Todd Snyder

Since the mid-1980s my work has involved the creation of a body of work in which cityscapes, heavy machinery and images of my immediate area are synthesized from a combination of imagination and reality into a kind of "Industrial Surrealism".

Although there are many definitions of realism in the visual arts,this approach creates an atmosphere of ambiguity and tension mirroring our increasingly complicated and surreal world through use of exaggerated color, skewed perspective and broken narrative, thus leaving the viewer with an unresolved fragment of an imagined story.

I enjoy working primarily with oil on canvas or panels and drawing in a variety of dry media on various supports using classical techniques and craftsmanship that fuse into my own "Magic Realism" when completed.

Todd Snyder received the 1st Place Award in the River Meets the Rails - The Sequel at the Galesburg Civic Art Center. Exhibition runs through 6/11.