PRESS RELEASE: 2022 ‘Spirits’ Solo Exhibition by Todd Lawson at Elaine Fleck Gallery

This July I will be exhibiting new and recent work at my third solo exhibit to open at Elaine Fleck Gallery located in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto. This year marks a continued evolution of my work as I move away from the “visitors” in past works to “spirits”.

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PRESS RELEASE: 2021 ‘Visitors’ Solo Exhibition by Todd Lawson at Elaine Fleck Gallery

This July I will be exhibiting new and recent work at my second solo exhibit to open at Elaine Fleck Gallery located in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto. Encapsulating a journey started over a decade ago with my first Disney World painting all the way to new work created over the past year living in Lockdown. I hope you will come and see the work and RSVP to attend the reception.

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Various videos from my YouTube Channel. I am hoping to create more time lapse and talking presentation videos in the future. Be sure to subscribe to my channel and click the notification bell icon to be notified when I do. You can also sign up for my newsletter.

14 Minute Documentary: Creating Idol Woody
“Painting A Brass Elephant” – Time Lapse Video
Painting Epcot – Time Lapse Video 2
Painting Epcot – Time Lapse Video 2

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PRESS RELEASE: Todd Lawson Solo Exhibit at Elaine Fleck Gallery, June 2020, Toronto

PRESS RELEASE: Todd Lawson Solo Exhibit at Elaine Fleck Gallery, June 2020, Toronto

Landscapes with a twist. This June 2020, Contemporary Surrealist Artist Todd Lawson will be doing his first solo show since 2005 at Elaine Fleck Gallery located at 1351 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 416-469-8005 

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Presenting artwork at Elaine Fleck Gallery

Presenting artwork at Elaine Fleck Gallery

This March was a bit of a coming out party for me. For the first time in a decade (since 2010) I was out publicly in Toronto showing my artwork. On March 5th around 8 p.m. I nervously greeted a crowd of people at Elaine Fleck Gallery (1351 Queen Street West, Toronto) and presented “Idol Woody“.

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Represented Artist with Elaine Fleck Gallery

Represented Artist with Elaine Fleck Gallery: Todd Lawson

Some exciting news to start off 2020. I am now a represented artist with Elaine Fleck Gallery in Toronto. This is a big step for me. After 16 years of doing it on my own and working with galleries across North America on group and double billed shows this marks the first time I have decided to work with a commercial gallery as a recognized artist in their roster.

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My experience creating that ‘Woody’ video…

My experience presenting my artistic self and creating that ‘Woody’ video…and 10 things I learned.

Earlier this month I released a 14+ minute video documenting the creation, my process and thinking behind a large 60×40 inch painting called “Idol Woody”. The painting will was created for an upcoming exhibit at The Elaine Fleck Gallery in Toronto this March (2020). I wanted to share 10 things I learned while making it…

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Idols Collection

Idols Collection

COLLECTION IDEA STATEMENT:

Collect and obsess over what you want. Admit and celebrate being addicted to whatever you need to find those moments of escape. Build your false idols with pride not shame.

A brand new collection of works about the obsessions we compulsively collect and obsess over or in our our current lives and the memories of things we followed as children as panted into fantastic into idols and monuments as POSITIVE VICES. 

These obsessions are brought to life and exaggerated to become giant structures and entire environments actively being constructed and explored…even worshiped by tiny characters who represents the conscience of an individuals as well as the masses of the population who worship each subject in modern pop culture.  Like current the towering Statue of Unity in India, the Statue of Liberty in New York City, Mount Rushmore and towering modern marvels we cling to in awe today as well as the ancient structures like the pyramids – we humans are driven to create idols.

Secret Bear Idol
( 30 x 40 x 1.5″ + Frame )
Doh’ster
( 60 x 40 x 2″ + Frame)
Crayon Economy
( 30 x 40 x 1.5″ + Frame )
Reconstructing Hope
( 60 x 40 x 2″ + Frame)
Idol Woody
( 60 x 40 x 2″ + Frame)


Creating “Woody” Documentary & Presentation.

In-Progress Video Sessions on Art Of Todd Lawson Youtube

Painting a Brass Elephant (Time-lapse)

Time-lapse video painting “Reconstructing Hope”


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Elaine Fleck Gallery: Hello Toronto…it’s been a while.

Elaine Fleck Gallery:
Hello Toronto…it’s been a while.

I am excited to announce a new relationship with Toronto based commercial fine art gallery Elaine Fleck Gallery. I met with Elaine Fleck and gallery director Gary Ray Rush earlier this year and was asked to join their March 2020 Best Of New Submissions group exhibit.

