gallery, New York, NY; Lincoln Center Gallery, New York, NY; Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY; Wooster School, Danbury CT;  Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH;  Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT; Carlson Gallery at University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT; Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT;  Albright Knox Museum Members Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester Center, VT.  

Her work is in collections at Pepsico, Grey Advertising, Chemical Bank, International Bank of Korea, Aetna Life Insurance, The Chrysler Museum, and numerous private collections.  

Lloyd currently lives in Brookfield, CT.