Todd Anderson
After graduating from Ringling College of Art, Todd Anderson eventually relocated to Berlin where he has been active for many years as artist, graphic designer and illustrator. His recent work depicts the human figure emerging from the spontaneous texture of vine charcoal, sometimes intensified by the addition of solvents.
These studies explore the moment where the figure begins to surface from chaos, allowing the material itself to shape the composition. Rather than treating charcoal as a purely descriptive medium, it is exploited for its unpredictability and capacity for transformation.
Faces and bodies are not rendered as fixed subjects but as unstable forms shaped through a process of subtraction and erasure. The resulting images are meant to depict a state of becoming in which flux ultimately gives way to form.