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What happened to all the articles?

What happened to all the articles?

If you’ve been to Toddlawson.com in the past 5+ years you may have read one of my articles. Mostly focused on topics in the marketing, design, business & advertising industries.

I recently migrated ALL content in those areas to my other site: http://www.toddlawsoncreative.com/category/words/.

Todd Lawson.com will soon have articles and blogs related to my Artwork practice only as I split the online destinations up.

-Todd

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ART: Rebel Rebel Gallery Paintings

Alice: Eat Me (2019)
11×14 inches
Acrylic on wood oval plaque with UV Polymer Varnish
Alice: Ate Me (2019)
11×14 inches
Acrylic on wood oval plaque with UV Polymer Varnish
Frida Skull 1 (2019)
11×14 inches
Acrylic on wood oval plaque with UV Polymer Varnish

Alice In Wonderland Group Show (pop-up)
Where? Rebel Rebel Gallery in Alto, New Mexico At The Sanctuary on The River,
When? September 28th, 2019

Frida X Dia De Los Muertos Group Show (pop-up)
Where? Rebel Rebel Gallery in Alto, New Mexico
When? November 1st, 2019

Icon Group Show (pop-up)
Where? Rebel Rebel Gallery in Alto, New Mexico
When? 2020 (DTBD)

Erotica: Art of Sex & Fetish Group Show (pop-up)
Where? Rebel Rebel Gallery in Alto, New Mexico
When? 2020 (DTBD)

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ART: As Above, So Below Collection

Collection Idea Statement:

As children we stared at the clouds and our environment and saw our imaginations come to life. When storms came we envisioned the dark events that rippled and lit up the sky and scared us with lightening, filling us with dread. We watched the sun rise and paint the world in deep, lush colour and the sun set deepening the world to dark reds. We were in awe and content and inspired by the world we inhabited.

As we grew into adults we lost our interest in seeing beyond ourselves and took what was presented at face value. We began to forget or care about the world and its other inhabitants as our greed for the materialistic and self worth dominated our growth. We embraced industry and smog in exchange for open fields and bright skies. We lusted over capital and our own image over the simplicity and beauty of nature and who we were as humans. We drowned and blinded ourselves with small screens, large screens, ear phones, entertainment, vice and all forms of technology to feel more connected and fulfilled while ignoring those around us and their ability to give us a deeper connection being alive. Now we ignore that wonder we saw as children and are obsessed only with how others perceive us.

This collections hopes to explore this sad loss of wonder with visions of imagination, dreams, life, death and nightmares juxtaposed against common sky-scapes (‘Above’) and landscapes (‘Below’) we see every day.  And hopefully in doing so bring us a little closer to the world we ignore or destroy by unlocking that forgotten wonder. 

As Above, So Below is a collection which unites many of my personal fascinations as a visual artist for the living, the dead and staged landscapes in a surrealist fashion. It also lets me express my love for animals and the natural world and my disappointment with humanity as I try to raise two daughters in it who are already becoming lost in technology and our modern fast paced lives. 

Completed Paintings

Soft Cloud 1 (2019)
12×9 inches Acrylic on wood with UV Polymer Varnish

Soft Cloud 2 (2019)
12×9 inches Acrylic on wood with UV Polymer Varnish

Rainy Cloud 1 (2019)
12×9 inches Acrylic on wood with UV Polymer Varnish

Night Cloud 1 (2019)
12×9 inches Acrylic on wood with UV Polymer Varnish

Below Examples: Land

Wet Land 1 (2019)
12×9 inches Acrylic on wood with UV Polymer Varnish
Matched cloud from “Soft Cloud 1”
Urban Street 1 (2019)
12×9 inches Acrylic on wood with UV Polymer Varnish
Matched cloud from “Soft Cloud 2”
Farm Land 1 (2019)
12×9 inches Acrylic on wood with UV Polymer Varnish
Matched cloud from “Rainy Cloud 1”
Night Forest 1 (2019)
12×9 inches Acrylic on wood with UV Polymer Varnish
Matched cloud from “Night Cloud 1”


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Theme Parks & Landmarks

Theme Parks & Landmarks Collection

COLLECTION IDEA STATEMENT:

“Theme Parks & Landmarks” Collection (Formerly “The World Rediscovered Collection”) is a collection of paintings by Artist Todd Lawson. The series is a collection of visual scapes of theme parks (like Walk Disney World) and known landmarks and locations we as a culture vacation in to create memories. These places are reimagined in the distant future where they are rediscovered by a new community of beings. The works are both a narrative story and a metaphor of the staying power of the places we visit. A positive statement of the staying power these places hold in our lives and the memories we create.

