StandardVision Artist Spotlight: Visual Portals and the Body in Suspension with Lloyd Galbraith

This month, StandardVision is showcasing an excerpt from a new work by LA-based multimedia artist Lloyd Galbraith on our large-scale, high-resolution digital facade at the Courtyard Marriott LA Live in Downtown Los Angeles.

Working across photography, sculpture, and film, Galbraith’s practice centers on what he describes as the engineered encounter—ritual-like environments where portraiture becomes a site of tension, repetition, and transformation. Through the use of light, distortion, and looping visual structures, forms are fractured and reassembled across physical and screen-based space, creating portals that feel at once intimate and otherworldly.

Photography serves as the foundational language of Galbraith’s work, with portrait-based image-making that emphasizes atmosphere, gesture, and emotional precision. These cinematic stills are extended through sculptural set-building and material experimentation, grounding the work in physical reality while shaping how the body and image are encountered in space. Digital animation and practical effects further expand these environments, allowing images to move, repeat, and exist within fluid temporal frameworks that blur the boundaries between the real and the virtual.

The film excerpt presented on StandardVision’s facade is a collaboration with yuniVERSE, an Indonesian-Australian producer and artist known for crafting textured electronic pop built from immersive soundscapes, aching melodies, and whispered truths. While the collaboration introduces a rich sonic dimension, the work remains firmly rooted in Galbraith’s visual language—using scale, repetition, and architectural context to transform the act of viewing into a durational, embodied experience.

Presented in the public realm, Galbraith’s work takes on an expanded sense of scale and duration. The fractured bodies and looping visual structures that define his practice are experienced not as contained images, but as immersive presences—unfolding across architecture and time. Encountered in motion and at monumental size, the work invites a slower, more embodied form of looking, one shaped by repetition, light, and peripheral awareness. Positioned within the city rather than apart from it, the film becomes something passersby move through and alongside, offering moments of pause and perceptual shift within the urban rhythm.

Catch Lloyd Galbraith’s film excerpt on view on the digital facade at the Courtyard Marriott LA Live through February 13, and learn more about his work on Instagram.