Friday, March 7, 2008

SUE LLOYD renders perception in new works presented at Fleishman Gallery

>SUE LLOYD: Void
Opening Reception: Friday, March 7th at 7pm
Exhibition runs through Saturday, April 5th
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm

VOID, a solo exhibition of new works by Sue Lloyd, continues her interest in making “textually-based” work in a digital environment. Composed of existing images remixed from a wide variety of source material, the new works are large digital prints. Having begun with images of the sky, VOID arrives at a much less concrete place. By using existing imagery, the task of rendering appearances is de-emphasized and focus can shift to the rendering of issues less visible but more primary: speaking, knowing, seeing. Lloyd finds the rendering of perception more compelling than the documentation of visual appearance: landscapes and figures describe interior as much as exterior states of being.
"Viewing the thirteen images of Sue Lloyd’s VOID provokes a visual consciousness reminiscent of a haunting. Whether pleasurable or disturbing, the heightened memory states that haunt each of us retain a vivacity outside of linear time. Sue Lloyd’s digital remixed images quietly ambush us in a similar manner." Betsy Warland.

SUE LLOYD is visual artist who lives and works in Toronto. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally; past solo exhibitions include Presentation House in Vancouver and Kamloops Art Gallery. Her work has also appeared in publications including BRICK and Public. She has received Council grants and her work is represented in private and public collections. She is a past member of the Red Head Gallery, and the Out of the Frame and Giant-S Collectives. She received her M.F.A. from York University and teaches in the Visual Studies Program at University of Toronto.


Flock of Hands John Constable: Hampstead Heath, Looking towards Harrow at Sunset, 9 August 1823. Paintings of the Annunciation, PHAIDON, London 2000: Bedoli, El Greco, Gentileschi, Gerard David, Barocci, Murillo, de Zurbaran, Beccafumi, Vouet, Rubens, Poussin, Poelenburgh, Pittoni, Masucci, Procaccini; Giordano, Remi, van Poelenburgh, de Champaigne, Bougereau, Bordone, Veronese, Tiepolo, Strozzi.
Digital archival print, 23”x 28”, 2007