Inside the Studio
ARTIST STATEMENT
Todd Brown
It’s early Saturday morning, 1976. Three kids are spread across the living room floor with their coloring books while Scooby-Doo plays on the TV. That image—crayon in hand, eyes wide, soaking in the bright, bold visual world of 1970s pop culture—never left Todd Brown. It became the foundation of everything.
Brown went on to earn his BFA with a minor in Art History from Arizona State University, followed by his MFA from Towson State. But the real education started long before that… in the shared creativity of a childhood home, shaped by siblings, Saturday mornings, and a culture that didn’t know how influential it would become.
For a time, the fire dimmed. Years of iPhone photography and mixed media collage kept him creative, kept him searching, but something was missing. Then the paintings started. What began as modern collage slowly morphed into something bigger, bolder, and undeniably his own. The fire didn’t just come back—it roared.
Now based on the East Coast and painting professionally for over a decade, Brown works in acrylics to create bold, layered works that sit at the intersection of comic book narrative, pop art, and cultural memory. His influences—Lichtenstein, Warhol, Koons, Tristan Eaton, and Carol Brown-Goldberg—are clear. His voice is entirely his own.
Fatherhood deepened it all. The same joy he shared with his sisters in front of that television, he now passes forward—proof that great art isn’t just made. It’s inherited, lived, and loved.
He says it best himself: every time he finishes a painting, it’s his favorite.
BIO
It's early Saturday morning, 1976. My sisters and I are coloring while "Scooby Doo" or "Land of the Lost" plays on the TV. Creativity filled our childhood in the bright pop culture of the 1970s.
I earned my Fine Arts Degree with a minor in Art History at Arizona State and later entered my Masters of Fine Arts at Towson State.
T. Brown art is currently represented by Danielle Peleg Gallery located in Keego Harbor, MI.
For all inquiries please email Dpginkeego@gmail.com