About

Todd Calvert’s paintings combine traditional techniques with the digital process, hence creating a collision between classicism and the motifs and clichés of modern social media.

To exist in our social-media-obsessed era is, inevitably, to feel isolated and lonely. Our realities are increasingly affected and manipulated by digital creations. As we transfer our lives to the digital world, we each risk losing touch with our cultural heritage—the lens through which we view our humanity shifts and distorts. By marrying watercolor portraiture mixed media and other formal representational styles with design systems, coding, and 3D sculpture, Todd seeks to cast today’s ideas about success, beauty, and connection with an eye to the vanishing ideals of our past.

Todd was raised in Colorado and got his BFA at Carnegie Mellon University. He has had a long career in graphic design in Los Angeles, France and New York, and he currently lives with his wife and dogs in Los Angeles..