Todd Schorr
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Biography
Todd Schorr's artistic journey is one that hardly conforms to the time-honored stereotype of Bohemian artist. It is rather a post-war tale bracketed by an America infatuated with the limitless potential of consumerism. His formative years were spent in a world surrounded by the atomic and space ages, by Saturday morning cartoons and racks of comic books at the local drug store, a land populated by Revell models, Mad Magazine, Testors glue, Mickey Mouse and Rat Fink. Further fueling his developing image bank were the seemingly endless icons from television's early years: Robbie the Robot, Mighty Joe Young and reel upon reel of animated toons from the likes of Tex Avery, George Pal and Max Fleischer The compulsion to replicate these characters led to a formal art education and exposure to a new set of influences drawn from the world of advertising and commercial art.
As with any artistic movement Todd Schorr's art reflects his time and place. The expression of his many influences on canvas is a tough one for many critics to swallow and it is a slam at what formalized art is supposed to represent. The images, though familiar, aren't within the accepted vocabulary of the mainstream art world and thus exclusion is a foregone conclusion. But for those force-fed fifty years of consumerism- they know. And those that now understand.
Designed Toy Releases
- Bunnyduck
- Secret Mystic Serpent
- Neo Kaiju - Steam Punk, 2004
- Neo Kaiju - Humpty Djinn, 2004
Toy Series Participation
Customs & Show Pieces
Images
Steam Punk
Humpty Djinn
