Soft Opening

Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 20231/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 20232/57
Chris Lloyd, Blood will flow, 2023
Iron, Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 137 × 65 × 1.5 cm3/57
Chris Lloyd, Blood will flow, 2023
Iron, Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 137 × 65 × 1.5 cm4/57
Chris Lloyd, Blood will flow, 2023
Iron, Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 137 × 65 × 1.5 cm5/57
Chris Lloyd, Raven singing over my closed eyes, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 133 × 65 × 2 cm6/57
Chris Lloyd, Raven singing over my closed eyes, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 133 × 65 × 2 cm7/57
Chris Lloyd, Raven singing over my closed eyes, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 133 × 65 × 2 cm8/57
Chris Lloyd, Raven singing over my closed eyes, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 133 × 65 × 2 cm9/57
Chris Lloyd, Beyond the sun, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 134 × 67 × 1.5 cm10/57
Chris Lloyd, Beyond the sun, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 134 × 67 × 1.5 cm11/57
Chris Lloyd, Beyond the sun, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 134 × 67 × 1.5 cm12/57
Chris Lloyd, Beyond the sun, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 134 × 67 × 1.5 cm13/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202314/57
Chris Lloyd, To be one with the stars, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, watercolour paper, Dimensions variable15/57
Chris Lloyd, To be one with the stars, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, watercolour paper, Dimensions variable16/57
Chris Lloyd, To be one with the stars, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, watercolour paper, Dimensions variable17/57
Chris Lloyd, To be one with the stars, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, watercolour paper, Dimensions variable18/57
Chris Lloyd, To be one with the stars, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, watercolour paper, Dimensions variable19/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202320/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202321/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202322/57
Chris Lloyd, An evolution of horns, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen 174 × 76 cm23/57
Chris Lloyd, An evolution of horns, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen 174 × 76 cm24/57
Chris Lloyd, An evolution of horns, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen 174 × 76 cm25/57
Chris Lloyd, An evolution of horns, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen 174 × 76 cm26/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202327/57
Chris Lloyd, Re-ignition, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 174 × 76 cm28/57
Chris Lloyd, Re-ignition, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 174 × 76 cm29/57
Chris Lloyd, Re-ignition, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 174 × 76 cm30/57
Chris Lloyd, Re-ignition, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 174 × 76 cm31/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202332/57
Chris Lloyd, Rivers like veins, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen 169 × 76 cm33/57
Chris Lloyd, Rivers like veins, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen 169 × 76 cm34/57
Chris Lloyd, Rivers like veins, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen 169 × 76 cm35/57
Chris Lloyd, Rivers like veins, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen 169 × 76 cm36/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202337/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202338/57
Chris Lloyd, In rememberance of hate and sorrow, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 136 × 86 × 3 cm39/57
Chris Lloyd, In rememberance of hate and sorrow, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 136 × 86 × 3 cm40/57
Chris Lloyd, In rememberance of hate and sorrow, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 136 × 86 × 3 cm41/57
Chris Lloyd, In rememberance of hate and sorrow, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 136 × 86 × 3 cm42/57
Chris Lloyd, In rememberance of hate and sorrow, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 136 × 86 × 3 cm43/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202344/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202345/57
Chris Lloyd, As if there would be another time to delve, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 171 × 69 cm46/57
Chris Lloyd, As if there would be another time to delve, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, 171 × 69 cm47/57
Chris Lloyd, As if there would be another time to delve, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen 171 × 69 cm48/57
Chris Lloyd, As if there would be another time to delve, 2023
Iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen 171 × 69 cm49/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202350/57
Chris Lloyd, Legacy for human irrelevance, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, Dimensions variable51/57
Chris Lloyd, Legacy for human irrelevance, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, Dimensions variable52/57
Chris Lloyd, Legacy for human irrelevance, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, Dimensions variable53/57
Chris Lloyd, Legacy for human irrelevance, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, Dimensions variable54/57
Chris Lloyd, Legacy for human irrelevance, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, Dimensions variable55/57
Chris Lloyd, Legacy for human irrelevance, 2023
Iron, iron on transfer, watercolour, textiles, linen, Dimensions variable56/57
Chris Lloyd, I against I
Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 202357/57

7 April–20 May, 2023
6 Minerva Street

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Soft Opening, 6 Minerva Street, 7 April–20 May, 2023

Chris Lloyd’s I against I is a personal memento scripting past and future self. Using watercolor and canvas, the artist’s autobiographical landscape portrays self-expansion and self-annihilation. Strengths and weaknesses. Resistance and flow. Impulse and intention. Divine opportunity and withheld chances.

Somewhere in our dynamic limitlessness lies a psychotic dichotomy of chaos and control.

Know yourself, I say. Go fuck yourself, I respond.

What is the supernatural force that so badly wants to coconspire against the self’s free will?

It is all I.

Only in the settled dust of memory can I accept my identity as Monster Sublime.

— Vivien Lee

Chris Lloyd (b. 1994, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Past solo and two-person exhibitions include And the candles burned low, deep into the night at Domicle, Tokyo (2022), In Solitude Until The End of Time at Entrance, New York (2022) and Two Birds, One Stone at Gern En Regalia, New York (2020). Recent group shows include On Failure at Soft Opening, London (2023); At the Center Of My Ironic Faith at Cassandra Cassandra, Toronto (2021); Everyday Secrets at Luce Gallery, Torino (2021) and The Swamp Show at Mundus Press, Northern Massachusetts (2021).