Joe Lloyd "Secondary Pattern"
Acrylic on canvas
72" x 48"
Joe Lloyd "Purple Offset Pattern"
Acrylic on canvas
60" x 72"
Joe Lloyd "Blue Pattern"
Acrylic on canvas
48" x 60"
Joe Lloyd "Green Pattern"
Acrylic on canvas
50" x 50"
Joe Lloyd "Bevel #5"
Acrylic on canvas
38" x 58"
Joe Lloyd "Bevel #7"
Acrylic on canvas
42" x 35"
Joe Lloyd "Bevel #12"
Acrylic on canvas
48" x 36"
Joe Lloyd "Bevel #8"
Acrylic on canvas
36" x 60"
Joe Lloyd "Purple Pattern"
Acrylic on canvas
50" x 38"
Joe Lloyd "Black Paper Pattern"
Acrylic, watercolor & ink on paper
30" x 22"
Joe Lloyd "Red & Green Pattern"
Acrylic on canvas
38" x 34"
Joe Lloyd "Gold Paper Pattern"
Acrylic, watercolor & ink on paper
30" x 22"
Joe Lloyd "Tertiary Pattern Paper"
Acrylic, watercolor & ink on paper
30" x 22"
Joe Lloyd "Bevel #10"
Acrylic on canvas
60" x 120"
Joe Lloyd "Bevel #19"
Acrylic on canvas
33" x 62"
Joe Lloyd "Primary Paper Pattern"
Acrylic, watercolor & ink on paper
30" x 22"
Joe Lloyd "Bevel #23"
Acrylic on canvas
53" x 42"
Joe Lloyd "Grey Pattern"
Acrylic on canvas
48" x 72"
Joe Lloyd "Purple Paper Pattern"
Acrylic, watercolor & ink on paper
30" x 22"
Joe Lloyd "Red Paper Pattern"
Acrylic, watercolor & ink on paper
30" x 22"
Joe Lloyd "Yellow Paper Pattern"
Acrylic, watercolor & ink on paper
30" x 22"
Joe Lloyd "Red Pattern"
Acrylic on canvas over pannel
36" x 24"
Joe Lloyd "Ultramarine Pattern"
Acrylic on canvas
50" x 38"
Joe Lloyd was born in 1982 in Long Beach, California. He has been making art since he was a child. He pursued his degree in Art Education because he always knew he was an artist and a teacher. He earned his M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University, where he developed his philosophy of abstract painting.
His primary method is to build up layers of organic gestural marks, which are then contrasted with precise geometric lines and shapes that extend to the edge of the canvas. His tools are mostly markers, straight edges, tape, and pallet knives. His newer acrylic paintings are composed of vertical brushstrokes inspired by his works on paper, which are mostly blotches of watercolor within a precise series of symmetrical straight lines. He sees his work as a descendant of midcentury geometric abstraction but is less about depicting mathematical shapes and more about testing imbalanced symmetry and non-repetitive patterns. His geometry is not sacred and his formalism is not pure. He considers his painting as a place for the impossibility of geometry, the tension between concept and form, and the attempt of an idea and an object to become the same thing.
He has exhibited at many venues along the West Coast, including Laguna Beach Art Museum, Huntington Beach Art Center, Pacific Design Center, Fredrick Weisman Museum, Torrance Art Museum, and San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. His work has been featured in several publications including the Los Angeles Times and New American Paintings. He lives and works in Northern California.