Ben Day Todd

Artist

Escondido, CA

bendaytodd@gmail.com

www.bendaytodd.com

@bendaytodd, @lonesomeshack

Statement

Ben Day Todd is a multimedia artist who explores combinations of abstract and figurative forms, mark making and spontaneity. Each piece is an experiment embracing discovery, immediacy and chance. Source material comes from memory and photographs, animal and human shapes, elements of nature and internal vision.

Ben was born in the Pacific Northwest and lived and worked in Washington, California, New Mexico, Arizona and London, UK. He studied art at Evergreen State College and University of New Mexico. He writes and performs music under the name Lonesome Shack and has toured extensively in North America and Western Europe. He currently creates out of his home studio in Escondido, CA.

Education

Whatcom Community College, GED 1995

Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery Graduate 2006

Skills

Drawing, painting, wood working, sculpture, guitar building and repair, music composition and performance

Art Work

New Song Old Tongue, solo show, Homesteez, Escondido, CA. Jan. 6, 2024

It’s My House! group show curated by Cura art, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA Jan-Mar 2022

Series 001 group show, Seattle, WA, November 2021

Cover art for “Mathematical Oncology Roadmap” from Physical Biology Journal, 2019

Cover art for Dark/Light LP “Kill Some Time”, 2016

Cover art for Lonesome Shack LP “The Switcher”, 2016

Insert art for Lonesome Shack LP “More Primitive”, 2014

Contributor to “Altered Arizona Postcard Show”, Exploded View Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2014

“Found Ground” two person show with Mike Certo, AC2 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2000

Experience

Guitar repair technician, 2006 to present

Music writer/performer under name “Lonesome Shack”, 2004 to present