Hope this finds you well,...

I am showing some selected works from the Recovery Show this Last Thursday on Alberta Street at the Community Gallery @ 5014 24th & Alberta. The show will be open from 3PM until the Police tell us its just too much.

The night will be a special one, with music from DJ MaseOne, and a performance by our friends The Brothers Young! Not to mention, free libations, good company, and all the variety of the Last Thursday event.

Music will start outdoors with a sidewalk session at 7PM with good friend, DJ Bricklayer

Then around 9:30 The Brothers Young! will treat us to a set of acoustic gravy as they prepare for a tour of the West Coast this August!

After the set from the Brothers we will move the music indoors for a gallery dance party with DJ MaseOne again dropping bombs,.until the powers that present themselves decide its quitting time,.,.

This is a lloydpaintings gallery event, and a chance to see the work from last months event the Recovery Show, my first solo exhibition on the Downtown Artwalk in Los Angeles. Please come and spend some time enjoying the weather, the music, the Last Thursday event, and I hope you will enjoy the work!

Cheers

Doug

To The Reader,

     My work is moving in a direction that has me fascinated and fixed. Though fixed could be switched with many other words to put an idea on where I feel like this may be going I will still choose fixed.

     I have used my Art as an outlet for the strange and difficult times in my life and the lives of friends and family. Maybe its just stream of thought and the effort to let things run their course that shape my approach to process in my art, I am not really sure. One thing I know from my experiences over these last few years is that I NEED art to survive, or at least to stay within what most folks would define as acceptable stability.

     Most of my drawings are done with my attention tuned on keeping the pencil sharp and the paper clean all while letting design and balance take care of themselves. My detailed and sharp line drawings have become more and more fun for me to do, that is proof that the therapy is working, and motivation to continue to let things happen and do my best to stay out of jail,..

     A focus in my work has been on the primary relationship I have had in my life. After a very complicated and difficult separation my cyclical thinking and inability to find peace of mind played their way into my work. The imagery was driven from our history and I found release in whatever came to the page. After hours working thin lines I think I wanted to let go so badly the drawings became where I made the faces that I could blame, or go to for a little entertainment.

     Strange times have been the fuel for my work. Now, I am looking to understand what I can about the things that seem to have such crazy effect on me.

     My work is my way of relating that all the patience and clean paper in the world can't tell you what is coming next. I have found Monsters are just around the corner from everyone, and they pretty much decide what stays and what goes,..

     Thanks for visiting my site!
     Maybe we find monsters,..Maybe we find birds..

Enough Already,..
     Doug