New Work: Highways of Fantasy

Highways of Fantasy is a new body of work exploring reflection and abstraction using photorealistic subject matter. These paintings exaggerate the dimensions, colors and shapes of the subject matter, creating a uniquely distorted and vibrant composition while still retaining an automotive reference.

A critic wrote:
"Lockwood is obsessed with the way a waxy fender or pinstriped gas tank will capture the clouds, sky and surrounding landscape, bending the scenery into strange, psychedelic patterns and tinting the myriad hues of nature to the tone of a factory paint job."
   - Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA

A reviewer recently commented on "Blue Skies and Chrome":
"The images seen here have been stretched, cropped and distorted, the colors pushed and exaggerated while retaining some degree of realistic reference. The images are painted in acrylic on manipulated digital print. Each image represents the beautiful effect of chrome reflections that distort a bright blue sky above a classic red automobile.

When viewed from a distance these images display incredible movement; they suggest frames reflecting off the car in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas"... they are at once disturbing and quite beautiful."
   - Matthew Baughman, St. Claude Collective, New Orleans, LA