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 ARTIST STATEMENT Todd Brown enjoys creating narratives with multiple meanings. His acrylic paintings on canvas use the old-master's technique of under drawing, and are organized with layers of colored glazes that overlap one another. He "bleeds" most canvases with sharp intense colors and images that strive to challenge the human eye. Some of the characters and sources for his images are amplified and caricatural.
Most figures and houses in the body of work could be considered to be certain personalities that he has have once met or past true life experiences. Some of the figures have been past self portraits. There are common landscape scenes with small neighborhoods of houses that are juxtaposed in uncommon placements.
Most figures in the body of his work are reminiscent of personalities from his past as well as self portraits. Many of Todd's themes are extracted from a combination of childhood through adult experiences, memories and dreams, as well as events of everyday life. His houses occupy scenes of landscapes or neighborhoods that appear in uncommon placements. Most often it is the quintessential subtle image or feature that provides the primary information. In some work, he has completely gone over and covered old ideas with all new compositions.
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