“My work assertively wrestles with the big questions but it
always falls short. In all of my artmaking the questions I have
always exceed my ability to articulate adequately and give them
some type of comprehensive manifestation. As a result, my art
can take myriads of messy and partial forms as I work through
overlapping chaotic systems of excess. My coming to terms with
the enormities of the world is manifested in lost threads of
thought and openededness. The excess is poured into the
containers of drawing, painting, photography, video, sculpture,
ceramics, metalsmithing, installation, new media and performance
art which are presented as modest poetic gestures.
My current focus is on the annihilation of nature as it is
conceived and experienced in the here and now due to the impact
of the human by means of photography, media installation and
performance. I feel that as an artist I must go as far as I can
in being an antenna for receiving the transmissions of what
needs to be said in our current age.”
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You can find more of Todd’s amazing work on his instagram @toddd_coniunctionis.
“Todd Molinari is an artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. He is a new media artist whose artistic practice is expressed in painting, photography, video, sculpture, metalsmithing and printmaking, arte util as well as installations and performance art. In addition he has curated a number of exhibitions in Philadelphia, Reykjavik, Iceland and Portland, OR. His works explore the question of identity and the concretization of material as instantiations of the opus parvum and opus magnum of the alchemical
retort. Molinari’s works have been shown in exhibitions in Reykjavik, Iceland, Los Angeles, CA, Brooklyn, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, Salem, OR and Pont-Aven, France; Commissions include The Dream, Salem, OR; He is the recipient of the Patricia and Richard Henkels Award in the Fine Arts,
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Todd Molinari received a Certificate in Fine Arts from PNCA, Portland, OR and his MFA at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA and is continuing studies at SFAI.”
