Lloyd Martin
years with Cynthia-Reeves: 14
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
HIGHLIGHTS
The Federal Reserve Art Collection, Washington DC, collection
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Painting Fellowship
The Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland, OH, collection
The surfaces of Lloyd Martin’s paintings offer pulsating linear movement, blurring the boundaries of precision with his graphic patterning. His meticulous handling of paint and color allow the eye to focus on individual squares and rectangles while registering a larger picture plane in-the-making — inferring a painting within the painting. As quoted in the artist’s 2006 catalog essay by Wang Pin-Hua, “with these frame-like lines, Martin creates a seemingly wider structure of multi-layered space by dividing and reconstructing the images, making the paintings extend far beyond the boundaries of the pictures”.
Curator Lisa Russell writes, “Lloyd Martin’s reductive abstractions speak to the essential nature of painting and form…The interplay of elements is like echoes that resonate and leave one with a feeling of suspended time. Contemplative in nature, these eloquent paintings act as meditations, eliciting both visceral and cerebral responses.”
The artist is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. A recipient of several fellowships in painting, as well as in drawing, his work is in the prominent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; the Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts; and the University Art Museum SUNY, New York, among others. Martin’s work has reviewed by The New York Times, Art in America, Art New England, and City Arts. The artist lives and works in Providence, RI.