TODD SCHROEDER: TRANCE
ARTPULSE
December 2018
By Lisa Jaye Young
Todd Schroeder’s most recent exhibition of paintings at LANEY Contemporary Fine Art in Savannah is aptly named “TRANCE.” Paintings on canvas, newsprint and steel arrest the viewer in a visual and intellectual abeyance or conscious limbo of meaning construction. Figure and ground are in constant flux, holding the eye (and the mind) in an unsettled present. Dot matrices and grid structures flatten both time and image while colorful burnishing dots, like flashing afterimages, push and pull one into a trance-like state of continuous flux. Dot and ground, data and grid, meaning and its resistance, the expediency of information and the glacial pace of response, “TRANCE” recognizes instability as the new normal.