White Linen and Black Leather
From Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, December 1997
D.Eric Bookhardt.
"The paintings depict a mixed bag of motorcycle themes, with a series of realistic closeup views by Lory Lockwood more of less setting the tone. Tightly framed to the point of abstraction, these at first resemble precisely executed airbrush art. Rendered in the opalescent colors of that medium, Lockwood's images only reveal themselves as traditional oil paintings on closer inspection.
Imagistically, they are matter of fact . . . Only an ocassional fat juicy brushstroke betrays their "maker's mark," so to speak, the human touch that injects a personal note into their glosssy mechanical aura. In CITY BIKES, a cadre of carefully groomed Harleys stand casually if uniformly erect, looking about as fit and sassy as show horses on parade. Downtown buildings are reflected in the cool glare of display windows behind them, and the whole scene conveys an eerie sense of the hot and cool sensations that comprise the expereince of modern life. This is an emblematic image. Most of her other works zero in on reflections appearing in the bikes' chrome headlights, tailpipes and such - visions that slither in the chromium glare like apparitions in crystal balls."
