Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Meet the Artist
Yuefeng(Eileen)
Li
“Wildfire is an essential mechanism for ecosystems: fire-affected environments help multi- species germinate, establish, or reproduce. I reserve white space on compositions by applying heat to leave indexical imprints on surfaces covered by snow. My works are semi-abstract paintings and sculptures that took the form of bodies and landscapes.”
Yuefeng Li is an emerging multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Tkaronto/Toronto with an Asian heritage. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, and has been in Toronto since 2018. She graduated from the OCADU Drawing & Painting program. She works across drawing, painting, mixed media, installation, and performance. She is fuelled by indexical imprints in a perceptual way. Her works are informed by the surroundings and happenings that stimulate her physical translation through the potential of materiality. Her responses excavate the criticality of coexistent assemblages: displayed between order and disorder in the environment; remembering and forgetting in the memory; actualization and index of bodies. Although individualism and naturalism form the genesis of her research, her multidisciplinary practice aims to metaphorize critical introspection and evolutions within ecological anthropology.
2022, “Coexistence in Dream"
Hub Space, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2021, "City"
Grey Cube Gallery, Online
2021, "City"
Art Room Gallery, Online
2021, "Tell Me More"
Art Gallery 118, Online
2020, "The Essentialists"
LibGuides, Online
2020, "Meta-Figure"
ADA Slaight Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2021, 2nd place of "Botanicals" Art Competition
Art Room Gallery
2021, 2nd place of "Textures & Patterns" Art Competition
Art Room Gallery
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