Oddball Brando
aka Brandon Bottensek

Oddball Brando is the operating name for Brandon Bottensek, a Rockford-based contemporary artist. His heavily stylized approach blends disciplines from impressionism, pop art, abstracts, and modern folk art. His works capture the whimsy and raw awe of creativity unburdened by suffocating discipline. They’re rustic, bizarre, and swimming with layers of texture and depth. His process involves layer and layers of washes, texture, and gestural constructions of base pigments before constructing the foreground and focal points. This method creates a truly unique composition with captivating depth and a focused approach