by Terri Lloyd
Visual Art
Artist’s Statement
After the death of my father in 2017, revisiting Joseph Campbell’s Power of Myth sparked an interest in creation stories and archetypes. Turning to personal history for the answers, I mined a collection of family and personal photos that encompass my sixty-plus years of life.
Through the process of telling these stories, I have been able to come to terms with my journey. This is not necessarily about healing or therapy. The scars are permanent, the arthritis crippling.
Maturity gives me the lens to visit ancestors and youth.
I grieve and at the same time breathe.
Terri Lloyd is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, digital media, performed actions, and voice-based narrative. Her work explores memory, archetype, ritual, persona, grief, humor, symbolic systems, and the instability of identity. Recurring themes include domestic life, mythology, dreams, transformation, and the tension between sincerity and artifice. After returning to painting in 2018 through a process of “unlearning,” Lloyd began developing works with her nondominant hand, allowing image and language to emerge simultaneously without correction. The work is less concerned with explanation than encounter. Lloyd is the author of When I Grow Up and Other Mantras and co-author of The Little Red Book of Commie Porn. She lives and works in Northeast Los Angeles.