Todd Chilton’s brightly colored oil-on-linen paintings draw on the tradition of geometric abstraction, but depart from it in the artist’s insistence on the imperfection of his forms. Chilton paints busy abstract patterns, dense with irregular shapes, thick horizontal lines, and interlocking triangles. He begins by making thumbnail drawings of patterns in notebooks before starting on his linen surfaces, covering them from edge to edge. Usually his works end up differently from how his sketches with layers of paint underneath, resulting in different patterns, colors, or surfaces. 

Todd Chilton earned an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. He has been in solo exhibitions in New York, Illinois, and Wisconson. His work has been exhibited in group shows internationally at Feature Inc, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, Dolphin in Kansas City, Bellstreet Projects in Vienna, Austria, and the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Chilton currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.