“Imagine playing in the nursery with Lydia from Beetlejuice and Enid from Ghost World, and you get a good idea of Raven Lloyd’s dark and troubling installations and collages. Spooky. Lloyd displays amazing technical skill in the installations, creating a sort of “how’d she do that?” wonderment. Seemingly frostbitten hands hold an old photo in (Isolation). It’s lit from below and suspended with wires that recall long needles. Teddy bears and other stuffed faves are almost sadistically smooched against paper in her pieces. A series of boxes combined with mixed-media posters communicate her childhood-conception, nursery days, and the room where she would hide and be a not-very-good girl. The boxes are so detailed and crammed with images that a viewer must spend time investigating them from all sides. Look closely to discover the music box keys and buttons to push to make installations quake to life. The map motif and titles in the show (Dosch Rd., Skyline Blvd.) locate these images’ inspirations in specific places, but the truth is that the work comes from a much more universal place, Misfit Heaven (or Hell).”

– Willamette Week, Critics Pick, Lisa Lambert, 2001

“Here are some First Thursday shows worth eyeing. At The White Gallery, Raven Lloyd presents photographs inspred by the idea of transformation.”

– Willamette Week, Critics Pick, D.K. Row, 2000