Todd Laby's Bio

BIO

 

My art is process intensive, the result of layered, compounded building that gradually evolves into sculpture through an immense number of micro-decisions. Based on concept drawings, themselves born of much iteration, the pieces focus on our relationship with materiality, subtly and subversively revealing our impacts on one another and the places we inhabit. I transform mundane artifacts or moments, taken from our daily lives into visually provocative images, most often sculptures, whose subtle narrative provokes a deeper reflection. With materials ranging from plywood, broken, toys, metal and paper Mache, the pieces are textured, multi-sectional 3D neo-mosaics that flicker between whimsy and tragedy.