The series allows me to bring my love for science fiction, pulp art and fantasy. Mixing realism and the surreal.

PRESS: Though the work is still in progress it has recently been published and featured in 1340 International Art Magazine ( Q4 2019 Issue)

The Visitor
(36″ x 48″ + Floater Frame)
Visitors Board Union Station
(60″ x 40″ + Floater Frame)
Visitors Board Union Station
(60″ x 40″ + Floater Frame)
Visitors Climb Parliament Hill
(Framed in white floater frame)
30×40 Inches, Acrylic on Reinforced Wood Panel with UV Polymer Varnish
Visitors Relight Peggy’s Cove
(Framed in white floater frame)
30×40 Inches, Acrylic on Reinforced Wood Panel with UV Polymer Varnish
One Hand In The Future
(Framed in white floater frame)
4×3 feet, Acrylic on Reinforced Wood Panel with UV Polymer Varnish
Visitors Walk The Strip
(Framed in white floater frame)
4×3 feet, Acrylic on Reinforced Wood Panel with UV Polymer Varnish

Visitors At The Gate
4×3 feet, Acrylic on Reinforced Wood Panel with UV Polymer Varnish
Revel In The Maker’s Wake
4×3 feet, Acrylic on Reinforced Wood Panel with UV Polymer Varnish

Family Photo 1
Small painting based on a real family photo – with my children replaced with “Visitors”
4″x4″ Wood Panel with UV Polymer Varnish.

Family Photo 2
Small painting based on a real family photo – with my wife and children replaced with “Visitors”
4″x4″ Wood Panel with UV Polymer Varnish.


In-Progress Photos

In-Progress Video Sessions on Art Of Todd Lawson Youtube
Progression: Revel In The Makers Wake
Progression: Visitors At The Gate

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Off Is Her Gentle Man (2007) By Todd Lawson

ART: Midnight Garden: The Daydreams & Nightmares of…

Midnight Garden: The Daydreams & Nightmares of…

Featuring the Art of Dan May, RiK Catlow and Todd Lawson
Foundation One Gallery,
Atlanta(Decatur), Georgia
Opening November 10th, 2007

Featuring my largest paintings to date and even a pair of landscapes to mix things up, Midnight Garden is an emotionally darker and more personal body of work for me then recent projects. Attacking topics such as sexuality, communication (or lack there of), loneliness, memories, dreams and paranoia, this collection is more about myself and those close and far from me and my own demons and memories. Whether work will continue in the vein or not is still unknown to me.


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ART: Back Then! Collection

Back Then!
Toy Room Gallery,
Sacramento , California
August 18th & 19th 2006
Double-artist bill
w/ Shaunna Peterson

Collection revolves in some way around growing up and my fascination with nostalgia. Whether they are directly based on something in my youth or more often around a way people used to think, then when I grew up, finding out how often those same things I liked, I liked more because of the history and nostalgia from them.

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ART: The Golden Age Collection

The Golden Age
Planet Rooth Studios,
San Diego, California
August 13th 2005
Double-artist bill

A look back at the golden age of society. The paranoid and glamorous Americana Past from fast cars, submissive propoganda, new technologies and war. Americana at it’s best and worst from the perspective of 2 canadian artists; one born and raised above the 49th parallel, the other born in Canada and raised in Florida but now living in Canada again.

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ART: Paranoid by Submission Collection

Paranoid by submission
The Staircase Cafe (cafe closing show)
Hamilton, Ontario
June 2005

As a call back to the cold war and world war era visual and written propaganda, today’s general public now finds itself in a state of heightened paranoia for all things government and business related as they are hammered daily by media outlets. Think, don’t speak; watch, don’t blink…society’s laziness and shallow view of life has forced us into a state of quiet, paranoid submission. We know we are lied to, we know we are herded like cattle; we see the slow disintegration of ourselves and everything we know, yet other than the odd protest or verbal outburst, we decide to sit back and watch.

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ART: El Dia De Los Muertos Collection

El Dia De Los Muertos Art Show
Community Centre for Media Arts
Hamilton, Ontario
October 30th 2004
Group Show/Artist-Curator

The merging of two cultures and two celebrations, The Mexican holiday The Day of Dead and a little bit of Halloween, from the North American perspective, El Dia De Los Muertos Art Show with Three Steps Left of Normal and friends will bring togther unique artistic talents from the commercial, gallery and underground art worlds from all over North America. The walls will be filled with artwork specifically commissioned for the show and the environment filled with food, drink and music.

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