Paintings
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.
Navel Gazing
The state of Florida embodies a rich history of Native Americans; Spanish conquistadors and the search for the fountain of youth; a utopia; a fantasyland; a vacation mecca; mythical landscapes of tropical abundance; miles of ocean; a bohemian refuge; an outlaw outpost; and a launching pad to space.
The Brevard Art Museum's quest was to find twelve artists who are able to reconstitute existing ideas or make fresh-squeezed interpretations of Florida.
Commissioned Paintings
Commission a portrait of your very own motorcyle, automobile or other vehicle with the reflection of your choice.
Prices will vary dependent on subject and size. Payments will be divided into three installments.
Cultural Icons
April 2007 marks the first exhibit of this new body of work at the Soren Christensen Gallery in New Orleans. In the show you will see Corvettes and Harleys, Ferraris and custom choppers - certainly icons of our time. But look more closely for Bonnie Parker, the American Flag, the winning LSU Tigers and a famous artist or two.
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)
Reflections of Monterey - Cars
"Reflections of Monterey" is a commissioned installation of twenty paintings depicting classic automobile images from the races at Laguna Seca and the Concours d'Elegance in Monterey, California.
Reflections on the Avenue: Cars
This series of paintings "Reflections on the Avenue" presents both images of automobiles and the reflections glimpsed in the chrome, glass and paint surfaces of the car body. These paintings were primarily executed in New Orleans and so present unique elements of that place through reflections seen in Porsches, Thunderbirds, and Volkswagens.
Bikes and Babes
"A colorful series of photoreal paintings depicting motorcyles and their riders, Lockwood's BIKES resonate all of the charged symbolic icons that they are."
--D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Read the Review
Hot Wheels: Motorcycles
Within our 20th century urban society, the motorcyle imagery in these paintings functions as a symbol of freedom, excitement, potency, and danger. Exuding sensuality, these vehicles represent our need for fantasy and our yearning for adventure.
Marilyn & The Dreamgirls
Marilyn Monroe remains the most provocative female legend of the 20th and 21st centuries - a cultural icon, a dreamgirl, idealized, fantasized about and adored by both men and women.
Marilyn, as America's dreamgirl, symbolizes beauty, sexiness, stardom, vulnerable femininity - the dumb blonde, the ideal woman of the '50's
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The Spectacle of the Mannequin
"Like the stars of movies and TV shows, mannequins are icons, surrogates that embody the hopes, dreams and dramas of real people."
--D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Read the Review
