Tom Lloyd Nubile Postcard

Artist, activist, and community organizer Tom Lloyd (1929–1996) was an early pioneer of using electric light as an artistic medium. Collaborating with an engineer at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Lloyd developed a highly experimental and technologically advanced art practice in the 1960s that challenged popular understandings of what role the work of Black artists should play. Employing a purposely limited vocabulary of colors, forms, and shapes, Lloyd advocated for a relationship between abstraction and blackness that was greatly debated at the time, and one that continues to animate conversations around artistic practices.

Released on the occasion of exhibition Tom Lloyd, this postcard highlights the pioneering artwork of Tom Lloyd and his prevailing contributions to the interplay of art and technology, and the world of Black abstraction. 


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300gsm Munken (textured) paper, 5.8 × 8.3 in.


Tom Lloyd
Nubile
1965
Light bulbs, plastic lenses, aluminum, laminated plywood, with analog control box transferred to digital
16 × 12 ×4 1/2 in.
Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Martha A. Cotter in honor of Alan Sussman