TODD SCHROEDER

TRANCE

Exhibition Details

Laney Contemporary is pleased to present TRANCE by Todd Schroeder.

Schroeder’s exhibition comments on the paradoxical desire to escape our current political climate while also trying to mend it. His large and eye-altering canvases push the viewer to continuously find a new place to observe. The text, which Schroeder blows onto a gridded canvas using an atomizer tool, is just slightly out of focus representing the difficulty to see the unity of things.

Opposing the canvases are his New York Times series paintings which use the weekly Sunday New York Times as substrate. Newspapers are vessels of the everyday. They are constantly delivering news to the masses, and Schroeder presents select pages to the viewer with layered grid patterned dots created by atomized acrylic paint.

“It has a physical effect on me: blow, move, find (the spot), blow, move, find, blow, move, find – there is a rhythm. I don’t touch the surface when I paint the dots. I puncture to find the grid, and I fold and crease often during the process, but the dot making is hands off. The dots make the language – the language of paint and material – of grid and pattern, but also shared and readable language, a text. The dots are parts of letterforms, think LED and highway CAUTION signs.”