Jack Lloyd is an artist based in Montréal, Quebec. Lloyd has worked in both cartooning and painting throughout his career, and for his collection “Nothing new under the sun” Lloyd unites his mediums in stark contrast. He walks a fine line between the worlds of cartooning and painting, the fantastical and mundane. Though his medium is paint, his work is rooted in illustration, allowing him to open a dialogue between the representational and the abstract. Pulling from a wide array of inspiration including film, animation, and comics, he combines and synthesizes vivid symbols for his work.
“Nothing new under the sun” explores the inevitability with which our symbols and signifiers reoccur in media, and the surprising ways their meaning is transformed by their context, or indeed contextlessness. The foundation of the paintings consists of soft focus renderings of stills from film, contrasted sharply with clean cartoon figures imposed upon these scenes. Further juxtaposing subjects, the film stills are rendered in muted acrylic, and the cartooned figures in vivid oil. Lloyd is keen to continue the exploration of these themes and topics within future paintings. This collection of work is sure to just be the beginning.
