Todd Buckner

It is about following your dreams. Painting what you feel and not letting someone tell you what and how you should paint. It should come from the heart.

There\\\'s an illusion to this world. We want to sweep away the fear and the negativity and only see the story where everything ends happily ever after. My illusion of this world was broken when my mother passed away when I was eight years old. I knew then that my story wouldn\\\'t end in a fairy tale. That was quite possibly when I knew I wanted to be an artist. After seeing Dali\\\'s \\\"Accommodations of Desire\\\" and seeing why the ants congregated on the stones in it, I started to see what Dali saw. What a terrible surreal world we live in. We live in a world where Pro-Life advocates murder abortion doctors. A world where men of the cloth have sex with underage children and a world where my skin - color makes me less of a man. My art reflects that. How else would a non-African American know what it means to be an African American male. Through my art I try to break down these illusions. I want others to see through the lie, to see the harsh reality and be seeing, therefore changing it, so we all might live happily ever after.

Born in Columbus Georgia in 1965. Upon graduating from high school enlisted into the United States Air force serving in Texas, Spain and Nebraska. After being honorably discharged, moved to Las Vegas and attended UNLV majoring in Fine Art.