About His Signature Style
Todd’s Mixed media pieces invite you to judge a book by its cover — literally. Each mixed media piece is gorgeously crafted using salvaged vintage books, photography, reclaimed materials, oil and acrylic paints — all suspended in multiple layers of resin. Todd's art is as visually-layered as life itself. Light magically dances through the resin, bringing out layered textures and colors. See available pieces on the website or contact Todd regarding purchase inquiries, gallery locations, or commission requests.
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Todd Anderson’s Artist Statement
Everything about my art — from the process of creation to the finished product — is intimately connected with the fascination I have with the different layers that make up a person's life. Each of us is a sum total of all our experiences, both good and bad: amazing moments, extreme sadness and heartbreak, insecurities, first kisses, the tears that we've shed. These events become our individual life stories―singular, beautiful, sometimes gut-wrenching―but always uniquely "us." We may not be able to see those delicate intangibles of our personal stories, but they are nevertheless real.
It is the concept of the "story" that draws me to creating art from books. Not only is there a narrative to the book itself, but there is also a separate story of the person who may have owned it. I also use reclaimed and vintage fabrics, photos, notes and other nostalgic items because I love the idea that they are real pieces of real lives, and I can use these precious elements to create a new work of art.
Working in mixed media allows me to savor the "mess," and thoroughly enjoy the process from start to finish. I love the smell of the old paper and books. I love scouring forgotten basements in old book stores — finding unexpected treasures, then giving them new life. The unique resins I use to finish each work "freeze" the elements I have brought together and suspend them in time forever, thereby making one beautiful piece out of many individual stories — not unlike how we create our own lives.
