Christopher Lloyd Tucker is a San Diego based multimedia artist who specializes in combining woodwork, metalwork, and digital art. Tucker thrives in situations that involve hands-on problem solving and exploring new materials, and his body of work reflects that, integrating new approaches and new media with each new phase of life.
While spending a great deal of his artistic career working in abstraction, Tucker has recently embraced more socially engaged versions of realism as a way of responding to our cultural moment. His latest body of work has been largely portrait based, relying on gestures and expressions as a vehicle for social commentary.

Tucker’s recent work has been an adaptation of digital drawing into three dimensions, with a thematic focus on the relationship of the human face and figure (and of marginalized and minoritized faces and figures in particular). The pieces submitted all began the same way, as a digital sculpture. They were then rendered and converted into a more simplified vector image. They were laser cut from a collection of exotic hardwoods or multicolored acrylic sheets and puzzled back together into a two-dimensional mosaic-like artwork and framed in a hardwood.

The work displayed here represents the last few years of the artist's practice.