Images of Desire

"Lory Lockwood's new exhibit, 'Images of Desire' at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, is a clarion call to chrome lovers... a dream come true for the vehicle-crazed. Her seductive photorealistic canvases of high-priced cars and high-speed motorcycles invite us into the Alice-in-Wonderland-worlds of mirror-polished hubcaps, custom exhaust pipes and those pouncing silver felines on the hoods of Jaguars."
    --Doug McCash, Art Critic, The Times-Picayune (Read the Review)

"Lory Lockwood has excelled in evoking that pervasive sense of longing, or desire, that modern consumer culture attaches to shiny expensive things."
    --D. Eric Bookhardt, Art Critic, Gambit Weekly (Read the Review)

"Images of Desire" is a triumph and a feast for the senses, with up close views and panoramas of brightly colored cars and bikes, filled with dashboards, hubcaps, Harleys and headlights."
    --Claire Harth, Southern Woman (Read the Review)

ARTIST'S STATEMENT: We dream, we covet, we desire. These aspirations, realized or not, can give us pleasure, fantasy, and a sense of identity or style. They fuel a drive for personal fulfillment and distinction. They can be fun and exhilarating and just simply make us feel good. Images of automobiles, motorcycles and mannequins can represent these desires. These images signify speed, power, adventure, danger, wealth, prestige, beauty, love and sex. They are realities, fantasies and illusions at the same time. And they are evidence of our passion and our drives.