Todd Camp | Hayley Gallery

Medium:

Paintings

Observation of Creating 30 x 24 Mixed Media on Canvas Diptych $1395	Observation: Day 24 x 30 Mixed Media on Panel - Framed $1195
Observation: Swimming 24 x 30 Mixed Media on Panel - Framed $1195	My Purpley Son 24 x 30 Mixed Media on Canvas Diptych $1395
Coming Home To 18 x 24 Mixed Media on Panel - Framed $1000	Sequential State 72 x 48 Mixed Media on Canvas $4295

TODD CAMP'S SOLO SHOW "OBSERVATION: CURRENT STATE" WILL BE ON DISPLAY THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2010.

Todd Camp graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 1989 with honors. Soon after graduation he began a teaching career that would span over two decades. His innovative style for pushing students beyond their limits contributed to the enhancement of thousands of students lives over the course of his tenure. Camp says “My students inspired me and my work with their ideas”.

Currently, Todd is the Education Director at The King Arts Complex in Columbus, Ohio where he is implementing Winter & Spring Academy, and Summer Camp for young artists ages 5-12. In the fall he will launch an innovative After School Arts Institute.

Todd’s award winning paintings, drawings, and clay, adorn numerous corporate & private collections nationwide while his limited edition prints are distributed worldwide. His unique wax paintings and illuminated sculpture were featured on HGTV’s “That’s Clever”. “My current work is driven by observations of the everyday. Small , interesting, and seemingly insignificant objects capture my attention and become subject for paintings & drawings”. National representation of Camp’s work includes Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, Geirek Fine Art Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Metropolitan Gallery, Austin, Texas. Prints are distributed by Editions Limited, California, Bentley Publishing Seattle, and Paredes Publishing, Miami.

Todd & his wife Melissa along with their young son Tosh live on an 8.5 acre Ohio farm where they grow organic produce and eggs.

Artist statement - “Observation: current state” opens May 22 and will be on display through August 30, 2010:

My vision as an artist is influenced deeply by my surroundings and contributes to states of awareness. Observations of everyday life and personal interaction become catalyst for the depiction of the stories told in these new works.

As an artist, one of my inherent faculties is observation. I observe detail in ordinary substance and behavior of light and color others may unknowingly pass by. I mentally store the images seen during my day and unpack them on the canvas. The collage of imagery captures the energy, secrets, happiness, frustration, excitement, wonder, and mystery that guide my vision.

In the studio I quickly record these bits of information and time in a capsulated form through macro and micro compositions that speak to a very precise moment in time. Particles swirl, dart in and out and finally connect forming larger shapes of microscopic matter that is a burst of life. I am aware of and embrace the fact that the influences of my surroundings and personal situations find their way into my art in one form or another.

A circumstantial basis has an effect on the manner in which these pieces are conceived and implemented. I work in diminutive, emotionally intense periods of time which, consequently results in the energetic use of color and brush strokes and the layering of ideas, interpretation, and snippets of time that coerce the final painting.

These works are soothing and chaotic, calming and energized, colorful and subtle, outward and inward, each having a life of its own. As I evolve as a person, husband, father, teacher and artist, my art and approach reflects the evolution.