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Artist Statement:
I use oil paint on wood panels
to create works of art that
comment on the amount of
television advertising that I
intake on a daily basis. The
transparent and translucent
qualities of oil paint allow
me to layer several
advertisements onto one
picture plane. My paintings
take on three formats; the
three formats are derived from
my two television sets. The
three formats are referred to
as the DVR Paintings, the
Infomercial Paintings and the
Versus Paintings.
For the DVR Paintings, I use
a Digital Video Recorder (DVR)
to capture every television
program that I regularly
watch. I then capture one
image from each commercial and
layer them together to form a
completed painting. I use
translucent and opaque layers
of paint to conceal and reveal
interesting juxtapositions.
The end result is a series of
paintings that represent the
fusion of the advertisements
within the specific television
programs that I watch. Each
painting becomes a
chronologically ordered and
obtrusive amalgamation of
commercial advertising.
The Infomercial
Paintings are predominantly
textual. I chose several time
periods when I would normally
be asleep with the television
on. For a designated amount
of time, I flip through the
infomercials and write down
the ...
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Todd Mosley Biography:
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Age
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31
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Painting and Television |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Contemporary Art - (Now)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Todd Mosley holds an MFA in painting, from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a BFA in painting from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He also studied painting, drawing, and photography in Lucca and Florence, Italy through a study abroad program offered by the Pratt Institute.
Shortly after receiving his BFA, Mosley moved to Spain. He traveled to Madrid and then on to Sevilla, where he lived and worked until the summer of 2003. He worked part time as an English teacher and was able to devote the majority of his free time to painting, traveling throughout Europe, and gathering inspiration for future artwork.
Mosley has exhibited in several fine art and alternative space galleries throughout Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio, Covington, Kentucky, Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia. Mosley has also participated in group exhibitions at Miami University, the Pratt Institute, and the Savannah College of Art and Design. In October of 2004 he had his first solo exhibition at the Montserrat Gallery in Soho, New York. Mosley’s work is featured in several corporate collections throughout Ohio, as well as the permanent collection of the Savannah College of Art and Design. Several of his recent drawings can be viewed at The Drawing Center in New York City and he also has an early drawing held in the permanent collection at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History.
Mosley currently lives and works out of his studio in the northern suburbs of Cincinnati.
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