The main motive of visual art has been to tell a story. Lloyd Bloom has devoted much of his art to book illustration (telling stories.) His art emphasizes how to draw on a flat surface in order to give an illusion of depth, through transforming 2 dimensions into 3. Here are the titles of some books he has illustrated: LIKE JAKE AND ME, Alfred A. Knopf, a Newbury Honor Book; A MAN NAMED THOREAU, Atheneum, and POEMS FOR JEWISH HOLIDAYS, Holiday House, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. His subjects range from the Bible and the classics in a melange of memory ranging from the past to the present day. His art has been exhibited in various group shows as well as in 5 one-man shows at the Chai Gallery (or the Chassidic Art Institute of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y.) and he has applied his ideas about art and illusion to geometric, colorful abstractions today.
